Famous Researchers Biography, Family, Children

Richard Axel

Richard Axel is Nobel Prize winning American scientist, well-known for his scientific work pertaining to ‘olfactory receptors’. Read this biography to learn more about his childhood, life, works, achievements and timeline.

Born: 02 July 1946/ American

Michael Porter

Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. This biography profiles his childhood, career, academic contribution, works, life, achievements and timeline.

Born: 23 May 1947/ American

Ludvig Puusepp

Ludvig Puusepp was an Estonian surgeon and the world's first professor of neurosurgery. This biography profiles his childhood, life, medical career, achievements and timeline

Born: 1875 AD/ Estonian

Jonas Salk

Jonas Salk was a famous American virologist and medical researcher who discovered the polio vaccine. To know more about his childhood, career, profile and timeline read on.

Born: 28 October 1914/ American

George Richards Minot

George Richards Minot was an eminent American medical researcher, who is remembered for his revolutionary achievement in field of hematology. Read further to know about his profile, childhood, life and timeline.

Born: 02 December 1885/ American

Elizabeth Blackburn

American-Australian researcher

Elizabeth Blackburn is a Nobel Prize winner who created a sensation with her finding on telomere and telomerase. With this biography, explore about her, childhood, life, achievements and timeline.

Born: 26 November 1948/ American

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek

Physician and medical researcher

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek was a physician and medical researcher. Read on to know more about his profile, childhood, life and timeline in this biography.

Born: 09 September 1923/ American

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard is a famous Nobel Prize winning German biologist who studied genetic control of embryonic development in drosophila. Read on to know more about her childhood, career, profile and timeline

Born: 20 October 1942/ German

Alfred Wegener

Alfred Wegener was a renowned German geophysicist and meteorologists who is known for pioneering the ‘Continental Drift’ theory. To know more about his childhood, profile, timeline and career read on.

Born: 01 November 1880/ German

Frederick Jelinek

Born: 18 November 1932/ American

Jack Parsons

Born: 02 October 1914/ American

Ted Fujita

Born: 23 October 1920/ American

Brene Brown

Born: 18 November 1965/ American

Eva Crane

Born: 12 June 1912/ British

Peter Marler

Born: 24 February 1928/ British

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