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W. Alexanderson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Inventor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Jan-1878</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-May-1975</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Developed radio and television at GE and RCA</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/039/000027955/"><font size=-1>Zhores I. Alferov</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Mar-1930</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Developed solar cells for the Sputnik program</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/217/000165719/"><font size=-1>Alois Alzheimer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jun-1864</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Dec-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Alzheimer's Disease</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/478/000131085/"><font size=-1>Werner Arber</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Jun-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Restriction enzymes (DNA cleavage)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/704/000087443/"><font size=-1>Aristotle</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Philosopher</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>384 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>322 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Politics</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/711/000136303/"><font size=-1>Richard Axel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Jul-1946</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Odorant receptors and olfactory organization</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/825/000207204/"><font size=-1>Joseph Babinski</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Nov-1857</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Oct-1932</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>The Babinski sign</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/363/000094081/"><font size=-1>Leo Baekeland</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Nov-1863</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Feb-1944</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of plastics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/033/000044898/"><font size=-1>Bruce Bagemihl</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>?</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Biological Exuberance</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/843/000126465/"><font size=-1>Frederick G. Banting</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Nov-1891</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Feb-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered insulin</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/529/000176998/"><font size=-1>Françoise Barré-Sinoussi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jul-1947</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Discoverer of HIV</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/714/000031621/"><font size=-1>Bill Bass</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Aug-1928</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Human decomposition</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/783/000129396/"><font size=-1>George Beadle</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Oct-1903</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Jun-1989</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>One gene, one enzyme theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/658/000162172/"><font size=-1>William Beebe</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jul-1877</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jun-1962</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Ocean explorer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/037/000129647/"><font size=-1>Georg von Békésy</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Jun-1899</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jun-1972</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Mechanism of cochlear stimulation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/697/000131304/"><font size=-1>Baruj Benacerraf</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Oct-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Aug-2011</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Gene control of HLA antigens</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/284/000174759/"><font size=-1>Hans Berger</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-May-1873</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jun-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electroencephalogram</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/311/000131915/"><font size=-1>Sune K. Bergström</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jan-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Aug-2004</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Prostaglandins</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/590/000162104/"><font size=-1>Clarence Birdseye</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Dec-1886</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Oct-1956</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Frozen and dried food, wrapped in cellophane</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/187/000132788/"><font size=-1>J. Michael Bishop</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Feb-1936</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Genetic causes of cancer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/068/000132669/"><font size=-1>James W. Black</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jun-1924</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Mar-2010</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Propranolol and cimetidine</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/888/000208264/"><font size=-1>Elizabeth H. Blackburn</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Nov-1948</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Discoverer of telomerase</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/040/000043908/"><font size=-1>Susan Blackmore</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jul-1951</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Meme Machine</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/327/000134922/"><font size=-1>Günter Blobel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-May-1936</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Protein signaling in cells</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/080/000129690/"><font size=-1>Konrad Bloch</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jan-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Oct-2000</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/390/000130997/"><font size=-1>Baruch S. Blumberg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Jul-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Apr-2011</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Hepatitis B vaccine</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/271/000125893/"><font size=-1>Jules Bordet</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jun-1870</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Apr-1961</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Researched antibodies and antigens</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/662/000022596/"><font size=-1>Norman Borlaug</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Mar-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Sep-2009</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Engineered disease-resistant wheat</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/736/000129349/"><font size=-1>Daniel Bovet</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Mar-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Apr-1992</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Anti-histamines, muscle relaxants, sulfanilamide</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/770/000135365/"><font size=-1>Sydney Brenner</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jan-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Genetic regulation of organ development</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/991/000029904/"><font size=-1>Fred Brooks</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Computer Programmer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Apr-1931</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of the IBM System 360</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/471/000128087/"><font size=-1>Rodney Brooks</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Dec-1954</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Robotics and artificial intelligence researcher</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/665/000029578/"><font size=-1>Giordano Bruno</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1548</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Feb-1600</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Heretic cosmologist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/937/000129550/"><font size=-1>Frank Macfarlane Burnet</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Sep-1899</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Aug-1985</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Acquired immunological tolerance</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/130/000026052/"><font size=-1>Vannevar Bush</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Mar-1890</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jun-1974</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Pre-internet visionary</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/518/000275690/"><font size=-1>Guy Stewart Callendar</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Feb-1898</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Oct-1964</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Callendar Effect</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/468/000164973/"><font size=-1>Walter Bradford Cannon</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Oct-1871</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Oct-1945</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Fight or flight response</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/890/000163401/"><font size=-1>Mario Capecchi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Oct-1937</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Knock-out mice</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/384/000134979/"><font size=-1>Arvid Carlsson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Jan-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Signal transduction in the nervous system</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/843/000031750/"><font size=-1>Rachel Carson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-May-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Apr-1964</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Mother of the environmental movement</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/745/000023676/"><font size=-1>Vint Cerf</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jun-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Designed Internet's TCP-IP protocol</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/574/000162088/"><font size=-1>Ana María Cetto</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1946</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Mexican physicist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/013/000128626/"><font size=-1>Ernst