Tag

Physicist who reshaped our picture of space, time, and light.

Writer and witness who insisted the world remember.

Physician who discovered the ABO blood groups and made transfusion safe.

Aaron Ciechanover

Aaron Klug (11 August 1926 – 20 November 2018) was a Lithuanian-born British biophysicist and chemist renowned for pioneering crystallographic electron…

Crystallographer who mapped the ribosome — the cell’s protein factory.

German biochemist (1903–1995)

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (1835–1917) was a German organic chemist whose groundbreaking research advanced synthetic dye production and the…

Alan J.

Alfred Goodman Gilman (July 1, 1941 – December 23, 2015) was an American pharmacologist and biochemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…

Alfred Bernhard Nobel (21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, and industrialist who amassed a fortune through the…

Alvin E.

Anwar Sadat

Arieh Warshel

Arno Allan Penzias (April 26, 1933 – January 22, 2024) was a German-born American physicist renowned for co-discovering the cosmic microwave background (CMB)…

American physicist (1922–2020)

Arthur Kornberg (March 3, 1918 – October 26, 2007) was an American biochemist renowned for his pioneering work on DNA synthesis, particularly the discovery…

Arthur Leonard Schawlow (May 5, 1921 – April 28, 1999) was an American physicist renowned for co-inventing the laser and pioneering laser spectroscopy.

Physician who identified the hepatitis B virus and helped make a vaccine.

Baruj Benacerraf (October 29, 1920 – August 2, 2011) was a Venezuelan-American immunologist renowned for his pioneering work in immunogenetics, particularly…

Ben Roy Mottelson (July 9, 1926 – May 13, 2022) was an American-born Danish nuclear physicist who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics with Aage Bohr and…

Sir Bernard Katz (26 March 1911 – 20 April 2003) was a German-born British biophysicist renowned for his pioneering discoveries on the mechanisms of…

Songwriter who stretched American music into literature.

Bruce Alan Beutler (born December 29, 1957) is an American geneticist and immunologist best known for his discoveries elucidating the mechanisms of innate…

César Milstein (1927–2002) was an Argentine biochemist and immunologist best known for co-developing the hybridoma technique to produce monoclonal antibodies,…

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (born 1 April 1933) is a French physicist of Algerian origin specializing in atomic physics and quantum optics, best known for his…

American economist (born 1946)

Dan Shechtman

Daniel Chee Tsui (born February 28, ) is a Chinese-born American experimental physicist best known for co-discovering the fractional quantum Hall effect in…

Psychologist who showed that human judgment is brilliantly flawed.

Daniel Nathans (October 30, 1928 – November 16, 1999) was an American microbiologist and molecular biologist renowned for pioneering the use of restriction…

David Baltimore (March 7, 1938 – September 6, 2025) was an American virologist and academic administrator best known for independently discovering the enzyme…

American physiologist and Nobel laureate 2021

Douglas W.

Immunologist whose mRNA work made a new class of vaccines possible.

Edward Mills Purcell (1912–1997) was an American physicist renowned for his pioneering work in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), for which he shared the 1952…