Today’s Jewish Birthday

Baruch Blumberg (July 28, 1925 – April 5, 2011), known as Barry Blumberg, was an American physician, geneticist, and co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (with Daniel Carleton Gajdusek), for his work on the hepatitis B virus while an investigator at the NIH and at the Fox Chase Cancer Center. [Wikipedia]

Rosalind Franklin (July 25, 1920 – April 16, 1958) was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer. Her work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal, and graphite. [Wikipedia]

Bella Abzug (July 24, 1920 – March 31, 1998) was an American lawyer, politician, social activist, and a leader in the women’s movement. [Wikipedia]

Otto Warburg (July 20, 1859 –  January 10, 1938) was a German-Jewish botanist. He was also a notable industrial agriculture expert and president of the Zionist Organization from 1911 to 1921. [Wikipedia]

Roald Hoffmann (July 18, 1937) is a Polish-American theoretical chemist who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Kenichi Fukui “for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions”. [Wikipedia]