Mortimer Mishkin Brain researcher
“Studying the brain is both horribly and wonderfully complicated.”
From This is True for 10 October 2021
research
Misc. basic researchers not under invention, medical, computing, etc.
Edmond Fischer Biochemist
“It’s hard to imagine how someone could have a bigger impact in the life sciences.”
From This is True for 5 September 2021
Helen Murray Free Chemist
Free made huge leaps in the field of clinical testing.
From This is True for 2 May 2021
Flossie Wong-Staal Scientist
She excelled in high school science, and was urged by her teachers to go to school in the United States.
From This is True for 12 July 2020
Nikolai Kardashev SETI astrophysicist
Kardashev pretty quickly gravitated to his field of interest: the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
From This is True for 11 August 2019
Chaser Good girl!
Chaser learned a LOT of words: more than 1,000.
From This is True for 28 July 2019
Francine Shapiro EMDR developer
Shapiro created EMDR, a psychological treatment that actually works.
From This is True for 16 June 2019
Murray Gell-Mann Physicist
Gell-Mann bringing order to particle physics led to him being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1969.
From This is True for 26 May 2019
Charles Kuen Kao Broadband enabler
Kao is considered not just the “Father of Fibre Optics” but also the “Godfather of Broadband”.
From This is True for 23 September 2018
Erik Hauri Rock sniffer
Using research techniques he developed himself, Hauri proved that the lunar soil has about 100 times the water than thought.
From This is True for 9 September 2018