William Anders
William “Bill” Anders, is a former United States Air Force officer, electrical engineer, nuclear engineer, NASA astronaut, and businessman. Anders, along with Apollo 8 crewmates Frank Borman and Jim Lovell, is one of the first three persons to have left Earth orbit and traveled to the Moon. Following graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy, Anders […]
Javier Santaolalla
Javier Santaolalla was born in Burgos and brewed in the Canary Islands. He studied Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and, with time to spare, simultaneously pursued a degree in Physics, graduating from the Complutense University of Madrid, where he also completed a master’s in Fundamental Physics. In between, and […]
Julie Payette
Julie Payette is a Canadian astronaut, engineer, and scientist who flew on two Space Shuttle missions and spent more than 25 days in space. After joining the Canadian Space Agency in 1992, she worked on robotics operations for the International Space Station and flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery and Endeavour. From 2017 to 2021 she […]
Pedro Miguel Echenique
President of the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) and Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of the Basque Country, he holds a degree in Physical Sciences from the University of Navarra, a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge (1976) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1977), and completed postdoctoral work at Oak Ridge […]
