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Joe Wiseman Howland
Joe Wiseman Howland, M.D., Ph.D. (21 December 1908 – 12 October 1978) a pioneer researcher in radiation toxicity, health and safety. Howland served as a Major in the U.S. Army as Chief, Research Branch, Medical Division on the Manhattan Project. He worked in the Medical Division of the Atomic Energy Project at the University of Rochester. Dr. Howland was a consultant on radiation exposure, occ
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Epaminondas Stassinopoulos
Epaminondas George Aristotle Alexander Stassinopoulos (born 17 January 1921) is the retired head of the Radiation Physics Office and current Emeritus Astrophysicist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. He is the author of numerous papers and articles in the field of space radiation. The younger son of Helene Costi vo
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Elizabeth Lack
Elizabeth Lack (1916–2015) was a British ornithologist and researcher, best known for her contributions to the massive reference book, A Dictionary of Birds. Born Elizabeth Silva in June 1916 in Hertfordshire, England, her father was starch manufacturer, Jack Silva of Kent. She grew passionate about birds and nature while she was still a young girl. She also had parallel interests in violin
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Giovanni N. Roviello
Dr. Giovanni Roviello graduated with honors in chemistry from Federico II University (2002, Naples, Italy) and received his PhD in Biotechnology from the same university in 2006. He works as a senior researcher at the Institute of Biostructure and Bioimaging (IBB) of the Italian National Council for Research (CNR) in Naples, Italy. He was a visiting researcher in Germany (Institute of Molecular Bi
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Ulf Leonhardt
Ulf Leonhardt, FRSE (born 9 October 1965 in Schlema, Germany) is a German and British scientist. In 2006, he published the first scientific paper on invisibility cloaking with metamaterials at the same time Pendry's group published their paper in the journal Science. He has been involved with the science of cloaking objects since then.[1][2][3][4] He is a Wolfson Research Merit Award holder fro
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Lillian Hoddeson
Lillian Hartman Hoddeson (born 20 December 1940, in New York City)[1] is an American historian of science, specializing in the history of physics and technology during the 2nd half of the 20th century. Hoddeson received in 1957 a high school diploma from the Bronx High School of Science, in 1961 a bachelor's degree in physics from Barnard College, and in 1966 a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia
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Edward J. Wasp
Edward J. Wasp, also known as E. J. Wasp, is an engineer and inventor known for developing long distance slurry pipelines for the transportation of coal and other solid materials. Wasp, born in New York City, earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Cooper Union, a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh, and an MBA from Golden Gate University. He began ex
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Christian Thomasius
Christian Thomasius (1 January 1655 – 23 September 1728) was a Germany jurist and philosopher. He was born in Leipzig and was educated by his father, Jakob Thomasius (1622–1684), at that time a junior lecturer in Leipzig University (later dean and rector, as well as head master of Thomasschule zu Leipzig). Through his father's lectures, Christian came under the influence of the political
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Najaf Lakzaee
Najaf Lakzaee (born 1969) is a researcher of religious and political sciences. He holds a PhD in political studies from Imam Sadiq University. He has passed Islamic seminary education up to the level of ijtihad. He is the lecturer in department of political sciences of Baqir al-'Ulum University, was previous cultural deputy of the Ahl al-Bayt (a) World Assembly and is now the director of Islamic
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Mark Martin
Mark Russell Martin (born February 18, 1968) is the Republican Secretary of State of Arkansas, a statewide position which he assumed in January 2011. He is a former three-term member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for District 87 in Washington County in Northwest Arkansas. A native of Kansas City, Kansas , Martin was reared in the Mississippi River delta country of eastern Arkansas.
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Terry Speed
Terence Paul "Terry" Speed (born 14 March 1943),[1] FAA FRS[2] is an Australia n statistician. A senior principal research scientist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research,[3][4][5] he is known for his contributions to the analysis of variance and bioinformatics, and in particular to the analysis of microarray data. Speed obtained a Ph.D. from Monash University in 1968 wit
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Heino Falcke
Heino Falcke (born 1966) is a German professor of radio astronomy and astroparticle physics at the Radboud University Nijmegen. He was a winner of the 2011 Spinoza Prize.[1] His main field of study is black holes. In 2013 a team under his lead earned a 14 million euro research grant of the European Research Council for further studies into black holes. Falcke was born in Cologne, Germany, in
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Barry Kerzin
Barry Michael Kerzin, M.D., (born November 1, 1947) is an American physician and Buddhist monk. He has lived in Dharamshala since 1988, and serves as a personal physician to the 14th Dalai Lama, along with treating people in the local community, free of charge. Following his ordination as a monk by HH Dalai Lama in the mid-2000s, he has travelled widely, teaching and offering workshops in which
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Jeff Gill
Jefferson Morris Gill (born December 22, 1960) is Distinguished Professor of Government, and of Mathematics & Statistics, the Director of the Center for Data Science, the Editor of Political Analysis, and a member of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience at American University as of the Fall of 2017. He was a Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis and the Director
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Yuri Nikolaevich Denisyuk
Yuri Nikolaevich Denisyuk (July 27, 1927 in Sochi — May 14, 2006 in Saint Petersburg) was a Soviet physicist, one of the founders of optical holography. He is known for his great contribution to holography, in particular for the so-called "Denisyuk hologram". He is a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1992; corresponding member since 1970), doctor of physical and mathematical scie
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Natalia Kryvda
Natalia Kryvda (Ukrainian: Наталія Юріївна Кривда; 25 July 1966, Kyiv) is a Ukrainian philosopher and public intellectual, Ph.D., professor at the department of Ukrainian philosophy and culture at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.[1] She is also an academic director of MBA programs at Edinburgh Business School at House of Knowledge.[2] Her sizeable body of work in
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Gary McPherson
Gary Edward McPherson (born April 1, 1954) is an Australian music educator, academic and musician, who has researched various topics within the areas of musical development, music performance science and music psychology. He has served as the Ormond Chair of Music at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (MCM) since 2009 and between July 2009 and July 2019, served as director of the MCM at th
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David E. Muller
David Eugene Muller (November 2, 1924 – April 27, 2008) was an American mathematician and computer scientist. He was a professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Illinois (1953–92), when he became an emeritus professor, and was an adjunct professor of mathematics at the New Mexico State University (1995-2008). Muller received his BS in 1947 and his PhD in 1951 in phys
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Keith Holyoak
Keith James Holyoak (born January 16, 1950) is a Canadian-American researcher in cognitive psychology and cognitive science, working on human thinking and reasoning. Holyoak's work focuses on the role of analogy in thinking.[1] His work showed how analogy can be used to enhance learning of new abstract concepts by both children and adults,[2] as well as how reasoning breaks down in cases of brai
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Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg
Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg (16 March 1445 – 10 March 1510) was a priest, considered one of the greatest of the popular preachers of the 15th century. He was closely connected with the humanists of Strasbourg, whose leader was the well-known Jacob of Wimpheling (1450–1528), called "the educator of Germany".[1] Like Wimpheling, Geiler was a secular priest; both fought the ecclesiastical
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