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Terri Attwood
Teresa K. Attwood is a Professor of Bioinformatics in the Department of Computer Science and School of Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester and a visiting fellow at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI).[1] She held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at University College London (UCL) from 1993 to 1999 and at the University of Manchester from 1999 to 2002.[2
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Dirk W Lachenmeier
Dr. Lachenmeier (ORCID 0000-0002-3115-864X) studied food chemistry (first state examination) at the University of Bonn (1994-1998), followed by position as first-year resident at various food control institutions in the State of North Rhine-Westfalia, concluding the studies with the second state examination and title of state-certified food chemist (Münster, 2000). He carried out his PhD in For
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Josh Tillman
Joshua Michael Tillman[1] (born May 3, 1981), also known as Father John Misty and previously J. Tillman, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer.[2] Maintaining a steady output of solo recordings since 2004,[3] Tillman had been a member of or toured with Demon Hunter, Saxon Shore, Fleet Foxes, Jeffertitti's Nile,[4] Pearly Gate Music,[5] Siberian,[6] Har Mar Superstar,[7
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Rush Holt Jr.
Rush Dew Holt Jr. (born October 15, 1948) is an American scientist and politician. He was the U.S. Representative for New Jersey12 New Jersey's 12th congressional district Holt sought the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in the 2013 special primary election to fill the seat of U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg, who died in office on June 3, 2013. He lost the nomination to Newark Mayor Cory Boo
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Max Tegmark
Max Erik Tegmark[1] (born 5 May 1967) is a Swedish-American physicist, cosmologist and machine learning researcher. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the scientific director of the Foundational Questions Institute. He is also a co-founder of the Future of Life Institute and a supporter of the effective altruism movement, and has received research grants from Elon
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Otto Laporte
Otto Laporte (July 23, 1902 – March 28, 1971) was a German-born United States physicist who made contributions to quantum mechanics, electromagnetic wave propagation theory, spectroscopy, and fluid dynamics. His name is lent to the Laporte rule in spectroscopy and to the Otto Laporte Award of the American Physical Society.[1] Laporte’s ancestors came from French Huguenot families who fled
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Frances E. Allen
Frances Elizabeth "Fran" Allen (born August 4, 1932) is an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers.[1][2][3] Allen was the first female IBM Fellow and in 2006 became the first woman to win the Turing Award.[4] Her achievements include seminal work in compilers, program optimization, and parallelization.[5] Since 2002, she has been a Fellow Emerita from IBM.[6
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Hans Geiger
Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Geiger (30 September 1882 – 24 September 1945) was a German physicist. He is best known as the co-inventor of the detector component of the Geiger counter and for the Geiger–Marsden experiment which discovered the atomic nucleus. Geiger was born at Neustadt an der Haardt, Germany. He was one of five children born to the Indologist Wilhelm Ludwig Geiger, who was a pr
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Magnus Manske
Heinrich Magnus Manske (born 24 May 1974) is a senior staff scientist at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK[1][2][3] and a software developer of one of the first versions of the MediaWiki software, which powers Wikipedia.[4] Manske was born in Cologne, Germany. He studied biochemistry at the University of Cologne and graduated in 2006 with a PhD; his dissertation was an open
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Longping Yuan
The father of hybrid rice, academician Longping Yuan, passed away on 22 May 2021, in Changsha, Hunan Province, China. He was born into an intellectual family in Beijing in September 1930. Due to Japanese aggression, he received his education at different primary and high schools around China from 1936 to 1949 and developed a keen interest in gardening and agronomy during this period. From Augu
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