Hans Geiger had been appointed director of the new Laboratory for Radioactivity there in 1912. At the PTR, Bothe was an assistant to Geiger from 1913 to 1920, a scientific member of Geiger's staff from 1920 to 1927, and from 1927 to 1930 he succeeded Geiger as director of the Laboratory for Radioactivity.


Academy Award-winning actress Joanne Woodward majored in drama during her enrollment at LSU.


After the armistice between France and Germany in the summer of 1940, Walter Bothe received orders to inspect the cyclotron Frédéric Joliot-Curie had built in Paris. While it had been built, it was not yet operational.


In 1940, Dario Fo moved to Milan to study at the Brera Academy, however he joined the fascist army of Mussolini's Repubblica Sociale Italiana.


Hulse was born in New York City and attended Bronx High School of Science and the Cooper Union before moving to University of Massachusetts Amherst.


In 1930, Beckett returned to Trinity College as a lecturer, but he resigned in 1931 collecting a brief academic career.


Levi-Montalcini lost her assistant position in the anatomy department after a 1938 law barring Jews from university positions was passed.


Harold Duane Vietor received a Bachelor of arts from the University of Iowa in 1955, and a J.D.


In 1944, Lutuli joined the African National Congress. In 1945, he was elected to the Committee of the KwaZulu Provincial Division of the African National Congress and in 1951 to the presidency of the Division.


After the war, the woman became a voluntary associate professor of Physics at the University of Chicago and a senior physicist at the nearby Argonne National Laboratory.


In 1969, Mario became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at Harvard Medical School. Mario was promoted to Associate Professor in 1971.


At St. Mark's School in Southborough, Massachusetts, Eugene Nickerson was quarterback of the football team and captain of the hockey team.


Lutuli accepted the post of principal and only teacher at a primary school in rural Blaauwbosch, Newcastle, Natal. Here Lutuli was confirmed in the Methodist Church and became a lay preacher.


Gordimer studied for a year at the University of the Witwatersrand, where she mixed for the first time with fellow professionals across the colour bar.


A sheriff, who led the county, said the letters appeared to violate a law of New Jersey.


Fo was born at Leggiuno Sangiano, in Lombardy's Province of Varese, near the eastern shore of Lago Maggiore. His younger brother Fulvio would become a theatre administrator, their younger sister Bianca Fo Garambois, a writer.


Benjamin F. Hopkins was a member of the Wisconsin Senate in 1862 and 1863 and served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1866.


A man immigrated to the United States in 1924 to design stained glass in Springfield, Illinois.


As a Christian minister, the activist's main influence was Jesus Christ and the Christian gospels, which he would almost always quote in his religious meetings, speeches at church, and in public discourses.


After receiving his PhD, Mullis left science to write fiction, but quit and became a biochemist at a medical school in Kansas City.


Hassan Husseini received a Bachelor of arts in History and Political Science from the University of Ottawa in the early 1990s, and became an organizer for the Communist Party in the same period.


Lateefah Simon graduated from Mills College.


Tonegawa received his doctorate from the University of California in San Diego where he worked with Dr Masaki Hayashi.


The girl was born on 18 July 1918 in the village of Mvezo in Umtata, then a part of South Africa's Cape Province.


Stephen Zepeda is a night club promoter and alternative music entrepreneur, born April 11, 1955, Long Beach, California.


In 1991, Linda Buck became an assistant professor of neurobiology at Harvard University where she expanded her knowledge of the nervous system.


Randy Moffett, president of the Louisiana State University of Louisiana State University System and formerly president of Southeastern Louisiana State University Louisiana State University received his Doctor of education from Louisiana State University in 1980.


Neruda derived his pen name from the Czech poet Jan Neruda and became known as a poet when he was 10 years old.


In 2001, he became a professor of physics at the University of Manchester, and was appointed director of the Manchester Centre for Mesoscience and Nanotechnology in 2002.


A french was born in Paris, France, and was home-schooled to the age of 12.


Such notables include James Carville, who was the senior political adviser to Bill Clinton, and Donna Brazile, the campaign manager of the 2000 presidential campaign of Vice-President Al Gore.


For thirty-five years, Richard Taylor represented the ward of Farringdon Without on the council of the City of London.


Michael Hollinger is an American playwright who is currently an assistant professor of Theatre at Villanova University and a resident playwright at New Dramatists.


