Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries
Filterable archive covering centuries of intellectual, artistic, and moral contributions to the human story.
Li Minhua
Li Minhua, also known as Minghua Lee Wu, was a Chinese aerospace engineer and physicist who was an expert in solid mechanics. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Michel Las Vergnas
Michel Las Vergnas was a French mathematician associated with Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University in Paris, and a research director emeritus at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Andrรฉ Cassagnes
Andrรฉ Cassagnes was a French inventor, electrical technician, toymaker, and kite designer. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Yehudith Birk
Yehudith Birk was a Polish-born Israeli biochemist, awarded the 1998 Israel Prize for agricultural research.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Tom Parry Jones
Thomas Parry Jones OBE was a Welsh scientist, inventor and entrepreneur, who was responsible for developing and marketing the first handheld electronic breathalyser, winning the Queen's Award for Technological Achievement in 1980 for the work. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Ted Cooke-Yarborough
Edmund Harry Cooke-Yarborough was the lead designer of the Harwell Dekatron, one of the world's early electronic computers and also a pioneer of radar.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Geoffrey Coates
Geoffrey Edward Coates was a British organometallic chemist and academic. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
James M. Buchanan
James McGill Buchanan Jr. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Samuel E. Blum
Samuel E. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Percy White
Percival Albert Frederick White OBE was a British chemist, metallurgist and nuclear scientist who was involved in the creation and testing of Britain's first nuclear weapon during Operation Hurricane in 1952. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Marie-Hรฉlรจne Schwartz
Marie-Hรฉlรจne Schwartz was a French mathematician, known for her work on characteristic numbers of spaces with singularities. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Robert Phelps
Robert Ralph Phelps was an American mathematician who was known for his contributions to analysis, particularly to functional analysis and measure theory. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Wally Feurzeig
Wallace "Wally" Feurzeig was an American computer scientist who was co-inventor, with Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon, of the programming language Logo, and a well-known researcher in artificial intelligence (AI).. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Marianne Grunberg-Manago
Marianne Vladimirovna Grunberg Manago was a Russian-born French biochemist. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
(Rita Levi-Montalcini)
Italian neurobiologist who discovered Nerve Growth Factor (NGF), awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and served as an active Senator for life in Italy until age 103.
Albert O. Hirschman
(Otto Albert Hirschmann)
German-born American political economist who wrote Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, and during World War II served as Varian Fry's right-hand man in Marseille, saving thousands of refugees from the Nazis.
Patrick Moore
(Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore)
Eccentric British amateur astronomer, author, and television personality who presented the BBC's The Sky at Night for 55 consecutive years, inspiring generations of stargazers with his trademark monocle and rapid-fire speech.
Joseph Murray
(Joseph Edward Murray)
Pioneering American surgeon who performed the world's first successful human organ transplant (a kidney between identical twins in 1954), winning the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.