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Robert McMahan
Robert K. McMahan (born 1961) is an United States physicist, professor, and entrepreneur who is the seventh and current president of Kettering University.[1][2] McMahan assumed the position of President on August 1, 2011, succeeding Stanley R. Liberty.[3] McMahan received undergraduate degrees in Physics and the History of Art from Duke University in 1982 and a Ph.D. in Physics from Dartmou
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Wilson Marcy Powell
Wilson Marcy Powell (July 18, 1903 – March 2, 1974) was an American physicist and a member of the Physics department at the University of California, Berkeley. The son of Harvard lawyer Wilson Marcy Powell, Sr. and Elsie Knapp, Wilson was born in Litchfield, Connecticut.[1] He matriculated into Harvard College in 1922 and graduated in 1926. During his undergraduate years, Powell went on two
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Klara Döpel
Klara (Minna) Renate Döpel (née Mannß; 1900 – 6 April 1945 in Leipzig) was a feminist and a Germany lawyer until 1933. Then she married the German nuclear physicist Robert Döpel, and they worked together as a team at Leipzig University studying nuclear reactor configurations for the German nuclear energy project. Klara was killed in an air raid near the end of World War II. Klara Döpel
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Vitaly Alexandrovich Khonik
Khonik Vitaly Alexandrovich (Russian: Хоник Виталий Александрович; born 17 December 1955) is a Russian physicist, doctor of physics and mathematics, professor, head of a laboratory researching the physics of non-crystalline materials, and head of the Department of General Physics at Voronezh State Pedagogical University (VSPU). He was born in Kemerovo, USSR. [1] His lab
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Andrew Lees
Andrew Lees (born February 1953 in Massachusetts , United States) is an American vaccine chemist known for developing the CDAP conjugation method, used in vaccines manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline (Streptococcus pneumonia, Neisseria meningiditis ) and conjugate vaccines currently in clinical development by the Serum Institute of India and Chengdu Institute of Biological Products. Currently, Andre
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John F. Banzhaf III
John Francis Banzhaf III (/ˈbænz.hɑːf/;[1] born July 2, 1940) is an American public interest lawyer, legal activist and a law professor at George Washington University Law School. He is the founder of an antismoking advocacy group, Action on Smoking and Health.[2] He is noted for his advocacy and use of lawsuits as a method to promote what he believes is the public interest. Banzhaf was b
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Andrew Jenike
Dr. Andrew "Andy" W. Jenike (16 April 1914 - 8 August 2003) was an American engineer who developed and expanded the science of bulk material handling. He founded and served as company president for engineering consulting firm Jenike & Johanson, Inc. and published Utah Engineering Experiment Station Bulletins 123 and 108, which introduce the idea of mass flow. Andrew Jenike was born in Poland
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Ndidi Nnoli-Edozien
Ndidi Nnoli-Edozien Ph.D (born July 31, 1972) is a Nigerian social entrepreneur and corporate sustainability and responsibility (CSR) expert and Bottom of the Pyramid empowerment advocate. She is the Founder and President of the Growing Businesses Foundation, Nigeria's largest Bottom of the Pyramid platform which has been managing CSR Projects for multinational corporations. Her status as a soci
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Siegfried Czapski
Siegfried Czapski (28 May 1861, on the Obra estate near Koschmin in the Province of Posen – 29 June 1907, in Weimar) was a Germany physicist and optician. Czapski was the son of Simon Czapski (1826–1908) and his wife Rosalie Goldenring (1830-1916). His family was Jewish,[1] and he was related to the physician Albert Neisser.[2] In 1870 Czapski's father suffered a serious accident which le
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Osmund Lewry
Patrick Osmund Lewry (1929–1987) was an English Dominican who made significant contributions to the history of logic and the philosophy of language in the thirteenth century. Lewry studied mathematical logic under Lejewski and A.N. Prior at Manchester (1961–2). From 1962–7 he taught the philosophy of language and logic at Hawkesyard. He was assigned to the Oxford Blackfriars in 1967. Dissa
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