French experimental physicist known for his pioneering work in attosecond science. He was jointly awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier
An internationally renowned neuroscientist, he has made outstanding contributions to the medical field, particularly through his work in the regeneration of the nervous system. Member of the Order of Canada
Video game programmer and designer who worked on the M Network ports of BurgerTime, Bump 'n' Jump, and Star Strike for the Atari 2600. He co-designed the 1989 arcade game Klax and worked on Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters
An American immunologist who holds the position of professor and chair of Immunology. In2018, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine respectively along with Tasuku Honjo
Canadian chemist. He is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Ottawa. He is best known for his research of catalysis in chemistry. Member of the Order of Canada
American medical researcher, virologist, physician. This work eventually led to the discovery of the hepatitis C virus in 1988, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2020 along with Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice
American developmental biologist and Nobel Laureate who discovered the first known microRNA (miRNA). Ambros received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2024 for his research on microRNA
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley, and a Senior Scientist at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI)
Civil Rights activist and esteemed Osteopathist, born 1927. MLK Jr friend from school days. Led Albany Movement for voting rights in GA. Jailed with MLK, subbed for him on Meet the Press. On phone with Coretta when MLK killing announced
French physicist noted for his experimental work on quantum entanglement. Aspect was awarded one third of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger
British TV anthropologist and writer (*1926) - brother of the late Richard Attenborough; 'State of the Planet', 'Survival Island', 'The Life of Birds', 'Trials of Life', 'The Living Planet', 'Face the Music', 'Private Live of Plants', 'The Natural World'
Born in 1925, Bach is a Psychologist & WWII Veteran who served in the European Theatre of Operations during WW2. He later joined the Research Center For Mental Health at New York University in 1956. He was awarded the Heinz Hartmann award for his research
American physicist born July 27, 1904; Director of the Trinity test of the Manhattan Project, which took place July 16, 1945. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Bainbridge
Indian-born American economist. He shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, 'for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.'
American experimental physicist. In 2017, Barish was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics along with Rainer Weiss and Kip Thorne 'for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves'
Irish physician (Born: 1914) who worked in leper colonies in West Africa in the 1940's. He co-founded ICROSS with Michael Elmore-Meegan. He lectured in tropical medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
William Marvin Bass III (born August 30, 1928) is an American forensic anthropologist, best known for his research on human osteology and human decomposition. He has also assisted federal, local, and non-U.S. authorities in the identification of human rem
(born Elsie Thorpe, 15 July 1918) is a retired agricultural scientist from New Zealand. She graduated from Massey University in 1941, becoming the first woman graduate from the university
American Female electrical engineer and educator. In 1984, she became the first female dean of an engineering school in the United States. In 1988, the National Women's Hall of Fame presented Baum with the Emily Warren Roebling Award. In 1990, the Society
American-French-Tunisian chemist. In 2023, Bawendi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Louis E. Brus and Alexey Ekimov 'for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots'
Rocket Scientest on Werhner von Braun's Team at Fort Bliss Texas, 1946/Operation Paperclip was code name for 1945 Office of Strategic Services, Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency recruitment of German scientists from Nazi Germany to US after VE Day
Pioneer Medical Doctor, Holocaust Survivor. Developed endoscopic and laparoscopic techniques that are now in widespread use to diagnose and surgically treat diseases of the kidneys, colon and gallbladder
(born 11 June 1916) is a New Zealand dendrologist who founded Hackfalls Arboretum at his farm in Tiniroto, Gisborne. The arboretum is now known for having one of the largest collections of Mexican oaks in the world
American chemist was awarded one third of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, jointly with Morten P. Meldal and Karl Barry Sharpless, 'for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry'
Scottish Nobel laureate who pioneered the rational design of drugs and, in the process, developed the first widely used drugs for treating heart disease and blocking stomach acid production
Scientist. Nobel Prize in Medicine 1976. Identified Hepatitis B virus & developed the diagnostic test & vaccine for it. Professor of Medicine & Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania since 1977
Born 1924, Booker served in the British Royal Navy from 1940-1954 during WWII and peacetime. He later became a well-known Engineer and is known for his book A History Of Engineering Drawing published in 1963
Survived for 7 months inside Auschwitz, where the average lifespan of a child was just 2 weeks. Immigrated to the US after liberation. Worked more than 40 years as a scientist and researcher focusing on growth hormone and cancer treatment
Former president of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and the American Academy for Environmental Protection.He was consultant on the film Soylent Green
Canadian Female Former Inventor- Rocket Scientist Best Known For Her Development Of Rocket And Jet Propulsion Technologies. Inductee Inventor Hall Of Fame (2010)
American nuclear engineer and LGBTQ activist serving as the deputy assistant secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy In 2019, Brinton was the head of advocacy and government affairs at the non-profit LGBTQ
American Former Male Photographer. He Was Head Photographer To Shoot Movies (In 16-Millimetre Black - And - White Film) For The Trinity Test. The First Nuclear Weapon Detonation (July 1945)
Science journalist, author and a Senior Writer at The NYT. Co-author of 8 books, including Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War. Won 2 shared Pulitzer Prizes, an Emmy award, and an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award
Astronomer, born 1965. Discovered many objects in the far solar system, including Eris, which led to Pluto being downgraded to a 'Dwarf Planet' with Eris. Author of the book 'I Killed Pluto.'
