From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 05/Jul/2018

in #onthisday6 years ago

Hi Steemians,

This is an effort to provide some information on Five selected famous personalities born on this day.

Courtesy of this information goes to onthisday.com, famousbirthdays.com and wikipedia.org and image source is mentioned under "Source" just below each image.

1. James Mirrlees

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James Mirrlees is a Scottish economist who is a co-creator of Diamond–Mirrlees efficiency theorem along with Peter A. Diamond.

He worked as professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, Oxford University and Cambridge University.

When he was working at Oxford University, he published the papers on economic models and those papers were good enough to bring him a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

For his contributions to economics, he was Knighted in 1998.

He is a Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh and a member of British Academy.

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2. Amélie Mauresmo

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Amélie Mauresmo is a French former professional women's tennis player who is a 2 time winner of grand-slam singles titles.

She is a former world no.1 WTA player and also won a silver medal in women's singles event in 2004 Olympics.

After her retirement in 2009, she worked with different tennis players either as a consultant or as a coach and helped Andy Murray and Marion Bartoli improve their games and win some important tournaments.

She has been inducted into International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2015.

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3. John Howard Northrop

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John Howard Northrop was an American bio-chemist who is known for his works on isolation, crystallization and study of enzymes along with proteins and viruses as well.

He worked as a professor and later as emeritus at University of California and taught Bacteriology and Medical Physics.

He was the one who determined pepsin as protein.

His other inventions include determination of nucleoprotein, trypsin, chymotrypsin and carboxypeptidase.

For his inventions and researches, he along with James Batcheller Sumner and Wendell Meredith Stanley were honoured with Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946.

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4. P. V. Sindhu

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P. V. Sindhu is an Indian professional badminton player who is a winner of silver medal in 2016 Rio Olympics in women's singles category.

She is also a winner of silver medal in 2018 Commonwealth Games and 2017 BWF World Championships.

She is also the first Indian women's singles player to win a medal at Badminton World Championships when she won a bronze in 2013.

She has been honoured by Indian government with India's highest sporting honour of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in 2013 and India's fourth highest civilian honour of Padma Shri in 2016.

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5. Edie Falco

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Edie Falco is an American actress who has acted on stage, television and films and is known for her role Whittlesey in HBO series Oz and as Carmela Soprano in another HBO series The Sopranos.

She has acted in movies like Laws of Gravity, Judy Berlin, Freedomland, The Comedian.

She is a winner of 2 Golden Globe Awards, 5 Screen Actors Guild Awards and 4 Primetime Emmy Awards.

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