Fabiola Gianotti
Fabiola Gianotti is an Italian particle physicist, the CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Director-General, and the first woman to hold this position. Her mandate began on 1 January 2016 and runs for a period of five years. Dr. Gianotti received a PhD in experimental particle physics from the University of Milan in 1989. Since […]
Adam Riess
Adam Riess is a Professor of Astronomy and Physics at the Johns Hopkins University and a Senior member of the Science Staff at the Space Telescope Science Institute, both in Baltimore, MD. His research involves measurements of the cosmological framework with supernovae (exploding stars) and Cepheids (pulsating stars). In 1998 Dr. Riess led a study […]
Clive Neal
Clive R. Neal is a Professor of Planetary Geology at the University of Notre Dame, USA, specializing in the study of the Moon. After obtaining his PhD in 1986 from the University of Leeds, he moved to the United States where he began his lunar research through the study of Apollo lunar samples. Neal is […]
Kip Thorne
Kip Thorne is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. A longtime friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, he was the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) until 2009 and is one of the world’s leading experts on the astrophysical implications of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. He continues to do scientific research […]
May-Britt Moser
May-Britt Moser is a Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Centre for Neural Computation at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Her work, conducted with Edvard Moser as a long-term collaborator, includes the discovery of grid cells in the entorhinal cortex. The discovery of grid cells was succeeded by identification of […]
Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson is an American astronomer, 1978 Nobel laureate in physics, who with Arno Allan Penzias discovered in 1964 the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB). The award purse was also shared with a third scientist, Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, for unrelated work. While working on a new type of antenna at Bell Labs in Holmdel Township, New […]
Mark Robinson
Mark Robinson, Arizona State University (ASU) – Dr. Robinson is a Professor of Geological Sciences in ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration, and serves as the Principal Investigator for the imaging system on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. In addition, Dr. Robinson studies Mercury’s geology and maps its surface using image analysis and stereogrammetry. Dr. […]
Tony Fadell
Mr. Anthony “Tony” Fadell is an active investor and entrepreneur with a 30+ year history of founding companies and designing products that profoundly improve people’s lives. As the Principal at Future Shape LLC, a global investment and advisory firm coaching engineers and scientists working on foundational deep technology, he is continuing to help bring technology […]
Harrison Schmitt
Harrison H. Schmitt grew up in Grant County, New Mexico. He graduated from the California Institute of Technology in 1957, and received his PhD in Geology from Harvard University in 1964. In 1965, NASA selected Schmitt as one of the first scientist-astronauts. As a civilian, Schmitt received Air Force jet pilot wings in 1966 and […]
Rafael Rebolo
Rafael Rebolo, born on September 12, 1961, in Cartagena, Spain, is a distinguished astrophysicist and the former director of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC). He earned his degree in Physics from the University of Granada in 1984 and completed his Ph.D. in Astrophysics at the University of La Laguna in 1987. Rebolo has […]
