| Benoit Mandelbrot (4-27-98) | IBM Fellow Emeritus; Yale University Professor
of Mathematicsal Science, and the father of fractal geometry;
http://www.research.ibm.com/research/press/mandelbrot.html |
| Carl Zimmer (4-27-98) | DISCOVER magazine senior editor and author of "At the
Water's Edge: Macroevolution and the Transformation of Life".
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| Murray Gell-Mann (4-20) | Nobel Prize winner in Physics; discoverer (by
prediction) of quarks, architect of QCD and the Eightfold Way;Co-chairman
and co-founder of the Santa Fe Institute; author of "The Quark and the
Jaguar".
http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/People/mgm/ |
| Roy Porter (4-20) | Wellcome Institute historian; author of "The Greatest
Benefit to Mankind: a Medical History of Humanity
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| Gertrude Elion (4-13) | Glaxo Wellcome Scientist Emeritus; Nobel Prize
winner in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries of important principles in
drug treatment.
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/eli0pro-1 |
| Sheldon Glashow (4-13) | winner of Nobel Prize in Physics for contributions
leading to the electroweak theory; Higgins Professor of Physics, Harvard
U., author "The Charm of Physics" and others.
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| Robert McMath (4-6) | author of "What WERE They Thinking; President of the
New Products Showcase and Learning Center.
http://www.showlearn.com/index.html |
| E.O.Wilson (4-6) | Frank Baird Jr. professor of Science and Curator of
Entomology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard U, author of
"Consilience", "Naturalist", Sociobiology" and others.
http://www.envirolink.org/orgs/wqed/e_o_wilson.html |