electrical engineerBorn: 1867Birthplace: Newton, Mass. Stone met his lifelong friend and partner, Edwin Webster, while they were studying electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of…
judge, historianBorn: 2/25/1928Birthplace: Trenton, New Jersey Higginbotham graduated from Antioch College in 1949 and Yale Law School in 1952. After working as an assistant district attorney in…
(Encyclopedia) Erlenmeyer, Richard A. C. E.Erlenmeyer, Richard A. C. E.ĕrˈlənmīˌər [key], 1825–1909, German chemist. He studied at Giessen under Justus von Liebig and at Heidelberg under Friedrich…
entrepreneurDied: Aug. 28, 2007 (Ocala, Fla.) Best Known as: developer of Nautilus fitness machines Jones changed how many people exercise with the introduction…
biochemistDied: October 26, 2007 (Stanford, California) Best Known as: biochemist who discovered how DNA is assembled Biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for…
inventorBorn: 1920Died: 2004 Nobileâs discovery of the steroids prednisone and prednisolone was a significant advance in medicine. The highly effective anti-…
Born: 1921Birthplace: Mount Vernon, N.Y Laser—Co-inventor of the laser. Schawlow worked with Charles H. Townes who was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame in 1976. Today the laser is prevalent…
philosopher and art criticBorn: 1/01/1924Birthplace: Ann Arbor, Michigan Philosophy professor at Columbia University (1966–87) whose major works include Nietzsche as Philosopher (1965) and…
economistBorn: 1904Birthplace: Stanislau, Austria Having immigrated to the U.S. at age 10, he studied at Columbia and became a leading authority on business cycles. He eventually returned to…
