George Smoot
Astrophysicist at the University of California Berkeley (USA), Professor Smoot won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for his work on COBE with John C. Mather that led to the measurement of the anisotropy and blackbody form of the cosmic microwave background radiation. He is a senior scientist at LBL and, since 2010, a professor of […]
George Nield
Dr. George C. Nield is the president of Commercial Space Technologies, LLC, which he founded to encourage, facilitate, and promote commercial space activities. He also serves as the Chairman of the Global Spaceport Alliance. In March of 2022 he flew to space as a private astronaut onboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket. He had previously […]
Derek Sherinian
Derek Sherinian is an American keyboardist who has toured and recorded for Derek Kiss, Alice Cooper, Billy Idol, and Joe Bonamassa, among others. He was also a member of Dream Theater from 1994 to 1999, is the founder of Planet X and also one of the founding members of Black Country Communion and Sons of […]
Graham Gouldman
It has been an eventful decade for Graham Gouldman. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in America – where fellow inductees include Burt Bacharach, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John and Leonard Cohen – in 2014 and received the BMI (Broadcast Music Inc) Icon Award the following year. […]
Jean-Jacques Dordain
Jean-Jacques Dordain served with great distinction as the Director-General of ESA, the European Space Agency, from 2003 to 2015. During his tenure at ESA, Mr Dordain has nurtured ESA’s relationship with the European Union and its institutions. He presided over a long string of successful Ariane launches carrying important space science missions, as well as […]
Xavier Barcons
Xavier Barcons, ESO Director General since 1 September 2017, was born in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Catalonia, Spain in 1959. He received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in physical sciences from the University of Barcelona in 1981. He was awarded a PhD in statistical physics in 1985 from the University of Cantabria, Spain. Barcons began his academic […]
Rick Wakeman
English keyboardist, songwriter, television and radio presenter, author, and actor. He is best known for being in the progressive rock band Yes across five tenures between 1971 and 2004 and for his solo albums released in the 1970s. Born and raised in West London, Wakeman intended on being a concert pianist but quit his studies […]
Serj Tankian
Serj Tankian is an Armenian-American singer, musician, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur and political activist. He is best known as the lead vocalist, primary lyricist, keyboardist, and occasional rhythm guitarist of heavy metal band System of a Down, which was formed in 1994. Tankian has released five albums with System of a Down and five solo […]
Tony Donné
Tony Donné is since June 2014 Programme Manager (CEO) of EUROfusion, the consortium coordinating European research in the field of fusion science and technology in 28 European countries. Since 2020 he is chairing the Coordination Committee of the International Tokamak Physics Activity that resides under auspices of the ITER project. Until June 2014 he worked […]
Louis Friedman
Louis Dill Friedman (born July 7, 1941) is an American astronautics engineer and space spokesperson. He was born in New York and raised in the Bronx. Dr. Friedman was a co-founder of The Planetary Society with Carl Sagan and Bruce C. Murray. In 1961, he earned his Bachelor of Science in applied mathematics and engineering […]