Fred Epstein
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Carol Greider
Born 1961 Microbiologist; Nobel Prize in Medicine (2009) 🔊 Listen As a scientist, one has to intuit many different things that are going on at the same time and apply those to a particular problem. Perhaps my ability to pull more […]
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Born 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 🔊 Listen John Goodenough, known for his work in improving the design of the lithium ion battery, was awarded the National Medal of Science in 2013, and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019. […]
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1931-2019 Geophysicist – Climate Scientist 🔊 Listen Wallace Brocker popularized the term “global warming” and also coined the term “the global conveyor” for the ocean currents that circulate warm water around the globe. He was dyslexic and said he never […]
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Born 1954 Geneticist, molecular engineer, chemist. 🔊 Listen Known for his work in the sequencing of genomes, in synthetic biology, in genome engineering, and in an emerging area of neuroscience that proposes to map brain activity and establish a “functional […]
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1898-1986 Pediatric Cardiologist 🔊 Listen Helen Brooke Taussig is known as the founder of pediatric cardiology for her pioneering work developing a surgical shunt to treat “blue baby” syndrome. She also helped prevent a thalidomide birth defect crisis in the […]
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