American Female Biologist - Best Known For Work On Olfactory System. Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine, Along With Richard Axel, For Their Work On Olfactory Receptors (2004)
Russian Scientist Who In 1978 Stuck His Head Into The Largest Particle Accelerator In Russia At The Time To Fix Something. The Accelerator Malfunctioned At Shot A Laser At His Head That Was Equal To 2,000 Greys. He Survived And Is Alive Tod
Astronomer, planetary scientist, born 1958. Has been involved with the discovery and research in to many new minor planetary objects. Has done much work on Pluto, with the New Horizons mission, and the co-discovery of some of Pluto's moons
Boeing engineer, born 1930, worked on the 1966 Lunar Orbiter, an early NASA unmanned probe to photograph and map the moon, and chose Apollo landing spots
Northern Ireland Female Scientist And Author - Astrophysicist. Discovered The First Radio Pulsars (1967). Novel - 'A Quaker Astronomer Reflects: Can a Scientist Also Be Religious? (2013), 'An Introduction To The Sun And Stars' (2004). Plus One More Book
American engineer, inventor and science administrator known for his work on analog computers, for his role as an initiator and administrator of the Manhattan Project
German - Born American Former Female Scientist And Author - Astrophysics.Novel - 'Die Wasserstoffkonvektionszone der Sonne' (1952), 'ntroduction to Stellar Astrophysics' (1989)
American Female Science Teacher And Entomologist - She Is Known For Her Work With Parasitic Insects And Their Chemical Responses To Their Host. She Has Had Over 30 Years With Research On The Insect - Texas Field Cricket
Co-winner 2015 Nobel Medicine Prize/cited for discovering avermectin, derivatives of which helped lower incidence of river blindness & lymphatic filariasis 2 diseases caused by parasitic worms that affect millions of African & Asian people
British born US planetary geologist, born 1935. Worked on nearly every Mars planetary probe, including as the imaging team leader for the Viking missions. Worked on lunar mapping and geological aspects of the 1960's Apollo program
WWII: One of the last surviving members of The Manhattan Project, he was Enrico Fermi's lab technician: helped create the world's first atomic bomb. Witness to the explosion of the first a-bomb ('Trinity', July 16, 1945)
English Female Author, Doctor, Torture Survivor. And Activist - Novel - 'Audacity to Believe' (1977), 'Good Friday People' (1991), 'Sharing The Darkness: The Spirituality Of Caring' (1988), 'The Loneliest Journey' (1995)
French professor and researcher in microbiology, genetics and biochemistry. In 2020, Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 'for the development of a method for genome editing'
Geneticist, molecular engineer/Successfully copied woolly mammoth genes into the genome of an Asian elephant/Will have reproduced the extinct Wooly Mammoth in the next three years
Oncologist who developed the CD34 monoclonal antibody, which made it possible for the first time to identify, isolate and collect hematopoietic stem cells, the immature cells in the human body that grow into mature blood, marrow and immune cells
American theoretical and experimental physicist. He was awarded one third of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger
American Former Female Biologist, Cancer Researcher, Professor, Dean, And Academic Administrator. She Contributed To The Field Of Cancer Research By Studying The Cure For Melanoma
American Female Astrophysicist - 'NASA Ames Research Center' (2014-2017), 'High - level Data Product Manager' - Worked On The Kepler And K2 Projects Searching For Potential Exo - Planets (2017-2020), 'SETI Institute' - Research Scientist (2019- )
American Female Author, Scientist, Teacher, Naturalist, State Park Ranger, National Park Ranger, Cruising Sailor, And Photographer - Novel - 'Intelligent Life On Earth? The Search Continues' (2013)
Director of NASA's Langley Research Center, and Chairman of the Apollo 13 Review Board which investigated the explosion that occurred during the Apollo 13 spaceflight in 1970.
