Childhood I was born on July 12, 1956 in Flushing, which is a neighborhood in the Borough of Queens, in New York City. My mother’s family was of German-English-Irish descent and lived in Queens, whereas my father’s family was of Italian descent and lived in the Bronx. I was the first born of five children,…

I was born in Suita City, Osaka Prefecture, in 1948. My father, Sojiro, was an electrical engineer who worked at a power company. My mother worked at a bank until she married, after which she became a housewife. Suita is located about 10 km north of the center of Osaka City. My home was surrounded by…

I was born on December 22, 1941 in the Carlton suburb of Nottingham in England in the middle of the Second World War. My father, William Stanley Whittingham, was a civil engineer and the first in the family to go to college, and my mother Dorothy Mary (née Findley) was a chemist before marriage. My…

Biography* My family, childhood and education I was born in 1942 in Lausanne, Switzerland, a small town along Lake Leman where I started elementary school. My father was a police commissioner with positions in different cities. When I was six years old, my family moved to Cully, a superb village in the vineyards along the…

Childhood I was born in Jena, Germany, in July 1922, to American parents, Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough and Helen Miriam (Lewis) Goodenough. My father was working on his D. Phil. dissertation on the Church Fathers at Oxford University at the time of my birth. My parents lived in Oxford, England, for three years and my father…

I was born November 23, 1957 in Jamaica, New York City, to William George and Nancy Priscilla (Horn) Kaelin. My mother’s first pregnancy ended in a miscarriage. The obstetrician who delivered me was a friend of my mother’s family. He initially thought I was stillborn and lamented that such obstetrical problems seemed to disproportionately affect his…

Didier Queloz is a professor of physics at the University of Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory and professor of astronomy at the University of Geneva (part time). He is one of the originators of the “exoplanet revolution” in astrophysics. In 1995, as part of his PhD, he and his supervisor announced the first discovery of a giant…

Michael Kremer did not submit a biography.

My impression is that each of us is born with distinct personal char­acteristics. It seems quite observable in our three daughters, and I think I see it in myself. I believe I was born to be a physicist of the kind who may be a little weak on the mathematics but has some sort of…

I was born in 1972 at the Port Royal hospital, the “baby factory” of Paris. I grew up with my parents, Violaine Duflo (a pediatrician) and Michel Duflo (a math professor) in Asnières, a western suburb of Paris. I went to the local public schools until grade 11, and transferred to Henri IV, a magnet…