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Leland John Haworth
Leland John Haworth (July 11, 1904 – March 5, 1979) was an United States of America particle physicist. In his long career he was head of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Science Foundation, and was assistant to the president of Associated Universities, Inc.[1] Haworth was born in Flint, Michigan, although his parents were normally living in New
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Elsayed Elsayed Wagih
Elasayed Elsayed Wagih PhD, DIC, CIDTT (born 21 November 1946) is an Egyptian Professor of Virology and Biotechnology and vice President of the Arab Society for Biotechnology. He was born in Alexandria, Egypt. Wagih is well known for having invented Zymoblot, the fastest available microtechnique to detect gene expression and/or enzyme activity in any biological specimen as well as the ”Mirror
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David Fell
David A. Fell (Born 16 December 1947) is a British-born biochemist. He is Professor of Systems Biology at Oxford Brookes University. He was Assistant Dean, School of Life Sciences from 1988 to 2011. He has published over 190 publications including a textbook on "Understanding the control of metabolism".[1] in 1996. David Fell has held numerous positions in industry, academia and government. The
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Cynthia Clark
Cynthia Zang Facer Clark FRSS (born April 1, 1942)[1] is an American statistician known for her work improving the quality of data in the Federal Statistical System of the United States, and especially in the National Agricultural Statistics Service.[2][3] She has also served as the president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics[4] and the Washington Statistical Society.[5] (As of 2018) she is
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Clive Burlingame Meredith
Clive Burlingame Meredith (February 7, 1892 – April 11, 1932) was an American radio engineer and radio station owner. Meredith served as the founding owner and operator of WSYR-AM, the second oldest radio station in Syracuse, New York.[1] He also assisted the Federal Radio Commission with the developing a means to reduce electromagnetic interference between radio stations.[2] Meredith was b
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Ron Shamir
Ron Shamir (Hebrew: רון שמיר; born 29 November 1953) is an Israeli professor of computer science known for his work in graph theory and in computational biology. He holds the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Chair in Bioinformatics, and is the founder and head of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Bioinformatics at Tel Aviv University. Ron Shamir was born in Jerusalem, Israel in 1953, the eldes
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Charles Arthur Mercier
Charles Arthur Mercier (21 June 1851 – 2 September 1919) M.D., FRCP, FRCS was a British psychiatrist and leading expert on forensic psychiatry and insanity.[1] Mercier was born on 21 June 1851. He studied medicine at the University of London where he graduated. He worked at Buckinghamshire County Asylum in Stone, near Aylesbury. He became the Assistant Medical Officer at Leavesden Hospital
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Frederick W. Lander
Frederick William[1][2] Lander (December 17, 1821 – March 2, 1862) was a transcontinental United States explorer, general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and a prolific poet. Lander was born in Salem, Massachusetts, the son of Edward and Eliza West Lander; his sister was the sculptor Louisa Lander. He was educated at Governor Dummer Academy, Phillips Academy, Andover and No
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Raymond R. Zimmerman
Raymond Rudolph Zimmerman (November 7, 1893 – 1976) was an American engineer, personnel manager, and civil servant. He is known as 6th president of the Society for Advancement of Management in the year 1944-1946,[1] and as Administrative Assistant to President Truman in 1945-1947.[2] Zimmerman was born 1893 in Dighton, Kansas, son of Reverent Otto С. Zimmerman and Katherine (Buehler) Zim
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George Hourani
George Fadlo Hourani (3 June 1913 – 19 September 1984) was a British philosopher, historian, and classicist. He is best known for his work in Islamic philosophy, which focused on classical Islamic rationalism and ethics. George Hourani was born into a prosperous British family of Lebanese Christian extraction in Didsbury, Manchester. He was the fourth of six children, having three older sis
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Nikolaos Papadakis
Dr. Nikolaos Papadakis is an accomplished mechanical engineer with a strong educational background and extensive work experience. He embarked on his academic journey at the 2nd General Lyceum of Heraklion, Crete, from 1989 to 1992, where he cultivated a passion for science and engineering. Driven by his interest in the field, Dr. Papadakis pursued a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering at the Poly
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Jürgen Kurths
Jürgen Kurths (born 11 March 1953 in Arendsee/Altmark) is a German physicist and mathematician. He is a chair of the research department Complexity Sciences of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, a Professor of Nonlinear Dynamics at the Institute of Physics at the Humboldt University, Berlin, and a 6th-century chair for Complex Systems Biology at the Institute for Complex Systems
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Francis Brabazon
Francis Brabazon (24 January 1907 – 24 June 1984) was an Australia n poet and a member of Meher Baba's mandali. Brabazon was born in London, but moved to Australia with his family when he was still a boy. At the age of 21, Francis Brabazon embarked on a quest to discover the relationship between beauty and truth. He studied music and painting and finally found his niche in poetry. In the 1940
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Francis Simon
Sir Francis Simon CBE (2 July 1893 – 31 October 1956), was a German and later British physical chemist and physicist who devised the gaseous diffusion method, and confirmed its feasibility, of separating the isotope Uranium-235 and thus made a major contribution to the creation of the atomic bomb. He was born Franz Eugen Simon to a Jewish family in Berlin. He was the son of Ernst Simon and
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Donald Keck
Donald B. Keck (born January 2, 1941) is an American research physicist and engineer most noted for his involvement in developing low-loss optical fiber. Keck grew up in Lansing, Michigan and attended Michigan State University, after which he joined Corning Incorporated’s research department. As a senior research scientist for Corning, Keck, along with Robert D. Maurer and Peter C. Schultz, de
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Robert K. Logan
Robert K. Logan (born August 31, 1939), originally trained as a physicist, is a media ecologist. He received from MIT a BS in 1961 and a PhD in 1965 under the supervision of Francis E. Low. After two post-doctoral appointments as a Research Associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1965-7) and the University of Toronto (1967-8), he became a physics professor in 1968 at Toro
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John E. Otterson
John Edward Otterson (March 29, 1881 – August 10, 1964)[1] was an American engineer and business executive at Winchester Repeating Arms Company in the 1920s,[2] Western Electric Company in the 1920-30s, and at Paramount Productions, Inc. in 1935-36. He is also known as 3rd president of the Taylor Society in the year 1918-19.[3] Otterson was born in 1881 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, son of
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Alexander O. Shpakov
Alexander O. Shpakov is a Professor of Biochemistry at the I.M. Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry (IEPB), Russian Academy of Sciences, in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. He was born in 1963 at Leningrad in Russia. He received his Master of Science degree in Bioorganic Chemistry in 1987 from the Leningrad State University, Russia, and his PhD degree in Biochemistry in 1996
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George Irving Bell
George Irving Bell (August 4, 1926 – May 28, 2000) was an American physicist,[1] biologist and mountaineer, and a grandson of John Joseph Seerley.[2] He died from complications of leukemia after surgery.[3] Bell received a bachelor's degree in physics from Harvard University in 1947. He studied theoretical physics with Hans Bethe at Cornell University, obtaining his doctorate in 1951.[4]
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Heinrich Bürger
Heinrich Bürger (or: Heinrich Burger) (Hamelin, 29 February 1804, or 7 November 1804, or 20 January 1806 – Indramayu (Java) 25 March 1858) was a Germany physicist, biologist and botanist employed by the Dutch government, and an entrepreneur. He was important for the study of Japanese fauna and flora. Bürger's exact birth date is unknown. Bürger himself gave 29 February 1804. Most archiva
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