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1999 National Medal of Science Recipients

David Baltimore, Nobel laureate and professor of biology and president, California Institute of Technology, for far-reaching, fundamental discoveries that dramatically altered the field of…

July 2017 Current Events: World News

Top of Page Disaster News | Science & Technology News | US News The world is a very busy place, and it's hard to stay on top of everything. Infoplease has got you covered. Here are the 15 world…

Moshe Katsav, 2000 News

Israeli politician, was elected president in July, defeating Nobel laureate Shimon Peres, who was considered a shoo-in for the largely ceremonial post.

Mario Molina Biography

Mario Molinachemist, Nobel laureateBorn: March 19, 1943Birthplace: Mexico City At the University of California at Berkeley in 1973, Molina and Sherwood Rowland began researching…

F. Sherwood (Sherry) Rowland Biography

F. Sherwood (Sherry) Rowlandchemist, Nobel laureateBorn: June 28, 1927Birthplace: Delaware, Ohio Roland's early work was on the chemistry of radioactive atoms. Branching out, in 1973, he and…

Merton H. Miller 2000 Deaths

Merton H. MillerAge: 77 Nobel laureate who won the award in economics in 1990 for his pioneering research and theories on corporate finance. Died: Chicago, June 3, 2000Sig MickelsonM - QJohn…

Herman Russell Branson Biography

Herman Russell BransonphysicistBorn: 1914Birthplace: Pocahontas, Va. As chair of the Department of Physics at Howard University, Herman Branson helped the scientific community gain new insight into…

Dancing Naked in the Mind Field

Author:Kary MullisPublisher:Pantheon The man who made one of this century's most important scientific breakthroughs was also visited by aliens appearing as a glowing raccoon. This is his…

Chandra: Exploring the Invisible Universe

Sources: NASA and Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. NASA's most powerful X-ray telescope, called the Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO), was launched from the space shuttle Columbia…