Lazy Summer Afternoon

• Kurt Alder Diels-Alder Reaction
• Edwin H. Armstrong Inventor of FM radio
• Francis W. Aston Invented the mass spectograph
• Adolf von Baeyer Synthesized indigo
• J. Georg Bednorz Superconductivity researcher
• Friedrich Bergius Hydrogenation of coal
• Gerd Binnig Co-Inventor, scanning tunneling microscope
• Nicolaas Bloembergen Nonlinear optics
• Carl Bosch Chairman of I. G. Farben
• Julie Bowen Boston Legal
• Bertram N. Brockhouse Neutron scattering
• Eduard Buchner Studied fermentation
• Adolf Butenandt Research in sex hormones
• Bec Cartwright Home and Away
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Evolution stages of stars
• Steven Chu Trapped atoms with laser light
• Rory Cochrane Tim Speedle on CSI: Miami
• Claude Cohen-Tannoudji Trapped atoms with laser light
• Ted Costa Drove the 2003 California recall election
• Peter Debye Studied molecular structure, dipoles
• Hans G. Dehmelt Co-Inventor of the ion trap
• James Dewar Researcher of low temperatures
• Otto Diels Diels-Alder Reaction
• Hans von Euler-Chelpin Enzymes of sugar fermentation
• Paul Peter Ewald X-Ray crystallographer
• Sir Raymond Firth Economic Anthropology
• Hans Fischer Chemistry of pyrrole, synthesis of haemin
• William A. Fowler Element generation within stars
• Jerome I. Friedman Verified existence of quarks
• Otto Robert Frisch Described fission
• Hans Geiger Co-Inventor of the Geiger Counter
• Michael Gerson White House policy advisor
• William F. Giauque Adiabatic demagnetization
• Sheldon Glashow Electroweak Theory
• Samuel Goudsmit Conceived idea of Quantum Spin
• Victor Grignard Grignard Reaction
• Paul Hackett Congressional candidate, Ohio 2nd
• Otto Hahn Demonstrated fission
• Edwin Hall Discovered the Hall Effect
• Arthur Harden Enzymes of sugar fermentation
• Norman Haworth The Constitution of Sugars
• George de Hevesy Radioisotope researcher
• Jacobus H. van 't Hoff Studied reaction rates, osmotic pressures
• Albert Wallace Hull Inventor of the magnetron tube
• Russell A. Hulse Co-Discovered first pulsar
• Friedrich Hund Quantum tunneling
• Frédéric Joliot Researcher of radioactivity
• Irène Joliot-Curie Researcher of radioactivity
• Pascual Jordan Founder of Quantum Mechanics
• Bill Justis Raunchy
• Paul Karrer Studied pigments, beta-carotene, etc.
• Estes Kefauver US Senator from Tennessee 1949-63
• Henry W. Kendall Verified existence of quarks
• Bernie Krause Field recordist, electronic musician
• Alison Krauss Bluegrass fiddle prodigy
• Richard Kuhn Researcher of carotenoids
• Paul Langevin Studied piezoelectricity
• Robert B. Laughlin Fractional quantum Hall effect
• Michael Ledeen Neoconservative activist
• Leon M. Lederman Researcher of neutrinos
• David M. Lee Superfluidity of helium-3
• Rob Liefeld Awful cartoonist, characters can't poop
• Patty Loveless 'New traditionalist' country singer
• Edwin M. McMillan Discovered neptunium
• Henri Moissan Isolated fluorine
• Kelly Monaco Port Charles
• Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley Confirmed importance of atomic number
• K. Alex Müller Superconductivity researcher
• Robert S. Mulliken Studied molecular structure
• Bill Mundell Chairman, Californians for Fair Redistricting
• Walther Nernst Third Law of Thermodynamics
• Chris Onstad Achewood
• Douglas D. Osheroff Superfluidity of helium-3
• Wolfgang Paul Co-Inventor of the ion trap
• Rudolf Peierls Frisch-Peierls Memorandum
• Martin L. Perl Discovered the Tau Lepton
• William D. Phillips Trapped atoms with laser light
• Fritz Pregl Quantitative organic micro-analysis
• Frederick K. C. Price Televangelist
• Norman F. Ramsey Energy levels of atoms
• Henri-Victor Regnault Properties of gases
• Frederick Reines Co-Discover of the Neutrino
• Theodore W. Richards Proved existence of isotopes
• Robert C. Richardson Superfluidity of helium-3
• Sir Robert Robinson Researcher of alkaloids
• Heinrich Rohrer Co-Inventor, scanning tunneling microscope
• Bob Ross The Joy of Painting
• Henry Augustus Rowland Studied optics, magnetism, etc.
• Carlo Rubbia Co-Discovered W and Z particles
• Ernst Ruska Inventor of the electron microscope
• Leon Russell Producer, session player, etc.
• Leopold Ruzicka Studied terpenes
• Paul Sabatier Researcher of catalysis
• Abdus Salam Electroweak Theory
• Frederick Sanger Determined sequencing of Insulin
• Arthur L. Schawlow Laser spectroscopy
• Melvin Schwartz Researcher of neutrinos
• Earl Scruggs Bluegrass banjo pioneer
• Anoushka Shankar Sitar virtuoso and composer
• Clifford G. Shull Neutron scattering
• Kai M. Siegbahn Electron spectroscopy
• "Legs" Larry Smith Hello Sausage
• Frederick Soddy Investigated radioactivity, isotopes
• Arnold Sommerfeld Fine-structure constant
• Jack Steinberger Researcher of neutrinos
• Horst L. Störmer Fractional quantum Hall effect
• The Svedberg Inventor of the ultracentrifuge
• Joseph H. Taylor, Jr. Co-Discovered first pulsar
• Richard E. Taylor Verified existence of quarks
• David Tennant The Tenth Doctor Who
• Arne Tiselius Electrophoresis
• Daniel C. Tsui Fractional quantum Hall effect
• George Uhlenbeck Conceived idea of Quantum Spin
• Simon van der Meer Co-Discovered W and Z particles
• Artturi Virtanen Improvements in fodder
• Porter Wagoner The Thin Man from West Plains
• Otto Wallach Identified and studied terpenes
• Wilhelm Weber Student of electromagnetism
• Steven Weinberg Electroweak Theory
• Victor Weisskopf Head of CERN, 1961-65
• Alfred Werner Coordination Theory
• John Archibald Wheeler The Mechanism of Nuclear Fission
• Heinrich Wieland Studied acids of bile
• Richard Willstätter Invented chromatography
• Adolf Windaus Investigated cholesterol, Vitamin D
• Robert W. Wood Physical Optics
• Richard Zsigmondy Researcher of colloids

Posted: July 31, 2005