Amazon Kathy - Lost somewhere in Europe

 

1. You post your top 10 fantasy guys/girls. (The ones I've always wanted to meet somewhere in space and time)
2. You tag 10 people. ( I won't do this, anyway...)
3. You CANNOT tag someone who has already been tagged. (I've just said I wouldn't tag anyone)
4. You have to let the people you tagged know that they've been tagged. (ok..., sure thing, stupid computer..)
5. These are the rules that must be repeated every time.
5. These are the rules that must be repeated every time. (ok, repeated.) (hmm.. AGAIN? Ok.. here it comes:)
5. These are the rules that must be repeated every time. (hey.. stop playing mind-games, allrighty?? I'm not gonna repeat you anymore.. I've already broken some of the rules, so f.. off..)
6. THERE MUST BE PHOTOS! AT ALL TIMES!

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All my heroes have won awards...
I will make a Guess What Game out of this.. You have to guess who's on the photo, can it be? :D

So, 1st one. it will be easy, too easy.
Born: 31 March 1943
Where: New York, New York, USA
Awards: Won 1 Oscar and 1 BAFTA, Nominated for 1 Golden Globe and 1 Emmy



2nd one: The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1937

"He described the interdependence of oxygen and hydrogen activation and made his first observations on co-dehydrases and the polyphenol oxidase systems of plants. He also demonstrated the existence of a reducing substance in plant and animal tissues. At Cambridge and during his early spell in the United States, he isolated from adrenals this reducing substance, which is now known as ascorbic acid. Returning to Cambridge in 1929, he later described the pharmacological activity of the nucleotides with Drury.

On his return to Hungary, he noted the anti-scorbutic activity of ascorbic acid and discovered that paprika (capsicum annuum) was a rich source of vitamin C. His persistent studies of biological oxidation led to the recognition of the catalytic function of the C₄-dicarboxylic acids, the discovery of «cytoflav» (flavin) and a recognition of the biological activity and probable vitamin nature of flavanone (vitamin P).

In 1938 he commenced work on muscle research and quickly discovered the proteins actin and myosin and their complex. This led to a reproduction of the fundamental reaction of muscle contraction which formed the foundation of muscle research in the following decades. The preservation of biological material in glycerine, which has had extensive application including agricultural use in the preservation of sperm, has resulted from his more recent work. He has also developed the use of rabbit psoas muscle as an experimental material, published theories on the problems of energetics and investigated the regulation of growth and cell membrane potential, and the hormonal function of the thymus gland.



3rd one:

born December 28, 1903 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary; died February 8, 1957 in Washington D.C., United States) was an Austria-Hungary-born American mathematician who made contributions to quantum physics, functional analysis, set theory, topology, economics, computer science, numerical analysis, hydrodynamics (of explosions), statistics and many other mathematical fields as one of history's outstanding mathematicians. Most notably, von Neumann was a pioneer of the application of operator theory to quantum mechanics (see von Neumann algebra), a member of the Manhattan Project and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (as one of the few originally appointed — a group collectively referred to as the "demi-gods"), and the co-creator of game theory and the concepts of cellular automata and the universal constructor. Along with Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam, von Neumann worked out key steps in the nuclear physics involved in thermonuclear reactions and the hydrogen bomb.



4th:

 (August 1, 1885 in Budapest – July 5, 1966) was a Hungarian physical chemist who was important in the development of the tracer method where radioactive tracers are used to study chemical processes, e.g., the metabolism of animals. For this he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1943.

When Germany invaded Denmark in World War II, he dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of Max von Laue and James Franck into aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from stealing them. He placed the resulting solution on a shelf in his laboratory at the Niels Bohr Institute. After the war, he returned to find the solution undisturbed and precipitated the gold out of the acid. The Nobel Society then recast the Nobel Prizes using the original gold.

In 1923 he was a co-discoverer of Hafnium (Latin Hafnia for "Copenhagen", the home town of Niels Bohr), with Dirk Coster, validating the original 1869 prediction of Mendeleev.



5th:

1908 - Born on January 15th in Budapest, Hungary, Austria-Hungary. Hungarian-born American nuclear physicist who participated in the production of the first atomic bomb (1945) and who led the development of the world's first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb.

1930 - After attending schools in Budapest, he earned a degree in chemical engineering at the Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany. He then went to Munich and Leipzig to earn a Ph.D. in physical chemistry.

