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Claude Rodier
Claude Rodier (born July 21, 1903 in Saint-Éloy-les-Mines, and died on November 11, 1944 in the concentration camp of Ravensbrück, Germany) was a physicist, and an officer in the Mouvements Unis de la Résistance (MUR), part of the French Resistance in Auvergne. Claude Rodier was born on July 21, 1903 in Saint-Éloy-les-Mines (Puy-de-Dôme) in a family of secular, republican teachers. Her
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Gavin de Beer
Sir Gavin Rylands de Beer FRS[1] (1 November 1899 – 21 June 1972) was a British evolutionary embryologist, known for his work on heterochrony as recorded in his 1930 book Embryos and Ancestors. He was director of the Natural History Museum, London, president of the Linnean Society of London, and a winner of the Royal Society's Darwin Medal for his studies on evolution. Born on 1 November 18
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Kevin Greenaugh
Kevin Greenaugh (born May 15, 1956) is an American nuclear engineer and senior manager at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in Washington, DC, United States. Born in the United Kingdom as a U.S. military dependent, Greenaugh has been a part of the military and commercial energy industry for multiple decades. After attending school in Berlin, Germany at the height of the cold
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Michael Newdow
Michael Arthur Newdow (born June 24, 1953) is an United States attorney and emergency medicine physician. He is best known for his efforts to have recitations of the current version of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools in the United States declared unconstitutional because of its inclusion of the phrase "under God". He also filed and lost a lawsuit to stop the invocation prayer at Presi
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Joseph Francisco
Joseph S. Francisco (born 1955) was President of the American Chemical Society from 2009-2010.[1] Until 2018, he served as the Dean of College of Arts and Sciences,[2] Elmer H. and Ruby M.Cordes Chair in chemistry[3] at University of Nebraska in Lincoln. He received his bachelors from the University of Texas at Austin in 1977 and his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983.[1]
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Linda Griffith
Linda G. Griffith (born August 30, 1960 Atlanta, Georgia) is an American biological engineer, and Professor of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she also directs the Center for Gynepathology Research.[1] She is a 2006 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, commonly referred to as the "MacArthur genius award."[2] She was raised in D
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Robert Karplus
Robert Karplus (February 23, 1927 – March 20, 1990) was a theoretical physicist and leader in the field of science education.[1] Robert Karplus was born in Vienna, where he lived until the German occupation of Austria in 1938. He emigrated with his mother and brother to escape the Anschluss. After a six-month stay in Switzerland , the family moved to the United States and settled in the Bos
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Paul Ruffin
Paul B. Ruffin, Ph.D. (born March 20, 1955) is an American scientist and educator. He is active in the field of applied science during his career as a research physicist conducting exploratory and advanced research and development in Fiber-optic communication, Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), and Nanotechnology at the U. S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering C
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Ilan Sadeh
Ilan Sadeh (born June 1, 1953) is an Israeli IT theoretician, entrepreneur, and human rights activist. He holds the position of Associate Professor of Computer Sciences and Mathematics at the University for Information Science and Technology "St. Paul The Apostole"[1] in Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia. Sadeh was the first to claim publicly in the Israeli media that Israel has no right to be c
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Anat Ninio
Anat Ninio (Hebrew: ענת ניניו‎; born August 10, 1944) is a professor emeritus of psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. She specializes in the interactive context of language acquisition, the communicative functions of speech, pragmatic development, and syntactic development. Ninio is best known for her work on joint picture-book reading of parents and young childre
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Michael Eisen
Michael Bruce Eisen (born April 13, 1967) is an American computational biologist and the editor-in-chief of the journal eLife[1]. He is a professor of genetics, genomics and development at University of California, Berkeley.[2][3][4][5][6] He is a leading advocate of open access scientific publishing and is co-founder of Public Library of Science (PLOS). In 2018, Eisen announced his intention to
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Hugo Lichte
Hugo Lichte (11 April 1891 in :de:Mengede, Germany − 27 July 1963 in Berlin, Germany) was a German physicist. He did pioneering work on the theory of sound propagation in the ocean and was a leading developer of motion picture technology during the transition from silent to sound film. Hugo Lichte studied mathematics, physics and chemistry at the University of Göttingen from 1909 to 1913.[
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George Thomas Beilby
"The Woman Engineer Vol 4". https://www2.theiet.org/resources/library/archives/research/wes/WES_Vol_4a.html.  Sir George Thomas Beilby FRS (17 November 1850 – 1 August 1924) was a British chemist. He was born in Edinburgh, the son of a doctor and educated at Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University. In 1869, he joined the Oakbank Oil Company to work in the oil shale industry where he and
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John Reppy
John D. Reppy (born February 16, 1931) is a physicist who studies the quantum properties of superfluids at Cornell University. He is also a notable rock climber of long standing, who established a number of widely known climbing routes particularly in the northeastern United States. In the 1950s and 60s, Reppy was active on Ragged Mountain in Connecticut where he collaborated on many first as
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Orlando Metcalfe Poe
Orlando Metcalfe Poe (March 7, 1832 – October 2, 1895) was a United States Army officer and engineer in the American Civil War. After helping General William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea, he was responsible for much of the early lighthouse construction on the Great Lakes and design of the Poe Lock at Soo Locks between lakes Superior and Huron. Orlando Metcalfe Poe was born in Navarre
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George Catlin
Sir George Edward Gordon Catlin (26 July 1896 – 7 February 1979)[1] was an English political scientist and philosopher. A strong proponent of Anglo-American co-operation, he worked for many years as a professor at Cornell University and other universities and colleges in the United States and Canada. He preached the use of a natural science model for political science. McMaster University Libr
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Neil Gershenfeld
Neil A. Gershenfeld (born 1959 or 1960)[1] is an United States professor at MIT and the director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, a sister lab to the MIT Media Lab. His research studies are predominantly focused in interdisciplinary studies involving physics and computer science, in such fields as quantum computing, nanotechnology, and personal fabrication. Gershenfeld attended Swarthmore Col
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George Doundoulakis
George James Doundoulakis (October 19, 1921 – March 17, 2007) was a Greek American physicist and soldier who worked under British Intelligence during World War II with SOE agent Patrick Leigh Fermor, and then served with the OSS in Thessaly, Greece. He is known by his twenty-six US Patents in the fields of radar, electronics, and narrowband television. Doundoulakis is best remembered for the
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Beatrice Aitchison
Beatrice Aitchison (July 18, 1908 – September 22, 1997) was an American mathematician, statistician, and transportation economist who directed the Transport Economics Division of the United States Department of Commerce,[1] and later became the top woman in the United States Postal Service and the first policy-level appointee there.[2] Aitchison's mother was a musician and her father, Clyde
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Ludwig Waldmann
Ludwig Waldmann (June 8, 1913 in Fürth – February 9, 1980) was a Germany physicist who specialized in transport phenomena in gases. He derived the Waldmann-Snider equation.[1] Waldmann completed his Ph.D.[2] under Arnold Sommerfeld at the University of Munich in 1938. He was Sommerfeld’s assistant, at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, from 1937 – 1939. Waldman had been the scribe[3
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