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Ilaria Capua
Ilaria Capua (Rome, April 21, 1966) is a virologist and former Italian politician, best known for her research on influenza viruses, particularly avian influenza, and her efforts promoting open access to genetic information on emerging viruses as part of pre-pandemic preparedness efforts. Dr. Capua is currently a full professor with Institute of Food and Agricultural Science (IFAS), and has a j
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Aleksandr Markevich
Oleksandr Prokopovych Markevych (Ukrainian: Олександр Прокопович Маркевич), in English more often Aleksandr Prokofyevich Markevich (Russian: Александр Прокофьевич Маркевич) (19 March 1905 – 23 April 1999) was a Ukrainian zoologist, and a prolific helminthologist and copepodologist. He was professor and an Academician of the National Academ
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David Haussler
David Haussler (born 1953) is an American bioinformatician known for his work leading the team that assembled the first human genome sequence in the race to complete the Human Genome Project and subsequently for comparative genome analysis that deepens understanding the molecular function and evolution of the genome.[1][2] He is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, professor of biomol
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Olavo de Carvalho
Olavo Luiz Pimentel de Carvalho (born 29 April 1947)[1] is a Brazil ian journalist and essayist. His interests include historical philosophy, the history of revolutionary movements, the traditionalist school[2] and comparative religion.[3][4] He is known for his conservative and right-wing political stance, and for being a critic of the political Left.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] He is an advocat
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Kuraev Eduard Alekseevich
Eduard Alekseevich Kuraev[1] (Russian: Эдуа́рд Алексе́евич Кура́ев; October 17, 1940, Apsheronsk – March 4, 2014, Dubna) — Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist. Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1971). Eduard A. Kuraev was born in Apsheronsk, Krasnodar region. In 1957 he graduated from high school in stanitsa Tbilisskaya, Krasnodar Region and enter
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Betty Williams (Nobel Laureate)
Betty Williams (born 22 May 1943, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a co-recipient with Mairead Corrigan of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for her work as a cofounder of Community of Peace People, an organization dedicated to promoting a peaceful resolution to the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Williams heads the Global Children's Foundation and is the President of the World Centre of Compassion for
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Walter H. Schottky
Walter Hans Schottky (23 July 1886 – 4 March 1976) was a German physicist who played a major early role in developing the theory of electron and ion emission phenomena,[1] invented the screen-grid vacuum tube in 1915 while working at Siemens,[2] co-invented the ribbon microphone and ribbon loudspeaker along with Dr. Erwin Gerlach in 1924[3] and later made many significant contributions in the
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Robert Wald
Robert M. Wald (/wɔːld/; born June 29, 1947 in New York City ) is an American theoretical physicist who studies gravitation. His research interests include general relativity, black holes, and quantum gravity. He is also a science communicator and textbook author. He is the son of the mathematician and statistician Abraham Wald. Wald's parents died in a plane crash when he was three years o
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Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis
Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis (5 June 1757 – 5 May 1808) was a French physiologist, freemason[1][2][3] and materialist philosopher.[4] Cabanis was born at Cosnac (Corrèze), the son of Jean Baptiste Cabanis (1723–1786), a lawyer and agronomist. At the age of ten, he attended the college of Brives, where he showed great aptitude for study, but his independence of spirit was so great that h
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George Knapp (Journalist)
George Knapp (born April 18, 1952) is an United States television investigative journalist, news anchor, and talk radio host. Knapp has been recognized with Edward R. Murrow Awards, Peabody Awards, and between 6 and 24[1] regional Emmy Awards depending on the source. Official Emmy site does not have him listed as winning any awards. A longtime fixture in Las Vegas media, he works at KLAS-TV[2]
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