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Harold Horton Sheldon
Harold Horton Sheldon (April 13, 1893 – December 23, 1964) was a Canadian-American physicist, scientist, inventor, teacher, editor and author. He was a science editor who wrote on futuristic subjects, especially pertaining to human space travel.[1][2] Sheldon was born on April 13, 1893 and raised in Brockville, Ontario.[3] His parents were Harvey Sheldon and Mary Christian (Laqeau) Sheldo
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Dr. Piyush K. Patel
Dr. Piyush K. Patel is currently working at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal, India as Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics. He has done Ph.D. from I.I.T. Roorkee, India. In his academic carrier till date, he has published more than 40 research papers, book chapters and conference proceedings in reputed international journals. He is conqueror of Materials Today Co
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Ram Samudrala
Ram Samudrala is a professor of computational biology and bioinformatics at the University at Buffalo, and formerly at the University of Washington in Seattle, United States.[1] He researches protein and proteome folding, structure, function, interaction, design, and evolution spanning atomic to organismal levels of description.[2] He has published more than 120 manuscripts[3] in a variety of jo
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Leonard Greene
Leonard Michael Greene (June 8, 1918 – November 30, 2006) was an American inventor and aerodynamics engineer who held more than 200 patents, many of which are aviation-related. He is most well known for his contributions to aviation technology, including his invention, the Aircraft Stall Warning device, which warns pilots when a deadly aerodynamic stall is imminent. To build the device, Greene
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Johnny Key
Johnny R. Key (born December 9, 1968), is an engineer and the owner of two outlets of the Open Arms Learning Center, Inc., in Mountain Home in Baxter County in northwestern Arkansas, who is a Republican former member of the Arkansas State Senate. Key represented District 17, which includes all of Baxter and Marion counties and the eastern half of Boone County. Key was term-limited and ineligible
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Gennadi Strekalov
Gennadi Mikhailovich Strekalov (Russian: Генна́дий Миха́йлович Стрека́лов), 26 October 1940 – 25 December 2004,[1] was an engineer, cosmonaut, and administrator at Russian aerospace firm RSC Energia. He flew into space five times and lived aboard the Salyut 6, Salyut 7, and Mir space stations, spending over 268 days in space. The catastrophic explosion of a Soyuz
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Armando J. Parodi
Armando J. Parodi (born March 16, 1942) is an Argentinean glycobiologist. He did his initial education at the School of Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. His PhD work was done under Luis Federico Leloir, a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work involving the finding of sugar nucleotides and how they play a role in the making of oligosaccharides and polysaccharides. He a
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Louis Bernacchi
Louis Charles Bernacchi CMG OBE (8 November 1876 – 24 April 1942) was an Australian physicist and astronomer best known for his role in several Antarctic expeditions. Bernacchi was born in Belgium on 8 November 1876 to Italian parents.[1] His father, Diego Bernacchi, established a vineyard on Maria Island in 1884. He was educated in Hobart, Tasmania, at the Hutchins School.[2] He entered t
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Olga Muter
Our studies on soil bioremediation, wastewater treatment and air biofiltration embrace a broad range of methodical approaches and target microorganisms. Application of biostimulation and bioaugmentation tools provide a great variety of biodegradation scenarios under contrast/seasonal/globally changing environmental conditions. Soil bioremediation: our studies showed a stimulating effect of the c
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Amelia Valcarcel
Amelia Valcarcel (November 16, 1950) is a Spanish philosopher and feminist. She is considered within the “philosophic feminism” as part of the “equality feminism” approach. In 2015 she is a Professor in Moral and Political Philosophy at the National University of Distance Education and since 2006 is member of the Spanish Council of State. Valcárcel was born in Madrid. She studied Phi
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Chester Floyd Carlson
Chester Floyd Carlson (February 8, 1906 – September 19, 1968) was an American physicist, inventor, and patent attorney born in Seattle, Washington. He is best known for having invented the process of electrophotography, which produced a dry copy rather than a wet copy, as was produced by the mimeograph process. Carlson's process was subsequently renamed xerography, a term that literally means
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Svetozar Stojanović
Svetozar "Sveta" Stojanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Светозар Стојановић) (18 October 1931 – 7 May 2010) was a Serbian philosopher and political theorist. Stojanović was an intellectual in the European tradition, an academic who contributed to philosophical theory and engaged in practical politics. He bridged the divide between the more grand and speculative Continental philos
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Oleg B. Ptitsyn
Oleg Borisovich Ptitsyn was born in Leningrad, USSR, on July 18, 1929. His mother, Iva Ruvimovna Protas (1904–1976), and father, Boris Vladimirovich Ptitsyn (1903–1965), were chemists. In 1941, after the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, 12-year-old Oleg and his mother, then a scientist for the State Optics Institute, were evacuated to the east, across the Volga River, to the town of Yos
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Tadeusz Sendzimir
Tadeusz Sendzimir (originally Sędzimir,[1] July 15, 1894, Lwów – September 1, 1989, Jupiter, Florida[2]) of Ostoja coat of arms was a Poland engineer and inventor of international renown with 120 patents in mining and metallurgy, 73 of which were awarded to him in the United States.[3] His name has been given to revolutionary methods of processing steel and metals used in every industrializ
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  • 09 Dec 2022
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Benedict Friedlaender
Benedict Friedlaender (8 July 1866 – 21 June 1908; first name occasionally spelled Benedikt) was a Germany Jewish sexologist, sociologist, economist, volcanologist, and physicist. Friedlaender was born in Berlin as the son of Carl Friedlaender (1817–1876), a professor of economics. His grandfather was Nathan Friedlaender (died 1830), a Berlin physician and university lecturer. Among his sib
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Mahmoud A. Hussein
M.A. Hussein is a professor of Polymer Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry Lab, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University (AU), Egypt. He obtained his PhD in Organic Polymer Synthesis from Assiut University, Egypt in 2007. He got a position at Chemistry Department, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from 2010 – till now. He got a postdoctoral position in the Unive
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Charles H. Holbrow
Charles H. Holbrow (born September 23, 1935) is an American physicist. Charles Howard Holbrow was born in Melrose, Massachusetts to parents Frederick Holbrow and Florence Louisa (Gile) Holbrow.[1] His earliest memory of interest in physics dates from about age 13, when he saved the money he earned delivering newspapers to buy a book by Robert Andrews Millikan, Electrons (+And -) Protons Photo
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Macquorn Rankine
William John Macquorn Rankine FRSE FRS (/ˈræŋkɪn/; 5 July 1820 – 24 December 1872) was a Scottish mechanical engineer who also contributed to civil engineering, physics and mathematics. He was a founding contributor, with Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), to the science of thermodynamics, particularly focusing on the first of the three thermodynamic laws. He developed the
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Denis Le Bihan
Denis Le Bihan (born July 30, 1957) is a medical doctor, physicist, member of the Institut de France (French Academy of sciences),[1] member of the French Academy of Technologies and director since 2007 of NeuroSpin, an institution of the Atomic Energy and Alternative Energy Commission (CEA) in Saclay, dedicated to the study of the brain by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with a very high magne
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Jesus Vicente de Julián-Ortiz
Bachelor of Chemical Sciences in the specialty of Biochemistry. He did the doctorate program in Organic Synthesis and Fine Chemistry. Doctor of Pharmacy. His initial research focused on the design, synthesis and microbiological tests of new potential drugs against Herpes simplex virus type 1, as well as the design of new potential antimycobacterial agents, including the corresponding activity
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