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Liu Bowen
Liu Ji (July 1, 1311 – May 16, 1375),[1][2] courtesy name Bowen, better known as Liu Bowen, was a Chinese military strategist, philosopher, politician, and poet who lived in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties. He was born in Qingtian County (present-day Wencheng County, Wenzhou, Zhejiang). He served as a key advisor to Zhu Yuanzhang (the Hongwu Emperor), the founder of the Ming dynasty, in
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Harold G. White
Harold G. "Sonny" White is a mechanical engineer, aerospace engineer and applied physicist who is the Advanced Propulsion Team Lead for the NASA Engineering Directorate and is known for proposing new Alcubierre drive concepts and promoting advanced propulsion projects, under development at the NASA Johnson Space Center, including the first practical experiment to test the existence of Alcubierre
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Neil Peart
Neil Ellwood Peart OC (/pɪərt/; September 12, 1952 – January 7, 2020) was a Canadian musician, songwriter, and author, best known as the drummer and primary lyricist of the rock band Rush. Peart earned numerous awards for his musical performances, including an induction into the Modern Drummer Readers Poll Hall of Fame in 1983, making him the youngest person ever so honoured.[1] His drumming
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Robert Barron
Robert Emmet Barron (born November 19, 1959) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church currently serving as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He is the founder of the Catholic ministerial organization Word on Fire, and was the host of the TV series CATHOLICISM, an award-winning documentary about the Catholic faith, which aired on PBS. Previously, he served as recto
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John Ellis
Jonathan Richard Ellis CBE FRS HonFInstP (born 1 July 1946[1]) is a British theoretical physicist who is currently Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics at King's College London.[2] After completing his secondary education at Highgate School, he attended King's College, Cambridge, earning his PhD in theoretical (high-energy) particle physics in 1971. After brief post-doc positions in t
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Shafi Ahmed
Shafi Ahmed is a surgeon, teacher, futurist, innovator and entrepreneur. Shafi was born on 26 January 1969 in Sylhet District, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and came to the United Kingdom as a child. His father, the late Mimbor Ali, was honoured by the Bangladeshi government for his significant contribution to the liberation of Bangladesh. He was appointed as a Consultant General, Laparoscopi
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Prakash Divakaran
Dr. Prakash Divakaran Is an Indian Entrepreneur, Professor, Supply Chain Expert, Keynote Speaker, and Pro-Vice chancellor at Himalayan University. He is the Director and CEO of Infinite Global Research Conference Pvt.Ltd Pune, India. A Graduate of Business Administration, Ph.D. from Madurai Kamaraj University. Dr.Prakash Divakaran is Credited with several Books and Articles on Supply Chain, Econ
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Friedrich Hund
Friedrich Hermann Hund (4 February 1896 – 31 March 1997) was a Germany physicist from Karlsruhe known for his work on atoms and molecules.[1] Hund worked at the Universities of Rostock, Leipzig, Jena, Frankfurt am Main, and Göttingen. Hund worked with such prestigious physicists as Schrödinger, Dirac, Heisenberg, Max Born, and Walter Bothe. At that time, he was Born's assistant, working
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Julius Edgar Lilienfeld
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (April 18, 1882 – August 28, 1963) was a Jewish Austro-Hungarian-born German-American physicist and electronic engineer, credited with the first patents on the field-effect transistor (FET) (1925) and electrolytic capacitor (1931). Because of his failure to publish articles in learned journals and because high-purity semiconductor materials were not available yet, his
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Arlie Petters
Arlie Oswald Petters, MBE (born February 8, 1964) is a Belizean-American mathematical physicist, who is the Benjamin Powell Professor of Mathematics and a Professor Physics and Economics at Duke University.[1] Petters is a founder of mathematical astronomy, focusing on problems connected to the interplay of gravity and light and employing tools from astrophysics, cosmology, general relativity, h
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