Nobel Prize

  Date of birth: 4 January 1940   Place of birth: Cardiff, Wales, U.K.     Education Cardiff High School   University of Cambridge, B.A. 1960 University of Cambridge, M.A., Ph.D 1964     Academic Career   Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 1962 Research Assistant Professor, University of Illinois 1964-65 Assistant Director of Research, University…

I was born on Aug. 7, 1946 in Roanoke, Virginia, a small city near Blacksburg where my father was a young faculty member at the school now called Virginia Tech. For some generations, my family on both sides has been populated with scientists and school teachers. My father, Robert E. Mather, was starting his research…

I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961. My parents were completing graduate degrees at Stanford. Two years later we moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, the city I consider to be my hometown. My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English. The family, including my younger…

I was born on March 26, 1951 in the small town of Corvallis, Oregon. A number of years earlier my newly wed parents N. Orr and Alison Wieman, like somewhat belated pioneers, had driven their decrepit car across the country to settle deep in the forests of the Oregon coastal range. My father began working…

I was born in Washington, D.C. on October 14, 1914. My father was a photographer at the National Bureau of Standards. A self-educated man, he never finished high school, but, in his career at the National Bureau of Standards, he made many useful inventions, and eventually became chief of the Photographic Technology Section. His early…

In Memory of Marc Antonio Giacconi and dedicated to my wife, Mirella, and to our daughters, Anna and Guia. I. Early yearsI was born in Genoa, Italy, on October 6, 1931, but I spent most of my life until 1956 in Milano. I was the only child. My mother, Elsa Canni Giacconi, was a teacher…

Curriculum Vitae Name: KOSHIBA, Masatoshi. Date/Place of Birth: September 19, 1926/Toyohashi city, Aichi Pref., Japan. Nationality: Japanese. Marital status: Married to Kyoko KATO on October 5, 1959, in Tokyo. Permanent address: 4-11-7 Shimoigusa, Suginami, Tokyo 167-0022 Japan. Tel/Fax: 81-3-3396-6868, e-mail: [email protected]. Education Mar. 1951: Graduated from University of Tokyo, physics major. Apr. ’51 to Mar.…

I was born on August 19, 1924 in Amherst, Nova Scotia and raised in the village of Wallace until I was about two years old. At this time, my family moved to Chaudiere, a small logging community in northern Quebec. My father was the local physician in the community and my mother took on the…

I was born in White Plains, New York in 1930. I grew up in several different states and attended a variety of primary and secondary schools. Upon graduation from high school in 1948, I joined the U.S. Navy where I spent four years as an aerographer’s mate (weatherman), part of it during the Korean War.…

I was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 28, 1930, the second of two children of Selig and Lillian Friedman, nee Warsaw, who were immigrants from Russia. My father came to the United States in 1913 and later served in the U.S. Army Artillery Corps in World War I. After the war he was employed…