January 2008
Robert Laughlin
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1998/laughlin-autobio.html
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/physics/people/faculty/laughlin_robert.html
January 2006
Pierre-Félix Bourdieu (August 1, 1930-January 23, 2002)
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20020218/pollitt
November 2005
Dr. Vivien Thomas (1910- 1985)
http://medicalarchives.jhmi.edu/vthomas.htm
February 2003
Marie Curie
http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1903/marie-curie-bio.html
July 2002: 
Paul
Watzlawick, Ph.D.,
theoretician in Communication Theory
http://www.usm.maine.edu/com/INTERACT/
http://www.gwu.edu/~asc/biographies/watzlawick/
As I have already said, the belief that
one's own view of reality is the only reality is the
most dangerous or all delusions. It becomes still more
dangerous if it is coupled with the missionary zeal to
enlighten the rest of the world, whether the rest of the
world wishes to be enlightened or not. To refuse to
embrace wholeheartedly a particular definition of reality
(e.g. an ideology), to dare to see the world differently can
become a "think crime" in a truly Orwellian sense as we get
steadily closer to 1984.
-- Paul Watzlawick, Ph.D., quoted from "Watzlawick's Disciplinary Matrix" on
The Home Page of Paul Watzlawick, Ph.D.
|| November 2001: Hermanson, Kevin D., Lumsdon, Simon O., Williams, Jacob P., Kaler, Eric W., Velev, Orlin D.
Dielectrophoretic Assembly of Electrically Functional Microwires from Nanoparticle Suspensions , Science 2001 294:
1082-1086 ||
|| November 2000: Milton Friedman ||
|| March 2000: Antoine Lavoisier ||
|| Oct 99: Konrad Zuse ||
|| May 99: Paul Feyerabend ||
|| Dec 98 (Linus Pauling) || Jan 99 Sir Karl Edmund Popper ||
Lavoisier (1743-1794) is generally known as the founder of modern chemistry. Lavoisier died at the guillotine in the
hands of the Revolutionary Tribunal for crimes he never committed. At this execution, the tribunal made the now famous
comment: "Nous n'avons plus besoin des
savants" ("We no longer need men of learning"), echoing the sentiments surrounding the
condemnation and execution of another man of learning : Socrates.
http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~meg3c/classes/tcc313/200Rprojs/lavoisier2/home.html
FEYERABEND, Paul, (1924-1996) was professor of
Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley and professor of the
philosophy of science at the Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich. Trained in
physics, astronomy and mathematics, Feyerabend turned to questioning the
philosophical bases of the sciences. He wrote "Against Method", "Science in a Free
Society", "Philosophical Papers" and "Farewell to Reason" (1987), three dialogs on knowledge.
June 22, 1910 - December 18, 1995
German Computer Scientist
"Konrad Zuse was one of those crazy inventors of the idea of a computer," says Gwen Bell, curator of The
Computer Museum History Center. " That's not quite right. In fact K. Zuse Konrad Zuse is widely recognized as
the inventor of the computer. He built the"Z1'', the first programmable binary computing machine in the world.
The "Zuse Ingenieurbüro und Apparatebau, Berlin'' was the first company founded with the sole purpose of
developing computers. 1943-1945 Zuse developed a high-level programming model and, based on it, an
algorithmic programming language called Plankalkuel (plan calculus)
Biographies:
http://www.zib.de/zuse/Inhaltsverzeichnis/Kommentare/Biography/Html/Konradzu3/konradzu3.html
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Zuse.html
http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Zuse.html
MORE LINKS:
Picture of the Z1 plus detailed information on the Z1. GERMAN
More technical data about Zuse"s Machines: (ENGL.)
by Raul Rojas, March 25, 1996: Computer Science, Martin Luther University
Halle, Germany
There is even a Konrad Zuse Medal, GERMAN
and a
Konrad Zuse Zentrum in Berlin , GERMAN
Zuse also was an artist, see some of his PAINTINGS at
http://www.rtd-net.de/Zusepictures.html
The free-market advocate and Nobel prize winner:
http://www.ideachannel.com/friedman.htm
http://www.hhss.se/utskott/Friedmans/milton.htm
