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Patricia Cladis
Patricia Cladis (1937 - July 3, 2017) was a Canadian American physicist specializing in the physics of liquid crystals. She was a research physicist at Bell Labs beginning in 1972. She was a fellow of the American Physical Society and also received a Guggenheim fellowship. Cladis was born in Shanghai.[1] She attended high school at Little Flower Academy in Vancouver, BC, graduating in 1955. I
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John Hick
John Hick JP DL MP FRSA (2 July 1815 – 2 February 1894) was a wealthy[1] English industrialist, art collector and Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1880.[2][3] He is associated with the improvement of steam-engines for cotton mills and the work of his firm Hick, Hargreaves and Co. universal in countries where fibre was spun or fabrics woven.[4] Hick
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James Van Allen
James Alfred Van Allen (September 7, 1914 – August 9, 2006) was an American space scientist at the University of Iowa. He was instrumental in establishing the field of magnetospheric research in space. The Van Allen radiation belts were named after him, following their discovery by his Geiger–Müller tube instruments on the 1958 satellites: (Explorer 1, Explorer 3, and Pioneer 3)[1][2][3]
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Sarah Haider
Sarah Haider is a Pakistani-American writer, speaker, and political activist.[1] She created the advocacy group Ex-Muslims of North America (EXMNA) which seeks to normalize religious dissent and to help former Muslims leave the religion by linking them to support networks.[2] She is the co-founder and director of development for EXMNA.[3] Haider was born in Karachi, Pakistan , in a practicing
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T Mayu Bogollagama
T. Mayu Bogollagama is a published poet.  He was the 1990 Virginia High School outdoor track and field 3200m state champion, which earned him a spot on the prestigious Washington Post's All-Metropolitan Team.  Subsequently, Georgetown University recruited him to attend as a scholarship student-athlete.  While an undergraduate at Georgetown University, Bogollagama volunteered as a literacy tut
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Wladek Minor
Władysław Minor also known as Wladek Minor (born 1946) is a Polish-American biophysicist, a specialist in structural biology and protein crystallography. He is a Harrison Distinguished Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics at the University of Virginia.[1] Minor is a co-author of HKL2000/HKL3000 – crystallographic data processing and structure solution software used to pro
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David Hestenes
David Orlin Hestenes, Ph.D. (born May 21, 1933) is a theoretical physicist and science educator. He is best known as chief architect of geometric algebra as a unified language for mathematics and physics,[1] and as founder of Modelling Instruction, a research-based program to reform K–12 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education.[2] For more than 30 years, he was empl
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Otto Schmitt
Otto Herbert Schmitt (April 6, 1913 – January 6, 1998) was an United States inventor, engineer, and biophysicist known for his scientific contributions to biophysics and for establishing the field of biomedical engineering. Schmitt also coined the term biomimetics and invented the Schmitt trigger, the cathode follower, the differential amplifier, and the chopper-stabilized amplifier.[1] He wa
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Percy Spencer
Percy Lebaron Spencer (July 19, 1894 – September 8, 1970) was an United States physicist and inventor. He became known as the inventor of the microwave oven.[1] Spencer was born in Howland, Maine. Eighteen months later, Spencer's father died, and his mother soon left him in the care of his aunt and uncle. His uncle then died when Spencer was just seven years old. Spencer subsequently left g
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Erlendur Haraldsson
Erlendur Haraldsson (born 1931) is a professor emeritus of psychology on the faculty of social science at the University of Iceland. He has published in various psychology and psychiatry journals. In addition, he has published parapsychology books and authored a number of papers for parapsychology journals. Erlendur studied philosophy at the universities of Iceland, Edinburgh and Freiburg fro
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Claude Pouillet
Claude Servais Mathias Pouillet (16 February 1790 – 14 June 1868) was a France physicist and a professor of physics at the Sorbonne and member of the French Academy of Sciences (elected 1837). He studied sciences at the École normale supérieure (Paris), and from 1829 to 1849 was associated with the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, first as a professor, and beginning in 1832, a
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Yuko Tojo
Yuko Tojo (東條 由布子, Tōjō Yūko, May 20, 1939 (Keijo, Japanese Korea) – February 13, 2013, Tokyo, Japan) was a Japanese ultra-nationalist politician, Imperial Japanese apologist, and brief political hopeful.[1] She was the granddaughter of General Hideki Tōjō, the Japanese wartime prime minister who was convicted of planning and orchestrating most of the major Japanese acts of aggr
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Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney (December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825) was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.[1] Whitney's invention made upland short cotton into a profitable crop, which strengthened the economic foundation of slavery in the United States. Despite the social a
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Joseph A. Walker
Joseph Albert Walker (February 20, 1921 – June 8, 1966) flew the world's first two spaceplane flights in 1963, thereby becoming the United States' seventh man in space. Walker was a Captain in the United States Air Force , an American World War II pilot, an experimental physicist, a NASA test pilot, and a member of the U.S. Air Force Man In Space Soonest spaceflight program. His two X-15 exper
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Sankara Bhagavadpada
Dr. Sankara Bhagavadpada [1] is an Indian Advaitic spiritual teacher, author & Vedic astrologer[2] from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.[3] Dr. Sankara Bhagavadpada was born Shankar Ramachandran, on May 1, 1948 in Madras, India. In his boyhood years, he came under the benevolent spiritual & philosophical influence of his mother and his philosopher-friend Sri Bhagavan.[4] In 1971, he secured his M
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Meredith L. Patterson
Meredith L. Patterson (born April 30, 1977[1]) is an American technologist, science fiction writer, and journalist. She has spoken at numerous industry conferences on a wide range of topics.[2] She is also a blogger and software developer, and a leading figure[3] in the biopunk movement. Patterson lived in and around Houston for 24 years before moving to Iowa City, Iowa, to pursue her Master'
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Peter Goldreich
Peter Goldreich (born July 14, 1939) is an United States astrophysicist whose research focuses on celestial mechanics, planetary rings, helioseismology and neutron stars.[1] He is currently the Lee DuBridge Professor of Astrophysics and Planetary Physics at California Institute of Technology. Since 2005 he has also been a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.[2]
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Jeff Church
Jeff Church (born August 24, 1961) is the cofounder of NIKA Water Company, a social entrepreneurial model that donates its profits to alleviate poverty, and Suja Juice, an organic juice company in California. Church graduated from Michigan State University in 1983 with a B.A. in accounting and was named one of the top twenty-five graduating seniors out of 8,000 students. He later attended Har
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Robert Zeidman
Robert “Bob” Zeidman (born January 18, 1960) is an American electrical engineer, educator and inventor who has made contributions in Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) design, Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) design, embedded systems development, software synthesis, software analysis and software forensics. Best known as the inventor of software forensics,[1][2] Zeidman’s p
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Frank P. Ramsey
Frank Plumpton Ramsey (/ˈræmzi/; 22 February 1903 – 19 January 1930) was a British philosopher, mathematician, and economist who made major contributions to all three fields before his death at the age of 26. He was a close friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein and was instrumental in translating Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus into English, as well as persuading Wittgenstein to return
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