Solar and Lunar Eclipses in 2016. This year there's a total solar eclipse on March 9th (visible from Indonesia) and an annular on September 1st (central Africa). But the terrific tetrad of total lunar eclipses is over â we'll see just two barely-there penumbral eclipses in 2016, on March 23rd and September 16th.
Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, AC FRS FAA FRSN is an Australian-American Nobel laureate who is currently the President of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Previously she was a biological researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, who studied the telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the chromosome. Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere. For this work, she was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicin
Susan L. Parks. Date: Mon, 2002-04-08. *On this date in 2002, Susan-Lori Parks won a Pulitzer Prize for Topdog/Underdog her play on Broadway at the Ambassador Theater. She was the first African American woman in 85 years to win a Pulitzer Prize in a drama category. The play tells the story of two blood brothers named Lincoln and Booth, one a card shark and Abe Lincoln impersonator, the other, a student of the three-card-Monty con game.