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Jefferson W. Speck
Jefferson W. Speck (December 24, 1916 – January 30, 1993)[1] was a planter and businessman from Mississippi County, Arkansas, who was the Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1950 and again in 1952. He was a leader in the Dwight D. Eisenhower faction of the Arkansas party in the early 1950s. Speck was from Frenchman's Bayou, located near the Mississippi River in eastern Arkansas. He graduate
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Malcolm Hebert
Malcolm Paul Hébert Sr. (October 25, 1926 – September 23, 2006), was a mechanical engineer who served from 1973 to 1977 as the last commissioner of streets and parks[1] in Alexandria, Louisiana, a citywide elected position which was abolished with a change in the city charter. Hébert was born in Monroe in Ouachita Parish in northeastern Louisiana, one of three children of Maxime Paul Héb
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David E. Pergrin
Colonel David E. Pergrin (26 July 1917 – 7 April 2012) was commanding officer of the 291st Engineer Combat Battalion of the United States Army during World War II. Before the war he earned an engineering degree at Pennsylvania State University, graduating in 1940. While at Penn State he participated in the ROTC program. In addition, Pergrin played on the university's football team, was elected
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Kevin Greenaugh
Kevin Greenaugh (born May 15, 1956) is an American nuclear engineer and senior manager at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in Washington, DC, United States. Born in the United Kingdom as a U.S. military dependent, Greenaugh has been a part of the military and commercial energy industry for multiple decades. After attending school in Berlin, Germany at the height of the cold
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Walt Havenstein
Walter Perry "Walt" Havenstein (born April 24, 1949)[1] is an American businessman, engineer, and former United States Marine. He was the Republican nominee for Governor of New Hampshire in 2014. Havenstein is the son of Kathryn McKay (Creech) and Paul Lieder Havenstein, CDR, USN.[2][3][4] He graduated from the United States Naval Academy with a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering and
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John Texter
John Texter (born August 9, 1949, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is an American engineer, chemist, and educator, and is professor of polymer and coating technology at Eastern Michigan University (EMU) in Ypsilanti, Michigan.[1] He is best known for his work in applied dispersion technology and small particle science, for his international conference organization activities, including Particles 2001
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Sossina M. Haile
Sossina M. Haile (born July 28, 1966) is an Ethiopian-United States chemist, known for developing the first solid acid fuel cells.[1] She is a professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University, Illinois, USA.[2] Haile received the NSF National Young Investigator Award (1994–99), Humboldt Fellowship (1992–93), Fulbright Fellowship (1991–92), and AT&T Cooperative Res
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James Bullough Lansing
James Bullough Lansing (born James Martini, January 14, 1902 – September 24, 1949) was a pioneering American audio engineer and loudspeaker designer who was most notable for establishing two audio companies that bear his name, Altec Lansing and JBL, the latter taken from his initials, JBL. James Martini was born on January 14, 1902, in Greenridge, Nilwood Township, Macoupin County, Illino
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Erik Buell
Erik F. Buell (born April 2, 1950, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is the founder, former Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of the Buell Motorcycle Company, which eventually merged with Harley-Davidson Corp. Buell is a pioneer of modern race motorcycle technology. Buell is also the founder of Erik Buell Racing.[1] Erik Buell is now a co founder of VANGUARDSPARK - Electric Urban Mobility (Vangua
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Thomas David Petite
Thomas David Petite (born May 30, 1956) is an American inventor and is best known for being one of the five early key inventors of Wireless ad hoc network or IoT Wireless Mesh, Technology.[1] He is Native American and a member of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa tribe. He is also a founder of the Native American Intellectual Property Enterprise Council, a non-profit organization he
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