Eastman Kodak engineer, worked on the camera team for NASA's Lunar Orbiters that photographed the moon, and mapped landing spots for the Apollo missions. Led to the first photo of the earth from the moon, a B&W grainy one, in 1966
German-born, American physicist (1924- ). Built circuits for the Manhattan Project. One of the few surviving witnesses of the Trinity Test, the first atomic explosion
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. Co-invented the Aqua-Lung. Hosted the tv show The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau. Created the Cousteau Society for the Protection of Ocean Life. Father of Jean-Michel Cousteau
Conceived and patented in 1978 an on-field marker to help TV viewers identify first down distances in 1978. First used in a Cincinnati Bengals-Baltimore Ravens game on September 27, 1998
Co-founder of Acorn Computers, a British computer company established in Cambridge, England, in 1978. The company produced a number of computers which were popular in the UK. Due to its innovative designs, Acorn is sometimes known as the 'British Apple'
Physicist, best known for the Cutkosky cutting rules in quantum field theory, which give a simple way to calculate the discontinuity of the scattering amplitude by Feynman diagrams
American video game designer, programmer, and producer. He is best known for being the creator of early games from several different genres, including pioneering simulation game Utopia for Intellivision in 1981
French Egyptologist and scientist who published a theory stating that the stones of the Great Pyramid where not carved stone but mostly a form of limestone concrete
English author and biomedical gerontologist. He is the author of The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging (1999) and co-author of Ending Aging (2007)
Inventor Hall of Fame inductee; holds three of the nine original IBM patents upon which the IBM PC personal computers were based including bus control means for peripheral processing devices
British and American economist. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare
US Politician, Maryland (1822-82) Medical doctor, then into politics as a Whig, then a Democrat. Senator, 1877-79. Gave stirring speech to re-open investigation of controversial R.B. Hayes election, but unsuccessful
American mathematician and former professional magician and poker player. He teaches statistics at Stanford University. He is particularly known for tackling mathematical problems involving randomness
An American invertebrate paleontologist who became known for his discovery in 1909 of well-preserved fossils in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada; Secretary of the Smithsonian (1907-1927)
American biochemist known for her pioneering work in CRISPR gene editing, for which she won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Emmanuelle Charpentier
American astronomer who is best known as one of the pioneers in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, including the founding of SETI, mounting the first attempts at detecting extraterrestrial communications in 1961
(born October 14, 1917) is a Canadian educator known for teaching computer classes at the age of 101. Manitoba Teachers? Society honoured Dryden in their magazine's March issue. City of Winnipeg presented her with a Community Service Award
French American economist. She shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer, 'for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty'
Assisted discovery of H2 receptor class of drugs, cimetidine, which inhibits production of stomach acid. Cimetidine is commonly used to treat acid reflux and stomach ulcers to this day. Inducted National Inventors HOF 1990
Engineer 1st working American gasoline-powered car & co-founder of Duryea Motor Wagon Company. In Springfield Charles & his brother Frank produced & road-tested America's 1st gasoline-powered car
One of Russia's most notable specialists in the investigation of unidentified flying objects. He works as a coordinator at The Science and Research center Kosmopoisk (Search of Cosmos), Russia
American economist. Dybvig was awarded the 2022 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, jointly with Douglas Diamond and Ben Bernanke, 'for research on banks and financial crises'
American inventor and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and a long lasting light bulb
British physiologist and pioneer in Reproductive medicine and in-vitro fertilization (IVF) in particular - the first test-tube baby. 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 'for the development of in vitro fertilization'
