American virologist. Along with Michael Houghton and Harvey J. Alter, he was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 'for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus'
American aeronautical engineer & founder of AeroVironment & designer of human-powered aircraft that won the first Kremer prize. He devoted his life to developing more efficient transportation vehicles that could 'Do more wit
Scottish-born chemist and the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2021
* 1933 in Karlsruhe, German electrical engineer who in the 1960s developed a trackball control similar to the later computer mouse at Telefunken. Douglas Engelbart is usually considered the inventor of the mouse
American theoretical physicist, academic, and author. He has taught physics at the University of Connecticut since 1975. He is best known for his scientific position on the possibility of time travel
Japanese-American meteorologist and climatologist who pioneered the use of computers to simulate global climate change and natural climate variations. He was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics
Swiss astrophysicist and professor emeritus at the University of Geneva's Department of Astronomy. He is co - laureate of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Jim Peebles and Didier Queloz
Co-inventor of popular drugs in tetrahydropyridimine family such as pyrantel, morantel & oxantel. Drugs commonly used for the treatment of intestinal parasitic worms, most popularly in veterinary fields for pin, round, and heart worms
Former president and COO and a director of Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold. Member of the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum, the American Mining Congress, and the Montana Tech Foundation
American chemist, born 1933. Served as the Launch and Flight Weather Officer for the first US satellite, Explorer I in 1958. Made the call to it for two days to avoid high upper winds. Worked on the 1st Intercontinental ballistic missile. Also a champion
Danish chemist was awarded one third of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, jointly with Carolyn R. Bertozzi and Karl Barry Sharpless, 'for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry'
(Born September 22, 1918) is an American entomologist born in Pasadena, California. He is a leading expert on bees, his magnus opus being The Bees of the World
American economist, winner of the 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, together with Robert B. Wilson, 'for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats
French research scientist. He is known for having discovered the function of the thymus and for the identification, in mammalian species of the two major subsets of lymphocytes (T cells and B cells) and their function
(born July 15, 1918, née Brenda Langford) is a British-Canadian neuropsychologist who has contributed to the research on various topics in the field of clinical neuropsychology, sometimes referred to as 'the founder of neuropsychology'
English video game designer and programmer who often goes by the name Yak. He is the founder of software house Llamasoft and has created dozens of games during his career, which began in 1981 with games for the ZX80
Author of several bestselling works of fiction and nonfiction for both children and adults. He is a contributing editor at Popular Science and an award-winning science writer
US Geologist, born 1930. 2020 Penrose Medal winner. Lead scientist involved with Project Famous in the 1970s, and the 1980 Mt. St. Helens eruption in Washington State
American physicist born November 7, 1915; group leader at Project Manhattan (Trinity); transported the plutonium core of Trinity to test site in an old Plymouth car
Otolaryngologist, US WWII Army Air Corps, born 1925. Served at end of WWII, used GI Bill to get doctorate. While with the US Public Health Service, he delivered Alaska's first baby, 30 minutes after Eisenhower announced it was a new state
Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist. She shared the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014, together with her husband Edvard and John O'Keefe
French scientist and pioneer in the field of electrical engineering and lasers and Nobel laureate. Along with Donna Strickland and Arthur Ashkin, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics
Cancer physician, researcher & assistant professor at Columbia University. Mukherjee is also the author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction, and The Laws of Medicine
American game producer and designer. He created the 1980 adventure game The Prisoner, produced the 1995 adaptation I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, and developed Heroes of Might and Magic III and Heroes of Might and Magic IV
Astrophysicist. He discovered the first Black Hole in 1971. He found out that the bright X-ray source Cygnus X-1 was a binary system, with a giant blue star orbiting a dark object, which he realised had to be a black hole