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Runcie C. W. Chidebe
Runcie C. W. Chidebe (born 26 December 1985) is a young Nigerian cancer control advocate and social entrepreneur. He is the founder and executive director [1][2][3][4][5] of Project PINK BLUE- Health & Psychological Trust Centre, a Nigerian cancer non-profit organization that is engaged in cancer awareness, free cancer screenings, advocacy, patient navigation and support to indigent women battli
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R. Orin Cornett
R. Orin Cornett (November 13, 1913 – December 7, 2002) was an American physicist, university professor and administrator, and the inventor of a literacy system for the deaf, known as Cued Speech. R. (Richard) Orin Cornett was born in Driftwood, Oklahoma, a now unincorporated town near the Kansas border located in Alfalfa County, on November 14, 1913.[1] He earned his BS degree in Mathematic
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Jean-Pierre Lecocq
Jean-Pierre Lecocq (17 July 1947 – 20 January 1992) was a Belgian molecular biologist and entrepreneur. Lecocq was born in Gosselies/Charleroi but grew up in Nivelles. In 1965 he received a scholarship to study Chemistry at the Free University of Brussels. In 1969 he graduated with honors (avec grande distinction). Starting in 1969, he worked on his doctoral thesis in the laboratory of Prof
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Anthony Collins
Anthony Collins (21 June 1676 O.S. – 13 December 1729 O.S.) was an English philosopher, and a proponent of deism. Collins was born in Heston, near Hounslow in Middlesex, England, the son of lawyer Henry Collins (1646/7–1705) and Mary (née Dineley).[1] He had two sisters: Anne Collins (born 1678), who married Henry Lovibond (born 1675), and Mary Collins (born 1680), who married Edward Lo
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Jack Boyd Buckley
Jack Boyd Buckley (February 6, 1926 – October 9, 2007 in Fort Wayne, Indiana) was a civil engineer and building consultant based in Houston, Texas. He played a major role in the construction of numerous high-rise buildings and amusement parks throughout the world, including Pennzoil Place and Greenway Plaza in Houston, and was involved in the design of the air conditioning system of the Astrod
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David Rutledge
Dr. David B. Rutledge (born 1952) is the Kiyo and Eiko Tomiyasu Professor (em.) of Engineering and former Chair of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).[1] His earlier work on microwave circuits has been important for various advances in wireless communications and has been useful for applications such as radar, remote sensing, and s
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Peter Freund
Peter George Oliver Freund (7 September 1936, Timișoara – 6 March 2018, Chicago ) was a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Chicago.[1] He made important contributions to particle physics and string theory. He was also active as a writer. Peter George Oliver Freund was born, raised and educated in the Romanian city of Timișoara. Because of his participation in an anti-So
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James F. Bell, III
James (Jim) F. Bell III (born July 23, 1965) is a Professor of Astronomy at Arizona State University, specializing in the study of planetary geology, geochemistry and mineralogy using data obtained from telescopes and from various spacecraft missions. Dr. Bell's active research has involved the NASA Mars Pathfinder, Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR), Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR), 2001 Mars O
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Herman Bank
Herman Bank (October 26, 1916 - November 2, 2012[1]) was an American mechanical engineer who worked for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) from 1947 to 1984. He was one of the “Rocket Boys,” who were first-generation scientists and engineers of the Space Age.[2] While working at JPL, Bank worked as a mechanical engineer on the Bumper Project, supervised the structural design for Explorer 1,
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Horace Bookwalter Drury
Horace Bookwalter Drury (August 21, 1888 - 1968) was an American economist, lecturer at Ohio State University, and management author, particularly known for his early work on scientific management.[1][2] Drury was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1888 as son of Augustus Waldo Drury (1851-1935), a notable theologian and professor, and Sophia (Bookwalter) Drury. He obtained is AB in economics at Otterbe
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