Present: Print and Electronic Media

Frederick Wiseman is widely acclaimed as the most important person ever to lift a camera for documentary filmmaking.

Present: Print and Electronic Media

James Nachtwey dedicated his life to documenting war, famine, man's inhumanity to man and the plight of the disenfranchised all over the world.

Future: Cosmology and Astronomy

John Bahcall made fundamental and lasting contributions to an astonishing number of different areas of modern astrophysics.

Past: Paleoanthropology

In 2002, Michel Brunet discovered in Chad an almost complete cranium of the oldest human ancestor: Sahelanthropus tchadensis (nicknamed Toumai).