German rocket-propulsion engineer & advocate for space colonization/He worked at Peenemünde as a propulsion engineer from 1942-1945, then to USA with other German rocket scientists & technicians under 'Operation Papercli
Russian solid state physicist. Ekimov along with Moungi Bawendi and Louis E. Brus are the recipients of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 'for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots'
Egyp/Amer scientist worked w/NASA in planning of scientific exploration of the Moon, & selection of Apollo landing sites & training of astronauts in lunar observations & photography. Shuttle pod named in Star Trek: The Next Generation 'Time Sq
Scientist/Entomologist/Author - Known for his authority on the History and Geological placement of insects most notably the 'Honey Bee', writer or over 300 papers and the book 'Evolution of the Insects'
South African-born British cardiac surgeon (Born: 1932) He performed Britain's first successful heart transplant in January 1979. He was knighted in 1991. He is now retired and lives in the UK. Sir Terence English
(12/4/1918?7/23/2011 Academic/"Father of cryonics" from impact of his book The Prospect of Immortality/Considered pioneer transhumanist from his book Man into Superman. Founded Cryonics Institute & Immortalist Society/His body Cryopreserved
American immunologist who has made substantial contributions to HIV/AIDS research and other immunodeficiencies, both as a scientist and as the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)/Saved millions of lifes
A synthetic organic chemist. He received the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Jean-Pierre Sauvage, 'for the design and synthesis of molecular machines'
US WWII army vet (ETO, 287th Combat Engineers) and NASA engineer, born 1924. Project chief scientist and manager for Pioneer planetary missions 6-13. Pioneer 10 and 11 the first spacecrafts to Jupiter and Saturn, and the first to leave the solar system
Is a centenarian, a British statistician, Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of Edinburgh, and former President of the Royal Statistical Society and of the Biometric Society
Born 1883 American Animator known for Betty Boop, Popeye the Sailor Man, and Superman. Also the inventor of the Rotoscope in 1915 and founder of Fleischer Studios Inc
Canadian aerospace engineer (Born: 1914) He was involved in the design and development of the Avro Jetliner and CF-100 aircraft designs, over a period which is viewed by many as the 'Golden Age' of the Canadian aviation industry
Co-creator, with Paul Reiche III, of the Star Control universe. Ford did the programming, while Reiche was responsible for the game design and fiction. Ford was also the lead programmer on The Horde and Pandemonium
US physicist, teacher, author (b. 1926). Worked on developing the H-Bomb, under his mentor John Wheeler at Los Alamos, before completing his graduate studies
Fowler is best known for his UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) investigations and books focusing primarily on UFO sightings and close encounters in the New England area of the U.S., including the Betty Andreasson Luca Alien Abduction case
German-born American biophysicist at Columbia University, New York City and a Nobel laureate. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017 with Jacques Dubochet and Richard Henderson
Engineer and a leading pioneer in Canada?s space programme. He played a leading role in the design, construction and application of Canada's first satellite, the Alouette
Orangutan primatologist, Trimate, Leakey's Angel, Anthropologist, primatologist, scientist, conservationist, educator: for over four decades Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas has studied and worked closely with the orangutans of Indonesian Borneo
US physician and medical researcher, born 1945. Bone marrow/leukemia and nuclear specialist. Called by the Soviet Union to treat 1986 Chernobyl victims, and by Japan to Fukushima in 2011. Emmy for '60 Minutes' Chernobyl piece
Medicinal chemist, integral part in development of cimetidine. Listed as inventor or co-inventor of 160+ US patents as well as authored & co-authored over 260 scientific papers. Was inducted into the National Inventor's HOF for his work on cimetidine
Theoretical physicist. Served on Barack Obama's Council of Advisors on Science & Tech. Black History Month 2017 Honoree. Featured in TurboTax and Verizon commercials and on NOVA PBS programs on physics, notably The Elegant Universe (2003)
Centenarian American physicist, emeritus professor of applied physics at Stanford. Known for his work on the synthesis of novel materials of interest to several areas of physics and many interdisciplinary sciences