Solar and Lunar Eclipses in 2016. This year there's a total solar eclipse on March 9th (visible from Indonesia) and an annular on September 1st (central Africa). But the terrific tetrad of total lunar eclipses is over â we'll see just two barely-there penumbral eclipses in 2016, on March 23rd and September 16th.
Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, AC FRS FAA FRSN is an Australian-American Nobel laureate who is currently the President of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Previously she was a biological researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, who studied the telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the chromosome. Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere. For this work, she was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicin
During her 66-year acting career, Katharine Hepburn won four Oscars, but she never came to a ceremony to receive them. âAs for me, prizes are nothing,â she once said. âMy prize is my work.â Still, four best actress â or actor â awards is an unbeaten feat, akin to Wilt Chamberlain scoring 100 points in an NBA game.