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Paul O. Müller
Paul O. Müller (born April 18, 1915 in Graz; d. March 9, 1942 at Pechenkino near Sukhinichi) was an Austrian theoretical nuclear physicist who worked in the German Uranverein. He was drafted into the German armed forces and died on the Russian Front in World War II.[1] Müller undertook graduate studies at the University of Graz. He received his doctorate in Graz on February 25, 1939, under
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Paul Lin Ta-kuang
Paul Lin Ta-kuang (simplified Chinese: 林达光; traditional Chinese: 林達光; pinyin: Lín Dáguāng; Wade–Giles: Lin Ta-kuang (March 14, 1920 – July 4, 2004) was a Canadian-Chinese political scientist and peace activist, the founding Director of McGill’s Center for East Asian Studies (1965-1982) and Rector of the University of East Asia in Macau (now Macau University) from 1986 to 198
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Paul Langerhans
Paul Langerhans (25 July 1847 – 20 July 1888) was a Germany pathologist, physiologist and biologist, credited with the discovery of the cells that secrete insulin, named after him as the islets of Langerhans. Islets of Langerhans – Pancreatic cells which produce insulin. Langerhans discovered these cells during his studies for his doctorate at the Berlin Pathological Institute in 1869.[
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Paul Joseph Kaesberg
Paul Joseph Kaesberg (September 26, 1923 – December 24, 2010) was a German biochemist and virologist[1] who was known worldwide for his extensive research regarding small viruses.[2] His research significantly contributed to the our overall understanding of viruses today. Kaesberg is also known for discovering icosahedral-shaped viruses and for using X-rays to study viruses.[3] Paul J. Kaes
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Paul H. Carr
Paul Henry Carr (born May 12, 1935)[1] is a physicist and researcher. His ten patents have contributed to compact, low-cost filters and signal processing devices for radar, TV, and cell phones. Born in Boston, raised in Cabot and Richford, VT, Carr graduated from Boston Latin School in 1953, earned a B.S. degree in physics in 1957, and a M.S. degree in physics in 1961, both from Massachusetts
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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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Patricia Cladis
Patricia Cladis (1937 - July 3, 2017) was a Canadian American physicist specializing in the physics of liquid crystals. She was a research physicist at Bell Labs beginning in 1972. She was a fellow of the American Physical Society and also received a Guggenheim fellowship. Cladis was born in Shanghai.[1] She attended high school at Little Flower Academy in Vancouver, BC, graduating in 1955. I
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Paracelsus
Paracelsus (/ˌpærəˈsɛlsəs/; 1493/4[1] – 24 September 1541), born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (full name Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim[2]), was a Swiss[3] physician, alchemist, and astrologer of the German Renaissance.[4][5] He was a pioneer in several aspects of the "medical revolution" of the Renaissance, emphasizing the value of observation in combination with
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Pandurang Shastri Athavale
Pandurang Shastri Athavale (19 October 1920 – 25 October 2003), also known as Dadaji, which literally translates as "elder brother" in Marathi, was an Indian activist, philosopher, spiritual leader, social revolutionary,[1] and religion reformist, who founded the Swadhyaya Parivar (Swadhyaya Family) in 1954.[2] Swadhyaya is a self-study process based on the Bhagavad Gita which has spread acros
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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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