Biography

Early life An American engineer and businesswoman, whose resourceful management skills were largely responsible for the success of her family’s machine-tool business and that of other companies and institutions; Kate Gleason was born on 25th November 1865, the first of four children of William and Ellen...

An American inventor, scientist, psychologist, writer, and comic book character creator who created the character Wonder Woman, William Moulton Marston was born on 9th May 1893, in Saugus, Massachusetts, the U.S. the son of Annie Dalton (née Moulton) and Frederick William Marston.  Marston was a...

Early Life An Italian inventor, physicist, and electrical engineer, who was widely known as the “Father of Radio”, Guglielmo Marconi was born on 25th April 1874, in Palazzo Marescalchi, Bologna, Italy, the second son of Giuseppe Marconi and Anne Jameson. Marconi’s father was Italian and his...

An American biochemist who, along with Stanford Moore and Christian B. Anfinsen was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1972 for their studies of the composition and functioning of the pancreatic enzyme ribonuclease, William Howard Stein was born on 25th June...

An American biologist who, along with Max Delbrück and Salvador Luria, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1969, Alfred Day Hershey was born on December 4th, 1908, in Owosso, Michigan, the U.S. The prize was given for research done on bacteriophages...

An American immunogeneticist who, with Jean Dausset and Baruj Benacerraf, was awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his studies of histocompatibility, George D. Snell was born on December 19, 1903, in Bradford, Massachusetts, in the U.S. Snell rose to fame...

An American psychiatrist, who was the 1999 recipient of an Albert Lasker Special Achievement Award for his contributions to the study of schizophrenia, Seymour S. Kety was born on August 25, 1915, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. He was credited with making modern psychiatry a...

An American mathematician and crystallographer who, along with Jerome Karle, received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1985, Herbert A. Hauptman was born on February 14, 1917, into a Jewish family in New York City, New York, U.S. the oldest child of a Leah...

An American physicist and entrepreneur who, along with Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger, received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1988 for their research concerning neutrinos, Melvin Schwartz was born on November 2nd, 1932, in New York City, New York, the U.S. He...