World Science & Technology People

Sir James Chadwick, CH, FRS (20 October 1891 – 24 July 1974) was an English Nobel laureate in physics awarded for his discovery of the neutron.

Arthur Henderson (13 September 1863 – 20 October 1935) was a British union leader, politician, disarmament advocate, and the 1934 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. He served three short terms as the leader of the Labour Party from 1908-10, 1914-17 and...

Jeff Zimmerman (born August 9, 1972 in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada) is a Major League Baseball pitcher in the Seattle Mariners organization. He has not pitched in the majors since 2001.

Hideyo Noguchi (野口 英世 ,Noguchi Hideyo?, November 24, 1876 – May 21, 1928), also known as Seisaku Noguchi (野口清作 ,Noguchi Seisaku?), was a prominent American-based Japanese bacteriologist who discovered the agent of syphilis in 1911.

Buzz Aldrin (born Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr., January 20, 1930) is an American mechanical engineer, retired United States Air Force pilot and astronaut who was the Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 11, the first lunar landing. On July 20, 1969,...

Michael Okerlund Leavitt (born February 11, 1951 in Cedar City, Utah) is an American politician. He served as the Secretary of Health and Human Services from 2005 to 2009. Previously, he was Governor of Utah from 1993 to 2003.

Robert Rush Miller (23 April 1916 - 10 February 2003) "was an important figure in American ichthyology and conservation from 1940 to the 1990s."

Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr. (July 12, 1913 - May 15, 2008) was a physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum". Lamb and Polykarp Kusch were able...

James Cason is the retired U.S. Foreign Service officer, most recently serving as Ambassador to Paraguay, a post he held from December, 2005 to August 2008. Prior to assuming that post, he served as the chief of the United States...

Anthony Wood or Anthony à Wood (17 December 1632 – 28 November 1695) was an English antiquary.