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Ignace Robert Dautray
Ignace Robert Dautray, born Kouchelevitz on February 1, 1928 in the 10th arrondissement of Paris,[1] is a French engineer, former scientific director of the French Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA) and former High Commissioner for Atomic Energy. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences, section mechanical and computer sciences,[2] and of the French Academy of Technology.[3] Bor
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Erich Kretschmann
Erich Justus Kretschmann (14 July 1887 – 1973) was a Germany physicist.[1] Kretschmann was born in Berlin. He obtained his PhD at Berlin University in 1914 with his dissertation entitled "Eine Theorie der Schwerkraft im Rahmen der ursprünglichen Einsteinschen Relativitätstheorie"[2] (A theory of gravity in the framework of the original Einstein theory of relativity). His advisors were Max
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Georg Stetter
Georg Carl Stetter (23 December 1895 – 14 July 1988) was an Austrian-Germany nuclear physicist. Stetter was Director of the Second Physics Institute of the University of Vienna. He was a principal member of the German nuclear energy project, also known as the Uranium Club. In the latter years of World War II, he was also the Director of the Institute for Neutron Research. After the war, he wa
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Barney Roos
Delmar Gerle "Barney" Roos (11 October 1888 – 13 February 1960) was an United States automotive engineer who served as Studebaker's head of engineering from 1926[1] to 1936,[2] specialising in straight-eight engines. He later worked for the British Rootes Group in the design of Humber, Hillman and Sunbeam Talbot cars. Before World War II, he returned to the United States, where he co-designed
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Sir Richard Rustom Kharsedji Sorabji
Sir Richard Rustom Kharsedji Sorabji, CBE, FBA (born 8 November 1934) is a British historian of ancient Western philosophy, and Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at King's College London. He has written his 'Intellectual Autobiography' in his Festschrift: R. Salles ed., Metaphysics, Soul and Ethics in Ancient Thought (Oxford, 2005), 1–36. He is the nephew of Cornelia Sorabji, the first woman to
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Wilmot N. Hess
Wilmot N. Hess (October 16, 1926 – April 16, 2004) was an American physicist who was involved with many ambitious scientific projects of the 20th century, including: the Plowshares project, the NASA Apollo moon missions, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) hurricane research and oil spill cleanup research, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) weather modif
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Andrew Knight
Whilst a Western Australian veterinary student in 2000, Andrew Knight caused controversy by refusing to kill animals during his surgical and preclinical training. Instead, he helped establish a humane surgical training program, based partly on neutering homeless animals from animal shelters. Andrew then worked in small animal veterinary practice. He is now Professor of Animal Welfare and Ethics
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William R. Blair
William Richards Blair (November 7, 1874 – September 2, 1962) was an American scientist and U.S. Army officer, who worked on the development of the radar in United States starting during the 1930s. He led the U.S. Army's Signal Corps Laboratories during its formative years and is often called the "Father of American Radar".[1] Blair was born in Ireland in County Londonderry on November 7, 1
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Watt W. Webb
Watt W. Webb is known for his co-invention (with Winfried Denk and Jim Strickler) of Multiphoton microscopy in 1990. Professor Watt W. Webb’s undergraduate studies at MIT in Business and Engineering Administration for his SB degree in 1947 led him to engineering research and development at Union Carbide Corporation Research Laboratories until 1952, then back to MIT for his ScD in Metallurgy
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Harold A. Zahl
Harold Adelbert Zahl (August 24, 1904 – March 11, 1973) was an American physicist who had a 35-year career with the U.S. Army Signal Corps Laboratories, making major contributions to radar development. Harold Zahl was born in Chatsworth, Illinois, the son of an Evangelical minister. While still in high school, he became an amateur radio operator (call letters 6BHI). He graduated in physics
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Zinaida Ershova
Zinaida Vasil'evna Ershova (also Yershova) (Russian: Ершова Зинаида Васильевна) (23 October 1904 — 25 April 1995) was a Russian chemist, physicist and engineer. She spent her entire career working with radioactive elements and headed laboratories producing radioactive materials used mostly in the Soviet atomic bomb project and the Soviet space programme. She was born
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Henri Abraham
Henri Abraham (1868–1943) was a France physicist who made important contributions to the science of radio waves. He performed some of the first measurements of the propagation velocity of radio waves, helped develop France's first triode vacuum tube, and with Eugene Bloch invented the astable multivibrator.[1] Henri Abraham was born July 12, 1868 in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. After br
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Richard M. Osgood Jr.
Richard Magee Osgood Junior (born December 28, 1943 in Kansas City).[1] is an American applied and pure physicist (condensed matter and chemical physics of surfaces, laser technology, nano-optics). He is currently Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering[2] and Applied Physics[3] at Columbia University. Osgood began his scientific career in 1966, after graduating from the U.S. Military Aca
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Georg Joos
Georg Jakob Christof Joos (25 May 1894 in Bad Urach, German Empire – 20 May 1959 in Munich, West Germany) was a German experimental physicist. He wrote Lehrbuch der theoretischen Physik, first published in 1932 and one of the most influential theoretical physics textbooks of the 20th Century. Joos began his higher education in 1912 at the Technische Hochschule Stuttgart. He then went to stu
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Martin Pope
Martin Pope (born August 22, 1918) is a physical chemist and professor emeritus at New York University. His discoveries of ohmic contacts and research in the fields of organic insulators and semiconductors led to techniques enabling organic semiconductors to carry relatively large currents, and to convert electricity into light and vice versa. These discoveries have had application in electroph
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Hans Sluga
Hans D. Sluga (German: [ˈsluːga]; born April 24, 1937) is a Germany academic. Since 1970, Sluga has been a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.[1] He previously served as a lecturer in philosophy at University College London. He teaches and writes on topics in analytic philosophy as well as on political philosophy and has been particularly influenced by the though
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Kenneth Hess
Kenneth Lafferty Hess (born January 22, 1953) is an engineer, author, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Hess is founder and president of Science Buddies, a non-profit organization dedicated to furthering science literacy through the creation of free resources and services for K-12 students, teachers, and families. He holds one of the first software patents ever granted[1] and has designed and/or
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Tom Cotter
Tom Cotter (born 1972) is an American conservationist, entrepreneur, renewable energy advocate, and ordained evangelical minister living in Clovis, California . Tom Cotter grew up in Napa Valley, California , United States . A significant influence was the Boy Scouts of America. In 1988, Cotter was awarded the title of Eagle Scout. In 1997, he was ordained clergy at First Christian Churc
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Jean Gagnepain
Jean Gagnepain (November 16, 1923 – January 3, 2006) was a French linguist and anthropologist. Jean Gagnepain was born on November 16, 1923, in Sully-sur-Loire (Loiret, France ). After obtaining an Agrégation in grammar, he carried on his study of language under the direction of Joseph Vendryes. He went to Dublin for about ten years to study celtic languages and concluded his stay in Irel
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Michael Voskoglou
Michael Gr. Voskoglou received his B.Sc. in Mathematics (1972, Excellent) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, his M.Sc. in Pure Mathematics (1978) and M.Phil.  in Algebra (1980) from the University of Leeds, UK and his Ph.D. (1982, Excellent) from the University of Patras, Greece. His Ph.D. thesis entitled “A Contribution to the Study of Rings” was a research study on
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