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. […]
Susan Bailey
Dame Professor Sue Bailey is a clinician researcher and educator. Her specialist area is in working with individuals, families and communities facing adversity to help them to aspire flourish and achieve. Taking a Social Identity approach to health and how to develop purpose, meaning and sense of control in the lives of individuals through positive, […]
Stephen Hawking
Stephen William Hawking is an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge. His scientific works include a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. Hawking was the first to set out a theory of cosmology explained by a union of […]
Katerina Harvati
At the Institute for Early Prehistory and Medieval Archaeology and the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment, University of Tübingen. Her research focuses on Neanderthal evolution, modern human origins and the application of 3-D geometric morphometrics and virtual anthropology to paleoanthropology. Her research was named one of the top 10 scientific discoveries of the […]
Mar Gómez
Mar Gómez holds a PhD Cum Laude and a degree in Physical Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid, specializing in Atmospheric Physics. She has two master’s degrees, one in Meteorology and Geophysics and the other in Renewable Energy and Environment. For four years, she participated in a research project at the Complutense University as […]
Pablo Álvarez
Pablo Álvarez Fernández, born in 1988 in León, Spain, is a prominent aerospace engineer and astronaut candidate with the European Space Agency (ESA). He holds a bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of León and a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from the Warsaw University of Technology. Álvarez has a diverse background in […]
Helen Czerski
Helen Czerski is a physicist, writer and broadcaster, and enjoys being endlessly enthusiastic about the physics of the natural world. Her academic home is University College London, where her research focuses on breaking waves and bubbles in the open ocean, and how these bubbles influence the movement of carbon dioxide and oxygen between air and […]