1931-1933 - During the years of the Weimar Republic, He was absorbed with atomic physics, first studying under Niels Bohr in Copenhagen and then teaching at the University of Göttingen.

1935 - He and his bride, Augusta Harkanyi, went to the United States, where he taught at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

1939 - Together with his colleague George Gamow, he established new rules for classifying the ways subatomic particles can escape the nucleus during radioactive decay.

         - Following Bohr's stunning report on the fission of the uranium atom and inspired by the words of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had called for scientists to act to defend the United States against Nazism, He resolved to devote his energies to developing nuclear weapons.

1941 - He had taken out U.S. citizenship and joined Enrico Fermi's team at the University of Chicago in the epochal experiment to produce the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.

1943 - He then accepted an invitation from the University of California at Berkeley to work on theoretical studies on the atomic bomb with J. Robert Oppenheimer; and when Oppenheimer set up the secret Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico, He was among the first men recruited.

1946 - He accepted a position with the Institute for Nuclear Studies at the University of Chicago but returned to Los Alamos as a consultant for extended periods.

1949 - The Soviet Union's explosion of an atomic bomb made him more determined that the United States have a hydrogen bomb, but the Atomic Energy Commission's general advisory committee, which was headed by Oppenheimer, voted against a crash program to develop one.

1952 - He was instrumental in the creation of the United States' second nuclear weapons laboratory, the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, in Livermore, California.

         - These new ideas provided a firm basis for a fusion weapon, and a device using the He-Ulam configuration, as it is now known, was successfully tested at Enewetak atoll in the Pacific on November 1st; it yielded an explosion equivalent to 10 million tons (10 megatons) of TNT.

1953 - Concurrently he was professor of physics at the University of California at Berkeley and was professor-at-large there.

1954 - He was associate director of Livermore  and he was its director four years after.

1982-1983 - He remained a prominent government adviser on nuclear weapons policy, and he was a major influence in President Ronald Reagan's proposal of the Strategic Defense Initiative, an attempt to create a defense system against nuclear attacks by the Soviet Union.

2003 - He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

         - Died on September 9th in Stanford, California.



6th:

He was a Hungarian physicist and mathematician.

He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles". Some contemporaries referred to Him as the Silent Genius and some even considered him the intellectual equal to Albert Einstein, though without the prominence. He is important for having laid the foundation for the theory of symmetries in quantum mechanics as well as for his research into atomic nuclei, and for his several theorems.



7th:

(1854 - 1938), was a Hungarian electrical engineer, co-inventor of the closed iron core transformer and the ZBD model AC electrical generator. He is also noted for inventing a type of repulsion motor.


8th:

 (June 3, 1899 – June 13, 1972) was a Hungarian biophysicist.

In 1961, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the function of the cochlea in the mammalian hearing organ.

He developed a method for dissecting the inner ear of human cadavers while leaving the cochlea partly intact. By using strobe photography and silver flakes as a marker, he was able to observe that the basilar membrane moves like a surface wave when stimulated by sound. Because of the structure of the cochlea and the basilar membrane, different frequencies of sound cause the maximum amplitudes of the waves to occur at different places on the basilar membrane along the coil of the cochlea.

He concluded that his observations showed how different sound wave frequencies are locally dispersed before exciting different nerve fibers that lead from the cochlea to the brain. He theorized that the placement of each sensory cell (hair cell) along the coil of the cochlea corresponds to a specific frequency of sound (the so-called tonotopy). He later developed a mechanical model of the cochlea, which confirmed the concept of frequency dispersion by the basilar membrane in the mammalian cochlea. But this model could not provide any information as to a possible function of this frequency dispersion in the process of hearing.

In 1974, in looking back over progress in the field, he remarked "In time, I came to the conclusion that the dehydrated cats and the application of Fourier analysis to hearing problems became more and more a handicap for research in hearing, referring to the difficulties in getting animal preparations to behave as when alive, and the misleading common interpretations of Fourier analysis in hearing research.



9th:

(June 5, 1900, Budapest – February 9, 1979, London) was a Hungarian physicist and inventor, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the Nobel Prize in Physics.



10th:

My one and only dream guy was here last summer. The sky was almost the same...:



I've changed my mind. I'm gonna tag a person. :-) I will let him know.