Jacinto Convit Research physician
“I don’t lose sleep over not winning the Nobel Prize, but I do over finding the cure for cancer.”
From This is True for 11 May 2014
philanthropy
Known more for giving their money away than for making it
Walter Cottle Lester Gentleman farmer
Lester was a lifelong farmer — in California’s Silicon Valley.
From This is True for 9 February 2014
Fred Kavli Big & Small philanthropist
The first Kavli prizes were given in 2008.
From This is True for 24 November 2013
Larry Selman Extraordinary collector
His life’s work was to help those who were worse off than he was.
From This is True for 27 January 2013
Lady Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton Bundles for Britain founder
“I had never had time to think before,” she said. Then she had a need to.
From This is True for 20 January 2013
Jeno Paulucci Pizza roller
That’s Jeno, as in “Jeno’s Pizza Rolls”.
From This is True for 27 November 2011
Michael Stern Hart Ebook inventor
Hart invented ebooks for the purpose of making them available for free.
From This is True for 11 September 2011
Mildred Leet Microcharity pioneer
Leet and her husband figured out that “trickle down” economics was a failure …in 1979.
From This is True for 8 May 2011
Fred Hargesheimer Suara Auru
“I realized what a debt I had to try to repay.”
From This is True for 26 December 2010
Richard N. Goldman “Green Nobel Prize” founder
“In order to protect the environment, you really have to take it on at the global level.”
From This is True for 5 December 2010