Born on 22 April 1909 at Turin, Rita Levi-Montalcini were the youngest of four children. Her parents were Adele Montalcini, a painter, and Adamo Levi, an electrical engineer and mathematician.


Thomas Pole was born on 13 October 1753 in Philadelphia, the youngest son of John Pole , a native of Wiveliscombe, Somerset, who emigrated to New Jersey.


Samuel Clegg was appointed professor of civil engineering and architecture at Putney College in 1849, and in the same year lecturer on civil engineering to the royal engineers at Chatham, which latter post Samuel Clegg held to his death.


Giulio Natta was born in Imperia, Italy. He earned his degree in chemical engineering from the Politecnico di Milano university in Milan in 1924. Natta won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963 with Karl Ziegler for work on high polymers.


In June 1968, when Quasimodo was in Amalfi for a discourse and he was struck by a cerebral hemorrhage. The poet died a few days later in the hospital in Naples.


Prelog attended elementary school in Sarajevo, but in 1915, moved to Zagreb where he graduated from elementary school. At first, Prelog attended gymnasium in Zagreb, but soon afterwards, his father got a job in Osijek.


In 1940, Romania lost the town of Sighet to Hungary following the Second Vienna Award. In 1944, Wiesel, his family, and the rest of the town were placed in one of the two ghettos in Sighet. Wiesel and his family lived in the larger of the two, on Serpent Street.


In 1855, Samuel Clegg was sent by the government to Demerara to report upon the sea walls there, and to superintend the works for their restoration.


Lee Seung Hyo graduated from Chungju National University and is attending Chung-Ang University Graduate School of Arts, majoring in Performance & Visual Media.


Albert Modiano (1912–77, born in Paris), was of Italian Jewish origin; on his paternal side he was descended from a Sephardic family of Thessaloniki, Greece. His mother, Louisa Colpijn (1918-2015), was an actress also known as Louisa Colpeyn.


Munro began writing as a teenager, publishing her first story, "The Dimensions of a Shadow", in 1950 while studying English and journalism at the University of Western Ontario.


Benjamin F. Hopkins moved to Madison, Wisconsin in 1849 and served as a private secretary to Governor Coles Bashford in 1856 and 1857.


After a move to Southern California in 1938, Rico Lebrun taught at the Chouinard Art Institute and then at the Disney Studios, working with animators on the figure of Bambi for the forthcoming feature film.


After graduating from Magdalene College in 1921, Blackett spent ten years working at the Cavendish Laboratory as an experimental physicist with Professor Rutherford and in 1923 became a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, a position he held until 1933.


A man became a researcher at Harvard University in Applied Physics.


Carlo Rubbia studied physics at the University of Pisa and Scuola Normale in Pisa. Rubbia graduated on cosmic ray experiments in 1957 with Marcello Conversi. Rubbia then went to the United States, where he spent about one and a half years at Columbia University performing experiments on the decay and the nuclear capture of muons.


After working as a assistant at Harvard from 1909 to 1910, Eliot moved to Paris, where from 1910 to 1911, he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. Eliot attended lectures by Henri Bergson and read poetry with Alain-Fournier.


Encouraged by Cumming most likely, Lee Allen enrolled in the School of Art at the University of Iowa in 1929.


She married James Sirleaf when she was 17 years old, and then traveled with him to the United States in 1961 to continue her studies and earned an associate degree in accounting at Madison Business College, in Madison, Wisconsin.


Samuel Clegg died at Putney on 25 July 1856, leaving a widow and a young family.


Joshua Fry Speed received a Master's degree on September 20, 1660 and became M.D.


After graduating in 1936, she went to work as Giuseppe Levi's assistant, but her academic career was cut short by Benito Mussolini.


In September 1946, Levi-Montalcini accepted an invitation to Washington University in St. Louis, under the supervision of Professor Viktor Hamburger. Although the initial invitation was for one semester, after she repeated the exciting results from her home laboratory, Hamburger offered her a research associate position.


James Tobin married Elizabeth Fay Ringo, a former M.I.T. student of Paul Samuelson, on September 14, 1946.


In 1930, David Campbell went to The King's School, Sydney, and in 1935, with the support of the headmaster, David Campbell  enrolled at Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1937.


After World War II broke out, in 1941, Prelog was invited in Germany by Richard Kuhn as lecturer, and shortly afterwards, Lavoslav Ružička, invited Prelog to visit him on his way to Germany.


