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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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Robert Morris Page
Robert Morris Page (2 June 1903 – 15 May 1992) was an American physicist who was a leading figure in the development of radar technology. Later, Page served as the Director of Research for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.[1] Page was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the son of a Methodist minister. He attended Hamline University, a small Methodist-supported school in St. Paul. Originally i
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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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Juan Valverde de Amusco
Juan Valverde de Amusco (Figure 1) was born in 1525 in the town of Hamusco (now Amusco) in the shire of Tierra de Campos (Crown of Castile, presently Palencia, Spain). There are few precise records of his life. The safest ones come from small comments disseminated throughout his books. The details regarding his childhood and youth remain unconfirmed. His probable Jewish origin has been suggested
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Erhard Kietz
Dr. Erhard Karl Kietz (* August 22, 1909 in Leipzig Germany – April 6, 1982 in Blütlingen (Wustrow, Lower Saxony) Germany ) was a German-born physicist, who researched frequency constancy of video signals. Born August 22, 1909 in Leipzig, Germany as the eldest child of mathematics teacher Georg and Anna Kietz, Erhard Karl Kietz attended the Nikolai School in Leipzig and then studied physic
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Leo Arons
Martin Leo Arons (15 February 1860 – 10 October 1919) was a German physicist and social democratic politician. He was the namesake of the Lex Arons, a law which disallowed members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (German: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, SPD) to teach at Prussian universities. Leo Arons came from a wealthy Jewish banking family in Berlin. His parents were A
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Emil Fackenheim
Emil Ludwig Fackenheim (22 June 1916 – 18 September 2003) was a noted Jewish philosopher and Reform rabbi.[1] Born in Halle, Germany, he was arrested by Nazis on the night of 9 November 1938, known as Kristallnacht. Briefly interned at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp (1938–1939), he escaped with his younger brother Wolfgang[2] to Great Britain, where his parents later joined him. Emil'
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Jan van der Noordaa
Our loyal friend and colleague, Jan van der Noordaa, passed away unexpectedly at the age of 80 on the evening of 17 June 2015. Jan died in his sleep while visiting his long-term colleague and dear friend, Dr. Alla Bukrinskaya, in Potomac (MD, USA). Jan was born in Leiden (the Netherlands) in 1934, studied medicine at Leiden University and received his MD in 1960. The PhD thesis entitled “Prima
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Carsten Bresch
Carsten Bresch (born September 5, 1921) was a German physicist, geneticist and professor emeritus at the University of Freiburg (Faculty of Biology). Carsten Bresch was born in Berlin, Germany. He studied physics and in 1947 he was one of the first students of Max Delbrück in postwar Berlin. Since 1949, he worked as an assistant at the reestablished Max-Planck-Institute for Physical Chemistr
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Jens Frahm
Jens Frahm (born 29 March 1951 in Oldenburg, Germany) is Director of the Biomedizinische NMR[1] (Biomedical NMR Research Group) at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany. From 1969 to 1974 Frahm studied physics at the University of Göttingen.[2] His PhD thesis under the guidance of Hans Strehlow at the Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie was de
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