scientist

Thor Heyerdahl

Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in zoology, botany and geography

Richard P. Feynman

American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as his work in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model

Gerald Edelman

American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system

Michael Faraday

English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry

Timothy Ferris

American science writer and the best-selling author of twelve books, including The Science of Liberty and Coming of Age in the Milky Way , for which he was awarded the American Institute of Physics Prize and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize