We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.
It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.
| Florence Ballard, Musician (1943) |
| Robert Ballard, Scientist (1942) |
| Fantasia Barrino, Musician (1984) |
| Frederic Bastiat, Economist (1801) |
| Vincent D'Onofrio, Actor (1959) |
| Laurence Fishburne, Actor (1961) |
| John Gay, Poet (1685) |
| Franz Halder, Soldier (1884) |
| Margery Allingham, Writer (1966) |
| Buddy Hackett, Comedian (2003) |
| David Harris, (2004) |

