Mildred Dresselhaus “Queen of Carbon”
“Her life and her science were intertwined.”
From This is True for 26 February 2017
research
Misc. basic researchers not under invention, medical, computing, etc.
Peter Mansfield NMR physicist
“Few people can look back on a career and conclude that they have changed the world.”
From This is True for 12 February 2017
Ahmed Zewail Femtochemist
Zewail was the first Arab to win a Nobel Prize in any scientific field, and lamented the quality of education in the Middle East.
From This is True for 7 August 2016
Walter Kohn Chemist and physicist
He was put into an internment camp with other “enemy aliens.”
From This is True for 24 April 2016
Harry Tabor Solar-powered physicist
“When we first got here, people thought he was crazy. Yet he created awareness which now everybody takes for granted.”
From This is True for 20 December 2015
Howard Green Burn treatment pioneer
His test-tube skin would be the only chance the boys would have.
From This is True for 8 November 2015
Norman Farberow Suicidologist
By making suicide less taboo, it became possible to help people who were suffering.
From This is True for 20 September 2015
Richard Post Energy researcher
Post had never retired: “Use it or lose it,” he said.
From This is True for 12 April 2015
Joel Moskowitz Ceramic engineer
“We would get letters from the guys whose lives we saved.”
From This is True for 22 March 2015
Brian Sutton-Smith Playful researcher
Most psychologists traditionally considered play unworthy of study, but Sutton-Smith embraced it as a field of serious inquiry.
From This is True for 8 March 2015