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Robert S. Shankland
Robert Sherwood Shankland (January 11, 1908 – March 1, 1982) was an American physicist and historian.[1] Robert S. Shankland was an undergraduate at the Case School for Applied Sciences from 1925–1929 and received his master's degree in 1933. He completed his Ph.D. degree in 1935 for work on photon scattering with Arthur Compton at the University of Chicago. His other research included wo
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Jordi Casals I Ariet
Jordi Casals i Ariet (born 15 May 1911, Viladrau, Osona, Spain; died 10 February 2004) was a Catalan physician and epidemiologist.[1][2] One of Casals' major legacies is his work on viral taxonomy, especially for insect-borne viruses. Another is significant improvements in safety in the handling of dangerous pathogens in laboratory settings, relating to an incident in 1969 at Yale where Casals
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Gabriel Aeppli
Gabriel Aeppli, PhD FRS (born 25 November 1956 in Zurich) is a Swiss-American physicist, co-founder of the London Centre for Nanotechnology and professor of physics at ETH Zürich and EPF Lausanne, and head of the Synchrotron and Nanotechnology department of the Paul Scherrer Institute, also in Switzerland.[1][2] He has contributed to spectroscopy on the magnetism of disordered systems and on h
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Rijk Gispen
Rijk Gispen (b.1910 - 6 December 2000), was a Dutch virologist and former Director of the National Institute of Public Health in the Netherlands. He is well known for his research in immunology and the study of orthopoxviruses. In 1949, he reported naturally occurring pox infections in non-human primates. Fifteen years later, he isolated monkeypox virus from healthy monkey kidneys in the Nether
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John Palms
John Michael Palms (born June 6, 1935 in Rijswijk, Netherlands) is a nuclear physicist and former university administrator in the United States. Palms and his family let the Netherlands shortly after Germany invaded Poland, returned after the war, and then permanently immigrated to the United States in 1951, and became a naturalized citizen in 1957. Palms is married to Norma Cannon Palms, LHD (
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Norman Jaques
Norman Jaques (June 29, 1880 – January 31, 1949) was a Canadian farmer and federal politician. Jaques represented the electoral district of Wetaskiwin in the House of Commons of Canada from 1935 to 1949. Jaques was a member of the Social Credit Party. Jaques was born in London, England , and attended Eastborne College in Sussex. He moved to Canada in 1901, and became a farmer in Mirror, Al
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Helmut Volz
Helmut Volz (German: [fɔlts]; 1 August 1911 in Göppingen – 23 October 1978) was a Germany experimental nuclear physicist who worked on the German nuclear energy project during World War II. In the latter years of World War II, he became a professor at Erlangen University. He declined to take a position offered to him in the United States after the war, and he continued his teaching and resea
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Seymour Benzer
Seymour Benzer (October 15, 1921 – November 30, 2007) was an United States physicist, molecular biologist and behavioral geneticist. His career began during the molecular biology revolution of the 1950s, and he eventually rose to prominence in the fields of molecular and behavioral genetics. He led a productive genetics research lab both at Purdue University and as the James G. Boswell Profess
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Itzik Ben-Itzhak
Itzik Ben-Itzhak (born February 15, 1952) is a university distinguished professor of physics at Kansas State University. Ben-Itzhak is the director of Kansas State University's James R. Macdonald Laboratory and studies experimental atomic physics, molecular physics, and optical physics.[1] Ben-Itzhak was born in Jerusalem, Israel. He attended the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, where
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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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