B. Chain</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jun-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Aug-1979</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Isolated penicillin</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/553/000205935/"><font size=-1>Ananda M. Chakrabarty</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Apr-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Oil-eating bacteria</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/606/000177075/"><font size=-1>Martin Chalfie</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1947</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Green Fluorescent Protein</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/491/000179951/"><font size=-1>Jule Charney</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jan-1917</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jun-1981</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Quasi-gesotrophic theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/546/000180006/"><font size=-1>Walter Christaller</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Apr-1893</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Mar-1969</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Central Place Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/269/000171753/"><font size=-1>Leon Chua</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Jun-1936</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Hypothesized the memristor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/051/000140628/"><font size=-1>Aaron Ciechanover</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Oct-1947</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/550/000180010/"><font size=-1>A. J. Clark</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Aug-1885</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jul-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Drug responses</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/186/000130793/"><font size=-1>Albert Claude</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Aug-1899</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-May-1983</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Microstructure of the cell</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/687/000132291/"><font size=-1>Stanley Cohen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Nov-1922</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Nerve and skin cell growth factors</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/818/000118464/"><font size=-1>Francis Collins</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Apr-1950</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Human Genome Project</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/135/000128748/"><font size=-1>Carl Cori</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Dec-1896</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Oct-1984</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Catalytic conversion of glycogen</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/144/000128757/"><font size=-1>Gerty Cori</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Aug-1896</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Oct-1957</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Catalytic conversion of glycogen</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/038/000168531/"><font size=-1>Alan Cottrell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jul-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Feb-2012</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Metallurgist at Cambridge</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/687/000129300/"><font size=-1>André F. Cournand</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Sep-1895</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Feb-1988</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cardiac catheterization</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/321/000022255/"><font size=-1>Francis Crick</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jun-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Jul-2004</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Discoverer of the structure of DNA</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/524/000138110/"><font size=-1>Heidi Cullen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>TV Personality</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1971</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Climate Code</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/683/000205068/"><font size=-1>Jan Czochralski</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Oct-1885</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Apr-1953</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Czochralski Process</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/813/000029726/"><font size=-1>Leonardo Da Vinci</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Artist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Apr-1452</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-May-1519</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Mona Lisa</i>, <i>The Last Supper</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/470/000128086/"><font size=-1>Henry Dale</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Jun-1875</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jul-1968</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Acetylcholine as a neurotransmitter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/836/000128452/"><font size=-1>Henrik Dam</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Feb-1895</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>Apr-1976</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered Vitamin K</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/825/000131432/"><font size=-1>Jean Dausset</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Oct-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jun-2009</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Recognition of HLA antigens</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/026/000027942/"><font size=-1>Raymond Davis, Jr.</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Oct-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-May-2006</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Detected solar neutrinos</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/348/000129958/"><font size=-1>Max Delbrück</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Sep-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Mar-1981</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Molecular structure of viral genes (phages)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/765/000030675/"><font size=-1>Dorothy Denning</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Aug-1945</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Professor, interest in encryption</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/663/000268856/"><font size=-1>Jared Diamond</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Sep-1937</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Collapse of societies</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/938/000023869/"><font size=-1>Whitfield Diffie</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jun-1944</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Invented public key cryptography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/134/000083882/"><font size=-1>Kenelm Digby</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jul-1603</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jun-1665</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Founding member of the Royal Society</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/521/000165026/"><font size=-1>Jeremiah Dixon</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Aug-1733</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jan-1777</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Mason-Dixon Line</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/573/000167072/"><font size=-1>T. G. Dobzhansky</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Jan-1900</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Dec-1975</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Genetics and the Origin of Species</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/800/000180260/"><font size=-1>Alphonse Dochez</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Apr-1882</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jun-1964</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Scarlet fever, pneumonia, common cold</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/801/000180261/"><font size=-1>E. C. Dodds</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Oct-1899</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Dec-1973</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Diethylstilbestrol</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/911/000134509/"><font size=-1>Peter C. Doherty</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Oct-1940</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>T-cells and antigens</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/859/000128475/"><font size=-1>Edward A. Doisy</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Nov-1893</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Oct-1986</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Chemical structure of Vitamin K</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/744/000128360/"><font size=-1>Gerhard Domagk</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Oct-1895</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Apr-1964</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Sulfa drugs for strep, stapf infections</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/577/000023508/"><font size=-1>K. Eric Drexler</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Apr-1955</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Nanotechnology primer <i>Engines of Creation</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/254/000130861/"><font size=-1>Renato Dulbecco</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Feb-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Feb-2012</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Tumor viruses and host genetics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/189/000130796/"><font size=-1>Christian de Duve</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Oct-1917</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Microstructure of the cell</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/041/000129651/"><font size=-1>John Eccles</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jan-1903</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-May-1997</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Membrane potential of nerves</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/094/000130701/"><font size=-1>Gerald M. Edelman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jul-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Chemical structure of antibodies</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/745/000253983/"><font size=-1>Robert G. Edwards</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Sep-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>In vitro fertilization</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/238/000086977/"><font size=-1>Paul Ehrlich</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Mar-1854</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Aug-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of chemotherapy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/257/000059080/"><font size=-1>Paul R. Ehrlich</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-May-1932</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Population