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Manuel  Aureliano
Manuel Aureliano, is an Full Professor of Biochemistry (With Aggregation in Inorganic Biochemistry) at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Algarve (UAlg), Portugal. Besides Biochemistry, he teaches Inorganic Biochemistry and topics within Muscle Contraction and Metals in Biology. At UAlg, he served as director and/or vice-director of the Biochemistry degree (1997-2013; 2021-202
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John Moffat
John W. Moffat (born 24 May 1932)[1] is a Danish-born British-Canadian physicist. He is currently Professor Emeritus in physics at the University of Toronto[2] and is also an adjunct Professor in physics at the University of Waterloo and a resident affiliate member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Moffat is best known for his work on gravity and cosmology, culminating in his
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William Allen Zajc
William Allen Zajc /ˈzaɪts/ is a U.S. physicist and the I.I. Rabi Professor of Physics at Columbia University in New York, USA, where he has worked since 1987. Born in Barstow, California on November 14, 1953, and raised in Brookfield, Wisconsin, he received his bachelor's degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1975. He went on to the doctoral program in physics at the Univer
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Alexey Parshin
Aleksei (or Alexei) Nikolaevich Parshin (Russian: Алексей Николаевич Паршин; born 7 November 1942 in Sverdlovsk) is a Russian mathematician, specializing in number theory and algebraic geometry. Parshin graduated in 1964 from the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of Moscow State University and then enrolled as a graduate student at the Steklov Institute of Mathematic
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Heinrich Rubens
Heinrich Rubens (30 March 1865, Wiesbaden, Nassau, Germany – 17 July 1922, Berlin, Germany) was a German physicist. He is known for his measurements of the energy of black-body radiation which led Max Planck to the discovery of his radiation law. This was the genesis of quantum theory. After having attended realgymnasium Wöhlerschule in Frankfurt am Main, he started in 1884 to study electric
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Mirza
Mirza Bichurin is Professor and Head of the Department of Design and Technology of Radioelectronic Equipment, Yaroslav-the Wise Novgorod State University, Russia. He has authored 6 books and more than 160 articles in international refereed journals and holds credit for 20 patents. His most famous works: 1.“Magnetoelectricity in Composites.” Eds. M. I. Bichurin and D. Viehland, Pan Stanf
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John Harris
John W. Harris (born March 14, 1950) is an American experimental high energy nuclear physicist and Professor of Physics at Yale University. He was the founding spokesperson for the STAR collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. After obtaining a Bachelor of Science, with Distinction, from the University of Washington, John Harris started his career at the Stony Brook University (t
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Jon Lindbergh
Jon Morrow Lindbergh (born August 16, 1932)[1] is a former underwater diver from the United States . He has worked as a United States Navy demolition expert and as a commercial diver, and was one of the world's earliest aquanauts in the 1960s. He was also a pioneer in cave diving. He is the oldest surviving child of aviator Charles Lindbergh and writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Jon Lindbergh was
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Theresa Sparks
Theresa Sparks is the Executive Director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission and was a candidate for San Francisco Supervisor for District 6 in the November 2010 election. She is a former president of the San Francisco, California Police Commission and former CEO of Good Vibrations. She is also one of San Francisco's most famous transgender women and was a Grand Marshal in the 2008 San
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Brendan McKay
Brendan Damien McKay (born 26 October 1951 in Melbourne, Australia ) is an Emeritus Professor in the Research School of Computer Science at the Australian National University (ANU). He has published extensively in combinatorics. McKay received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Melbourne in 1980, and was appointed Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University, Nash
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Francisco D'Agostino
Francisco D'Agostino (born February 9, 1946) is an Italian jurist, who specialises in philosophy of law and bioethics. D'Agostino graduated from the University of Rome in 1968 with a degree in jurisprudence[1]. He continued his legal and philosophical studies at the University of Bonn and University of Fribourg[2], before obtaining a doctorate in jurisprudence at the University of Catania[3].
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Cora L. V. Scott
Cora Lodencia Veronica Scott (April 21, 1840 – January 3, 1923) was one of the best-known mediums of the Spiritualism movement of the last half of the 19th century. Most of her work was done as a trance lecturer, though she also wrote some books whose composition was attributed to spirit guides rather than her own personality. Cora Scott was born on April 21, 1840 near Cuba, New York. At he
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Geoffrey G. Eichholz
Geoffrey Gunther Eichholz, (June 29, 1920 – January 8, 2018) an educational leader in health physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Eichholz played a key role in the successful establishment of the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Health Physics. The Department has been a constant source of well-educated and well trained graduates in the field of nuclear engineering, health p
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Alfie Agnew
Alfonso F. "Alfie" Agnew, Ph.D (born January 24, 1969) is an American mathematician, singer, musician and songwriter. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Agnew is best known for being a member of the punk bands the Adolescents and D.I.. Alfie's brothers Rikk Agnew and Frank Agnew are also former Adolescents guitarists. Alfonso F. Agnew was born on January 24, 1969, into a musical family,
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Günter Bechly
Günter Bechly (born October 16 1963 in Sindelfingen) is a German paleontologist and entomologist, who works with fossil insects (especially dragonflies). From 1999 to 2016 he was scientific curator for amber and fossil insects at the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart. [1] Bechly studied from 1987 to 1991 biology at the University of Hohenheim and from 1991 to 1994 zoology, parasit
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William Yeager
William "Bill" Yeager (born June 16, 1940, San Francisco ) is an United States engineer. He is best known for being the inventor of a packet-switched, "Ships in the Night," multiple-protocol router in 1981, during his 20-year tenure at Stanford's Knowledge Systems Laboratory as well as the Stanford University Computer Science department.[1][2] The code was licensed by upstart Cisco Systems in 1
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August Komendant
August Eduard Komendant (October 2, 1906 – September 14, 1992) was an Estonian and United States structural engineer and a pioneer in the field of prestressed concrete, which can be used to build stronger and more graceful structures than normal concrete. He was born in Estonia and educated in engineering in Germany. After World War II he immigrated to the United States, where he wrote several
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Jack Mullin
John Thomas "Jack" Mullin (October 5, 1913 – June 24, 1999) was an American pioneer in the field of magnetic tape sound recording and made significant contributions to many other related fields. From his days at Santa Clara University to his death, he displayed a deep appreciation for classical music and an aptitude for electronics and engineering. When he died in 1999, he was buried with a ro
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David Olive
David Ian Olive CBE FRS FLSW (/ˈɒlɪv/ (listen); 16 April 1937 – 7 November 2012) was a British theoretical physicist. Olive made fundamental contributions to string theory and duality theory, he is particularly known for his work on the GSO projection and Montonen–Olive duality. He was professor of physics at Imperial College, London, from 1984 to 1992.[1] In 1992 he moved to Swansea Uni
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George Keller
George Keller (December 15, 1842 – July 7, 1935), was an American architect and engineer. He enjoyed a diverse and successful career, and was sought for his designs of bridges, houses, monuments, and various commercial and public buildings. Keller's most famous projects, however, are the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch in Hartford, Connecticut, and the James A. Garfield Memorial in Clevelan
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