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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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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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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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  • 10 Nov 2022
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Annie Beatrice Van Der Biest Thielan Wetmore
Annie Beatrice van der Biest Thielen Wetmore (11 January 1910 – 1 March 1997), widely known as Bea Wetmore, was an American ornithologist and benefactor.[1] She was born Annie Beatrice van der Biest Thielen in 1910 on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, which is a territory of the Netherlands. Bea was a translator conversant in several languages including Dutch, English, Spanish, and Papiame
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  • 09 Dec 2022
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Manfred Milinski
Studied biology and mathematics at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, and the Ruhr-University Bochum. PhD (Dr. rer nat.) in Biology 1978. Habilitation ( venia legend) in 1985 from Ruhr-University Bochum. Guest Professor at the Department of Ecology, University of Bergen, Norway. Heisenberg Professor at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. From 1987 to 1999 Full Professor and Direc
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Edith Balfour Lyttelton
Dame Edith Sophy Lyttelton GBE JP (née Balfour; 4 April 1865 – 2 September 1948) was a British novelist, playwright, World War I-era activist and spiritualist.[1] Dame Edith was born in Saint Petersburg, the eldest daughter of Archibald Balfour, a London businessman and merchant in the Russian Empire, and Sophia "Sophy" Weguelin, daughter of MP Thomas Matthias Weguelin. Edith was educated
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  • 21 Nov 2022
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Moshé Feldenkrais
Moshé Pinchas Feldenkrais (Hebrew: משה פנחס פלדנקרייז‎, May 6, 1904 – July 1, 1984) was a Ukraine -Israeli engineer and physicist, known as the founder of the Feldenkrais Method, a system of physical exercise that aims to improve human functioning by increasing self-awareness through movement. Feldenkrais' theory is that "thought, feeling, perception and movement are closel
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  • 22 Nov 2022
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Thomas Poulter
Thomas Charles Poulter (March 3, 1897 – June 4, 1978) was a scientist and antarctic explorer who worked at the Armour Institute of Technology and SRI International, where he was an associate director.[1] He was born on March 3, 1897 to Micajah Poulter in Salem, Iowa. While he was a physics professor at Iowa Wesleyan College he recognized James Van Allen as a student and put him to work,
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Harry V. Gates
Harry Verner Gates (July 30, 1847 – October 13, 1935) was an United States engineer and politician in the state of Oregon. A native of Massachusetts , he later lived in Iowa worked on the railroads before settling in Hillsboro, Oregon, where he shifted to water projects. A member of the Republican Party, he served a single term in the Oregon House of Representatives. His former home in Hillsbo
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David Tudor Jones
David Tudor Jones (born 1966)[1] is a Professor of Bioinformatics, and Head of Bioinformatics Group in the University College London.[2] He is also the director in Bloomsbury Center for Bioinformatics, which is a joint Research Centre between UCL and Birkbeck, University of London and which also provides bioinformatics training and support services to biomedical researchers. In 2013, he is a mem
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Fred Adams
Fred C. Adams (born 1961) is an American astrophysicist who has made contributions to the study of physical cosmology. Fred Adams is professor of physics at the University of Michigan, where his main field of research is astrophysics theory focusing on star formation, background radiation fields, and the early universe. He was educated at Iowa State University, where he earned his B.S. in 19
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D. Allan Bromley
David Allan Bromley (May 4, 1926 – February 10, 2005) was a Canadian-American physicist, academic administrator and Science Advisor to American president George H. W. Bush.[1] His field of research was the study of low-energy nuclear reactions and structure using heavy ion beams. Born in Westmeath, Ontario, Canada, he received a Bachelor of Science in 1949 and a Master of Science in 1950 fr
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Coleman Sellers II
Coleman Sellers II (January 28, 1827 – December 28, 1907) was a prominent American engineer, chief engineer of William Sellers & Co., professor of mechanics at the Franklin Institute, professor of engineering practice at Stevens Institute of Technology and inventor. He obtained more than thirty letters-patent for inventions of his own, and served as president of the American Society of Mechani
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Paul H. Carr
Paul Henry Carr (born May 12, 1935)[1] is a physicist and researcher. His ten patents have contributed to compact, low-cost filters and signal processing devices for radar, TV, and cell phones. Born in Boston, raised in Cabot and Richford, VT, Carr graduated from Boston Latin School in 1953, earned a B.S. degree in physics in 1957, and a M.S. degree in physics in 1961, both from Massachusetts
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  • 13 Dec 2022
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Friedrich Bopp
Friedrich Arnold "Fritz" Bopp (27 December 1909 – 14 November 1987) was a Germany theoretical physicist who contributed to nuclear physics and quantum field theory. He worked at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für Physik and with the Uranverein. He was a professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and a President of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. He signed the Göttingen Man
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  • 27 Dec 2022
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Arkady Adamovich Brish
Arkady Adamovich Brish (May 14, 1917 – March 19, 2016) was a Soviet and Russian scientist, a designer of nuclear weapons, doctor of technical sciences, professor, Hero of Socialist Labour, Laureate of the Lenin Prize, the USSR State Prize and the RF Government Prize. Brish was born on May 14, 1917 in Minsk to a teacher's family in Belarus. In 1931–1933 he was an apprentice electrician in
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  • 01 Dec 2022
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Rolf Heinrich Sabersky
Rolf Heinrich Sabersky (October 20, 1920 – October 24, 2016) was professor emeritus in mechanical engineering at Caltech. He worked with luminaries throughout his career including Apollo M. O. Smith and Theodore von Kármán at Aerojet. James Van Allan sought his expertise for the development of the Ajax and Bumblebee rocket programs. Rolf Heinrich Sabersky was born in Berlin, Germany. His
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William Houlder Zachariasen
(Fredrik) William Houlder "Willie" Zachariasen (5 February 1906 – 24 December 1979) was a Norwegian-American physicist, specializing in X-ray crystallography and famous for his work on the structure of glass.[1] Fredrik William Houlder Zachariasen was born in Langesund at Bamble in Telemark, Norway. He entered the University of Oslo in 1923, where he studied in the Mineralogical Institute.
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Henry More
Henry More FRS (/ˈmɔːr/; 12 October 1614 – 1 September 1687) was an English philosopher of the Cambridge Platonist school. Henry was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire on 12 October 1614.[1] He was the seventh son of Alexander More, mayor of Grantham, and Anne More (née Lacy).[1] Both his parents were Calvinists but he himself "could never swallow that hard doctrine."[2] He was schooled at
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