Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

male, deceased (1879) (ULM, Germany)
This German born physicist is considered one of the world's greatest thinkers in history. Not only did he shape the way people think of time,...
Alfred Nobel

Alfred Nobel

male, deceased (1896)
Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, a major...
Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing

female, 90 years old
Doris Lessing CH (born Doris May Tayler in Kermanshah, Persia on October 22, 1919) is a British writer.
Niels Bohr

Niels Bohr

male, deceased (1962)
Niels (Henrik David) Bohr was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for...
Linus Pauling

Linus Pauling

male, deceased (1994)
Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 - August 19, 1994) was an American quantum chemist and biochemist. He was also acknowledged as a...
Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

female, 78 years old (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18 1931), is a Nobel Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are...
Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk

male, 57 years old
The novelist Orhan Pamuk was born on June 7, 1952 in Istanbul and carries the distinct honor of being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in...
Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

male, deceased (1970)
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS, (18 May 1872 - 2 February 1970), was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician,...
George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

male, deceased (1950)
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856-2 November 1950) was an Irish dramatist, literary critic, and socialist. During his career Shaw wrote more than...