Category : Health care

Chinese medicinal chemist Peng Sixun was born on July 28, 1919, and died on December 9, 2018. Sixun was a native of Baojing County, he was of Tujia descent. He graduated from the National College of Pharmacy in 1942 and completed a master’s degree at Columbia University in 1950. He went back to becoming a ..

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Nigerian medical doctor, hotel owner and leader of the Oodua Peoples Congress Dr. Frederick Fasehun was born on September 21, 1935 and died on December 1, 2018. Fasehun was a student of science at the Blackburn College and furthered his education at Aberdeen University College of Medicine. Fasehun also studied at the Liverpool Postgraduate School ..

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Osamu Shimomura was born on August 27, 1928, in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto and died on October 19, 2018. He was a Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist. Osamu Shimomura was also a Professor Emeritus at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and Boston University School of Medicine. Shimomura was awarded the Nobel Prize in ..

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Stephen William Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, and died on March 14, 2018. He was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author, and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge. Stephen Hawking’s scientific works included a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework ..

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