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Fairman Rogers
Fairman Rogers (November 15, 1833 – August 22, 1900) was an United States civil engineer, educator, and philanthropist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1853, and taught civil engineering there from 1855 to 1871.[1] He was one of four professors who founded its Department of Mines, Arts and Manufacturers (1855), and he served as a Univers
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Martin J. Klein
Martin Jesse Klein (June 25, 1924 – March 28, 2009),[1] usually cited as M. J. Klein, was a science historian of 19th and 20th century physics. Klein was born in the Bronx, New York City . He was an only child and both his parents were schoolteachers. After graduating from James Monroe High School at the age of 14, he attended Columbia University, where he received a bachelor's degree in ma
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Henry More
Henry More FRS (/ˈmɔːr/; 12 October 1614 – 1 September 1687) was an English philosopher of the Cambridge Platonist school. Henry was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire on 12 October 1614.[1] He was the seventh son of Alexander More, mayor of Grantham, and Anne More (née Lacy).[1] Both his parents were Calvinists but he himself "could never swallow that hard doctrine."[2] He was schooled at
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Alexander A. Nikolsky
Alexander Alexandrovitch Nikolsky (Russian: Александр Александрович Никольский, 1903-1963) was a Russia n-born American aeronautical engineer who worked in the domain of rotary-wing aircraft. Professor Alexander Alexandrovitch Nikolsky (nicknamed "Nick"), was born in 1903 in the Russian Empire. He began his career as a cadet in the Russian Imperial Navy. He was se
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Charles Arthur Mercier
Charles Arthur Mercier (21 June 1851 – 2 September 1919) M.D., FRCP, FRCS was a British psychiatrist and leading expert on forensic psychiatry and insanity.[1] Mercier was born on 21 June 1851. He studied medicine at the University of London where he graduated. He worked at Buckinghamshire County Asylum in Stone, near Aylesbury. He became the Assistant Medical Officer at Leavesden Hospital
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Hans-Jürgen Treder
Hans-Jürgen Treder (born September 4, 1928 in Berlin, died November 18, 2006 in Potsdam) was a German theoretical physicist and in the GDR, specializing in general relativity (and its extensions), astrophysics, and cosmology. He also had an interest in the history of science and philosophy. Treder took an early interest in physics, displaying talent in the subject. As a student in 1944, he
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André Jean Martin
André Jean Martin (Paris, 20 September 1929–Geneva, 11 November 2020[1][2]) was a French particle physicist who worked at CNRS and CERN. After studying at the École normale supérieure (class of 1949),[3] he began his career as a CNRS researcher under the direction of Maurice Lévy at the physics laboratory of the École Normale. He joined CERN in 1959 as a fellow in the Theory Division a
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Edwin Clarence Riegel
Edwin Clarence Riegel (June 18, 1879 – 1953), generally known as E.C. Riegel, was an American author, consumer advocate and independent scholar who campaigned against restrictions on free markets that harmed consumers and promoted an alternative monetary theory and an early private enterprise currency alternative. Best selling libertarian author Harry Browne, in the introduction to his 1974 b
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Margaret Jarman Hagood
Margaret Loyd Jarman "Marney" Hagood (1907–1963) was an American sociologist and demographer who "helped steer sociology away from the armchair and toward the calculator".[1] She wrote the books Mothers of the South (1939) and Statistics for Sociologists (1941), and later became president of the Population Association of America and of the Rural Sociological Society. Hagood was born on Octo
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Eugene Bloch
Eugene Bloch (10 June 1878 – 1944) was a France physicist and professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, and at the Faculty of Science of the University of Paris.[1][2] Eugene Bloch was born on 10 June 1878 in Soultz-Haut-Rhin, France. His father, an industrialist in the textile industry, sold his Alsatian factory and settled in Paris to give his two sons Leon and Eugene a French educatio
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