Bomb</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/500/000127119/"><font size=-1>Christiaan Eijkman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Aug-1858</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Nov-1930</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Research led to discovery of vitamins</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/927/000126549/"><font size=-1>Willem Einthoven</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-May-1860</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Sep-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Invented the electrocardiograph</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/099/000132700/"><font size=-1>Gertrude B. Elion</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jan-1918</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Feb-1999</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Developed medicines for leukemia, herpes, AIDS</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/622/000117271/"><font size=-1>Charles Elton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Mar-1900</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-May-1991</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Animal Ecology</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/630/000129243/"><font size=-1>John F. Enders</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Feb-1897</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Sep-1985</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cultured the polio virus</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/899/000128515/"><font size=-1>Joseph Erlanger</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jan-1874</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Dec-1965</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Nerve conduction</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/165/000166664/"><font size=-1>James Pollard Espy</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-May-1785</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jan-1860</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Philosophy of Storms</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/817/000130427/"><font size=-1>Ulf von Euler</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Feb-1905</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Mar-1983</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Neurotransmitters, norepinephrine and prostaglandins</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/107/000161621/"><font size=-1>Bartolomeo Eustachi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1500</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Aug-1574</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Anatomist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/894/000163405/"><font size=-1>Martin Evans</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jan-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Embryonic stem cells</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/461/000168954/"><font size=-1>Max Faget</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Aug-1921</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Oct-2004</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Designer of NASA spacecraft</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/360/000073141/"><font size=-1>Oliver La Farge</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Dec-1901</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Aug-1963</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Laughing Boy</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/172/000126791/"><font size=-1>Johannes Fibiger</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Apr-1867</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jan-1928</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Caused cancer in lab rats</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/364/000136953/"><font size=-1>Andrew Z. Fire</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Apr-1959</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>RNA interference</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/913/000133514/"><font size=-1>Edmond H. Fischer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Apr-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Protein phosphorylation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/696/000091423/"><font size=-1>Alexander Fleming</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Aug-1881</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Mar-1955</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered penicillin</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/038/000128651/"><font size=-1>Howard Florey</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Sep-1898</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Feb-1968</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Isolated penicillin</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/682/000029595/"><font size=-1>Robert Fludd</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1574</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Sep-1637</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cosmologist and hermetic philosopher</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/893/000031800/"><font size=-1>Charles Fort</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Aug-1874</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-May-1932</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Prophet of the Unexplained</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/558/000087297/"><font size=-1>Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Mar-1768</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-May-1830</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Fourier series</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/578/000026500/"><font size=-1>Benjamin Franklin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Diplomat</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jan-1706</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Apr-1790</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>American founding father</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/917/000196329/"><font size=-1>T. R. Fraser</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Feb-1841</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jan-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Made poison and venom into medicine</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/940/000023871/"><font size=-1>Elizebeth Friedman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Aug-1892</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Oct-1980</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>America's first female cryptanalyst</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/939/000023870/"><font size=-1>William Friedman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Sep-1891</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Nov-1969</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cryptography pioneer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/159/000134754/"><font size=-1>Robert F. Furchgott</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jun-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-May-2009</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Nitric oxide as a cardiovascular signal</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/316/000203704/"><font size=-1>John H. Gaddum</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Mar-1900</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jun-1965</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Drug antagonism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/391/000130998/"><font size=-1>D. Carleton Gajdusek</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Sep-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Dec-2008</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Kuru (slow virus infections)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/947/000128563/"><font size=-1>Herbert S. Gasser</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jul-1888</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-May-1963</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Nerve conduction</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/363/000087102/"><font size=-1>Carl Friedrich Gauss</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Apr-1777</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Feb-1855</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Perhaps the greatest German mathematician</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/913/000140493/"><font size=-1>Michael Gershon</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1936</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Gut neurobiology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/136/000133734/"><font size=-1>Alfred G. Gilman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jul-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>G-protein cell signal transmission</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/368/000094086/"><font size=-1>Robert Goddard</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Oct-1882</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Aug-1945</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of modern rocketry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/832/000047691/"><font size=-1>Thomas Gold</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-May-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jun-2004</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Certain that oil is not a fossil fuel</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/604/000132208/"><font size=-1>Joseph L. Goldstein</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Apr-1940</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Hypercholesterolemia and cell metabolism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/732/000125357/"><font size=-1>Camillo Golgi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jul-1843</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jan-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Structure of the nervous system</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/294/000129904/"><font size=-1>Ragnar Granit</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Oct-1900</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Mar-1990</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Physiology of the retina</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/282/000044150/"><font size=-1>Brian Greene</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Feb-1963</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Elegant Universe</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/962/000169455/"><font size=-1>Susan Greenfield</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Oct-1950</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Brain Story</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/454/000135049/"><font size=-1>Paul Greengard</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Dec-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Signal transduction in the nervous system</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/890/000208266/"><font size=-1>Carol W. Greider</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Apr-1961</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Discoverer of telomerase</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/633/000161150/"><font size=-1>Virgil Griffith</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Computer Programmer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Mar-1983</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Author