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Stafford Cripps Facts

Sir Richard Stafford Cripps CH PC FRS (24 April 1889 – 21 April 1952) was a British Labour politician of the first half of the 20th century. During World War II he served in a number of positions in the wartime coalition, including Ambassador to th

Maya Burhanpurkar Facts

Maya Burhanpurkar is a Canadian high school scientist. At the age of 14, she conducted novel research in the field of fundamental physics for which she was awarded the Canadawide Science Fair Platinum Medal for the second time, represented Canada as

Victor Ovcharenko Facts

Victor Ovcharenko (Russian: Ви́ктор Ива́нович Овчаре́нко; February 5, 1943 – May 5, 2009) was a Russian philosopher, sociologist, historian and psychologist. He also was a PhD., professor, academician of the Russian Academ

Morris Cohen Facts

Morris Cohen, also known in Britain by his alias Peter Kroger, (July 2, 1910 – June 23, 1995) was an American convicted of espionage for the Soviet Union. His wife Lona was also an agent.

Jocelyn Scheirer Facts

Jocelyn Scheirer is an American entrepreneur, scientist, and artist who has been working in wearable technology since the late 1990s. Her research focuses on Affective Computing, which she pursued as a consultant and research assistant at the MIT Med

Percy Spencer Facts

Percy Lebaron Spencer (19 July 1894 – 8 September 1969) was an American physicist and inventor. He became known as the inventor of the microwave oven.

Murder of Annie Le Facts

The murder of Annie Le occurred September 8, 2009, on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Annie Marie Le (July 3, 1985 – September 8, 2009) was a 24-year-old American doctoral student at the Yale School of Medic

Max Perutz Facts

Max Ferdinand Perutz OM CH CBE FRS (19 May 1914 – 6 February 2002) was an Austrian-born British molecular biologist, who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with John Kendrew, for their studies of the structures of haemoglobin and myoglobin.

Evandro Chagas Facts

Evandro Serafim Lobo Chagas (August 10, 1905 – November 8, 1940), was a Brazilian physician and biomedical scientist specializing in tropical medicine. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, the eldest son of Carlos Chagas (1879-1934), noted physician and

Coenraad Jacob Temminck Facts

Coenraad Jacob Temminck (31 March 1778 – 30 January 1858) was a Dutch aristocrat, zoologist, and museum director.

Dr. Anne Fletcher Facts

Florence R. Sabin Facts

Florence Rena Sabin (November 9, 1871 – October 3, 1953) was an American medical scientist. She was a pioneer for women in science; she was the first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the first woman elected to