Nobel Laureates

Glenn Theodore Seaborg was a trailblazing nuclear chemist who forever altered our understanding of the elements and ushered in the atomic era. Best known as the discoverer of ten transuranium elements...

Pioneer of the Nuclear Frontier In a modest laboratory at Berkeley in 1954, Emilio Segrè is already immersed in the atomic age. Born to well-to-do parents near Rome, he initially studied engineering b...

Master of Symmetry and Nuclear Power Eugene Wigner was a prodigious Hungarian-born physicist who became a towering figure in both quantum theory and nuclear technology. A child prodigy, he earned his ...

Sir George Paget Thomson was born into the very heart of British science – the son of Sir J. J. Thomson, the Cavendish Professor who discovered the electron. Following in his father’s footsteps, the y...

Enrico Fermi in the mid-1940s, around the time he helped create the world’s first nuclear reactor. Fermi’s innovations in nuclear science earned him nicknames like “architect of the nuclear age.” Enri...

Hormones, War, and the Legacy of Molecular Discovery In the annals of scientific history, few names shine as brightly—and as controversially—as that of Adolf Butenandt. A Nobel laureate, a trailblazer...

Adolf Windaus: The Sterol Sleuth Who Illuminated the Biochemical Frontier If the 20th century had its titans of biochemical discovery, Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus surely stands among the most luminous...