Benjamin Franklin (Founding Fathers of the United States.

A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat) Born: 17 January 1706 Science interested in: Physics Discoveries: electricity, lightning rod, bifocals, Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and the glass 'armonica'. Died: 17 April 1790 Nobel Prize: None, as Nobel Prize wasnt invented until after 150 years after Benjamin Franklin died. Age: 84

Sir Alaxander Fleming (Scottish biologist and pharmacologist) Born: 6 August 1881 Science interested in: Biology and pharmacology Discoveries: discovery of the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928 Died: 11 March 1955 Nobel Prize: In 1945 for discovering Pencillin. Age: 74

Alfred Nobel ( Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer) Born: 21 October 1833 Science interested in: Chemisrty and Physics Discoveries: Dynamite Died: 10 December 1896 Nobel Prize: Institutted the Nobel Prize Age: 63

Albert Einstein (German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics) Born: 14 March 1879 Science interested in: Physics Discoveries: law of the photoelectric effect Died: 18 April 1955 Nobel Prize: 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect. Age: 76

Marie Skodowska-Curie ( Polish physicist and chemist famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity) Born: 7 November 1867 Science interested in: Physics and Chemistry Discoveries: Her achievements included a theory of radioactivity , techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two elements, polonium and radium. Died: 4 July 1934 Nobel Prize: She shared her 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie and with the physicist Henri Becquerel. She was the sole winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Age: 67

Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet ( Macfarlane or Mac Burnet, was an Australian virologist best known for his contributions to immunology. He won the Nobel prize for demonstrating acquired immune tolerance and developing the theory of clonal selection) Born: 3 September 1899 Science interested in: Biology, Chemistry, Microbiology and immunology Discoveries: developing the theory of clonal selection and acquired immune tolerence Died: 31 August 1985

Nobel Prize: 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Age: 86

Joseph Lister (known as Sir Joseph Lister was a British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery, who promoted the idea of sterile surgery) Born: 5 April 1827 Science interested in: Biology, Chemistry Discoveries: Surgical sterile tecniques Died: 10 February 1912 Nobel Prize: None Age: 85

Charles Francis Richter (was an American seismologist and physicist. Richter is most famous as the creator of the Richter magnitude scale which, until the development of the moment magnitude scale in 1979, quantified the size of earthquakes) Born: April 26, 1900 Science interested in: seismology Discoveries: Richter Scale Died: September 30, 1985 Nobel Prize: None Age: 85

Eleanor Anne Ormerod (was an English entomologist) Born: 11 May 1828 Science interested in: entomology (insect study) and agricuture Discoveries: studying insects

Died: 19 July 1901 Nobel Prize: None Age: 73

Dorothy Mary Hodgkin (British chemist, credited with the development of protein crystallography) Born: 12 May 1910 Science interested in: Biochemisrty Discoveries: confirmation of the structure of penicillin that Ernst Boris Chain had previously surmised, and then the structure of vitamin B12 Died: 29 July 1994 Nobel Prize: 1964 for Chemistry Age: 84

William James Farrer (Australian agronomist and plant breeder. Farrer is best remembered as the originator of the "Federation" strain of wheat, distributed in 1903. His work resulted in significant improvements in both the quality and crop yields of Australia's national wheat harvest, a contribution for which he earned the title 'father of the Australian wheat industry') Born: 3 April 1845 Science interested in: Agronomy Discoveries: improvements in quality of crops Died: 16 April 1906 Nobel Prize: None Age: 61

Sir Marcus 'Mark' Laurence Elwin Oliphant, ( Australian physicist and humanitarian who played a fundamental role in the first experimental demonstration of nuclear fusion and also the development of the atomic bomb) Born: 8 October 1901 Science interested in: physics, Chemistry Discoveries: Codiscovery of deuteron, Titron and helium -3 Died: 14 July 2000 Nobel Prize: None Age: 99

Sir Isaac Newton (English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian, who has been "considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived.) Born: 25 December 1642 Science interested in: physics, mathematics, astronomy, natural philosophy, alchemy, Christian Theology Discoveries: Law of gravitation, Newton mechanic, Calculus, Optics Died: 20 March 1727 Nobel Prize: None
Age: 85