of <i>WikiScanner</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/032/000169522/"><font size=-1>Amiram Grinvald</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1949</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>High-resolution optical imaging</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/437/000131044/"><font size=-1>Roger Guillemin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jan-1924</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Hypothalamic hormones (brain peptides)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/146/000085888/"><font size=-1>Stephen Hales</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Sep-1677</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jan-1761</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Statical Essays</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/076/000169566/"><font size=-1>James E. Hansen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Mar-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Greenhouse effect and global warming</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/315/000129925/"><font size=-1>Haldan K. Hartline</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Dec-1903</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Mar-1983</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Physiology of the retina</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/645/000135240/"><font size=-1>Leland H. Hartwell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Oct-1939</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Regulators of cell cycle</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/823/000052667/"><font size=-1>Steven Hatfill</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Oct-1953</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>US biowarfare researcher</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/305/000176774/"><font size=-1>Harald zur Hausen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Mar-1936</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Papilloma virus</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/009/000027925/"><font size=-1>Norman G. Heatley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jan-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jan-2004</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Isolated penicillin</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/627/000204015/"><font size=-1>Oliver Heaviside</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Engineer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-May-1850</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Feb-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Kennelly-Heaviside layer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/555/000129168/"><font size=-1>Philip S. Hench</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Feb-1896</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Mar-1965</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Adrenocortical hormones</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/416/000130026/"><font size=-1>Alfred D. Hershey</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Dec-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-May-1997</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Molecular structure of viral genes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/052/000140629/"><font size=-1>Avram Hershko</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Dec-1937</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/271/000128884/"><font size=-1>Walter Hess</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Mar-1881</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Aug-1973</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Brain mapping, neurophysiological methods</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/699/000128315/"><font size=-1>Corneille Heymans</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Mar-1892</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jul-1968</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Aortic and carotid chemoreceptors</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/668/000126290/"><font size=-1>Archibald V. Hill</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Sep-1886</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Jun-1977</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Studied muscles and nerves</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/351/000169841/"><font size=-1>Peter B. Hirsch</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jan-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electron microscopy in metallurgy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/116/000132717/"><font size=-1>George H. Hitchings</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Apr-1905</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Feb-1998</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Developed medicines for leukemia, herpes, arthritis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/045/000129655/"><font size=-1>Alan L. Hodgkin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Feb-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Dec-1998</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electrical impulses in nerves</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/316/000129926/"><font size=-1>Robert W. Holley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Jan-1922</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1993</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>RNA's role in protein synthesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/356/000087095/"><font size=-1>Robert Hooke</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jul-1635</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Mar-1703</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Law of Elasticity, microscopist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/610/000127229/"><font size=-1>Frederick Hopkins</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Jun-1861</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-May-1947</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered vitamins</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/864/000135459/"><font size=-1>H. Robert Horvitz</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-May-1947</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Genetic regulation of organ development</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/235/000128848/"><font size=-1>Bernardo Houssay</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Apr-1887</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Sep-1971</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Pituitary hormones in sugar metabolism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/535/000178001/"><font size=-1>Tsien Hsue-shen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Dec-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Oct-2009</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Founder of Chinese space program</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/226/000131830/"><font size=-1>David H. Hubel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Feb-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Neurophysiology of vision</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/293/000129903/"><font size=-1>Charles B. Huggins</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Sep-1901</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Jan-1997</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Hormonal treatment of prostate and breast cancers</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/696/000135291/"><font size=-1>Tim Hunt</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Feb-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Regulators of cell cycle</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/046/000129656/"><font size=-1>Andrew F. Huxley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Nov-1917</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-May-2012</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electrical impulses in nerves</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/570/000024498/"><font size=-1>Thomas Henry Huxley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-May-1825</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jun-1895</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Debated Wilberforce over evolution</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/371/000028287/"><font size=-1>Jamie Hyneman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>TV Personality</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Sep-1956</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Mustachioed host of <i>MythBusters</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/234/000134829/"><font size=-1>Louis J. Ignarro</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-May-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Nitric oxide as a cardiovascular signal</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/053/000173531/"><font size=-1>Bruce Ivins</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Biologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Apr-1946</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jul-2008</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Anthrax researcher and suspect</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/498/000169988/"><font size=-1>Henry B. Jackson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Military</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jan-1855</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Dec-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Radio telegraphy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/020/000204405/"><font size=-1>J. Hughlings Jackson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Apr-1835</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Oct-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of British neurology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/157/000129767/"><font size=-1>François Jacob</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jun-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Operon theory of genetic control</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/537/000132141/"><font size=-1>Niels K. Jerne</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Dec-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Oct-1994</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Immune theory (anti-antibody)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/854/000170344/"><font size=-1>Miriam E. John</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1948</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>VP at Sandia, 1999-2006</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/622/000169115/"><font size=-1>Joseph M. Juran</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Dec-1904</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Feb-2008</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>The Pareto Principle</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/945/000023876/"><font size=-1>Robert E. Kahn</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Dec-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Inventor, Internet's TCP-IP protocol</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/131/000024059/"><font size=-1>A. P. J. Kalam</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Oct-1931</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>11th President of India 2002-07</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/644/000135239/"><font size=-1>Eric