Edward Klima Sign language linguist
Klima built on work by another Honorary Unsubscribe honoree.
From This is True for 28 September 2008
research
Misc. basic researchers not under invention, medical, computing, etc.
Murray Jarvik Smokeless
Jarvik figured out what drove people to smoke.
From This is True for 11 May 2008
Joseph Weizenbaum A.I. Heretic
Weizenbaum created what many thought was the first A.I., but it wasn’t.
From This is True for 9 March 2008
Leslie Orgel The constantly evolving
Orgel’s Second Rule: “Evolution is cleverer than you are.”
From This is True for 28 October 2007
Norman G. Gaylord The clear-eyed
Gaylord invented gas-permeable contact lenses.
From This is True for 16 September 2007
Ralph Alpher Big Bang father
The “forgotten father of the Big Bang.”
From This is True for 12 August 2007
George W. Comstock Tuberculosis expert
Comstock stopped the rollout of a vaccine that didn’t work, and then found something that did.
From This is True for 15 July 2007
Ralph S. Paffenbarger Jr The very fit
Paffenbarger studied exercise.
From This is True for 8 July 2007
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Physicist
No one really understood how liquid crystals worked. They did after de Gennes was done.
From This is True for 20 May 2007
Theodore Maiman Laser pioneer
Someone else invented the laser, but Maiman was the first make one work.
From This is True for 6 May 2007