Harry Kroto won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996, for the discovery of Carbon 60. He is the Francis Eppes Professor of Chemistry at Florida State University. His main areas of research are: Spectroscopy of Unstable Species and Reaction Intermediates (Infrared, Photoelectron, Microwave and Mass Spectrometry); Astrophysics (Interstellar Molecules...
Henry Oster was born on November 5, 1928, in Cologne, Germany. Although he was an only child, Henry and his parents were surrounded by a large extended family. He vividly remembered hearing about Hitler and the Nazis when he was only 5 years old. However, he had no idea how this news would eventually impact his life. Henry entered grade...
Ian Morison began his love of astronomy when, at the age of 12, he made a telescope out of lenses given to him by his optician. He attended Chichester High School and then went on to study Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy at Hertford College, Oxford.
Lawrence is an internationally known physicist with wide research interests, including the interface between elementary particle physics and cosmology. He has long been an advocate of the public understanding of science and improving the quality of science education at all levels. In addition to other credits, Lawrence has been awarded the Oersted...
Dr. Mark Klamberg is Associate Professor in international law at Stockholm University and the deputy director of the Stockholm Center for International Law and Justice (SCILJ). He is the author of several publications on international criminal law, surveillance, privacy and other fields of international law, including the monographs 'Evidence in...
Steven Nadler received his PhD from Columbia University and currently is the Chairman of the Department of Philosophy and Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of books on Spinoza, including Spinoza: A Life. His research focuses on seventeenth-century philosophy and the...
Takaaki Kajita is a Japanese physicist, known for neutrino experiments at the Kamiokande and its successor, Super-Kamiokande. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Canadian physicist Arthur McDonald.
Tomislav Dulić received his PhD in 2005 for the doctorate Utopias of Nation: Local Mass Killing in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1941-44. In 2008, he became the Director of Research at the Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Uppsala University, and in 2013 the Director of the Hugo Valentin Centre. He currently works as a senior lecturer at the...
From 1989 through 2006 Jan worked at the Maritime Research Institute Netherlands, Wageningen; since 2000 he was responsible as R&D director for MARIN's longer term research projects covering ship resistance and propulsion, maneuvering, seakeeping and offshore structures. During these years Jan chaired the Cooperative Research Ships and Cooperative...
Barry C. Barish, is an American physicist who was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the first direct detection of gravity waves. He shared the prize with American physicists Rainer Weiss and Kip Thorn.