R. Kandel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Nov-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Signal transduction in the nervous system</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/895/000208271/"><font size=-1>Charles K. Kao</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Nov-1933</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Fiber optics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/814/000130424/"><font size=-1>Bernard Katz</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Mar-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Apr-2003</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Neurotransmitters and the pineal gland</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/343/000128956/"><font size=-1>Edward C. Kendall</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Sep-1886</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-May-1972</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Adrenocortical hormones</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/489/000166988/"><font size=-1>Warwick Kerr</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Sep-1922</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Introduced african bees to South America</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/099/000119739/"><font size=-1>Ancel Keys</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jan-1904</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Nov-2004</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Nutritionist, created the K ration</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/339/000129949/"><font size=-1>H. Gobind Khorana</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Jan-1922</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Nov-2011</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>RNA's role in protein synthesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/413/000059236/"><font size=-1>Alfred Kinsey</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jun-1894</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Aug-1956</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Researched human sexual behavior</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/442/000024370/"><font size=-1>Athanasius Kircher</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-May-1601</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Nov-1680</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Master of a Hundred Arts</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/419/000027338/"><font size=-1>Billy Klüver</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Nov-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jan-2004</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>The Mr. Fix-It of kinetic art</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/542/000132146/"><font size=-1>Georges J.F. Köhler</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Apr-1946</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Mar-1995</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Hybridoma technique (monoclonal antibodies)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/636/000205021/"><font size=-1>Willem Johan Kolff</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Feb-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-2009</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Artificial kidney, artificial heart</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/936/000129549/"><font size=-1>Arthur Kornberg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Mar-1918</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Oct-2007</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Synthesized DNA</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/615/000138201/"><font size=-1>Roger D. Kornberg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Apr-1947</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/029/000125651/"><font size=-1>Albrecht Kossel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Sep-1853</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jul-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Chemistry of tissues and cells</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/079/000133677/"><font size=-1>Edwin G. Krebs</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jun-1918</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Dec-2009</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Protein phosphorylation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/619/000129232/"><font size=-1>Hans Krebs</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Apr-1900</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Nov-1981</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Tricarboxylic acid cycle</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/578/000126200/"><font size=-1>August Krogh</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Nov-1874</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Sep-1949</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered how capillaries regulate oxygen</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/698/000091425/"><font size=-1>Karl Landsteiner</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jun-1868</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jun-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered blood typing</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/797/000025722/"><font size=-1>Jaron Lanier</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-May-1960</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Coined the term "virtual reality"</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/326/000129936/"><font size=-1>Paul C. Lauterbur</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-May-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Mar-2007</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Magnetic resonance imaging</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/110/000125732/"><font size=-1>Alphonse Laveran</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jun-1845</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-May-1922</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Found the parasite that causes malaria</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/511/000138097/"><font size=-1>Henry C. Lee</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Nov-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Prominent criminologist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/086/000089816/"><font size=-1>Wen Ho Lee</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Victim</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Dec-1939</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Allegedly spied for China</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/355/000087094/"><font size=-1>Anton van Leeuwenhoek</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Oct-1632</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Aug-1723</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Master of the Microscope</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/062/000132663/"><font size=-1>Rita Levi-Montalcini</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Apr-1909</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Nerve and skin cell growth factors</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/791/000055626/"><font size=-1>Edward B. Lewis</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-May-1918</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jul-2004</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Drosophila</i> researcher, Nobel laureate</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/695/000173176/"><font size=-1>John C. Lilly</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jan-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Sep-2001</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Human-dolphin communication</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/625/000129238/"><font size=-1>Fritz Lipmann</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Jun-1899</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jul-1986</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Carbohydrate oxidation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/507/000128123/"><font size=-1>Otto Loewi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Jun-1873</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Dec-1961</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Acetylcholine as a neurotransmitter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/836/000170326/"><font size=-1>Edward Lorenz</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-May-1917</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Apr-2008</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Chaos theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/283/000024211/"><font size=-1>James Lovelock</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jul-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>The Gaia Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/387/000212748/"><font size=-1>Auguste Lumière</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Inventor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Oct-1862</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Apr-1954</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Inventor of motion pictures</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/158/000129768/"><font size=-1>André Lwoff</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-May-1902</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Sep-1994</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Operon theory of genetic control</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/091/000129701/"><font size=-1>Feodor Lynen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Apr-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Aug-1979</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/828/000050678/"><font size=-1>Trofim Lysenko</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Sep-1898</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Nov-1976</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Dazzled Stalin with false genetic theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/871/000126493/"><font size=-1>John Macleod</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Sep-1876</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Mar-1935</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Helped discover insulin</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/432/000171916/"><font size=-1>William J. Madia</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1948</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Stanford Linear Accelerator Center</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/660/000136252/"><font size=-1>Peter Mansfield</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Oct-1933</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Magnetic resonance imaging</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/552/000071339/"><font size=-1>Guglielmo Marconi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Apr-1874</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Jul-1937</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Inventor of radio</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/112/000095824/"><font size=-1>Edme Mariotte</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1620</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-May-1684</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered eye's blind spot</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/899/000136491/"><font size=-1>Barry J. Marshall</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Sep-1951</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>H. pylori</i> bacteria causes ulcers</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/528/000165033/"><font size=-1>Charles Mason</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>Apr-1728</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Oct-1786</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Mason-Dixon Line</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/005/000101699/"><font size=-1>William Masters</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Dec-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Feb-2001</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Human Sexual Response</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/393/000166892/"><font size=-1>Matthew Fontaine Maury</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Military</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jan-1806</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Feb-1873</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of modern oceanography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/347/000178810/"><font size=-1>James J. McCarthy</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>?