Famous people born in December - page 9

Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin, aka Peter Kropotkin, was a Russian philosopher and activist

Willard Frank Libby was an American physical chemist who was awarded the ‘Nobel Prize’ in Chemistry in 1960

Harold E

Howard Martin Temin was an American geneticist and virologist who won a share of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Madan Mohan Malaviya was a veteran Indian statesman, educationist and independence activist

Anthony Hopkins is considered to be one of the greatest actors ever

Theodor Schwann was a German physiologist who discovered the Schwann cells in the peripheral nervous system

Haldan Keffer Hartline was a Nobel Laureate physiologist who first isolated and recorded the activity of a single optic nerve fibre

Edward Lawrie Tatum was an American biochemist who won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Medicine

Richard Kuhn was an Austrian-German biochemist