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Philip Fearnside
Philip Martin Fearnside (born May 25, 1947) is an American biologist and scientist, active for many years in Brazil , where he developed the most important part of his career and gained wide national and international notoriety. Fearnside was born in Berkeley, California, and has a bachelor's degree in biology at Colorado College. At the University of Michigan, he did his master's and doctora
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E. Michael Jones
Eugene Michael Jones (born May 4, 1948) is an American writer, former professor, media commentator and the current editor of Culture Wars magazine (formerly Fidelity Magazine). Jones is known for his writings from a perspective which defends the Catholic Church in American society and overviews the decline of the Catholic communities which were assimilated into the secular American mainstream af
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Caroline Herzenberg
Caroline Stuart Littlejohn Herzenberg (born March 25, 1932) is an American physicist. Caroline Herzenberg was born Caroline Stuart Littlejohn to Caroline Dorothea Schulze and Charles Frederick Littlejohn on March 25, 1932 in East Orange, New Jersey.[1][2] In the aftermath of the Great Depression, her parents decided to move to Oklahoma City Oklahoma to join his sister, Hilda Littlejohn Will a
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Ernst Ising
Ernst Ising (German: [ˈiːzɪŋ]; May 10, 1900 in Cologne, Germany – May 11, 1998 in Peoria, Illinois, United States ) was a German physicist, who is best remembered for the development of the Ising model. He was a professor of physics at Bradley University until his retirement in 1976.[1] Ernst Ising was born in Cologne in 1900. Ernst Ising's parents were the merchant Gustav Ising and his
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Heinz Pose
Rudolf Heinz Pose (10 April 1905 – 13 November 1975) was a German nuclear physicist. He did pioneering work which contributed to the understanding nuclear energy levels. He worked on the German nuclear energy project Uranverein. After World War II, the Soviet Union sent him to establish and head Laboratory V in Obninsk. From 1957, he was at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, R
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Gaylord Harnwell
Gaylord Probasco Harnwell CBE (September 29, 1903 – April 18, 1982), was an American educator and physicist, who was president of the University of Pennsylvania from 1953 to 1970. He also held a great number of positions in a wide variety of national political and educational boards and committees, as well as senior positions in both the Office of the Governor of Pennsylvania and the United St
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Stephen L. Adler
Stephen Louis Adler (born November 30, 1939) is an American physicist specializing in elementary particles and field theory. Adler was born in New York City . He received an A.B. degree at Harvard University in 1961, where he was a Putnam Fellow, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1964. He is the son of Irving Adler and Ruth Adler and older brother of Peggy Adler. Adler was elected a F
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Wilmot N. Hess
Wilmot N. Hess (October 16, 1926 – April 16, 2004) was an American physicist who was involved with many ambitious scientific projects of the 20th century, including: the Plowshares project, the NASA Apollo moon missions, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) hurricane research and oil spill cleanup research, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) weather modif
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Robert Rosen
Robert Rosen (June 27, 1934 – December 28, 1998) was an United States theoretical biologist and Professor of Biophysics at Dalhousie University.[1] Rosen was born on June 27, 1934 in Brownsville (a section of Brooklyn), in New York City . He studied biology, mathematics, physics, philosophy, and history; particularly, the history of science. In 1959 he obtained a PhD in relational biology,
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Elise Harmon
Elise Frances Harmon (née Harmon; 3 September 1909 in Mount Enterprise, Texas – 6 March 1985 in Santa Clara County, California)[1] was an United States physicist, chemist, and influential contributor to the miniaturization of computers.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] Research During World War II, she worked in the United States Naval Research Laboratory's Aircraft and Electrical Divi
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