</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>President of AAAS</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/011/000083759/"><font size=-1>Barbara McClintock</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jun-1902</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Sep-1992</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered transposable genes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/867/000173348/"><font size=-1>Victor A. McKusick</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Oct-1921</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jul-2008</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of medical genetics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/143/000125765/"><font size=-1>Ilya Mechnikov</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-May-1845</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jul-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Researched the immune system</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/091/000275263/"><font size=-1>Edward Mellanby</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Apr-1884</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jan-1955</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Rickets</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/774/000137363/"><font size=-1>Craig C. Mello</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Oct-1960</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>RNA interference</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/015/000083763/"><font size=-1>Gregor Mendel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jul-1822</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jan-1884</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered the laws of inheritance</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/410/000028326/"><font size=-1>Ralph Merkle</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Feb-1952</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Public key cryptographer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/705/000126327/"><font size=-1>Otto Meyerhof</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Apr-1884</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Oct-1951</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Glycogen-lactic acid cycle</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/603/000132207/"><font size=-1>César Milstein</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Oct-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Mar-2002</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Hybridoma technique (monoclonal antibodies)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/867/000171354/"><font size=-1>Oskar Minkowski</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jan-1858</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jul-1931</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Linked pancreas to diabetes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/933/000031840/"><font size=-1>Marvin Minsky</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Aug-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of Artificial Intelligence</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/186/000213544/"><font size=-1>Paul Mockapetris</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Nov-1948</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Inventor, Internet Domain Name System</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/272/000128885/"><font size=-1>Egas Moniz</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Nov-1874</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Dec-1955</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Pre-frontal lobotomy and cerebral arteriography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/204/000129814/"><font size=-1>Jacques Monod</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Feb-1910</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-May-1976</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Operon theory of genetic control</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/530/000176999/"><font size=-1>Luc Montagnier</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Aug-1932</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Discoverer of HIV</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/189/000108862/"><font size=-1>Maria Montessori</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Educator</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Aug-1870</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-May-1952</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Founder of Montessori Education Method</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/048/000127664/"><font size=-1>Thomas H. Morgan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Sep-1866</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Dec-1945</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Fruit fly chromosomes and heredity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/073/000128686/"><font size=-1>Hermann J. Muller</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Dec-1890</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Apr-1967</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Genetic effects of radiation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/249/000128862/"><font size=-1>Paul H. Müller</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Jan-1899</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Oct-1965</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Synthesized DDT</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/237/000134832/"><font size=-1>Ferid Murad</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Sep-1936</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Nitric oxide as a cardiovascular signal</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/287/000127903/"><font size=-1>William P. Murphy</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Feb-1892</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Oct-1987</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Liver therapy for pernicious anemia</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/329/000132930/"><font size=-1>Joseph E. Murray</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Apr-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Kidney transplants</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/479/000131086/"><font size=-1>Daniel Nathans</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Oct-1928</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Nov-1999</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Restriction enzymes (DNA cleavage)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/838/000133439/"><font size=-1>Erwin Neher</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Mar-1944</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cellular ion channels</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/431/000127050/"><font size=-1>Charles Nicolle</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Sep-1866</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Feb-1936</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Found that lice transmit typhus</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/347/000129957/"><font size=-1>Marshall W. Nirenberg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Apr-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Jan-2010</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>RNA's role in protein synthesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/704/000135299/"><font size=-1>Paul Nurse</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Jan-1949</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Regulators of cell cycle</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/197/000133795/"><font size=-1>Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Oct-1942</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Embryonic development of fruit flies</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/912/000129525/"><font size=-1>Severo Ochoa</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Sep-1905</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Nov-1993</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Synthesized RNA</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/504/000091231/"><font size=-1>John Boyd Orr</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Sep-1880</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Jun-1971</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Nutritionist, Nobel Prize recipient</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/427/000059250/"><font size=-1>Albert S. Osborn</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1858</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1946</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Questioned Documents</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/001/000031905/"><font size=-1>Humphry Osmond</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jul-1917</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Feb-2004</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>LSD proponent, turned on Aldous Huxley</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/631/000042505/"><font size=-1>George Pake</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Apr-1924</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Mar-2004</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>First director of Xerox PARC</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/225/000130832/"><font size=-1>George E. Palade</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Nov-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Oct-2008</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Microstructure of the cell</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/465/000171949/"><font size=-1>George Papanicolaou</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-May-1883</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Feb-1962</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Pap smear</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/605/000172089/"><font size=-1>Bradford W. Parkinson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Engineer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Feb-1935</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Global Positioning System</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/027/000028940/"><font size=-1>Jack Parsons</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Oct-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jul-1952</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Satanic rocket