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Godfrey Hounsfield Biography
inventorBorn: 1919Died: 2004 Hounsfield was a pioneer in computerized-assisted tomography. CAT scans have since provided physicians with valuable diagnostic…Herbert Saffir Biography
engineerDied: Nov. 21, 2007 (Miami, Florida) Best Known as: creator of five category hurricane scale An engineer who created the five category hurricane…Israel Cachao Lopez Biography
Cuban musicianDied: March 22, 2008 (Coral Gables, Florida) Best Known as: Cuban musician who introduced the mambo Israel Cachao Lopez was a Cuban bassist…J. Robert Cade Biography
nephrologistDied: Nov. 27, 2007 (Gainesville, Florida) Best Known as: inventor of the Gatorade drink Dr. Cade was a nephrologist who invented Gatorade…Jack Odell Biography
engineerDied: July 7, 2007 (London, England) Best Known as: engineer Inventor of Matchbox cars and a self-trained engineer. He designed his first toy…James Herriot Biography
authorBorn: 1916Birthplace: Sunderland, EnglandDied: 1995Best Known as: Author of All Creatures Great and Small Originally known as James Alfred Wight,…James West Biography
physicistBorn: 2/10/1931Birthplace: Prince Edward County, Va. James West was born in 1931 in Prince Edward County, Virginia, and studied physics at Temple University.…John Charnley Biography
inventorBorn: 29 August 1911Best Known as: inventor of low-frictional torque arthroplasty or hip replacement surgery John Charnley was born in Lancashire…John Franz Biography
inventorBorn: 1929 In 1970, while working at Monsanto, Franz discovered the glyphosate class of herbicides, later marketed under the brand name Roundup®.…John Lynott Biography
inventorBorn: 1921Died: 1994 Goddard and Lynott's invention of magnetic disk storage while with IBM was a major advancement in mass-storage technology,…Trending
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