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Daniel D. Badger
Daniel D. Badger (15 October 1806–1884[1]) was an American founder, working in New York City under the name Architectural Iron Works. With James Bogardus, he was one of the major forces in creating a cast-iron architecture in the United States.[2] Christopher Gray of the New York Times remarks: "Most cast-iron buildings present problems of authorship – it is hard to tell if it was the found
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William V. Houston
William Vermillion Houston (January 19, 1900 – August 22, 1968) was an United States physicist who made contributions to spectroscopy, quantum mechanics, and solid-state physics as well as being a teacher and administrator. He became the second president of Rice University in 1946. His family name is pronounced HOW-stun, in contrast to the pronunciation of the city of Houston in which he live
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Adrian William Moore
Adrian William Moore (born 1956) is a British philosopher and broadcaster. He is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and tutorial fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford. His main areas of interest are Kant, Wittgenstein, history of philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of logic and language, ethics and philosophy of religion. A. W. Moore was educated at T
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  • 12 Dec 2022
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Robley D. Evans
Robley Dunglison Evans (May 18, 1907, University Place, Nebraska – December 31, 1995, Paradise Valley, Arizona) was an American nuclear physicist and pioneer of nuclear medicine. He was the president of the Health Physics Society in 1972–1973.[1] His father Manley Jefferson Evans (1878–1970) and mother Alice Jennie Turner (1882–1965) married in August 1905 in O'Neill, Nebraska. Manley
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  • 14 Dec 2022
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Peter Freund
Peter George Oliver Freund (7 September 1936, Timișoara – 6 March 2018, Chicago ) was a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Chicago.[1] He made important contributions to particle physics and string theory. He was also active as a writer. Peter George Oliver Freund was born, raised and educated in the Romanian city of Timișoara. Because of his participation in an anti-So
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Shin-Tson Wu
Shin-Tson Wu, (Chinese:吳詩聰) is an American physicist and inventor. He is currently a Pegasus professor at CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida. Wu's contributions to liquid-crystal research and the resulting patent portfolio for next-generation liquid crystal displays (LCDs), adaptive optics, laser-beam steering, biophotonics, and new photonic materials
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  • 28 Nov 2022
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Paul F. McManamon
Paul F. McManamon (born July 1, 1946) is an American scientist who is best known for his work in optics and photonics, as well as sensors, countermeasures, and directed energy. McManamon was born in East Cleveland, Ohio. He attended St Ignatius high school, where he has been recognized as a distinguished graduate.[1] He received his BS in physics from John Carroll University. He received his
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  • 08 Dec 2022
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Tullio Regge
Tullio Eugenio Regge (July 11, 1931 – October 23, 2014) was an Italian theoretical physicist.[1] Regge obtained the laurea in physics from the University of Turin in 1952 under the direction of Mario Verde and Gleb Wataghin, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Rochester in 1957 under the direction of Robert Marshak. From 1958 to 1959 Regge held a post at the Max Planck Institute f
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  • 18 Nov 2022
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Kip Siegel
Keeve M. (Kip) Siegel (1923-1975) was a United States of America physicist. He was a professor of Physics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, and the founder of Conductron Corporation, a high tech producer of electronic equipment which was absorbed by McDonnell Douglas Corporation; KMS Industries and KMS Fusion. KMS Fusion was the first and only private sector company to pursue contr
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  • 09 Dec 2022
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Edward Frederick Robert Bage
Edward Frederick Robert Bage (17 April 1888 – 7 May 1915) was an Australian polar explorer with Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition in 1912, and a soldier with the Royal Australian Engineers during World War I. Bob Bage was the only son of Edward Bage,[1] a wholesale chemist from St Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne. He had two sisters, Freda Bage, who would become a lecturer in b
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  • 16 Dec 2022
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David Ceperley
David Ceperley (1949-) is a theoretical physicist in the physics department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign or UIUC. He is a world expert in the area of Quantum Monte Carlo computations, a method of calculation that is generally recognized to provide accurate quantitative results for many-body problems described by quantum mechanics. Ceperley was born in Charleston, West Virgin
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  • 13 Dec 2022
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Nick Katz
Nicholas Michael Katz (born December 7, 1943) is an United States mathematician, working in the fields of algebraic geometry, particularly on p-adic methods, monodromy and moduli problems, and number theory. He is currently a professor in the Mathematics Department at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey and an editor of the journal Annals of Mathematics.[1] Katz graduated from Johns
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  • 11 Nov 2022
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J. Richard Gott
John Richard Gott III (born February 8, 1947) is a professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University. He is known for his work on time travel and the Doomsday argument. Paul Davies's bestseller How to Build a Time Machine credits Gott with the proposal of using cosmic strings to create a time machine. Gott's machine depends upon the antigravitational tension of the (hypothetical) st
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  • 23 Nov 2022
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George Nelson
George Driver "Pinky" Nelson (born (1950-07-13)July 13, 1950) is an American physicist, astronomer, science educator, and a former NASA astronaut. Nelson was born on July 13, 1950, in Charles City, Iowa, but considers Willmar, Minnesota, to be his hometown. He graduated from Willmar Senior High School, Willmar, Minnesota, in 1968. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Harve
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  • 30 Nov 2022
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Herbert Mataré
Herbert Franz Mataré (22 September 1912 – 2 September 2011[1]) was a Germany physicist. The focus of his research was the field of semiconductor research. His best-known work is the first functional "European" transistor, which he developed and patented together with Heinrich Welker in the vicinity of Paris in 1948, at the same time and independently from the Bell Labs engineers. The final 20
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  • 12 Dec 2022
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David W.C. MacMillan
David W.C. MacMillan is a Scottish-born American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in the field of asymmetric organocatalysis. Born in Bellshill, Scotland, in 1968, MacMillan earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Glasgow and completed his Ph.D. under Professor Larry Overman at the University of California, Irvine.[1] He began his independent academic career at the Univers
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  • 07 Apr 2025
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Ward Plummer
E. Ward Plummer is an American physicist. His main contributions are in surface physics of metals. Plummer is a Professor of Physics at Louisiana State University. Plummer received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Lewis and Clark College in 1962 and completed his Ph.D. degree in physics at Cornell University in 1967, working with Prof. Thor Rhodin. His thesis work was on atomic binding of 5-d t
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Solomon Isaakovich Pekar
Solomon Isaakovich Pekar (March 16, 1917 – July 8, 1985), a Soviet theoretical physicist, born in Kiev, Ukraine . He was a full Member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and is known for his fundamental contributions to condensed matter physics, especially for introducing and advancing the concept of polaron as a charge carrier in solids. In 1941 Pekar submitted his Candidate of Science t
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Paul O. Müller
Paul O. Müller (born April 18, 1915 in Graz; d. March 9, 1942 at Pechenkino near Sukhinichi) was an Austrian theoretical nuclear physicist who worked in the German Uranverein. He was drafted into the German armed forces and died on the Russian Front in World War II.[1] Müller undertook graduate studies at the University of Graz. He received his doctorate in Graz on February 25, 1939, under
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  • 15 Dec 2022
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Ioannis Passas
Dr. Ioannis Passas is a multifaceted professional with a dynamic academic and research background. Currently, he holds a notable position as an Adjunct Professor at the Hellenic Mediterranean University’s Department of Business Administration & Tourism. In this role, he imparts accounting knowledge to both undergraduate and postgraduate students. Further expanding his academic contributions, h
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