French chemist, considered one of the fathers of the French atomic bomb, which was tested for the first time in 1960 in the nuclear test…
American scientist and physics professor, he wrote “Collison Theory” with K.M. Watson in 1964. He and his wife have two children. Link to Wikipedia biography
American scientist and retired NASA astronaut. Godwin joined NASA in 1980 and became an astronaut in July 1986. She retired in 2010. During her career,…
American who landed a spot on a TV reality show. He, Donato Ventresca, and Justin Walsh competed against each other and other contestants for the…
American scientist, a physicist and genetic engineer, winner of the Nobel Prize for Science 1960. He created the bubble chamber which makes it possible to…
American-born British petrol-industrialist, and the patriarch of the Getty family. He founded the Getty Oil Company, and in 1957 Fortune magazine named him the richest…
Scottish scientist, Professor of Biology at Keele University and a regular member of the panel on the BBC Radio Home Service (later BBC Radio 4)…
German crop scientist, who, from 1969 to 1992, taught at the University of Kiel. His research focus was the ecophysiology of yield formation in agricultural…
Pierre Gassendi: The Brilliant Mind Bridging Philosophy and Science Pierre Gassendi was a revered French philosopher, priest, astronomer, and mathematician, born on January 22, 1592,…
American scientist, selected by NASA for astronaut training on 28 June 1965. He served as science-pilot for Skylab-3, the second manned Skylab mission that took…
Norwegian mathematician and information scientist, in Norway also called the ‘father of computer information.’ In 1967 he emigrated to the US and continued his work…
Spanish political scientist and jurist. He was the founder of the modern Department of Political Science of the Central University of Venezuela and was elected…
American scientist and professor of neurosciences. His main interest was in how sounds are transmitted to the brain and was a key player in the…
American scientist, the brilliant engineer-inventor of the Geodesic dome which combines a series of tetrahedron skeletons, a writer and lecturer. Labeled both a crackpot and…
German scientist considered a co-founder of biophysics, the focus of his research was radiation therapy for cancer. He worked as a professor and rector at…
American physicist. He is Institute Professor and Professor of Physics, Emeritus, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics…
French scientist, author and chemist who made artificial rubies that appeared identical with the natural gems. Fremy was a member of the Academie des Sciences.…
Brazilian civil engineer, a professor at the Polytechnic School of Pernambuco and a prominent figure in state science in the 20th century. He was a…
German-American computer scientist who has made important contributions to the field of automatic label placement, computer graphics, including spatial anti-aliasing, and machine vision. Professor Freeman…
French palmist, probably the most famous chiromancer in Paris during the first half of the 20th century. Her clients included important French artists and politicians…
Scottish-born Australian Scientist and the CEO and Director of Research of the Translational Research Institute. In parallel with researchers at the National Cancer Institute, Georgetown…
German scientist, a biochemist, he did research in the field of higher plants and microorganisms.
German major in the Wehrmacht (Nazi “Defence Force”) and later a party politician and military scientist of the GDR. He died on 15 March 2000…
American scientist, and educator and chief astronomer at Hayden Planetarium in New York City. Earning his Ph.D. in 1953, he was co-discoverer of radio emissions…
German-born American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1925 with Gustav Hertz for research on the excitation and ionization of atoms by…
Jan Foudraine: A Pioneer in Psychiatry and Human Design Jan Foudraine, also known as Swami Deva Amrito, was a distinguished Dutch psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and publicist…
German scientist, a doctor, professor and author, his speciality was in the area of cardiovascular physiology and phamacology and he pioneered work in atherosclerosis .…
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist whose best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the world’s first antibiotic substance benzylpenicillin (Penicillin G) from the…
French scientist and astronomer in charge of an observatory near Paris in 1882. As an author, his works included “The Wonder of Heaven” and “Dreams…
British astronomer; the first Astronomer Royal of England, appointed on 4 March 1674-1675 and also the Director of Greenwich Observatory. He made the accurate observations…
A American New Age author and inventor, who has written books focused on Egyptian sacred geometry and Pyramidology. He holds several patents as an inventor.…
German chemist, perhaps the most outstanding chemist of all times. In 1902 he won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his synthetic work in sugar…
Wolfgang Finkelnburg: A German Physicist’s Journey through Science and Human Design Wolfgang Finkelnburg, born on June 5, 1905, in Bonn, Germany, was a distinguished German…
French scientist and writer. Figuier became Professor of chemistry at L’Ecole de pharmacie of Montpellier. He became Doctor of Medicine (1841) and in 1846 was…
German scientist and explorer who led the German Antarctic expedition of 1911–12. In 1900 Filchner crossed the Pamirs, the mountainous region of central Asia now…
French scientist, politician and the father of the naturalist Henri Filhol (1843-1902). In 1854 Édouard Filhol was appointed Professor of Chemistry at the University of…
Italian pathologist and hematologist whose contributions to medical science are investigations on the structure and embryology of the kidney, research on the morphology of intestinal…
Italian scientist and geophysicist who founded the Taranto Geophysical Observatory in 1892 which is still active and now bears his name. Ferrajolo invented the seismometrographic…
Italian scientist, teacher and researcher whose major areas of interest were biochemistry and microbiology studies, particularly on malaria and rabies. In the field of biochemistry…
Italian-American physicist who, with Leo Szilard, discovered uranium fission. In 1942, he invented the atomic reactor. Fermi designed the first atomic piles and produced the…
German computer scientist, neo-astrologer, specializing in programming astrological research and databank software (DAV-Databank, Taeger-Archives on CD-ROM). A coworker of A. Treindl, Peter Niehenke, Hans-H. Taeger…
Brazilian historian, political scientist and writer. During his career, he carried out studies on the political history of Brazil in the republican period, about mass…
English scientist who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include those of electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis. Although Faraday received…
American neuroscientist, professor of psychiatry and human behavior and emeritus professor of anatomy and neurobiology in the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. His…
Belizean-born American mechanical engineer who designed the Mercury spacecraft, and contributed to the later Gemini and Apollo spacecraft as well as the Space Shuttle. Faget…
French scientist, an entomologist who studied and wrote about the life history of living insects with such lucidity that he was called “the Virgil of…
American mineralogist and materials scientist whose research is focused on the properties of nuclear materials. He is the author or co-author of over 700 research…
French novelist. Estaunié trained as a scientist and engineer before turning to novel-writing in 1891. In 1904, he devised the word “telecommunication.” He was elected…
Spanish political scientist and politician, who serves as secretary for policy and strategy and campaigning of the political party Podemos, whose electoral campaigns he has…