Julius Axelrod was born in 1912 in New York. He went through a long and arduous process before obtaining his medical degree. When he first applied, he was not accepted to medical school and specialized in chemistry and pharmacology at New York University. He also engaged in researching the metabolism of drugs. At the age of 43, when he finally ...

Leonid Kantorovich was born in Russia in 1912. He received the 1975 Nobel prize in economic sciences "For his contribution to the theory of optimum allocation of resources." Kantorovich succeeded in developing his brilliant theory, and in leading the way to economic reform in the Soviet Union from within the severe political restrictions of ...

George Wald was born in 1906 in New-York. He received the 1967 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for his research on the pigments of the retina, that change their spatial form when exposed to light, thus triggering a receptor, which sends a nerve signal to the brain. This research, together with his studies on the color receptors, gave us ...