scientist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/656/000087395/"><font size=-1>Ivan Pavlov</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Sep-1849</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Feb-1936</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Conditioned reflexes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/987/000276159/"><font size=-1>Ken Perlin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1957</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Perlin noise</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/310/000044178/"><font size=-1>Laurence J. Peter</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Sep-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Jan-1990</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Peter Principle</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/954/000161471/"><font size=-1>Gregory Pincus</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Apr-1903</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Aug-1967</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Inventor of oral contraceptives</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/423/000097132/"><font size=-1>Giambattista della Porta</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1538</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Feb-1615</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Magia Naturalis</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/111/000130718/"><font size=-1>Rodney R. Porter</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Oct-1917</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Sep-1985</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Chemical structure of antibodies</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/947/000023878/"><font size=-1>Jon Postel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Aug-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Oct-1998</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Creator of the Internet's RFC system</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/928/000140508/"><font size=-1>Bill Proenza</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1945</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Director, National Hurricane Center, 2007</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/938/000172422/"><font size=-1>Joseph Proudman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Dec-1888</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jun-1975</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Tidal currents</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/136/000134731/"><font size=-1>Stanley B. Prusiner</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-May-1942</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Prions</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/869/000126491/"><font size=-1>Daniel R. Raichel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1935</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Dec-2006</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Acoustics expert</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/898/000208274/"><font size=-1>Venkatraman Ramakrishnan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1952</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Ribosomes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/862/000125487/"><font size=-1>Santiago Ramón y Cajal</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-May-1852</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Oct-1934</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Structure of the nervous system</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/393/000035288/"><font size=-1>R. E. Raspe</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1737</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1794</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Adventures of Baron Munchausen</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/617/000164125/"><font size=-1>Orville Redenbacher</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jul-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Sep-1995</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Popcorn maker</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/697/000091424/"><font size=-1>Walter Reed</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Sep-1851</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Nov-1902</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Proved mosquitos spread Yellow Fever</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/847/000053688/"><font size=-1>Wilhelm Reich</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Mar-1897</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Nov-1957</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Founder of Orgonomy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/371/000128984/"><font size=-1>Tadeus Reichstein</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Jul-1897</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Aug-1996</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Adrenocortical hormones</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/029/000049879/"><font size=-1>Joseph Banks Rhine</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Paranormal</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Sep-1885</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Feb-1980</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of modern parapsychology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/721/000129334/"><font size=-1>Dickinson W. Richards</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Oct-1895</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Feb-1973</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cardiac catheterization</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/207/000125829/"><font size=-1>Charles Richet</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Aug-1850</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Dec-1935</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Studied anaphylaxis and ectoplasm</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/805/000140385/"><font size=-1>Charles Richter</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Apr-1900</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Sep-1985</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Groundbreaking seismologist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/668/000129281/"><font size=-1>Frederick C. Robbins</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Aug-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Aug-2003</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cultured the polio virus</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/136/000026058/"><font size=-1>Larry Roberts</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1937</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Principal architect, ARPANET</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/088/000133686/"><font size=-1>Richard J. Roberts</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Sep-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Eukaryotic (split) genes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/181/000133779/"><font size=-1>Martin Rodbell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Dec-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Dec-1998</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>G-protein cell signal transmission</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/079/000140656/"><font size=-1>Irwin Rose</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jul-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/339/000094057/"><font size=-1>Ronald Ross</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-May-1857</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Sep-1932</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered malaria parasite in mosquitoes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/208/000129818/"><font size=-1>Peyton Rous</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Oct-1879</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Feb-1970</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Blood banks and carcinogenic viruses</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/324/000172805/"><font size=-1>Aviel Rubin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Computer Programmer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Nov-1967</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Computer security expert at Johns Hopkins</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/662/000104350/"><font size=-1>Benjamin Count Rumford</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Mar-1753</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Aug-1814</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Established the Rumford Medal</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/234/000030144/"><font size=-1>Burt Rutan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jun-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Homebrew aircraft guru</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/861/000133462/"><font size=-1>Bert Sakmann</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Jun-1942</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cellular ion channels</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/323/000022257/"><font size=-1>Jonas Salk</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Oct-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jun-1995</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discoverer of the first polio vaccine</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/511/000132115/"><font size=-1>Bengt I. Samuelsson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-May-1934</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Prostaglandins</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/375/000028291/"><font size=-1>Adam Savage</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>TV Personality</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Jul-1967</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Goateed host of <i>MythBusters</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/438/000131045/"><font size=-1>Andrew V. Schally</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Nov-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Hypothalamic hormones (brain peptides)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/847/000166349/"><font size=-1>Béla Schick</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jul-1877</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Dec-1967</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Schick test for diphtheria</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/357/000096069/"><font size=-1>Theodor Schwann</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Dec-1810</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jan-1882</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cell Theorist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/218/000101912/"><font size=-1>Wilbur Scoville</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1865</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1942</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Scoville heat units</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/934/000023865/"><font size=-1>Claude Shannon</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Apr-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Feb-2001</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Pioneer in information theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/869/000206251/"><font size=-1>Werner von