Milton Wexler Gene mapper
Wexler’s insistence that it could be done “proved it could be done.”
From This is True for 18 March 2007
research
Misc basic researchers not under invention/medical/computing/etc.
Alan G. MacDiarmid The semiconductive
The future is in plastics!
From This is True for 4 February 2007
Seymour Lipset American scholar
The son of Russian immigrants, Lipset understood America better than most of his countrymen.
From This is True for 31 December 2006
P. Ole Fanger Indoor environmentalist
“He gave birth to the field” of indoor air pollution.
From This is True for 17 September 2006
Estelle R. Ramey Women's rights crusader
Ramey fought a battle that needs to be fought again.
From This is True for 10 September 2006
Vernon M. Ingram Research biologist
Ingram discovered that many diseases were caused by single-gene mutations.
From This is True for 20 August 2006
Robert C. Baker Chicken evangelist
Baker helped develop the chicken “nugget,” then made it more tasty.
From This is True for 12 March 2006
Ronald F. Scott Down and dirty
Scott was able to assure the Apollo astronauts that the moon would support their weight.
From This is True for 21 August 2005
Fred L. Whipple Bright as a comet
He correctly predicted that the age of artificial satellites was imminent.
From This is True for 29 August 2004