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| Alan Turing laid the theoretical groundwork for the first computer. | Albert Einstein believed in the power of imagination. | Augusta Ada Byron developed the world's first computer program while struggling with her own personal hardships. | Barbara McClintock a distinguished geneticist and Nobel laureate |
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| Benjamin Franklin was an inventor, diplomat, writer, and a huge influence on American history. | Charles Darwin is the father of modern biology. | Chiaki Mukai is the first female Japanese astronaut. | Dr. Alexander Langmuir Langmuir's work in epidemiology has saved millions of lives. |
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| Dr. Caldicott has been a lifelong anti-nuclear activist. | Dr. Edward Jenner discovered the vaccine. | Dr. Elizabeth Kalko and the Jason Project studies bats in the Panamanian rainforest. | Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy cares for the eyes of millions of people in India. |
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| Dr. Kay Jamison is both an expert on, and a sufferer of, Bipolar Disorder. | Dr. Patch Adams gives the practice of medicine a humorous twist. | Dr. Robert Ballard and the JASON project bring scientific exploration to children around the world. | F. Sherwood Rowland discovered the 'greenhouse effect.' |
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| Frederick Banting was the co-discoverer of Insulin. | Friends of the Sea Lion rescue, treat, and release these mammals back into the ocean. | Galileo was the first to use a telescope to observe the stars and planets. | George Washington Carver is famous for experimenting with plants. |
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| Gertrude B. Elion developed the AIDS drug, AZT. | GINA GALLANT is an inventor whose passion is protecting the environment. | Grace Murray Hopper was a computer visionary. | Irene Ayako Uchida helped find the link between radiation and birth defects. |
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| Jack St. Clair Kilby invented the microchip. | Jonas Salk discovered the polio vaccine. | Leonard Adleman improves lives with his work in DNA technology. | Leonardo da Vinci was an artist and a scientist ever curious of the world around him. |
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| Louis Pasteur Pasteur's discoveries advanced the practice of medicine. | Madame Curie received the Nobel Prize for her discovery of Radium. | Mae Jemison dreamed of going to space since childhood. | Magdalena Hurtado is an anthropologist who studies the Ache people of Paraguay. |
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| Nikola Tesla was the father of many modern inventions. | Orville and Wilbur Wright were brothers determined to build a better flying machine. | Paul Farmer is a medical anthropologist and physician who has dedicated his life to treating people in the poorest nations in the world | Paul Sipiera led an expedition into Antarctica to find meteorites |
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| Philo T. Farnsworth ,the inventor of the television. | Robert Koch was an important medical researcher of the 19th century. | Sir Alexander Fleming : his discovery of penicillin saved millions of lives. | Srinivasa Ramanujan made groundbreaking contributions to mathematics. |
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| Stephen Hawking is a theoretical physicist. | Thomas Alva Edison holds the record for number of patents filed. | Tom Dibblee is a legendary geologic mapper. | Vladimir Kosma Zworykin is called 'The Father of Television'. |
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| XIV Argonauts broadcasted their explorations of the Channel Islands. |