Search
Search results
Displaying 101 - 110
Virgil Garnett Trice, Jr. Biography
Virgil Garnett Trice, Jr.chemical engineerBorn: 2/3/1926Birthplace: Indianapolis, Ind. Virgil Trice earned both B.S. and M.S. degrees from Purdue University in 1945. He also received an M.S…Archibald Alphonso Alexander Biography
Archibald Alphonso Alexanderdesign and construction engineerBorn: 1888 A 1912 recipient of a civil engineering degree from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Archibald “Archie” Alexander…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…Ross Winans Biography
Ross Winansinventor, manufacturerBorn: 1796Birthplace: Sussex County, N.J. Ironically, the man who would set the standard for railroad wheel design for the entire 19th century first came in…Linus Yale Biography
Linus Yalelock manufacturer, inventorBorn: 4/4/1821Birthplace: Salisbury, N.Y. After a false start as a portrait painter, he succumbed to the lure of locks as his father had done, and became…Henry William Stiegel Biography
Henry William Stiegel ironmaster, glassmakerBorn: 5/13/1729 Birthplace: Cologne, Germany He emigrated to Philadelphia in 1750, and established iron forges in Lancaster and Berks Counties,…Paul M. Zoll Biography
Paul M. ZollAge: 87 Harvard cardiologist who was a pioneer in the development of the heart monitors, pacemakers, and defibrillators that are today used by millions around the world.Died:…Henry W. Kendall Biography
Henry W. KendallAge: 72 Nobel-winning physicist who helped discover that protons and neutrons, formerly thought to be the basic building blocks of matter, are made up of quarks. Firmly…Glenn Seaborg Biography
Glenn SeaborgAge: 86 important Nobel-winning chemist who was involved in the discovery of ten atomic elements, including plutonium (in 1941) and seaborgium (in 1974; officially named for him…Maurice Hilleman Biography
inventorBorn: 1919Died: 2005 While at Merck, Hilleman pioneered the development of many of the vaccines commonly used today such as MMR, used to combat measles…Trending
Here are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.
