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Lenny Lipton
Leonard "Lenny" Lipton (born May 18, 1940, Brooklyn, New York) is an author, filmmaker and inventor. At age 19, Lipton wrote the poem that became the basis for the lyrics to the song "Puff the Magic Dragon". He went on to write books on independent filmmaking and become a pioneer in the field of projected three-dimensional imagery. His technology is used to show 3D films on more than 25,000 thea
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Karl Herzfeld
Karl Ferdinand Herzfeld (February 24, 1892 – June 3, 1978) was an Austrian-United States physicist. Herzfeld was born in Vienna during the reign of the Habsburgs over the Austro-Hungarian Empire. "He came from a prominent, recently assimilated Jewish family."[1] His father was a physician and ordinarius professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Vienna. His mother, Camilla
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John Nuckolls
John Hopkin Nuckolls (born 17 November 1930) is an American physicist who worked his entire career at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He is best known for the development of inertial confinement fusion, which is a major branch of fusion power research to this day. He was also the lab's director from 1988 until 1994, when he resigned to become an Associate Director at Large. He was aw
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Juris Upatnieks
Juris Upatnieks (born 7 May 1936 in Riga) is a Latvian-American physicist and inventor, and pioneer in the field of holography. Upatnieks fled the Soviet occupation of Latvia with his parents at the close of World War II, seeking asylum in Germany. In 1951 the family emigrated to the United States. He attended high school in Akron, Ohio, and studied Electrical Engineering at the University of A
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Stefan Ślopek
Stefan Ślopek (December 1, 1914 in Skawa near Kraków – 22 August 1995, Wrocław[1] was a Polish scientist specializing in clinical microbiology and immunology. He is the great grandson of Józef Juraszek Ślopek. He is buried in the Grabiszyński Cemetery in Wrocław. After he had completed his secondary education in Tarnopol, he started his medical studies at the Faculty of Medicine in
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Andrew Lees
Andrew Lees (born February 1953 in Massachusetts , United States) is an American vaccine chemist known for developing the CDAP conjugation method, used in vaccines manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline (Streptococcus pneumonia, Neisseria meningiditis ) and conjugate vaccines currently in clinical development by the Serum Institute of India and Chengdu Institute of Biological Products. Currently, Andre
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Wilson Marcy Powell
Wilson Marcy Powell (July 18, 1903 – March 2, 1974) was an American physicist and a member of the Physics department at the University of California, Berkeley. The son of Harvard lawyer Wilson Marcy Powell, Sr. and Elsie Knapp, Wilson was born in Litchfield, Connecticut.[1] He matriculated into Harvard College in 1922 and graduated in 1926. During his undergraduate years, Powell went on two
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Klara Döpel
Klara (Minna) Renate Döpel (née Mannß; 1900 – 6 April 1945 in Leipzig) was a feminist and a Germany lawyer until 1933. Then she married the German nuclear physicist Robert Döpel, and they worked together as a team at Leipzig University studying nuclear reactor configurations for the German nuclear energy project. Klara was killed in an air raid near the end of World War II. Klara Döpel
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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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Robert McMahan
Robert K. McMahan (born 1961) is an United States physicist, professor, and entrepreneur who is the seventh and current president of Kettering University.[1][2] McMahan assumed the position of President on August 1, 2011, succeeding Stanley R. Liberty.[3] McMahan received undergraduate degrees in Physics and the History of Art from Duke University in 1982 and a Ph.D. in Physics from Dartmou
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