Alan Mullery (1941)

Russell Alan Hulse is an American astrophysicist. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics with Joseph Hooton Taylor “for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new…

Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne Gall, known professionally as France Gall, was a French yé-yé and pop singer. In 1965, at the age of 17, she won the tenth edition of the Eurovision Song Contest with…

Michiaki Takahashi was a Japanese virologist, best known for inventing the first chickenpox vaccine. He developed the “Oka” vaccine by producing v-Oka, a live-attenuated virus strain of varicella…

Bessie Amelia Emery Head was a South African writer who, though born in South Africa, is usually considered Botswana’s most influential writer. She wrote novels, short fiction and autobiographical…

Peter Handke is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature “for an influential work that with linguistic…

John Victor Shea III is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter. His career began on Broadway where he starred in Yentl, subsequently winning his first major award, the 1975 Theatre…