Liviu Bibrescu was born in Poliesti, Romania back in 1930.  His family was deported to a labor camp in Transnistria.  He survived the Holocaust and was repatriated to Communist Romania.  He studied aerospace engineering the at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest graduating in 1952.  Continuing his education, he earned his Ph.D. in fluid mechanics in 1969.From 1979 to 1986 he was a Professor of Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering at Tel Aviv University.  He left for the United States serving as a Professor at Virginia Tech in its Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics where he remained until his death in 2007, he was 76.What you may not know about Liviu is that during the Virginia Tech shooting, he held the door to his lecture hall closed, allowing all but one of his stu... 06/01/2021

Paul Leland Kirk was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado back in 1902.  Sorry I can’t provide any other information except what is coming.  He graduated from Ohio State University with a Bachelor’s degree in chemistry and his Master’s degree in chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh.He continued his education receiving his Ph.D. in biochemistry from UC Berkeley.  In 1929, he worked as a professor of biochemistry at UC Berkeley.  While there he became interested in forensic science.  Law enforcement asked him to do a microscopic examination of a rape victim’s clothing.  With what he found authorities were able to get a conviction.  In 1937, he became the leader of UC Berkeley’s criminology program.  He was asked to join the Manhattan Project working on the process to isolate fissiona... 02/22/2021

Joseph James Kinyoun was born in East Bend, North Carolina back in 1860 to John and Elizabeth.  The family moved to Post Oak, Missouri in 1866.  His father was a general practitioner, Joseph studied medicine with his father’s guidance.  He attended the St. Louis Medical College and Bellevue Medical College graduating with a M.D. in 1882.He completed his postdoctoral studies at the Carnegie Laboratory where he became the first bacteriology student studying cholera.  In 1886, he began his career at Marine Hospital Service at Staten Island as an assistant surgeon.  In 1891, the chief surgeon left placing the 26-year-old Joseph in charge of the nation’s first federal bacteriology laboratory.  Later he was a professor of bacteriology and pathology at George Washington University.  Afterwards... 02/15/2021