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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Facts

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (July 19, 1921 – May 30, 2011) was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (together with Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally) for development of the radioimmunoassay (RI

Elaheh Koulaei Facts

Elaheh Koulaei (born 17 December 1956) is an Iranian political scientist, reformist intellectual.

Lionel Logue Facts

Lionel George Logue, CVO (26 February 1880 – 12 April 1953) was an Australian speech and language therapist and amateur stage actor who successfully treated, among others, King George VI, who had a pronounced stammer.

James B. Sumner Facts

James Batcheller Sumner (November 19, 1887 – August 12, 1955) was an American chemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 with John Howard Northrop and Wendell Meredith Stanley.

Kent Ford Facts

W. Kent Ford, Jr. (born 1931) is an astronomer involved with the theory of dark matter. He worked with scientist Vera Rubin, who used his advanced spectrometer in her studies of space and matter. This spectrometer allowed the pair to drastically chan

Janet Thornton Facts

Dame Janet Maureen Thornton, DBE, FRS, FMedSci (born 23 May 1949) is a senior scientist at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). She is one of the world’s leading researchers in struc

David Turner Facts

David A. Turner (born 1946) is a British computer scientist. He is best known for designing and implementing the first functional programming languages based on lazy evaluation, combinator graph reduction, and polymorphic types: SASL (1972), KRC (198

Helen Geake Facts

Dr Helen Geake is one of the key members of Channel 4’s popular and long-running archaeology series Time Team, presented by Tony Robinson, along with Mick Aston and Phil Harding.

Hrvoje Mazija Facts

Robert Gordon Menzies Facts

Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, KT, AK, CH, FAA, FRS, QC (20 December 1894 – 15 May 1978), was Australia’s longest-serving Prime Minister to date, at over eighteen years total, his second term of sixteen years being the longest continuous term ever s

George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon Facts

George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon KG GCSI CIE VD PC (24 October 1827 – 9 July 1909), styled Viscount Goderich from 1833 to 1859 and known as the Earl of Ripon in 1859 and as the Earl de Grey and Ripon from 1859 to 1871, wa

Augusta Déjerine Klumpke Facts

Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke (15 October 1859 – 5 November 1927) was an American-born French physician known for her work in neuroanatomy. She was the first female intern to work in a hospital in Paris.