American solar astrophysicist, born 1927. Developed theory of solar wind in the 1950s. First living person to have NASA name a spacecraft after them, the Parker Solar Probe to the sun, launched in 2018
American virologist, born 1932. Co-discovered the first widely applicable test for rubella antibodies and the vaccine for rubella. Isolated the vaccine in 1962, reported successful trials in 1966. Joined MMR in 70s
Engineer & space scientist known for work on space elevators/Developed aircraft & spacecraft technology for Air Force, DARPA, NASA. Holds patents & author nearly 100 publications in aircraft, spacecraft, tethers & global climate control
Canadian - American astrophysicist, astronomer, and theoretical cosmologist. Peebles was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2019 shared with Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for their discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a sun - like star
Author, playwright, actress & animal activist. Invented cat anti-scratch deterrent, Sticky Paws® for Furniture to prevent declawing/Acted in one hundred television and radio commercials
American physicist, radio astronomer and Nobel laureate in physics (1978) who is co-discoverer of the cosmic microwave background radiation, which helped establish the Big Bang theory of cosmology
Software designer and network engineer sometimes referred to as the 'Mother of the Internet.' She is most famous for her invention of the spanning-tree protocol (STP), which is fundamental to the operation of network bridges and the internet
As a 15-year-old girl in post-war Britain Dorothy Peters (Born: 1931) joined newly-formed Land Rover to work on the very first off-roaders to be built. She is now 87 and lives in the UK
Roboticists James Pope of Shadow Robot Co. in England led the assembly of the bionic man from prosthetic body parts and artificial organs donated by laboratories around the world/First Fully Bionic Man Walks, Talks and Breathes
Robert Pound, a Harvard physicist whose elegant experiments confirmed a key part of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and who helped lay the groundwork for the magnetic resonance imaging technology now widely used in medicine