Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead

female, deceased (1978) (Lewiston, Idaho, United States)
Episcopalian, lewis-clark state college, Philadelphia writer, American women writer, anthropology, Youth empowerment individuals…KalingaPrizewinner
Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901, Philadelphia - November 15, 1978, New York City) was an American cultural anthropologist.
George Porter

George Porter

male, deceased (2002)
Academic of the University of Sheffield, From South Yorkshire, World War II, Fellow of the Royal Society, Life peer, Nobel Prize…KalingaPrizewinner
George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, OM, FRS (December 6, 1920 - August 31, 2002) was a British chemist. Porter was born in Stainforth,...
Nikolay Basov

Nikolay Basov

male, deceased (2001)
Hero of Socialist Labor, voronezh, PhD, Nobel Prize in Physics, Lebedev Physical Institute, maser…KalingaPrizewinner, Nobel Prize winner
Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov was a Russian physicist and educator. He was born in the town Usman, now in Lipetsk Oblast. For his fundamental work in...
Jagjit Singh

Jagjit Singh

male, deceased (2002)
Indian, writer, Nobel Prize, Science writer, scientist, Sikh…KalingaPrizewinner, Kalinga Prize
Jagjit Singh (1912-2002) was an Indian writer and science popularizer. In college he excelled in mathematics courses, yet made his career as an...
Peter Ritchie Calder

Peter Ritchie Calder

male, deceased (1982)
Baron Ritchie-Calder, Life peer, secular humanism, Pacifist, Scottish, Political writer…KalingaPrizewinner
Peter Ritchie Calder, Baron Ritchie-Calder (1906, Forfar, Angus - 1982, Edinburgh) was a noted Scottish author, journalist and academic. Calder...
Konrad Lorenz

Konrad Lorenz

male, deceased (1989)
World War II prisoner of war, instinct, prisoner of war, Columbia University alumni, soviet, bird…KalingaPrizewinner, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (November 7, 1903 in Vienna - February 27, 1989 in Vienna) was an Austrian zoologist, animal psychologist, and...
Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke

male, deceased (2008) (Sri Lanka)
science fiction writer, 2001 A Space Odyssey, writer, Essayist, science-fiction, Futurist…KalingaPrizewinner
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (born 16 December 1917) is a British science-fiction author and inventor, most famous for his novel "2001: A Space...
Karl von Frisch

Karl von Frisch

male, deceased (1982)
University of Munich alumni, bee, Austrian nobility, zoology, KalingaPrizewinner, Ethologist…Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize
Karl Ritter von Frisch (November 20 1886 - June 12 1982) was an Austrian ethologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973,...
Ernst W. Hamburger

Ernst W. Hamburger

male, 76 years old
physicist, German-Brazilian, public understanding of science, Ernst Wolfgang Hamburger, Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit, Brazilian Academy of Sciences…Kalinga Prize, KalingaPrizewinner
Ernst Wolfgang Hamburger is a German-born Brazilian physicist and popularizer of science. Born in Germany in 1933, Prof. Hamburger emigrated with...

José Reis

male, deceased (2002)
journalist, Science writer, bacteriology, scientist, KalingaPrizewinner, sao paulo
José Reis (b. June 12, 1907, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d. May 16, 2002, São Paulo) was a noted Brazilian scientist, journalist, scientific leader an...