Famous people died in 1957
Heinrich Otto Wieland
Heinrich Otto Wieland was an eminent German scientist who won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his investigations of the constitution of the bile acids
Irving Langmuir
Irving Langmuir was an American chemist who won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in surface chemistry
Ramon Magsaysay
Ramon Magsaysay was the seventh president of the Philippines
Olive Dennis
Olive Dennis was the first woman to become a member of the American Railway Engineering Association
Johannes Stark
Johannes Stark was a German scientist who won the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the Stark Effect
Gerty Cori
Gerty Theresa Cori was a Nobel Prize winning biochemist who discovered the catalytic conversion of glycogen
V. Gordon Childe
Vere Gordon Childe was an Australian historian, linguist and archaeologist
Jože Plečnik
Joze Plecnik was a great Slovenian architect who tried to model Ljubljana on ancient Athens
Paul Walden
Paul Walden was a Latvian-German chemist who is known for his path-breaking invention known as Walden inversion
Constantin Brâncuși
Constantin Brancusi was a Romanian sculptor, painter and photographer