French pharmacist, who started his career as a botanist, before studying under famous pharmacist and chemist, Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin (1763-1829), at the Jardin du Roi. As…
American scientist, a physician, pediatrician and Nobel Prize Winner along with Enders and Weller for Medicine and Physiology on 12/10/1954. They won the award for…
Italian forensic scientist, physician, pathologist and venereologist, who served as Director of the Institute of Legal Medicine at the University of Modena. He wrote the…
Norwegian sociologist and political scientist. He is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, and…
American political scientist noted for applying game theory and mathematics to political science. Riker founded the now-mainstream field of positive political theory, which introduced game…
German social scientist, for 16 years, a lecturer in psychology in schools for adult education and a professional astrologer. In 1988 she established a practice…
American sociologist, educator, and best-selling commentator on American society, he was a major public intellectual best known for his 1950 book The Lonely Crowd: A…
French marine scientist, who served as managing director of the Musée océanographique de Monaco (Oceanographic Museum of Monaco) from 1900 to 1945. He earned his…
French historian, political scientist and political economist. The author of books on French political, intellectual and religious history, he was elected to the Académie française…
German scientist and inventor. In 1861, he constructed the first make-and-break telephone, today called the Reis telephone. The telephone was invented by at least five…
Indian filmmaker, regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of world cinema. Ray was born into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts…
Italian scientist, who, together with Enrico Fermi, discovered key processes leading to nuclear fission. Rasetti refused to work on the Manhattan Project, however, on moral…
Venezuelan scientist who devoted himself to the study of tropical diseases. He is considered the father of parasitology and bioassay in Venezuela. He died 20…
French pioneering woman scientist, a biologist and nutritionist who demonstrated in the 1920s how vitamins B and C affect the body’s use of sugars and…
German internationally notable professor of physics and research physicist, famous for the discovery of the Ramsauer-Townsend effect. He pioneered the field of electron and proton…
Spanish pathologist, histologist and neuroscientist. Ramon y Cajal was the first to suggest that the neuron was the anatomical and functional unit of the nervous…
American neuroscientist who was one of the founders of computational neuroscience, and was a pioneer in establishing the integrative functions of neuronal dendrites. Rall developed…
American Ecological artist whose public and ecological art projects have involved collaborative interdisciplinary community teams with scientists, planners, environmentalists and other artists. Her projects range…
American scientist, a pioneer in nanotechnology. He is one of the inventors of the atomic force microscope. He is a professor emeritus of Applied Physics…
Jean de Quatrefages de Bréau: A Pioneering Mind in Natural Sciences Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau, born on February 10, 1810, in Valleraugue,…
American political scientist, sinologist and comparative politics expert considered one of the leading China scholars in the United States. Educated at Carleton College and Yale…
Austrian scientist who came out with the holographic theory while specializing in brain study at Stanford University. Link to Wikipedia biography
American actor, probably best known for roles on Doogie Howser, M.D., Ladies’ Man, a recurring role on Profiler, the title character on Mulligan’s Stew and…
Polish Professor of plant physiology, wife of outstanding scientist, biologist and fruit farmer, a well known and highly respected in all the world’s centers of…
American scientist, geologist and surveyor. An authority on irrigation, he is remembered for his classification of American languages and his surveys of the Rocky Mountain…
Peruvian sociologist, social scientist and essayist, who created the first program of Cultural Studies in Peru in 2008, culminating the research around these topics that…
American artist, writer, publisher, performer, and scientist. Porter is best known for his “founds”, which he has published in numerous collections including Found Poems, The…
Argentine political scientist and politician of the Justicialista Party, who served as a national deputy for the province of Santa Fe between 2015 and 2019.…
Alain Pompidou: A Blend of Science, Politics, and Human Design Alain Pompidou, born on April 5, 1942, in Paris, France, is a distinguished French scientist…
French singer and songwriter, as popular as Elton John in France and Japan. Originally named Polnarev, he was born to Russian Jewish musician Leib Polnareff…
French scientist, agronomist engineer, and geneticist, who was president and CEO of the National Institute for Agricultural Research. He died on 17 December 1997. Link…
Canadian physicist who in the 1950s made predictions about the increase in global atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the 20th century and its effect…
Belgian scientist, a physicist and author, inventor of the Stroboscopic method for the study of vibratory motion. He was an anatomy professor for the University…
French physicist who invented the lead–acid battery in 1859. This type of battery was developed as the first rechargeable electric battery marketed for commercial use…
French academic and writer, the sister of Marie-France Pisier. A feminist activist committed to left-wing poltics, in 1964 she went to Cuba, siding with Fidel…
Prominent Russian and Ukrainian scientist, doctor, pedagogue, public figure, and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1847). He is considered to be the…
Swiss scientist, inventor and physicist who, as a man of many talents, was the originator of an airtight, airborne gondola in which he ascended to…
French scientist, widely known for her research on snake venom and reptile antidotes. Link to Wikipedia biography
American politician and scientist, he was Governor of Delaware from 1969 to 1973. Born the eighth of nine children, he went on to a distinguished…
French scientist, a professor of zoology at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Bordeaux. His work on Hymenoptera led him to collaborate with…
Mexican pro astrologer and former scientist, seen on Mexican TV and published frequently in Mexico and South America. On Thursday, March 2, 2006 about 2…
British scientist, a brilliant linguist and mathematician. He was the son of a non-conformist clergyman who died when the boy was five and left the…
French scientist specializing in the study of meteorites, who died on 11 May 1997. Link to Wikipedia biography (French)
Pier Pelicci: Pioneering Italian Physician and Scientist Pier Pelicci, an esteemed Italian physician and scientist, has made significant contributions to the field of molecular biology.…
German-born British physicist who played a major role in Tube Alloys, Britain’s nuclear weapon programme, as well as the subsequent Manhattan Project, the combined Allied…
American film director and screenwriter who was noted for his creative slow-motion vision of violence and killing the old fashioned Western. Raised on a ranch…
American Admiral, engineer and scientist. Working with the Civil Engineer Corp. of the U.S. Navy, he took part in the survey of the Nicaragua Canal…
Stanton J. Peale: A Visionary Astrophysicist and Planetary Scientist Stanton Jerrold Peale was a pioneering American astrophysicist and planetary scientist, renowned for his profound contributions…
Austrian-born physicist and recipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery in 1925 of the Pauli exclusion principle, which states that in…