Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries
Filterable archive covering centuries of intellectual, artistic, and moral contributions to the human story.
Tihomir Novakov
Tihomir Novakov, also known as Tica Novakov was a Serbian-born American physicist. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Stephanie Kwolek
(Stephanie Louise Kwolek)
American chemist at DuPont who invented Kevlar, the revolutionary synthetic fiber five times stronger than steel.
Gerald B. Whitham
Gerald Beresford Whitham FRS was a Britishโborn American applied mathematician and the Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied Mathematics (Emeritus) of Applied & Computational Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Heini Halberstam
Heini Halberstam was a Czech-born British mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Hans Meuer
Hans Meuer was a professor of computer science at the University of Mannheim, managing director of Prometeus GmbH and general chair of the International Supercomputing Conference. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Jumber Lominadze
Jumber Lominadze was a Georgian astrophysicist associated with the Georgian Academy of Sciences.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Frank Bernard Cockett
Frank Bernard Cockett FRCS was a senior British surgeon, author and art historian.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
John G. Cleary
John Gerald Cleary was a New Zealand-Canadian professor of computer science, entrepreneur, politician and promoter of Transcendental Meditation.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
John Dobson
John Lowry Dobson was an American amateur astronomer and is best known for the Dobsonian telescope, a portable, low-cost Newtonian reflector telescope. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
William Feindel
William Howard Feindel was a Canadian neurosurgeon, scientist and professor.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Zoltรกn Pรกl Dienes
Zoltรกn Pรกl Dienes, anglicized as Zoltan Paul Dienes, was a Hungarian mathematician whose ideas on education have been popular in some countries. He was a world-famous theorist and tireless practitioner of the "new mathematics": an approach to mathematics learning that uses games, songs, and dance to make it more appealing to children. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Riad Barmada
Riad Barmada was a Syrian-American orthopaedic surgeon and professor. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Marc Yor
Marc Yor was a French mathematician well known for his work on stochastic processes, especially properties of semimartingales, Brownian motion and other Lรฉvy processes, the Bessel processes, and their applications to mathematical finance.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Dale T. Mortensen
Dale Thomas Mortensen was an American economist, a professor at Northwestern University, and a winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Jean-Jacques Moreau
Jean Jacques Moreau was a French mathematician and mechanician. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
D. Harold McNamara
Delbert Harold McNamara, Ph.D. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Shirley Jeffrey
Shirley Winifred Jeffrey was an Australian marine biologist and naturalist, who researched biochemical separation techniques, specialising in micro-algal research; her discovery, isolation and purification of chlorophyll c allowed for the evaluation of oceanic microscopic plant biomass and photosynthesis. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Adusumilli Srikrishna
Adusumilli Srikrishna (1955โ2013) was an Indian organic chemist and a professor at the department of organic chemistry at the Indian Institute of Science. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.