Marvin Minsky

Marvin Minsky

male, 82 years old
artificial intelligence, MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty, Turing Award laureate, Artificial intelligence researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology…JapanPrizelaureate
Marvin Minsky is here critical of many current researchers in artificial intelligence researchers who he feels have gotten bogged down in theories...
Arvid Carlsson

Arvid Carlsson

male, 86 years old
World War II, Swedish Armed Forces, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, JapanPrizelaureate, Parkinson's disease
Arvid Carlsson (b. January 25, 1923) is a Swedish scientist who is best known for his work with the neurotransmitter dopamine and its effects in...
William Hayward Pickering

William Hayward Pickering

male, deceased (2004)
engineer, Astronomer, mariner, Pioneer 4, electrical engineer, ranger…JapanPrizelaureate
William Hayward Pickering ONZ KBE (24 December 1910 - 15 March 2004) was a New Zealand born rocket scientist who headed Pasadena, California's Jet...
Robert Gallo

Robert Gallo

male, 72 years old
JapanPrizelaureate, from Waterbury, Connecticut, Italian-American, AIDS, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Prince of Asturias Award winner
Robert Gallo is currently the Director of the Institute of Human Virology and Division of Basic Science at the University of Maryland Biotechnology...
Frank Sherwood Rowland

Frank Sherwood Rowland

male, 82 years old
Foreign Member of the Royal Society, National Academy of Sciences, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, JapanPrizelaureate, Nobel laureate in Chemistry, University of California, Irvine…Nobel Prize, Nobel Laureate
Frank Sherwood Rowland (born June 28, 1927) is an American Nobel laureate and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. His...

Peter Grünberg

male
Wolf Prize in Physics, Japan Prize, JapanPrizelaureate, hard disk, Jülich Research Centre, Université de Paris Sud
Dr Peter Grünberg is a German physicist and one of the discoverers of the Giant magnetoresistive effect which brought about a breakthrough in g...
Albert Fert

Albert Fert

male
JapanPrizelaureate, Wolf Prize, Japan Prize, Jülich Research Center, Giant magnetoresistive effect, physicist
Albert Fert is a French physicist and one of the discoverers of the Giant magnetoresistive effect which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte...
Kary Mullis

Kary Mullis

male, 64 years old (Berkeley, United States)
Nobel Prize, nobel, Kary Banks Mullis, paleontology, AIDS dissident, polymerase chain reaction…JapanPrizelaureate, Japan Prize, Nobel laureate in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Kary Banks Mullis, Ph.D. (born December 28, 1944) is an American biochemist and Nobel laureate. Dr Mullis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry...

Akira Endo

male, 76 years old
Biochemist, Japan Prize, JapanPrizelaureate, climatologist, cholesterol, fungus
Dr Akira Endo (born 14 November 1933) is a Japanese biochemist whose work on fungi and cholesterol led to the development of the highly successful...