Remembering Gordon Banks, Stewart Adams, Walter Munk

Gordon Banks was recognized as perhaps the greatest goalie in the history of English football. He was the goalie on the 1966 World Cup champions and made what is often regarded as the greatest save in World Cup history, off a header by Pele against Brazil in 1970. Stewart Adams was the English pharmacist who led the team that discovered ibuprofen, one of the world’s most widely used drugs. Walter Munk was the venerable oceanographer from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California San Diego. His work on oceanic wave formation was critical to the 1944 Normandy landing. He worked at Scripps for eight decades.