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Soni Oyekan
Soni Olufemi Olubunmi Oyekan is a Nigerian-United States chemical engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, author, mentor and educator.[1] Oyekan is the President and CEO of Prafis Energy Solutions, an oil refining and energy consulting company.[2] During his career he has been involved in both research and development and management at a number of major oil companies. He holds patents and has made oth
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Christopher Chenery
Christopher Tompkins Chenery (September 19, 1886 – January 3, 1973) was an American engineer, businessman, and the owner/breeder of record for Thoroughbred horse racing's U.S. Triple Crown champion Secretariat. Chenery, the son of Ida and James Chenery, was born in Richmond and raised in Ashland, Virginia.[1] He had three brothers, William Ludlow Chenery, who became editor of Collier's Wee
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Leonard Greene
Leonard Michael Greene (June 8, 1918 – November 30, 2006) was an American inventor and aerodynamics engineer who held more than 200 patents, many of which are aviation-related. He is most well known for his contributions to aviation technology, including his invention, the Aircraft Stall Warning device, which warns pilots when a deadly aerodynamic stall is imminent. To build the device, Greene
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Maxwell K. Goldstein
Maxwell K. Goldstein (January 15, 1908 – February 18, 1980) was a first generation Jewish-American scientist and engineer who was instrumental in the development and deployment of high-frequency direction finding by the United States Navy during the Second World War. High-frequency direction finding (known as huff-duff or HF/DF) played a significant role in the Allies efforts to counter the th
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Johnny Key
Johnny R. Key (born December 9, 1968), is an engineer and the owner of two outlets of the Open Arms Learning Center, Inc., in Mountain Home in Baxter County in northwestern Arkansas, who is a Republican former member of the Arkansas State Senate. Key represented District 17, which includes all of Baxter and Marion counties and the eastern half of Boone County. Key was term-limited and ineligible
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Jefferson W. Speck
Jefferson W. Speck (December 24, 1916 – January 30, 1993)[1] was a planter and businessman from Mississippi County, Arkansas, who was the Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1950 and again in 1952. He was a leader in the Dwight D. Eisenhower faction of the Arkansas party in the early 1950s. Speck was from Frenchman's Bayou, located near the Mississippi River in eastern Arkansas. He graduate
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Malcolm Hebert
Malcolm Paul Hébert Sr. (October 25, 1926 – September 23, 2006), was a mechanical engineer who served from 1973 to 1977 as the last commissioner of streets and parks[1] in Alexandria, Louisiana, a citywide elected position which was abolished with a change in the city charter. Hébert was born in Monroe in Ouachita Parish in northeastern Louisiana, one of three children of Maxime Paul Héb
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David E. Pergrin
Colonel David E. Pergrin (26 July 1917 – 7 April 2012) was commanding officer of the 291st Engineer Combat Battalion of the United States Army during World War II. Before the war he earned an engineering degree at Pennsylvania State University, graduating in 1940. While at Penn State he participated in the ROTC program. In addition, Pergrin played on the university's football team, was elected
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Kevin Greenaugh
Kevin Greenaugh (born May 15, 1956) is an American nuclear engineer and senior manager at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in Washington, DC, United States. Born in the United Kingdom as a U.S. military dependent, Greenaugh has been a part of the military and commercial energy industry for multiple decades. After attending school in Berlin, Germany at the height of the cold
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Walt Havenstein
Walter Perry "Walt" Havenstein (born April 24, 1949)[1] is an American businessman, engineer, and former United States Marine. He was the Republican nominee for Governor of New Hampshire in 2014. Havenstein is the son of Kathryn McKay (Creech) and Paul Lieder Havenstein, CDR, USN.[2][3][4] He graduated from the United States Naval Academy with a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering and
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