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Submit ListingListingsDorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin  Scientific biographers do not, in general, find much correlation between good character and great science. There are a few exceptions. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin is certainly one of those exceptions. Site Details|Report This Site|Quick View http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/hodgkin.html Melvin Calvin, Who Unraveled the Secrets of Photosynthesis, Dies One of Berkeley Lab's greatest scientists, Melvin Calvin, the man who unlocked the secrets of photosynthesis, died on Wednesday afternoon (January 8, 1997) in Berkeley, after years of failing health. He was 85. Site Details|Report This Site|Quick View http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/Melvin-Calvin-obit.html Frank B. Colton Frank B. Colton developed Enovid, the first oral contraceptive. Colton has made many important contributions to medicinal organic chemistry and particularly to steroid chemistry. Site Details|Report This Site|Quick View http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/31.html Wikipedia - Anthropology - Richard Smalley Richard Errett Smalley (June 6, 1943 – October 28, 2005) was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University, in Houston, Texas. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996. Site Details|Report This Site|Quick View http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Smalley Dr. Albert Hofmann Dr. Albert Hofmann, the brilliant Swiss chemist, philosopher, author, and retired Director of the Pharmaceutical-Chemical Research Laboratories of Sandoz Ltd., Basel, is best known for fathering his "problem child," LSD, on April 19, 1943. Site Details|Report This Site|Quick View http://www.stainblue.com/ah.html |
