From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 25/Jan/2018 - Part 1

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. Dinah Manoff

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Dinah Manoff is an American film, stage and television actress and director who is known for her movies Grease, I Ought to Be in Pictures, Empty Nest.

She is a better known name on television movies and guest roles on television programs.

She hails from filmy background as her father, a screenwriter and mother used to be an actress.

Her debut movie was Everybody Rides the Carousel in 1975 and has acted in about 15 movies so far.

2. Robert Boyle

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Robert Boyle was an Anglo-Irish philosopher, chemist, physicist and inventor who is regarded as first modern chemist and one of the founders of modern chemistry.

His invention on relationship between absolute pressure and volume of a gas is famously known as Boyle's Law and explains that, the absolute pressure and volume of a gas are inversely proportional if the temperature is kept constant within the closed system.

Boyle was one of the founders of Royal Society and was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society in 1663.

3. Michelle McCool

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Michelle McCool is an American former professional wrestler, inaugural WWE Divas champion in 2008 and 2 time Divas champion.

She is a 2 time WWE women's champion and Diva of the Year in 2008.

She is also a popular figure in WWE arena because she is the wife of great WWE champion Undertaker.

4. Paul Nurse

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Paul Nurse is an English geneticist and an Nobel Prize awardee in physiology or medicine along with Leland Hartwell and Tim Hunt for their invention of protein molecules which control the duplication of cells in a cell cycle(The cell cycle or cell-division cycle is the series of events that take place in a cell leading to its division and duplication of its DNA (DNA replication) to produce two daughter cells).

In addition to Nobel Prize, Nurse has received Royal Medal in 1995, Legion d'Honneur in 2002, Albert Einstein World Award of Science in 2015.

He has about 60 honorary degrees and fellowships and is a member of various societies including Fellow of Royal Society, Foreign Associate of US National Academy of Sciences and Foreign Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

5. Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf was a English writer who is considered as one of the modernist authors of 20^th century.

Her first novel The Voyage Out was published 1915.

Some of her other high influential works include Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighhouse, Orlando, A Room of One's Own.

Google today showed her on google doodle as a mark of respect to the great writer.