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Riccardo Cortese
Riccardo Cortese (Siena, Italy, March 29, 1944 - Basel, Switzerland, April 27, 2017) was an Italian scientist, entrepreneur, and innovator in the field of gene expression, drug discovery and genetic vaccines. His work led to the development of novel therapeutic strategies for the prevention and cure of viral infections, including HIV, HCV, Ebola and RSV. He pioneered a novel platform technology
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Edward Ramberg
Edward G. Ramberg (June 14, 1907 in Florence, Italy – January 9, 1995) was an American physicist who contributed to the early development of electron microscopy and color television. He was the uncle of Mario Capecchi, a 2007 Nobel laureate. His mother was an American painter, Lucy Ramberg (née Dodd), and his father a German archaeologist, Walter Ramberg.[1] His father was killed while servin
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Jerome Kristian
Jerome "Jerry" Kristian (born June 5, 1933 in Milwaukee,[1] d. June 22, 1996 in Ventura County, California[2]) was a theoretical and observational cosmologist, and the first to provide observational evidence of quasar host galaxies. Kristian began his career in theoretical cosmology but transitioned into observation while working at the Mount Wilson Observatory in the 1960s and 1970s. He helped
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David Ceperley
David Ceperley (1949-) is a theoretical physicist in the physics department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign or UIUC. He is a world expert in the area of Quantum Monte Carlo computations, a method of calculation that is generally recognized to provide accurate quantitative results for many-body problems described by quantum mechanics. Ceperley was born in Charleston, West Virgin
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Enzo Paoletti
Enzo Paoletti (May 22, 1943 – January 17, 2018) was an Italian-American virologist who developed the technology to express foreign antigens in vaccinia and other poxviruses. This advance led to the development of vaccines against multiple disease-causing pathogens. Enzo Paoletti was born in Monti di Villa, Bagni di Lucca, Lucca, Italy on May 22, 1943. He emigrated with his family to New Yor
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Ali Guliyev
Ali Musa oglu Guliyev (May 31, 1912 in Ganja – January 29, 1989 in Baku) was an Azerbaijani scientist.[1] In 1927, after primary education, Guliyev entered Pedagogical Technical School in Baku. In 1931, after graduating from technical school, he was appointed to teach at a school in the Goranboy region of Azerbaijan. In 1934, Ali Guliyev entered the faculty of chemistry at Azerbaijan State
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Michael Dine
Michael Dine (born 12 August 1953, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American theoretical physicist, specializing in elementary particle physics, supersymmetry, string theory, and physics beyond the Standard Model. Dine received in 1974 a bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins University and in 1978 a Ph.D. under Thomas Appelquist from Yale University with thesis Interactions of Heavy Quarks in Quantum C
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Robert Herman
Robert Herman (August 29, 1914 – February 13, 1997) was an American scientist, best known for his work with Ralph Alpher in 1948-50, on estimating the temperature of cosmic microwave background radiation from the Big Bang explosion.[1] Born in the Bronx, New York City, Herman graduated cum laude with special honors in physics from the City College of New York in 1935, and in 1940 was awarde
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Hans Kummerlöwe
Hans Kummerlöwe (5 September 1903, Leipzig - 11 August 1995, Münich), also spelt as Kumerloeve from around 1947 was a German ornithologist who served as an SS Officer during the Second World War. Kummerlöwe studied at the University of Leipzig where he was a friend of Günther Niethammer. He joined the DOG (Deutsche Ornithologischen Gessellschaft - the German Ornithological Society) in 192
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Otto Haxel
Otto Haxel (2 April 1909, in Neu-Ulm – 26 February 1998, in Heidelberg) was a Germany nuclear physicist. During World War II, he worked on the German nuclear energy project. After the war, he was on the staff of the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Göttingen. From 1950 to 1974, he was an ordinarius professor of physics at the University of Heidelberg, where he fostered the use of nuclear p
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