In 1982, Lessing tried to publish two novels under a pseudonym, Jane Somers, to show the difficulty new authors faced in trying to have their works in print. The novels were declined by Lessing's UK publisher, but were later accepted by another English publisher, Michael Joseph, and in the US by Alfred A. Knopf.


After attaining both degrees, John Stigall returned to Chattanooga and became Associate Professor of English and poet-in-residence at Chattanooga State Technical Community College.


Beckett studied French, Italian, and English at Trinity College, Dublin from 1923 to 1927. Beckett graduated with a BA and, after teaching briefly at Campbell College in Belfast, took up the post of lecteur d'anglais in the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.


More recently, Stephen Zepeda worked at Safari Sam's in Hollywood, California.


Soon Mr. Nickerson received a letter from the president in which Roosevelt discussed the disabilities they both shared.


Zsigmondy left Schott Glass in 1900, but remained in Jena as private lecturer to conduct his research. Together with the optical instrument manufacturer Zeiss, he developed the slit ultramicroscope.


Lee Seung Hyo had military service as a sniper in Joint Security Area from December 2000 until February 2003.


A man from Japan received his bachelor's degree from Kyoto University in 1963. Such a man did post-doctoral work at the Salk Institute in San Diego in the laboratory of Renato Dulbecco, then worked at the Basel Institute for Immunology in Basel, Switzerland.


Mario Capecchi was a Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University from 1967 to 1969. In 1973, Capecchi joined the faculty at the University of Utah.


A native of Auburn, New York, received his Bachelor of fine arts from Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2009, becoming its first American graduate.


From 1963 until 1965, Akira Suzuki worked as a postdoctoral student with Herbert Charles Brown at Purdue University and after returning to the University of Hokkaidō he became a professor.


Mary McCarthy studied at the Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Seattle, and went on to graduate from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1933.


In 2009, Wiesel criticized the Vatican for lifting the excommunication of controversial bishop Richard Williamson, a member of the Society of Saint Pius X.


W. J. E. Bennett was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford .


Henry Herman Meyer was an American Methodist Episcopal clergyman and editor.


Robert P. Anderson was a commissioner to the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut in 1936.


Gunter Pauli is a graduate from Loyola's University in Belgium, Economics and obtained his MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.


She was appointed as Senator for Life in Italy by the President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.


Michael was born April 26, 1932, in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. He immigrated to Canada in 1956 and became a Canadian citizen in 1963. Michael married Helen Wood Christie on August 6, 1960, on Vancouver Island.


From 1953 to 1954, this person was a judge of the Connecticut Superior Court.


Wayne Koestenbaum is an American poet and cultural critic.


Joel Gilbert is a graduate of the University of London where he studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies and the London School of Economics.


Between 1987 and 1989, Yamanaka was a resident in orthopedic surgery at the National Osaka Hospital. His first operation was to remove a benign tumor from his friend Shuichi Hirata, a task he could not complete after one hour.


During his lifetime, Neruda occupied many diplomatic positions and served a term as a Senator for the Chilean Communist Party. When President González Videla outlawed communism in Chile in 1948, a warrant was issued for Neruda's arrest. Friends hide him for months in the basement of a house in the port city of Valparaíso. Later, Neruda escaped through a mountain pass near Maihue Lake into Argentina.


She received her PhD in 1975 and interned at the U.S. National Institutes of Health before returning to the Pasteur Institute.


John Joseph Earley was the son of James Earley, a fourth generation Irish stone carver and ecclesiastical artist.


Appointed Professor at the University of Rome, man's seminars there included Harlequin and the commedia dell'arte.


Dulbecco was born in Catanzaro (Southern Italy), but spent his childhood and grew up in Liguria, in the coastal city Imperia. Dulbecco graduated from high school at 16, then moved to the University of Turin.


In 1971, he became professor at the Collège de France. He was then director of the École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris, a post he held from 1976 until his retirement in 2002.


Zsigmondy was born in Vienna, Austrian Empire, to Hungarian parents Irma Szakmáry, a poet born in Martonvásár, and Adolf Zsigmondy Sr., a scientist from Bratislava who invented several surgical instruments for use in dentistry.


In recent years, Elizabeth Blackburn and her colleagues have been investigating the effect of stress on telomerase and telomeres with particular emphasis on mindfulness meditation. She appeared in the 1995 science documentary Death by Design/The Life and Times of Life and Times in the US.


