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Belding ScribnerAge: 82 doctor and researcher whose invention, the Scribner shunt, allowed kidney dialysis patients to survive for years. He won the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical…Chien-Shiung Wu Biography
Chien-Shiung Wuexperimental physicistBorn: 5/29/1912Birthplace: nr. Shanghai Chien-Shiung Wu received her bachelor's degree from National Central University in Nanjing in 1936 and her…Drew Gilpin Faust
Name at birth: Catharine Drew GilpinDrew Gilpin Faust made history in 2007 when she became the first female president in the 371-year history of Harvard University. Drew Gilpin Faust is a veteran…Norman Rockwell
American artist Norman Rockwell is known for his witty and heartwarming covers for The Saturday Evening Post. He did 322 covers for the popular magazine from 1916 through 1963: paintings of…Alain LeRoy Locke
Writer and educator Alain LeRoy Locke was the editor of 1925's The New Negro, and he is sometimes called "the father of the Harlem Renaissance" for his influence on African-American art and…Peter Facinelli
Peter Facinelli plays Dr. Carlisle Cullen, the good-guy doctor and father to hero vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), in the Twilight film series. Facinelli got started onstage in New York with…Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix is known for her tireless work in the 1800s to improve the treatment of the mentally ill. Dorothea Dix grew up in Maine and Massachusetts and was only 19 when she opened a school for…Mary Shelley
Name at birth: Mary Wollstonecraft GodwinEnglish author Mary Godwin Shelley wrote Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus and was second wife of the great poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary Godwin was…Michael Crichton
A specialist in science-related thrillers, Michael Crichton wrote some of the most popular mass-market novels of the 1980s and 1990s, including Jurassic Park. He attended Harvard and trained as a…Oscar Arias
Oscar Arias Sanchéz is the Nobel Peace Prize recipient who has twice been president of Costa Rica. The son of prosperous coffee farmers, Arias earned degrees in law and economics from the University…Trending
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