Candidate for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination by Beth Rowen Fred Thompson Related Links Fred Thompson’s campaign website Profile of Tennessee…
actress, screenwriterBorn: 4/15/1959Birthplace: London, England Academy Award-winning film and television actress and screenwriter known for her intelligence and lively wit. Her films include…
Born: 1923Birthplace: Jefferson City, Mo. Miniaturized electronic circuits—Kilby was responsible for the design and development of thick film integrated circuits, integrated circuit development and…
Born: 1926Birthplace: New York City Diagnostic x-ray systems—Ledley developed the ACTA diagnostic x-ray scanner, the first whole-body computerized tomography (CT) machine. He was the first to do…
Born: 1905Birthplace: (Danzig, Germany, now Gdansk Poland) Magnetic recording— Early recording machines of the 1920s were cumbersome at best. Sound was recorded magnetically on rapidly spinning…
physicistBorn: ?Birthplace: India The “father of fiber optics,” Narinder Kapany grew up in Dehradun in northern India, where a teacher informed him that light only traveled in a straight line. He…
former U.S. SenatorBorn: 7/18/1906Birthplace: Vancouver, Canada Son of Japanese immigrant parents, Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa earned a B.A. in English from the University of Manitoba in 1927, an M.A.…
(Encyclopedia) Hubel, David HunterHubel, David Hunterhy&oomacr;ˈbəl [key], 1926–2013, American neurobiologist, b. Ontario, Canada, to American parents. In 1958, Hubel joined Torsten Wiesel at…