Harold Duane Vietor was in private practice in Cedar Rapids, Iowa from 1959 to 1965.


Martin Luther King then began doctoral studies in systematic theology at Boston University and received his Ph.D. degree on June 5, 1955, with a dissertation on "A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman".


Born in Parkersburg, Iowa, Harold Duane Vietor was in the United States Navy from 1952 to 1954.


On 30 August 2013, Rubbia was appointed to the Senate of Italy as a Senator for Life by President Giorgio Napolitano.


Quasimodo was born in Modica, Sicily to Gaetano Quasimodo and Clotilde Ragusa. In 1908 his family moved to Messina, as his father had been sent there to help the population struck by a devastating earthquake.


Walter Erle was the son of Thomas Erle of Charborough House in Dorset and his wife Dorothy Pole, daughter of William Pole of Cullompton, Devon. Walter Erle inherited the estate Charborough at the age of 11 on the death of his father. Walter Erle matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford on 22 January 1602 aged 15.


Mario Capecchi was born in the city of Verona as the only child of Luciano Capecchi, an airman, and Lucy Ramberg, an American-born daughter of Impressionist painter Lucy Dodd Ramberg and German archaeologist Walter Ramberg.


In 1949, Toni Morrison went to Howard University graduating in 1953 with a B.A. in English; she went on to earn a Master of Arts from Cornell University in 1955.


Thomas Merrill received his JD from the University of Chicago Law School in 1977 and went on to clerk for Judge David L. Bazelon of the D.C.


Eliot attended Milton Academy in Massachusetts for a preparatory year, where he met Scofield Thayer.


Thomas Merrill was a legal scholar at Yale Law School.


Michael Smith, first attended St. Nicholas Church of England School, a state-run elementary school. At the time, few children from state schools in England went on to further academic education.


Throughout this time this person also worked with Marguerite Vogt. In 1962, Renato Dulbecco moved to the Salk Institute and then in 1972 to The Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London.


Zewail has been nominated and will participate in President Barack Obama's Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.


In 1943, Eugene Nickerson graduated from a university where he was an editor of the law review.


In the US, Chris Corrigan developed an interest in marketing and media and acquired new techniques in retail finance, including margin lending, which Chris Corrigan introduced to Australia.


Ronald Theodore Reuther went on to do some graduate work studying Zoology at the University of Arizona, and Paleontology at the University of California-Berkeley.


Currently, the man lives in New York City, where he is Distinguished Professor of English at the City University of New York Graduate Center.


In December 1941, Goeppert Mayer took up her first paid professional position, teaching science part-time at Sarah Lawrence College and in 1960, Maria Goeppert was appointed full professor of physics at the University of California at San Diego.


Joshua Fry Speed received a Bachelor of Arts on February 1, 1647/1648.


The candidate received his Bachelor's degree from Colorado College in 1980.


John started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.


Ciechanover is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and is a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences.


degree summa cum laude from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, where Alan N. Braverman was editor-in-chief of the Law Review.


Cleopatra Mathis is an American poet who since 1982 has been the Frederick Sessions Beebe Professor in the English department at Dartmouth College, where Cleopatra Mathis is also director of the Creative Writing Program.


Kroto was educated at Bolton School and went to Sheffield University in 1958. At Sheffield, Kroto obtained a first class honours BSc degree in Chemistry and a PhD in Molecular Spectroscopy.


Nicolaas Bloembergen received his Ph.D. degree from University of Leiden under Cor Gorter in 1948; while pursuing his PhD at Harvard, Nicolaas Bloembergen also worked part-time as a graduate research assistant for Edward Mills Purcell at the MIT Radiation Laboratory.


Thomas Merrill also served as a Deputy Solicitor General from 1987 to 1990.


The man served on various committees and spent time at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough, where he made a major contribution to the design of the Mark XIV bomb sight which allowed bombs to be released without a level bombing run beforehand.


Pauli spent a year at the University of Göttingen as the assistant to Max Born, and the following year at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen, which later became the Niels Bohr Institute in 1965. From 1923 to 1928, he was a lecturer at the University of Hamburg.


In 1966, Albert Lutuli was visited by United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who was visiting South Africa at the time.


Hassan Husseini was vice-president and organizer for the Ottawa-Carleton Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 4600 District Council, and coordinated Ottawa's annual Walk for Peace, the Environment and Social Justice.


