The 21st Century Symphony Orchestra and Choir
Founded in 1999 by conductor Ludwig Wicki, The 21st Century Symphony Orchestra performs live concerts featuring soundtracks written by notable composers for major motion picture productions. The orchestra performs in various cities throughout Europe, although most performances take place at the Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre in Lucerne, Switzerland. Soundtracks featured in recent concerts have […]
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 […]
Natalie Batalha
Natalie Batalha is a research astronomer in the Space Sciences Division of NASA Ames Research Center. She holds the position of Co-Investigator and Kepler Mission Scientist on the Kepler Mission, the first mission capable of finding Earth-size planets around other stars. Batalha began her career as a stellar spectroscopist, studying sun-like stars. She holds a […]
Damien Chazelle
Damien Chazelle (born January 19, 1985) is a French-American director, film producer, and screenwriter. He made his feature film directorial debut with the musical Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009) and followed it with his breakthrough film, Whiplash (2014). The latter received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. […]
Edvard Moser
Edvard Moser is a Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. He is interested in how spatial location and spatial memory are computed in the brain. His work, conducted with May-Britt Moser as a long-term collaborator, includes the discovery of […]
Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin grew up in Montclair, New Jersey. His mother, Marion Moon, was the daughter of an Army Chaplain and his father Edwin Eugene Aldrin was an aviation pioneer. Buzz graduated one year early from Montclair High School and he attended the US Military Academy at West Point, graduating third in his class with a […]
Yuri Baturin
Yuri Baturin graduated at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. In 1980 he also graduated at the Law Institute of Moscow State University, where he also obtained a doctorate in laws. A former politician, he has been Head of National Security and has served on the National Defence Council. In 1997 he was selected […]
Long Xiao
Long Xiao is a Professor of Planetary Geology and Director of Planetary Science Institute at China University of Geosciences (CUG), Wuhan, and Distinguished Professor of Macau University of Science and Technology, China. He obtained his PhD degree from CUG-Wuhan, majoring in geology. He used be a petrologist focused on studying large igneous provinces, mantle plume […]