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David Rutledge
Dr. David B. Rutledge (born 1952) is the Kiyo and Eiko Tomiyasu Professor (em.) of Engineering and former Chair of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).[1] His earlier work on microwave circuits has been important for various advances in wireless communications and has been useful for applications such as radar, remote sensing, and s
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John B. West
Professor John B. West FRCP (born 1928) is a noted respiratory physiologist who made major research contributions in the area of ventilation-perfusion relationships in the lung. West was born in Adelaide, Australia in 1928. He graduated in medicine (M.B.B.S., 1952) from the University of Adelaide, Australia. Subsequently he was awarded M.D. (1959) and D.Sc. (1980) degrees from the same univer
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Ted Honderich
Ted Honderich (born 30 January 1933) is a Canadian-born British professor of philosophy, who was Grote Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic, University College London.[1] Honderich was born Edgar Dawn Ross Honderich on 30 January 1933 in Baden, Ontario, Canada . An undergraduate at the University of Toronto, qualifying as B.A. (Hons) in Philosophy and English Literature, he
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Nikesh Lagun
Nikesh Lagun (born October 24, 2005) is a Nepalese independent researcher and interdisciplinary writer known for developing Cognitive Drive Architecture (CDA), a proposed structural field within cognitive psychology that models the internal configuration of cognitive effort and task engagement [1][2]. His foundational contribution to the field is Lagunian Dynamics, a first-principles theory that f
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  • 06 May 2025
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Kenneth D. Cameron
Kenneth Donald Cameron (born November 29, 1949), (Col, USMC, Ret.), is a retired American naval aviator, test pilot, engineer, U.S. Marine Corps officer, and NASA astronaut. Cameron was born November 29, 1949, in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from Rocky River High School, Rocky River, Ohio, in 1967. He went on to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving a Bachelor of Scienc
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Hans-Jürgen Treder
Hans-Jürgen Treder (born September 4, 1928 in Berlin, died November 18, 2006 in Potsdam) was a German theoretical physicist and in the GDR, specializing in general relativity (and its extensions), astrophysics, and cosmology. He also had an interest in the history of science and philosophy. Treder took an early interest in physics, displaying talent in the subject. As a student in 1944, he
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Jurate Jolanta Petroniene
Jurate Jolanta Petroniene defended thesis and was awarded PhD in Chemistry 2020. Prior to doctoral studies, she successfully worked in an industrial company and in the service of scientific laboratories. Education acquired in the fields of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry. Main research performed in the field of electrochemical analysis, surface investigation by Scanning Electrochemical m
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  • 07 Dec 2023
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Ian McAllister
Ian McAllister FASSA FRSE (born 2 December 1950, Belfast, United Kingdom) is the Distinguished Professor of political science at the Australian National University. He earned his PhD in political science in 1976 from University of Strathclyde. He is a leading election specialist with a research focus on Australian politics which involves co-directing the Australian Election Study, a national sur
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  • 27 Dec 2022
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Viktor Ferdinand Brotherus
Viktor Ferdinand Brotherus (28 October 1849 – 9 February 1929), Finnish botanist who studied the mosses (Bryophyta), best known for authoring the treatment of 'Musci' in Engler and Prantl's Die Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien. Brotherus was born in Skarpans in Sund, Åland while Finland was under Russian rule. He had 13 brothers and sisters of whom six died young.[1] He took his Candidate of P
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Patrick D. Gallagher
Patrick David Gallagher (born March 29, 1963) is an American physicist and the eighteenth chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh. He was formerly the 14th director of the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and had served as the Acting United States Deputy Secretary of Commerce.[1] On February 8, 2014, he was named the Chancellor-elect of the U
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Bruno Augenstein
Bruno Wilhelm Augenstein (March 16, 1923 – July 6, 2005) was a Germany -born mathematician and physicist who made important contributions in space technology, ballistic missile research, satellites, antimatter, and many other areas. Augenstein worked in the Aerophysics Laboratory at North American Aviation on diverse projects including weaponization of the V-2 rocket, a ramjet-powered vehic
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  • 09 Dec 2022
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Martin J. Klein
Martin Jesse Klein (June 25, 1924 – March 28, 2009),[1] usually cited as M. J. Klein, was a science historian of 19th and 20th century physics. Klein was born in the Bronx, New York City . He was an only child and both his parents were schoolteachers. After graduating from James Monroe High School at the age of 14, he attended Columbia University, where he received a bachelor's degree in ma
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  • 12 Dec 2022
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Rudolph M. Hunter
Rudolph Melville Hunter (June 20, 1856 – March 19, 1935) was an American inventor, engineer, patent attorney and entrepreneur. Hunter was granted 299 US patents, over 140 of them for electric railway apparatus. He played a key role in the development of "mixed control," long the standard method of controlling the speed of electric streetcars and locomotives. Hunter later largely abandoned his
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Carl H. Brans
Carl Henry Brans (/brænz/; born December 13, 1935) is an American mathematical physicist best known for his research into the theoretical underpinnings of gravitation elucidated in his most widely publicized work, the Brans–Dicke theory. A Texas , born in Dallas, Carl Brans spent his academic career in neighboring Louisiana, graduating in 1957 from Loyola University New Orleans. Having obt
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John C. Browne
John C. Browne (born July 29, 1942) is an American physicist. He was born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania as the fifth child of Charles I. and Mary Agnes (Titzer) Browne. He received a B.S. in Physics from Drexel University (1965). He received a Ph.D. in Physics from Duke University (1969). His thesis was titled "Fine Structure of Analog States in 61,63,65-Cu". After teaching at Duke University (19
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  • 13 Dec 2022
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Glen Edwards
Glen Edwards (March 5, 1918 – June 5, 1948) was a test pilot for the United States Air Force , and is the namesake of Edwards Air Force Base. Edwards was born March 5, 1918, in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, where he lived until 1931. At age 13, his parents moved the family to California , settling in Lincoln, northeast of Sacramento. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree
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Ronald F. Probstein
Ronald F. Probstein (born March 11, 1928) is the Ford Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He played a principal role in spacecraft and ballistic missile reentry physics and design, hypersonic flight theory, comet behavior, desalination and synthetic fuels. Probstein was born in New York City . He graduated from Stuyvesant High School and stu
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Rory A. Cooper
Rory A. Cooper is an American bioengineer who currently serves as Distinguished Professor and FISA/PVA Chair of the Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology and professor of Bioengineering, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Orthopedic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh.[1][2][3] He is also Associate Dean for Inclusion in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.[4
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H. Lane Mitchell
Henry Lane Mitchell, known as H. Lane Mitchell (August 17, 1895 – November 8, 1978), was a civil engineer who served from 1934 to 1968 as the elected citywide public works commissioner in his adopted city of Shreveport, Louisiana. Hailed during his tenure as a popular success, his life after retirement was marred by legal troubles which led to his imprisonment upon conviction of theft of multi
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Horace Lucian Arnold
Horace Lucian Arnold (June 25, 1837 - January 25, 1915[1]) was an American engineer, inventor, engineering journalist and early American writer on management, who wrote about shop management, cost accounting, and other specific management techniques.[2] He also wrote under the names Hugh Dolnar, John Randol,[3] and Henry Roland. With Henry R. Towne, Henry Metcalfe, Emile Garcke, John Tregoning a
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