Shuji Nakamura graduated from the University of Tokushima in 1977 with a B.Eng. degree in electronic engineering, and obtained an M.Eng. degree in the same subject two years later, after which he joined the Nichia Corporation, also based in Tokushima.


Nirmalya Kumar received his Bachelor of commerce at Calcutta University in 1980, and his Masters of Commerce at Shivaji University in 1983.


Rita Levi-Montalcini had been the oldest living Nobel laureate and was the first ever to reach a 100th birthday. On 22 April 2009, Rita Levi-Montalcini was feted with a 100th birthday party at Rome's city hall.


William Golding was appointed Knight Bachelor by the Queen Elizabeth II in 1988.


In 1865, Wilhelm Röntgen tried to attend the University of Utrecht without having the necessary credentials required for a regular student. In 1901 Röntgen was awarded the very first Nobel Prize in Physics.


His mother's maiden name was Rachel Smith, of Burlington.


Ronald Theodore Reuther received his Bachelor's degree in Wildlife Conservation in 1951.


Strict rules against nepotism prevented Johns Hopkins University from taking Goeppert Mayer on as a faculty member, but she was given a job as an assistant and published a landmark paper on double beta decay in 1935.


An international lobbied for his release, which was granted in 1990 amid escalating civil strife. Mandela joined negotiations with Nationalist President F. W. de Klerk to abolish apartheid and establish multiracial elections in 1994, in which he led the ANC to victory and became South Africa's first black president.


Born in Brantford, Ontario, Paul Polillo played college hockey with Western Michigan University from 1986 until 1990, and was drafted by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 1998 supplemental draft.


Thomas Merrill received a Bachelor of arts from Grinnell College in 1971 and a B.A. with first-class honors in philosophy, politics and economics in 1973 from Oxford University


Michael Colgrass is an American-born Canadian musician, composer, and educator.


Frank Azell spent great part of his life working in a company of Detroit.


In 1946 a woman from Ghana working at RCA sent a friend money to return to the United States.


Tonegawa was born in Nagoya, Japan and attended the Hibiya High School in Tokyo.


Goeppert Mayer married Joseph Edward Mayer, and moved to the United States, where Goeppert Mayer was an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University.


A sheriff said the letters appeared to violate a law of the county.


Lee Allen was born in Muscatine, Iowa, then moved to Des Moines, where he graduated from East High School in 1928.


Paul was elected a Republican to the United States House of Representatives in 1866, serving from 1867 until his death in Madison, Wisconsin on January 1, 1870.


The man was killed during a shooting in a street.


Wiesel taught Hebrew and worked as a choirmaster before becoming a professional journalist.


He was a boy scout, with the Boy Scouts of America and became an Eagle Scout. He attended Washington University in St. Louis for undergraduate studies as an Alexander S. Langsdorf Fellow, and obtained three degrees.


During the early 2007 selection process for the Kadima candidate for President, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reportedly offered Wiesel the nomination, but Wiesel was not very interested.


John Stigall received a Bachelor of arts from the State University of New York at Cortland, and a Master of Arts from the State University of New York at Brockport.


Yvonne Jacquette taught at Moore College of Art, and was a visiting artist at the University of Pennsylvania from 1972 to 1976.


Hubert Humphrey, the 38th Vice President of the United States, earned a master's degree in political science before becoming the junior United States Senator from Minnesota.


In 1965, Jack Conroy moved from Chicago back to Moberly, Missouri, where he lived until his death in 1990.


Yvonne Jacquette taught at Parsons School of Design from 1975 to 1978, and at the University of Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1984.


Judge Nickerson came from patrician Yankee stock, and was a descendant both of the Nickerson family of Cape Cod and of President John Quincy Adams.


The poet was born in Paris as the only child of Jean-Baptiste Sartre, an officer of the French Navy, and Anne-Marie Schweitzer.


In 1953, he moved to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he earned a second B.A. in Economics in 1955 with a first class topping the list. He was elected President of the Cambridge Majlis.


Jerry Fontaine received a Bachelor of arts from the University of Manitoba in 1976.


William Golding was born in Newquay, Cornwall where he spent many childhood holidays. He grew up in Marlborough, Wiltshire, where his father was a science master at Marlborough Grammar School.


After the war Frank returned to the University of Bologna, also taking up architectural studies at the local faculty of engineering.


The captain joined the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve in 1942.


One of the biggest real estate companies in the country, is seeking to consolidate its hold on upper end of the industry.


