Barbara McClintock

Barbara McClintock

female, deceased (1992)
University of Missouri–Columbia faculty, Erasmus Hall High School alumni, National Academy of Sciences, crossing-over, genetic map, centromere…scientist, has achieved as a scientist and scholar
Barbara McClintock was a pioneering American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in...
George Wald

George Wald

male, deceased (1997)
Jewish, Columbia University alumni, tax resister, Neuroscientist, scientist, retina
George Wald(November 18, 1906 - April 12, 1997) was an American scientist who is best known for his work with pigments in the retina. He won a...
Oswald Spengler

Oswald Spengler

male, deceased (1936)
historian, cyclical, German, World War I, philosopher, cyclical pattern…Instructor, scientist
Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler (Blankenburg am Harz May 29, 1880 - May 8, 1936, Munich) was a German historian and philosopher whose interests...
Oleg Taktarov

Oleg Taktarov

male, 41 years old
Russian, 15 Minutes, season 3, David L. Abbott, Russian sambo practitioner, Alias episodes…scientist, Instructor
Oleg Taktarov (June 25, 1968) is a Russian martial artist. He is a practitioner of Sambo and Judo and has competed in mixed martial arts in the UFC...
Irving Langmuir

Irving Langmuir

male, deceased (1957) (Brooklyn, New York, United States)
langmuir, American Chemical Society, From Schenectady, Scottish-American, Nobel laureate in Chemistry, Nobel Prize for Chemistry…scientist
Irving Langmuir (January 31, 1881 in Brooklyn, New York - August 16, 1957 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts) was an American chemist and physicist. His...

Hendrik Tennekes

male, 73 years old
dutch, Hendrik (Henk) Tennekes, The Simple Science of Flight, A First Course in Turbulence, Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute, Scientific modeling…scientist, Flight Instructor
Hendrik (Henk) Tennekes (born 1936) was the former director of research at the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute (Koninklijk Nederlands...
Pascal Lee

Pascal Lee

male
243 Ida, chinese, Neptune, Voyager 2, seti institute, 951 Gaspra…Planetary scientist, scientist, Instructor
Pascal Lee is chairman and co-founder of the Mars Institute, a planetary scientist with the SETI Institute, and the Principal Investigator of...
Franco Modigliani

Franco Modigliani

male, deceased (2003)
MIT Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty, Institute Professor, The New School alumni, University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign, Jewish…scientist
Franco Modigliani (June 18, 1918 - September 25, 2003) was an Italian-American economist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT Department...
Peter Ladefoged

Peter Ladefoged

male, deceased (2006)
death by stroke, bombay, Peter Nielsen Ladefoged, The Sounds of the World's Languages, English-American, endangered languages…Instructor
Peter Nielsen Ladefoged was an English-American linguist and phonetician who traveled the world to document the distinct sounds of endangered...
J. Gordon Edwards

J. Gordon Edwards

male, deceased (2004)
myocardial infarction, death by myocardial infarction, heart attack, park ranger, entomologist and mountaineer, Entomologist…Instructor, scientist, in the zoology lab where he was the instructor
J. Gordon Edwards (1919-2004) was an entomologist mountain climber, an author, and park ranger. Edwards was professor, and later emeritus professor...
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