George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver

male, deceased (1943) (Alabama)
George Washington Carver saved the South from an economic crisis and possible famine by inventing more than three hundred uses for the peanut, over...
Jane Smiley

Jane Smiley

female, 60 years old
Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist. Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster...
Vasant Honavar

Vasant Honavar

male (Des Moines, Iowa, United States)
Vasant Honavar is an American computer scientist, specializing in artificial intelligence. He received his Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of...
George W. Snedecor

George W. Snedecor

male, deceased (1974)
George Waddel Snedecor (October 20, 1881 - February 15, 1974) was an American mathematician and statistician. He contributed to the foundations of...

Henry Gilman

male, deceased (1986)
Henry Gilman (May 19, 1893, - November 7, 1986) was an American organic chemist known as the father of organometallic chemistry, the field within...
Steve Padgitt

Steve Padgitt

male
Steve Padgitt is a sociologist who studies environmental and community development. Padgitt is a Professor at Iowa State University. Padgitt says,...
Keith H. Steinkraus

Keith H. Steinkraus

male, 91 years old
Keith H. Steinkraus (born 1918) is an American food scientist who was well known in food fermentation which led to the growth of soy-based foods....