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
Elizabeth Taylor won a slew of awards during her long career, including two Best Actress Oscars. A list of the many awards received by Elizabeth Taylor, the legendary actress who has died at the age of 97. * Golden Globe Special Award, 1957. * Academy Award nomination, best actress, and Golden Laurel Award, top female dramatic performance, Producers Guild of America, both 1958, for Raintree County.