Irena Sendler
19102008
Polish resistance fighter and clinical nurse specialist who, as head of the children's section of Żegota, rescued approximately 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II
19102008
Polish resistance fighter and clinical nurse specialist who, as head of the children's section of Żegota, rescued approximately 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II
19101989
American physicist and inventor who, with his team at Bell Labs, discovered the transistor effect and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics
19101976
French biologist, biochemist, and Nobel laureate known for his discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis, and his work on the operon model