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Susanne Hoeber Rudolph
Susanne Hoeber Rudolph (April 3, 1930 – December 23, 2015) was an American author, political thinker and educationist. She was a William Benton Distinguished Service Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago and was actively interested in Politics, Political Economy and Political Sociology of South Asia, State Formation, Max Weber and the Politics of Category and Culture.[1] The Governme
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Jeff Dean
Jeffrey Adgate "Jeff" Dean (born July 1968) is an American computer scientist and software engineer. He is currently the lead of Google AI, Google's AI division.[1] Dean received a B.S., summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota in Computer Science & Engineering in 1990.[2] He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington, working under Craig Chambers on compil
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Ammar Bouhouche
Ammar Bouhouche[1] was born on December 17, 1938 in Al-Ancer (El-milia, Jijel), Algeria. He was member of the National Liberation Army, and later the National Liberation Front. Bouhouche is known for his nationalist activism in the Middle East and United States supporting the Algerian Revolution against French colonisation and oppression. First Algerian holder of a Ph.D. in political science,
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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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Ilan Sadeh
Ilan Sadeh (born June 1, 1953) is an Israeli IT theoretician, entrepreneur, and human rights activist. He holds the position of Associate Professor of Computer Sciences and Mathematics at the University for Information Science and Technology "St. Paul The Apostole"[1] in Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia. Sadeh was the first to claim publicly in the Israeli media that Israel has no right to be c
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Daniel Frank Walls
Daniel Frank Walls or Dan Walls (13 September 1942 – 12 May 1999) FRS was a New Zealand theoretical physicist specialising in quantum optics.[1] Walls gained a BSc in physics and mathematics and a first class honours MSc in physics at the University of Auckland. He then went to Harvard University as a Fulbright Scholar, obtaining his PhD in 1969. He was supervised by Roy J. Glauber who was
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Homer Neal
Homer Alfred Neal (June 13, 1942 – May 23, 2018[1]) was an African-American[2] particle physicist and a distinguished professor at the University of Michigan.[3] Neal was President of the American Physical Society in 2016.[4] He was also a board member of Ford Motor Company, a council member of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and a director of the Richard Lounsbery
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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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Horace Maynard Trent
Horace Maynard Trent (December 20, 1907 – December 16, 1964) was an United States physicist best known for being part of the team that found that the crack of a bullwhip was actually a sonic boom.[1] He is also the author of the currently accepted force-current analogy in physics known as the Trent analogy. Trent was born in Bradley County, Tennessee to his mother Lida L. Trent. His early y
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Taftazani
Sa'ad al-Din Masud ibn Umar ibn Abd Allah al-Taftazani (Persian: سعدالدین مسعودبن عمربن عبداللّه هروی خراسانی تفتازانی‎) also known as Al-Taftazani and Taftazani (1322[1]–1390[2]) was a Muslim Persian[3][4][5] polymath.[6] He also wrote a commentary on the Qur'an in Persian called "Kashf-al-Asrar".[2][7] Al-Taftazani was born in 1322 in Tafta
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