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Robert B. Leighton
Robert Benjamin Leighton (/ˈleɪtən/; September 10, 1919 – March 9, 1997) was a prominent United States experimental physicist who spent his professional career at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).[1] His work over the years spanned solid state physics, cosmic ray physics, the beginnings of modern particle physics, solar physics, the planets, infrared astronomy, and millimete
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Etty Hillesum
Esther "Etty" Hillesum (15 January 1914 – 30 November 1943) was the Dutch author of confessional letters and diaries which describe both her religious awakening and the persecutions of Jewish people in Amsterdam during the German occupation. In 1943 she was deported and killed in Auschwitz concentration camp.[1] Hillesum c. 1940. https://handwiki.org/wiki/index.php?curid=1114473
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Yevgeny Zavoisky
Yevgeny Konstantinovich Zavoisky (Russian: Евгений Константинович Завойский; September 28, 1907 – October 9, 1976) was a Soviet physicist known for discovery of electron paramagnetic resonance in 1944.[1][2] He likely observed nuclear magnetic resonance in 1941, well before Felix Bloch and Edward Mills Purcell, but dismissed the results as not reproducible.[3][4]
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Paul Sophus Epstein
Paul Sophus Epstein (Warsaw, then part of Imperial Russia, now Poland , March 20, 1883 – Pasadena, February 8, 1966) was a Russian-American mathematical physicist. He was known for his contributions to the development of quantum mechanics, part of a group that included Lorentz, Einstein, Minkowski, Thomson, Rutherford, Sommerfeld, Röntgen, von Laue, Bohr, de Broglie, Ehrenfest and Schwarzschi
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Ilesanmi Adesida
Ilesanmi Adesida (born 1949, Ifon, Ondo State, Nigeria) is a naturalized United States [1] physicist of Yoruba Nigerian descent.[2] He has been the provost at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan, from September 2016.[3] Adesida is also the Donald Biggar Willett Professor Emeritus of Engineering[4] at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;[5] he retired from Illinois in 2016. In
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Christopher Chenery
Christopher Tompkins Chenery (September 19, 1886 – January 3, 1973) was an American engineer, businessman, and the owner/breeder of record for Thoroughbred horse racing's U.S. Triple Crown champion Secretariat. Chenery, the son of Ida and James Chenery, was born in Richmond and raised in Ashland, Virginia.[1] He had three brothers, William Ludlow Chenery, who became editor of Collier's Wee
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Ebenezer Laing
Ebenezer Laing, (28 June 1931 – 19 April 2015) was a Ghanaian botanist and plant geneticist who served as the Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Legon.[1][2][3] He was a professor at the University of Ghana, Legon, and later an emeritus professor.[1] Laing, together with his university and faculty colleague, George C. Clerk (1931–2019), was one of the first Ghanaian academics to
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Harry Humphries
Harry R. Humphries (born November 17, 1940) is a former United States Navy SEAL who currently works as a consultant and actor on Hollywood films. After graduating from Admiral Farragut Academy and attending Rutgers University in New Jersey, Humphries joined the Navy, where he was assigned to UDT 22 and SEAL Team 2. In 1971, Humphries left the Navy with an Honorable Discharge. After a career with
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Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann
Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann (German pronunciation: [ˈhaɪ̯nʁɪç ˈɡʊsta(ː)f ˈviːdəman];[1][2]) FRS(For) HFRSE (2 October 1826 – 24 March 1899) was a German physicist and scientific author. Wiedemann was born in Berlin the son of a merchant who died two years later. Following the death of his mother in 1842 he lived with his grandparents.[3] After attending a private school as well
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Tadeusz Kotarbiński
Tadeusz Kotarbiński (Template:IPA-pol; 31 March 1886 – 3 October 1981) was a Polish philosopher, logician and ethicist. A pupil of Kazimierz Twardowski, he was one of the most representative figures of the Lwów–Warsaw School, and a member of the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU) as well as the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). He developed philosophical theory called reism (Polish: reizm)
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Clemente Estable
Clemente Estable (23 May 1894, Canelones – 27 October 1976, Montevideo) was a University Professor and Docent. He was a pioneer in the areas of cellular biology and neurobiology research. Estable was an educator, scientist and philosopher who left his mark on the intellectual collective thinking of his native land. He lived his life guided by strong democratic values and ethical principles and
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Leroy Chang
Leroy L. Chang (Chinese: 張立綱; 20 January 1936 – 10 August 2008) was an experimental physicist and solid state electronics researcher and engineer. Born in China, he studied in Taiwan and then the United States, obtaining his doctorate from Stanford University in 1963. As a research physicist he studied semiconductors for nearly 30 years at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York
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Darrel Ray
Darrel Wayne Ray (born August 24, 1950) is a psychologist who has written several books on various topics. He is also a speaker, podcaster and atheist activist. He helped found the organization Recovering from Religion. Ray was raised a fundamentalist Christian in Wichita, Kansas, by parents who eventually became missionaries, and among family members highly involved in church life.[1] This f
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Bohdan Tkach
Dr. Bogdan Mykolayovych Tkach is a distinguished figure in the field of clinical neuropsychology, holding a doctorate in psychological sciences and serving as a senior researcher and clinical professor. His academic and professional journey is a testament to his dedication and expertise in neuropsychology, deviantology, sexology, neuromarketing, organizational psychology, and the neuropsychologi
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Elliot Jager
Elliot Jager (born November 3, 1954) is an American-born Israeli journalist, political scientist, and author of The Pater: My Father, My Judaism, My Childlessness. He is a former editorial page editor of The Jerusalem Post and a former senior contributing editor at The Jerusalem Report. His book The Balfour Declaration Sixty-Seven Words – 100 Years of Conflict was published by Gefen in fall 20
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David M. Dennison
David Mathias Dennison (April 26, 1900[1] in Oberlin, Ohio – April 3, 1976) was an American physicist who made contributions to quantum mechanics, spectroscopy, and the physics of molecular structure.[2] In 1917, Dennison entered Swarthmore College, where he graduated in 1921. He then went to the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, for graduate studies in physics with Walter F. Colby and
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William Minicozzi II
William Philip Minicozzi II is an United States mathematician. He was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, in 1967. Minicozzi graduated from Princeton University in 1990 and received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1994 under the direction of Richard Schoen. After graduating he spent a year at the Courant Institute of New York University as a visiting member where he began working with Tobi
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David Welch (Optical Engineer)
David F. Welch, Ph.D, (born October 26, 1960) is an American businessman[1] and research scientist. Welch is a pioneer in the field of optical devices and optical transport systems for telecommunications networks. Welch first made it possible to commercially deploy reliable 980 nm laser pumps, needed in low noise optical amplifiers employed in dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) telec
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Heinrich Friedrich Weber
Heinrich Friedrich Weber (/ˈveɪbər/;[1] German: [ˈveːbɐ]; 7 November 1843 – 24 May 1912) was a physicist born in the town of Magdala, near Weimar. Around 1861 he entered the University of Jena, where Ernst Abbe became the first of two physicists who decisively influenced his career (Weiss 1912, pp. 44–45). Weber soon discovered, however, that he lacked sufficient mathematical talen
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Julius Sumner Miller
Julius Sumner Miller (May 17, 1909 – April 14, 1987) was an United States physicist and television personality.[1] He is best known for his work on children's television programs in North America and Australia. Julius Sumner Miller was born in Billerica, Massachusetts, as the youngest of nine children. His father was Latvian, and his Lithuanian mother spoke 12 languages.[2][3] Miller grad
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