Walter Gilbert se narodil 21. března 1932 v Bostonu ve státě Massachusetts v židovské rodině. Matka byla dětská psycholožka a otec ekonom. [2 ] Když bylo Gilbertovi sedm let, rodina se přestěhovala kvůli otcově práci do Washingtonu.
He won numerous honorary accolades including the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1978, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1967, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1971, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1997, and the…
He is best known for his discoveries that reveal the inner workings of an important family of G protein-coupled receptors, for which he was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Brian Kobilka.
Kenneth Gilbert Balmain Dewar, CBE (21 September 1879 – 8 September 1964) was an officer of the Royal Navy. After specialising as a gunnery officer, Dewar became a staff officer and a controversial student of naval tactics before seeing…
Sir Anthony Alfred Caro OM CBE (8 March 1924 – 23 October 2013) was an English abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using 'found' and industrial objects. [1 ] He began as a member of the modernist school…
It's based on the percentage of total births (rather than absolute numbers). In other words, the popularity of a name may decrease, despite the increase in the number of children with this name because the growth rate of other names could be…
Sir Walter Norman Haworth FRS [1 ] (19 March 1883 [2 ] – 19 March 1950) was a British chemist best known for his groundbreaking work on ascorbic acid (vitamin C) while working at the University of Birmingham.
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett (18 November 1897 – 13 July 1974) was a British physicist and life peer who received the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physics. [2 ] In 1925, he was the first person to prove that radioactivity could…