List of Famous people who born in 1942
Christopher David Palmer-Tomkinson
Robert Weinberg
Robert Allan Weinberg is a biologist, Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), director of the Ludwig Center of the MIT, and American Cancer Society Research Professor. His research is in the area of oncogenes and the genetic basis of human cancer.
Abdallah Mishrif
Liu Lin
Dieter Pützhofen
Bert Sakmann
Bert Sakmann is a German cell physiologist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Erwin Neher in 1991 for their work on "the function of single ion channels in cells," and the invention of the patch clamp. Bert Sakmann was Professor at Heidelberg University and is an Emeritus Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany. Since 2008 he leads an emeritus research group at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology.
Gianfranco Ravasi
Gianfranco Ravasi is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church. A cardinal since 2010, he has been President of the Pontifical Council for Culture since 3 September 2007. He headed Milan's Ambrosian Library from 1989 to 2007.
Marie-José Mondzain
Christoph Gerber
Christoph Gerber is a titular professor at the Department of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland.
Pascal Lainé
Pascal Lainé is a French academic, novelist, and writer.