| Edward Witten (1-26-98) | Institute for Advanced Study Professor of
Mathematical Physic; string theorist; winner of 1990 Fields Medal in
Mathematics.
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| Glenn Seaborg (1-26-98) | Winner of 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for
discoveries in the transuranium elements; former head of the Atomic Energy
Commission; the only living person to have an element named after himself
(seaborgium).
http://isp-pc6.lbl.gov/Seaborg |
| Per Bak (1-19-98) | physicist; father of self-organized criticality; author
of "How Nature Works".
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| Peter Galison (1-19-98) | Harvard U's Mallinckrodt Professor of the History
of Science and of Physics; author of "Image and Logic".
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/galison.shtml |
| Kip Thorne (1-12-98) | CalTech's Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical
Astrophysics; author of book"Black Holes and Time Warps"
http://astro.caltech.edu/people/bluebook/thorne.html |
| Arthur Kornberg (1-12-98) | Stanford Professor of Biochemistry; winner of
the Nobel Prize in physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the
mechanisms in the biological synthesis of DNA
http://cmgm.stanford.edu/biochem/kornberg.html |
| Wallace Sampson (1-5-98) | Editor of journal "The Scientific Review of
Alternative Medicine" and clinical professor of medicine, Stanford
University
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| Denis Rousseau (1-5-98) | Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Albert
Einstein College of Medicine
http://cytc.aecom.yu.edu/denis.htm |