French scientist, an assistant to her mom at the Radium Institute lab after WW II. Not an attractive woman, she was the daughter of Marie…
American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. During…
Belgian physician, biologist, chemist, pharmacologist and founder of Janssen Pharmaceutics (pharmaceutical company). During his military service, he worked at the University of Cologne in Germany…
French publisher, who founded Les Éditions Odile Jacob in the mid 1980s. She is also a trained scientist, studying the workings of the brain, the…
German author, journalist and academic (political scientist) whose books include Der Austeigende Halbmonde (1909; “The Rising Crescent,” 1944) and Deutschland im Orient (“Germany in the…
British writer and novelist who is famed for his sophisticated and witty works. Two of his more famous works include “Point Counter Point,” 1928 and…
Famous British scientist, zoologist, lecturer and writer who helped advance the scientific thought of his time. Huxley studied medicine at the Charing Cross Hospital and…
Dutch writer and politician, a famous poet, diplomat, musician and scientist, the most versatile man of letters and science in the Dutch renaissance. Died 3/28/1687,…
Scottish surgeon regarded as one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day. He was an early advocate of careful observation and scientific…
English-born son of noted parents, poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, and a sucide. Hughes was just over a year old when his mom killed…
American biologist nicknamed “Lee” who has served on the faculties at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of Washington. Hood has developed…
British scientist, physicist, inventor and experimental philosopher who was the greatest mechanic of his age. He also was a prolific theorist and investigator of such…
American physician and lawyer; a scientist-astronaut selected by NASA on 8/04/1967. As a science astronaut, he worked on the Skylab habitability systems and conducted essential…
American scientist, chemist and Nobel Prize winner for medicine and physiology, 12/10/1968. He worked with Khorana and Nirenberg to reach the explanation of the way…
American astrologer, scholar and writer. Research Director of the American Federation of Astrologers since 1982. Trained as a linguist – he has a degree in…
American scientist and pioneer in what became known as genetic algorithms, who was Professor of psychology and Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at…
American field biologist, known as the “sceptical scientist” on Finding Bigfoot, a documentary television series screening on Animal Planet since 2011. Link to Finding Bigfoot:…
Jimi Hendrix: The Iconic Rock Superstar and His Human Design Jimi Hendrix, an unparalleled American musician, singer, and guitarist, is celebrated for his revolutionary impact…
Scottish scientist and researcher who worked for the Microbiological Research and the Department of Defense as a director. He is the author of papers on…
French biologist who was a major player in the development of molecular biology. His work has contributed to the understanding of the mechanisms of life…
German scientist who, as an atomic physicist, won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1932 for his creation of quantum mechanics and was acknowledged as…
German economist and social scientist who advocated ethical socialist programs in Germany in the 1920s and later in the United States. He was hostile to…
American physicist and academic, awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000 along with Alan G. MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa “for their discovery and development…
American actress whose slender figure and short platinum hair earned her the nickname “The Blonde Bombshell.” In the films “Hell’s Angels,” “Red Dust,” “Dinner at…
German linguist, folklorist and sociologist who was a member of the NSDAP (Nazi Party) and SS, where he was appointed Obersturmbannführer in 1941. From 1942…
American medical researcher, scientist, chemist, crystalographer, who according to the New York Times was “a pioneer in the use of X-rays to decipher the structure…
American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner, who was Director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight…
“`html Robert William Jr. Hamilton: A Pioneer in Hyperbaric Physiology and Human Design Manifestor Born on June 5, 1930, in Stanton, Texas, Robert William Jr.…
Irish scientist, a mathematician, astronomer, linguist and writer. The fourth of nine kids, he was reading Latin, Greek and Hebrew by age four and studying…
British scientist who explored the Atlantic coast, surveying the tides and coastline of the English channel, publishing a topographical map in 1702. A professor of…
Scottish writer, scientist, philosopher and physiologist. He is noted for his books, “Sciences and Philosophy” in 1929, “Respiration” in 1922 and “The New Physiology” released…
German scientist with a PhD, a chemistry professor in Berlin, 1906 and Director of the Institute in 1928. He discovered the radioactive element mesothorium in…
Norwegian politician of the Progress Party. He was its chairman from 1978 until 2006. Under his leadership he was the undisputed leader and centre of…
French naval officer, a captain, scientist and inventor who died on 24 August 1915.
Austrian forestry scientist, conservationist and author of several specialist books, who founded the Austrian Nature Conservation Association in 1912. From 1910 to 1912 he was…
American physicist, a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who helped revolutionize cosmology with his inflationary universe theory which indicated that matter is likely…
American electrical engineer and computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who spent his career extending the art and science of linear network…
French scientist, a physician and microbiologist. Along with Albert Calmette, he introduced a TB vaccine in 1921, named the Calmette-Guerin vaccine. Died 6/09/1961, Paris. Link…
Dutch writer of novels, essays and columns, as well as a journalist. Grunberg was born as Arnon Yasha Yves Grünberg in a family of Jewish…
German astronomer and astrophysicist. Grotrian studied the emission line from the solar corona in the green region of the spectrum; this emission line could not…
French geographer and computer scientist, an Emeritus Research Director at CNRS, who mounted an all-women expedition to the North Pole.
American scientist formerly at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and later the manager of the Display Applications Lab…
American scientist, chemist. He won the Priestley Medal in 1991, Harvey Prize in 2000, The Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry in 2004, and the Wolf…
American scientist, biologist, botanist and author. He was married twice and had two children.
British political scientist and professor of politics at the University of Warwick. He was chair (2002–2005) and president (2005–2008) of the Political Studies Association (PSA).…
German civil engineer and materials scientist who headed the Building Department of the Materials Testing Institute of the University of Stuttgart (MPA), which was later…
Dutch-American physicist famous for jointly proposing the concept of electron spin with George Eugene Uhlenbeck in 1925. He was the son of Isaac Goudsmit (11…
American chemist, a career member of the CIA who developed the Mind Control Program. Gottlieb oversaw a vast network of psychological and medical experiments conducted…
Australian botanist and ecologist who was influential in the early development of numerical methods in ecology, particularly the study of vegetation. As of December 2016…
American radar astronomer and planetary scientist, who has been called “The Father of Radar Interferometry.” By using short wavelength pulses and a separate antenna to…