Siemens</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Dec-1816</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Dec-1892</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Founder of Siemens AG</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/828/000100528/"><font size=-1>Jens C. Skou</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Oct-1918</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>ATPase researcher</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/899/000208275/"><font size=-1>George E. Smith</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-May-1930</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Digital photography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/480/000131087/"><font size=-1>Hamilton O. Smith</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Aug-1931</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Restriction enzymes (DNA cleavage)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/234/000166733/"><font size=-1>Theobald Smith</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Jul-1859</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Dec-1934</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Infectious and parasitic diseases</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/921/000163432/"><font size=-1>Oliver Smithies</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jun-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Knock-out mice</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/826/000131433/"><font size=-1>George D. Snell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Dec-1903</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jun-1996</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Recognition of HLA antigens</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/309/000127925/"><font size=-1>Hans Spemann</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jun-1869</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Sep-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Experimental embryology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/766/000165271/"><font size=-1>Percy Spencer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jul-1894</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Sep-1970</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Invented the microwave oven</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/922/000131529/"><font size=-1>Roger W. Sperry</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Aug-1913</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Apr-1994</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>"Split brain" hemispheric neurophysiology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/577/000202968/"><font size=-1>John P. Stapp</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jul-1910</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Nov-1999</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Rocket sled pioneer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/906/000208282/"><font size=-1>Thomas A. Steitz</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Aug-1940</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Ribosomes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/748/000253986/"><font size=-1>Patrick Steptoe</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Jun-1913</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Mar-1988</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>In vitro fertilization</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/104/000173582/"><font size=-1>Ian Stewart</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Sep-1945</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Catastrophe theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/572/000024500/"><font size=-1>Marie Stopes</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Oct-1880</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Oct-1958</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Scientist and birth control advocate</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/426/000136018/"><font size=-1>John E. Sulston</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Mar-1942</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Genetic regulation of organ development</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/980/000130590/"><font size=-1>Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Nov-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Mar-1974</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Hormones mechanisms (cyclic AMP)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/372/000098078/"><font size=-1>George James Symons</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Aug-1838</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Mar-1900</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Meteorologist, <i>British Rainfall</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/553/000128169/"><font size=-1>Albert Szent-Györgyi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Sep-1893</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Oct-1986</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Vitamins C and B2</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/907/000208283/"><font size=-1>Jack W. Szostak</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Nov-1952</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>First artificial chromosome</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/897/000129510/"><font size=-1>Edward Tatum</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Dec-1909</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Nov-1975</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>One gene, one enzyme theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/479/000098185/"><font size=-1>Bernardino Telesio</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Philosopher</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1509</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>Oct-1588</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>De Rerum Natura</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/368/000130975/"><font size=-1>Howard M. Temin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Dec-1934</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Feb-1994</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Tumor viruses and host genetics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/457/000166956/"><font size=-1>Frederick Terman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jun-1900</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Dec-1982</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Stanford Research Park</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/561/000129174/"><font size=-1>Max Theiler</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jan-1899</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Aug-1972</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Yellow fever vaccination</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/669/000129282/"><font size=-1>Hugo Theorell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jul-1903</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Aug-1982</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Oxidation enzymes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/364/000132965/"><font size=-1>E. Donnall Thomas</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Mar-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Bone marrow transplants</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/544/000125169/"><font size=-1>Lonnie Thompson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jul-1948</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Paleoclimatologist, glaciologist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/229/000165731/"><font size=-1>Sebastian Thrun</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1967</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Stanford AI Laboratory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/066/000132667/"><font size=-1>Susumu Tonegawa</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Sep-1939</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Antibody production and diversity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/605/000087344/"><font size=-1>Evangelista Torricelli</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Oct-1608</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Oct-1647</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Inventor of the barometer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/670/000174148/"><font size=-1>Edward Troughton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Inventor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>Oct-1753</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Jun-1835</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Early scientific instruments</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/692/000177161/"><font size=-1>Roger Y. Tsien</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Feb-1952</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Green Fluorescent Protein</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/330/000045195/"><font size=-1>Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Sep-1857</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Sep-1935</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Astronautics and rocket dynamics pioneer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/963/000174441/"><font size=-1>Murray Turoff</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Feb-1936</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Computer conferencing and instant messaging</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/532/000132136/"><font size=-1>John R. Vane</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Mar-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Nov-2004</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Prostaglandins</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/207/000132808/"><font size=-1>Harold E. Varmus</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Dec-1939</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Genetic causes of cancer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/686/000055521/"><font size=-1>Wernher von Braun</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Mar-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jun-1977</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>German-American rocket scientist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/951/000023882/"><font size=-1>John von Neumann</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Dec-1903</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Feb-1957</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/354/000126973/"><font size=-1>Julius Wagner-Jauregg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Psychiatrist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Mar-1857</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Sep-1940</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cured syphilis with malaria, pioneered shock therapy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/590/000129203/"><font size=-1>Selman A. Waksman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jul-1888</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Aug-1973</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Streptomycin and other antibiotics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/682/000127301/"><font size=-1>Otto Warburg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Oct-1883</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Aug-1970</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Effect of oxygen on cancer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/342/000136931/"><font size=-1>J. 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