The woman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963, which she shared with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Wigner.


Jerry Fontaine, first campaigned for the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba in the 1986 provincial election, contesting Lac du Bonnet as a Liberal.


Joshua Fry Speed was a fifth generation descendant of Dr. John Speed, M.D.


Thomas Eliot was invited to study at the Institute for Advanced Study by Director Frank Aydelotte. Eliot was born into the Eliot family, a Boston Brahmin family with roots in England and New England.


Pauli was born in Vienna to a chemist Wolfgang Joseph Pauli and his wife Bertha Camilla Schütz. His middle name was given in honor of his godfather, physicist Ernst Mach.


Robert P. Anderson served as State's Attorney for New London County from 1947 to 1953 and as a member of the Connecticut State Senate from 1947 to 1949.


In 1775, Andrea Pole visited relatives, and, with the object of attending Friends' meetings, travelled widely through the country, mainly on horseback, for two or three years.


In 1842, a woman graduated with distinction from the University of Virginia School of Law.


During World War II, Imre was deported at the age of 14 with other Hungarian Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and was later sent to Buchenwald.


After college, the guy played professionally in Italy with Latemor for two seasons.


Mandela served 27 years in prison, initially on Robben Island, and later in Pollsmoor Prison and Victor Verster Prison.


Yuri Moiseev was Jewish, and played for HC CSKA Moscow.


From 1936 to 1938, he moved as a full professor and director of the Institute of Industrial Chemistry at the Polytechnic Institute of Turin.


In 1973, David Gross, working with his first graduate student, Frank Wilczek, at Princeton University, discovered asymptotic freedom, which holds that the closer quarks are to each other, the less the strong interaction (or color charge) is between them.


One of the them was an eminent scholar at Berkeley.


Michael Hollinger received a Bachelor of music in viola performance from Oberlin Conservatory in 1984 and a Master of Arts in theatre from Villanova in 1989.


The novelist spent some time in London, where in 1931, he published Proust, his critical study of French author Marcel Proust.


Joseph L. Townsend then taught for two years at Brigham Young Academy, the predecessor of Brigham Young University.


Paul Polillo then played three seasons with the Port Huron Border Cats, before retiring from professional hockey.


Previously to this Samuel Clegg had made a trigonometrical survey of part of the Algarves in Portugal in 1836.


Joshua Fry Speed served twice as Mayor of Southampton .


Florence May Harding studied at the National Art School in Sydney, and with Douglas Robert Dundas , but in effect had no formal training in either botany or art.


Robert P. Anderson then worked until 1953 as a lawyer in private practice in New London, Connecticut, while holding a number of public offices.


Born in Noank, Connecticut, Robert P. Anderson received a Bachelor of arts from Yale College in 1927 and an LL.B.


Fert graduated in 1962 from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He received his Ph.D. (doctorat de troisième cycle) in 1963 and his Sc.D. (doctorat des sciences), both from the Orsay Faculty of Sciences of the University of Paris.


Wayne Koestenbaum received a Bachelor of arts from Harvard University, an M.A.


Neher and Sakmann were the first to record the currents of single ion channels on a live cell through their development of the patch-clamp technique.


The next year the artist settled in New York, where Rico Lebrun built a successful commercial art practice as a fashion illustrator and artist.


The senator received a Bachelor of Laws from the Columbia University.


Harold Duane Vietor served as a law clerk to the Hon.


In 1952, Martti Ahtisaari moved to Oulu with his family to seek employment. Then he continued his education in high school, graduating in 1952. He also joined the local YMCA.


In 1965, Harold Duane Vietor was appointed as a judge on the Iowa District Court in Cedar Rapids, where Harold Duane Vietor served until 1979, the last nine years as chief judge of his district.


Nelson Mandela publicly launched Umkhonto we Sizwe at the All In Conference, where delegates from several movements had convened to discuss cooperation.


Alan N. Braverman is a native of Boston, Massachusetts, and received a B.A.


In 1950, James Tobin moved to Yale University, where he remained for the rest of his career. James Tobin joined the Cowles Foundation, which moved to Yale in 1955, also serving as its president between 1955–1961 and 1964-1965.


Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania, Maramureș, Romania, in the Carpathian Mountains. His parents were Sarah Feig and Shlomo Wiesel.


In 1986, Nirmalya Kumar completed his MBA at the University of Illinois at Chicago and in 1991, received his Ph.D. in Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management in Northwestern University.