Prodigies & Heros & other Humans

On September 3, 1928, shortly after his appointment as professor of bacteriology, he noticed that a culture plate of Staphylococcus aureus, he had been working on, had become contaminated by a fungus.

A fungus mold, later identified as Penicillium notatum (now classified as P. chrysogenum), inhibited the growth of the bacteria.

On July 2, 1881, after only four months in office, while on his way to a family vacation in New England, he was shot twice in the railroad station in Washington, D.C., by Charles J. Guiteau, a disappointed office seeker with messianic visions.

James Abram Garfield, 20th president of the United States (March 4–September 19, 1881), who had the second shortest tenure in U.S.

In the years following the Rotavirusdiscovery, it was found that severe diarrhea caused by rotavirus infection killed as many as 870,000 children every year, more than 90% of which were in the developing world.

Ruth Bishop is a largely unsung hero of global health outside of the rotavirus field, receiving little public recognition for her work.

Her work, with her close collaborator, Dr. Drew Weissman of the University of Pennsylvania, laid the foundation for the stunningly successful vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.

Dr. Kariko’s struggles to stay afloat in academia have a familiar ring to scientists. She needed grants to pursue ideas that seemed wild and fanciful. She did not get them, even as more mundane research was rewarded.

His family declared the date of 1822 as the birth of photography; a plaque in his home bears this date, but unfortunately, there is no physical evidence to substantiate it.

While many inventive men had experimented with the photograph, solving the mystery of fixing the camera image had eluded them until the success of Joseph Nicephore Niepce.

In 2008, he was awarded the Gold Medal Award For Life Achievement in the Application of Psychology by the American Psychological Association.

The American Psychological Foundation presents an award named after Millon, known as the "Theodore Millon Award in Personality Psychology," to honor outstanding psychologists engaged in "advancing the science of personality psychology.

Although he is generally credited as the discoverer of viruses, they were also independently discovered and named by the Dutch botanist M.W. Beijerinck only a few years later.

The earliest indications of the biological nature of viruses came from studies in 1892 by the Russian scientist Dmitry Iosifovich Ivanovsky and in 1898 by the Dutch scientist Martinus W. Beijerinck.

He led the team that designed and built Chicago Pile-1, which went critical on 2 December 1942, demonstrating the first human-created, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.

Fermi left Italy in 1938 to escape new Italian racial laws that affected his Jewish wife, Laura Capon. He emigrated to the United States, where he worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II.

He also described numbness of the spine (Spondylitis ankylosans) and new forms of spondylitis and other diseases.

A competitor of Ivan Pavlov, Bekhterev independently developed a theory of conditioned reflexes, studying both inherited and acquired reflexes in the laboratory.

When she shot at Ford in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 1975, she became infamous as one of only two women to have attempted to kill a sitting American president. Her attempt came just 17 days after Lynnette "Squeaky" Fromme attempted to kill the president.

Sara Jane Moore, who served 32 years in prison for attempting to assassinate former President Gerald Ford in 1975, has been arrested for violating the conditions of her lifetime parole, Fox News has learned.

In a political scandal independent of the Nixon administration’s wrongdoings in the Watergate affair, vice president Agnew had been forced to resign in disgrace after he was charged with income tax evasion and political corruption.

Ford, the first president who came to the office through appointment rather than election, had replaced Spiro Agnew as vice president only eight months before.

In 1931, he demonstrated that a magnetic coil could act as an electron lens, and used several coils in a series to build the first electron microscope in 1933.

The Ernst Ruska-Centre (ER-C) for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons is a national user facility open to universities, research institutions and research laboratories in industry.

Due to its occurrence in the cells' nuclei, he termed the novel substance “nuclein”—a term still preserved in today's name deoxyribonucleic acid.

In 1869 Swiss chemist Johann Friedrich Miescher extracted a substance containing nitrogen and phosphorus from cell nuclei. The substance was originally called nuclein, but it is now known as deoxyribonucleic acid.

Watson suggested that Rosalind Franklin would have ideally been awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, along with Wilkins but, although there was not yet a rule against posthumous awards, the Nobel Committee generally did not make posthumous nominations.

Newspapers the next day commented that it had taken an entire Italian army to conquer Ethiopia, but only one Ethiopian soldier to conquer Rome.

Abebe Bikila was the first black African to win an Olympic medal, and the first man ever to win two Olympic marathons. Known for his grace and stamina, he was considered the most perfect example of a naturally talented distance runner.

While practicing medicine in NewYork, he studied chemistry at Columbia University and ultimately decided to devote his life to chemical research.

In 1929, he discovered 2-deoxyribose, which is part of the DNA molecule. He also determined how the nucleic acid components combine to form the nucleotides and how the nucleotides combine in chains.

He characterised several viruses and identified changes that could result when a virus mutated. This concept, which he worked out while at the Walter Reed Institute of Army Research, helped prevent a huge pandemic of Hong Kong flu in 1957.

Maurice Hilleman was responsible for developing more than 40 vaccines, including measles, mumps, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, meningitis, pneumonia, Haemophilus influenzae bacteria, and rubella.

Her work helped pave the way for the Nineteenth Amendment (1920) to the Constitution, giving women in the U. S the right to vote.

In 1872 Susan B. Anthony, a leader in the American women's suffrage movement, cast a ballot in the presidential election, and she was later arrested for voting illegally and convicted in a trial she called “the greatest outrage history ever witnessed.”

He sought peace, moved away from bellicose France when Napoleon III fell in 1871, and in 1872 joined with Germany and Austria in the League of the Three Emperors that stabilized the European situation.

Alexander's most significant reform as emperor was emancipation of Russia's serfs in 1861, for which he is known as Alexander the Liberator (Russian: Алекса́ндр Освободи́тель)

On September 24 1967, she founded the Karisoke Research Center, a remote rainforest camp nestled in Ruhengeri province in the saddle of two volcanoes.

Between Fossey's death and the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Karisoke was directed by former students. During the genocide and subsequent period of insecurity, the camp was completely looted and destroyed. Today only remnants are left of her cabin.

The only president elected to the office four times, he led the United States through two of the greatest crises of the 20th century: the Great Depression and World War II.

From 1933 to 1944 Roosevelt provided a source of hope and security through his “Fireside Chats,” a series of radio broadcasts that were initially meant to gain support for his New Deal policies.

Luther eventually came to the conclusion that "his marriage would please his father, rile the pope, cause the angels to laugh, and the devils to weep."

Martin Luther found peace when he married an ex-nun named Katharine von Bora, whom he had helped to escape from her nunnery in an empty fish barrel and had taken refuge in Wittenberg.

He lived in the same town for 10 years that Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto lived in (Temple City, California), adding to speculation that he may have been Bitcoin's creator.

Hal died of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) in 2014 and was cryopreserved by the Alcor Life Extension Foundation.

On his P2P Foundation profile as of 2012, he claimed to be a 37-year-old male who lived in Japan; however, some speculated he was unlikely to be Japanese due to his native-level use of English.

Famously, one of the beneficiaries was his later nemesis, prime minister Viktor Orbán, who in 1989 got a scholarship to study political science at Pembroke College, Oxford.

... disinformation experts agree that today’s “image of George Soros” can be traced to Arthur Finkelstein and George Birnbaum, political advisers to former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.