Orangutan primatologist, Trimate, Leakey's Angel, Anthropologist, primatologist, scientist, conservationist, educator: for over four decades Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas has studied and worked closely with the orangutans of Indonesian Borneo
US physician and medical researcher, born 1945. Bone marrow/leukemia and nuclear specialist. Called by the Soviet Union to treat 1986 Chernobyl victims, and by Japan to Fukushima in 2011. Emmy for '60 Minutes' Chernobyl piece
Medicinal chemist, integral part in development of cimetidine. Listed as inventor or co-inventor of 160+ US patents as well as authored & co-authored over 260 scientific papers. Was inducted into the National Inventor's HOF for his work on cimetidine
Theoretical physicist. Served on Barack Obama's Council of Advisors on Science & Tech. Black History Month 2017 Honoree. Featured in TurboTax and Verizon commercials and on NOVA PBS programs on physics, notably The Elegant Universe (2003)
Centenarian American physicist, emeritus professor of applied physics at Stanford. Known for his work on the synthesis of novel materials of interest to several areas of physics and many interdisciplinary sciences
American neuroscientist and author. Self-published debut novel Still Alice, about a Harvard University professor who suffers early onset Alzheimer's disease. The book was adapted into a film & won the Best Actress Oscar for Julianne Moore
German astrophysicist. He was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for physics 'for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy', which he shared with Andrea Ghez and Roger Penrose
Is a centenarian and is a Canadian psychologist and educator. She was the first woman Chancellor of the University of Western Ontario from 1992 to 1996
American astronomer and professor. In 2020, she became the fourth woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, sharing one half of the prize with Reinhard Genzel (the other half of the prize being awarded to Roger Penrose)
American paleontologist (born: 1946) whose research focuses on vertebrate paleontology, especially the Paleocene-Eocene eras. He is an expert on the evolution of primates and whales
Roboticists Matthew Godden of Shadow Robot Co. in England led the assembly of the bionic man from prosthetic body parts and artificial organs donated by laboratories around the world/First Fully Bionic Man Walks, Talks and Breathes
Theoretical physicist; worked at Manhattan Project; friend of Robert Oppenheimer; then working at Caltech (whose president he became) with Enrico Fermi + Edward Teller; spearheaded development of the 10-m-telescope at Keck Observatory, HI
American materials scientist and solid-state physicist. In 2019, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and, at 97 years old, became the oldest Nobel laureate in history
June 28, 1955 American ufologist and retired physician who founded the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) and the Disclosure Project
American computer scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur
co-founded Siri Inc., which created the Siri intelligent personal assistant and knowledge navigator
British developmental biologist.In 2012, he and Shinya Yamanaka were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be converted to stem cells