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Junjuan DU
Junjuan DU received the Ph.D. degree in management science and engineering from Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, in 2020. She is currently a Professor with the College of Economics & Management, Hefei Normal University, Hefei, China. Her current research interests include crowdfunding, E-commerce, industy economy, venture capital, entrepreneurship and agricultural finance. She mainly undert
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Alexander Clifford Beauglehole
Alexander Clifford Beauglehole (26 August 1920 – 19 January 2002) was an Australian farmer, botanist, plant collector and naturalist. Beauglehole was born in Gorae West, a locality near Portland in the Shire of Glenelg, of south-western Victoria. He attended Gorae state primary school but left after attaining his Qualifying Certificate to help his parents on the farm.[1] He soon began makin
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Claud Lovelace
Claud Lovelace (16 January 1934 – 7 September 2012) was a theoretical physicist noted for his contributions to string theory, specifically, the idea that strings did not have to be restricted to the four dimensions of spacetime. A study in 2009 ranked him as the 14th most influential physicist in the world for the period 1967–1973.[1] Claud William Venton Lovelace was born in London, Eng
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Brigitte Young
Brigitte Young (born 26 May 1946 in Groß Sankt Florian, Austria), is Professor Emeritus of International political economy at the Institute of Political Science, University of Münster, Germany .[1] Her research areas include economic globalization, global governance, feminist economics, international trade, global financial market governance and monetary policy. She has worked on EU-US financi
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Péter Pázmány
Péter Pázmány, S.J. (also called de Panasz in some sources; Hungarian: panaszi Pázmány Péter; Latin: Petrus Pazmanus; German: Peter Pazman; Slovak: Peter Pázmaň;[1] 4 October 1570 – 19 March 1637), was a Hungarian Jesuit who was a noted philosopher, theologian, cardinal, pulpit orator and statesman. He was an important figure in the Counter-Reformation in Royal Hungary. Pázmány's m
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John Palms
John Michael Palms (born June 6, 1935 in Rijswijk, Netherlands) is a nuclear physicist and former university administrator in the United States. Palms and his family let the Netherlands shortly after Germany invaded Poland, returned after the war, and then permanently immigrated to the United States in 1951, and became a naturalized citizen in 1957. Palms is married to Norma Cannon Palms, LHD (
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Charlie Taylor
Charles Edward Taylor (May 24, 1868 – January 30, 1956) was an American inventor, mechanic and machinist. He built the first aircraft engine used by the Wright brothers and was a vital contributor of mechanical skills in the building and maintaining of early Wright engines and airplanes.[1][2] Born in a log cabin on May 24, 1868, in Cerro Gordo, Illinois to William Stephen Taylor and Mary J
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Henry H. Barschall
Henry Herman ("Heinz") Barschall (April 29, 1915 – February 4, 1997) was a Germany -United States physicist.[1][2] Barschall was born as Heinrich Hermann Barschall in Berlin, Germany; his father was a patent attorney who had received a Ph.D. in chemistry after studying with Nobel Laureates Emil Fischer and Fritz Haber. After beginning study in several universities in Germany, he emigrated
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William Gould Dow
William Gould Dow (September 30, 1895 – October 17, 1999) was an United States scientist, educator and inventor. He was a pioneer in a variety of fields, including electrical engineering, space research, computer engineering, and nuclear engineering. He helped develop life-saving radar jamming technology during World War II, and was a long-time professor at the University of Michigan. Wil
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Danny Roy Moore
Danny Roy Moore (born August 9, 1925) is a civil engineer and land surveyor in Arcadia, Louisiana, who served as a conservative Democrat in the Louisiana State Senate from 1964 until 1968. He represented a north Louisiana district, then unnumbered, encompassing Claiborne and Bienville parishes.[1] Moore was born in Haynesville in northern Claiborne Parish just south of the Arkansas state line
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Gabriel Aeppli
Gabriel Aeppli, PhD FRS (born 25 November 1956 in Zurich) is a Swiss-American physicist, co-founder of the London Centre for Nanotechnology and professor of physics at ETH Zürich and EPF Lausanne, and head of the Synchrotron and Nanotechnology department of the Paul Scherrer Institute, also in Switzerland.[1][2] He has contributed to spectroscopy on the magnetism of disordered systems and on h
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Robert S. Shankland
Robert Sherwood Shankland (January 11, 1908 – March 1, 1982) was an American physicist and historian.[1] Robert S. Shankland was an undergraduate at the Case School for Applied Sciences from 1925–1929 and received his master's degree in 1933. He completed his Ph.D. degree in 1935 for work on photon scattering with Arthur Compton at the University of Chicago. His other research included wo
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Samuel Slavson
Samuel Richard Slavson (December 25, 1890 - August 5, 1981) was an American engineer, journalist and teacher, who began to engage in group analysis in 1919. He is considered one of the pioneers of group psychotherapy for his contributions to its recognition as a scientific discipline.[1] Slavson wrote over 20 books and served as the founding president of the American Group Psychotherapy Associat
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Herman Bank
Herman Bank (October 26, 1916 - November 2, 2012[1]) was an American mechanical engineer who worked for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) from 1947 to 1984. He was one of the “Rocket Boys,” who were first-generation scientists and engineers of the Space Age.[2] While working at JPL, Bank worked as a mechanical engineer on the Bumper Project, supervised the structural design for Explorer 1,
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Peter Palese
Peter Palese is a United States microbiologist and Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City ,[1] and an expert in the field of RNA viruses.[2] Palese built "the first genetic maps for influenza A, B and C viruses, identified the function of several viral genes, ...defined the mechanism of neuraminidase inhibitors (whic
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Hans H. Indorf
Hans H. Indorf (died March 10, 1989 in Fairfax, Virginia) was an academic professor and international advisor in political science. "I regard Dr. Indorf as one of the most brilliant and best informed men on foreign affairs of any expert I have ever come in contact with," said Senator Robert Burren Morgan.[1] Hans Indorf, a naturalized American citizen, was born in Germany but escaped to Ameri
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Edward Mardigian
Edward Mardigian (October 25, 1907, Constantinople - November 3, 1993) was an engineer, Leader, Philanthropist. Edward Mardigian was the youngest of Stephen Mardigian's children, and was only six when he immigrated to the United States. Stephan Mardigian, who had been working as a Butcher in Toledo, Ohio, USA, saved enough money to bring the family to the United States in October 1914, on the
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Dharma Prakash Agrawal
Professor Dharma P. Agrawal, our beloved friend, mentor, and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks, passed away on 15 February 2021. Professor Agrawal was a renowned computer scientist who specialized in Wireless Networks and Communications and Computer Architecture. Since 1998, he had been the Ohio Board of Regents Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Compu
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Benedikt Ledebur
Benedikt Ledebur is a poet, essayist and critic based in Vienna, Austria. Ledebur was editor of two issues of Der Ficker – a homage to the bimonthly Der Brenner (de) of Ludwig von Ficker (de) – in 2005 and 2006.[1] They were published on the occasion of exhibitions in Austria and Belgium showing among other Franz West, Clegg & Guttmann, Rudolf Polanszky and Tamuna Sirbiladze.[2] Ledebur w
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Jack Kinzler
Jack Kinzler (January 9, 1920 – March 4, 2014) was a NASA engineer, the former chief of the Technical Services Center at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, known within the agency as Mr. Fix It.[1] He was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal for creating the solar shield that saved Skylab after the original micrometeoroid shield was lost during launch of the station. His other con
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