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Mustafa Akyol
Mustafa Akyol (born 20 February 1972) is a Turkish writer and journalist. He is the author of Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty, long-listed in 2012 for the Lionel Gelber Prize, a literary award for the world's best non-fiction book in English. He became a contributing opinion writer for the International New York Times in 2013. He is mainly famous in the western world for his ar
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Muhammad Qudrat-i-Khuda
Muhammad Qudrat-i-Khuda (c. 1900 – 3 November 1977) was a Bangladeshi[1] organic chemist, educationist and writer.[2] He founded the Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. From 1969 till 1972, he served as the president of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences. After the independence of Bangladesh, as a chairman of the National Education Commission, he published a report named
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Moshé Feldenkrais
Moshé Pinchas Feldenkrais (Hebrew: משה פנחס פלדנקרייז, May 6, 1904 – July 1, 1984) was a Ukraine -Israeli engineer and physicist, known as the founder of the Feldenkrais Method, a system of physical exercise that aims to improve human functioning by increasing self-awareness through movement. Feldenkrais' theory is that "thought, feeling, perception and movement are closel
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Mohamed Al-Fayed
Mohamed Al-Fayed (/ælfaɪˈɛd/; Egyptian Arabic: محمد أنور شاكر عبد السيد الفايد [mahamad el fajed]; born 27 January 1929) is an Egyptian business magnate. Fayed's business interests include ownership of Hôtel Ritz Paris and formerly Harrods Department Store, Knightsbridge. Al-Fayed sold his ownership of Fulham F.C. to Shahid Khan in 2013.[1] In his personal life
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Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
Mirzā Ghulām Ahmad (13 February 1835 – 26 May 1908) was an Indian religious leader and the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam. He claimed to have been divinely appointed as the promised Messiah and Mahdi—which is the metaphorical second-coming of Jesus (mathīl-iʿIsā),[1][2] in fulfillment of Islam's latter day prophecies, as well as the Mujaddid (centennial reviver) of the 14th
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Milovan Đilas
Milovan Đilas (pronounced [mîlɔʋan dʑîlaːs]; usually spelled Djilas in English-language publications; Serbian Cyrillic: Милован Ђилас; 12 June 1911 – 20 April 1995) was a Yugoslav communist politician, theorist and author. He was a key figure in the Partisan movement during World War II, as well as in the post-war government. A self-identified democratic socialist,[1] Đila
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Millicent Taylor
Millicent Taylor (17 October 1871 – 23 December 1960) was a British educator and chemist who worked in the fields of organic chemistry and physical chemistry. Millicent Taylor was born on 17 October 1871 in Kingswood, Surrey, England and she died in Bristol, in England. Taylor was a contributor to the war effort for World War I. Taylor attended the Cheltenham Ladies' College from 1888
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Mildred Dresselhaus
Mildred Dresselhaus[1] (née Spiewak; November 11, 1930 – February 20, 2017),[2] known as the "queen of carbon science",[3] was the first female Institute Professor and professor emerita of physics and electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[4] Dresselhaus won numerous awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Medal of Science, the Enrico Fer
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Miklos Porkolab
Miklos Porkolab (born March 24, 1939) is a Hungarian-American physicist specializing in plasma physics. He emigrated in 1957 from Hungary to Canada, where he studied at the University of British Columbia (Bachelor, 1963) and then at Stanford University, where he obtained his Master degree in 1964 and his PhD in 1968. He then moved to the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, where he worked as a
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Miklós Kásler
Miklós Kásler (born 1 March 1950) is a Hungarian oncologist, professor, director of the National Institute of Oncology, and since 2018 Minister of Human Resources. "Each result of science prooves that there is a spiritual existence in the world where everything can be traced back to." His father, Dr István Kásler (born 1918, Déva (today Romania)) was a jurist and his mother, Aranka
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