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Arie Bodek
Arie Bodek (born 1947) is an American experimental particle physicist and the George E. Pake Professor of Physics at the University of Rochester.[1] Bodek was awarded the 2004 American Physical Society W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics for his "broad, sustained, and insightful contributions to elucidating the structure of the nucleon, using a wide variety of probes, tools,
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Abraham Alikhanov
Abraham Isahakovich Alikhanov (Alikhanian, Armenian: Աբրահամ Իսահակի Ալիխանյան) (February 20, 1904 – December 8, 1970) was a Soviet Armenian physicist, academic of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He was one of the leaders of the Soviet atomic project.[1][2] In 1945, he founded and became director of the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics. He is known as one
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Sossina M. Haile
Sossina M. Haile (born July 28, 1966) is an Ethiopian-United States chemist, known for developing the first solid acid fuel cells.[1] She is a professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University, Illinois, USA.[2] Haile received the NSF National Young Investigator Award (1994–99), Humboldt Fellowship (1992–93), Fulbright Fellowship (1991–92), and AT&T Cooperative Res
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James Bullough Lansing
James Bullough Lansing (born James Martini, January 14, 1902 – September 24, 1949) was a pioneering American audio engineer and loudspeaker designer who was most notable for establishing two audio companies that bear his name, Altec Lansing and JBL, the latter taken from his initials, JBL. James Martini was born on January 14, 1902, in Greenridge, Nilwood Township, Macoupin County, Illino
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Erik Buell
Erik F. Buell (born April 2, 1950, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is the founder, former Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of the Buell Motorcycle Company, which eventually merged with Harley-Davidson Corp. Buell is a pioneer of modern race motorcycle technology. Buell is also the founder of Erik Buell Racing.[1] Erik Buell is now a co founder of VANGUARDSPARK - Electric Urban Mobility (Vangua
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Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky
Wolfgang Kurt Hermann "Pief" Panofsky (April 24, 1919 – September 24, 2007), was a German-American physicist who won many awards including the National Medal of Science. Panofsky was born in Berlin, Germany to a family of art historians Dorothea and Erwin Panofsky. His ancestors were of Jewish descent. He spent much of his early life in Hamburg, where his father was a Professor of Art Histo
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John Henry Schwarz
John Henry Schwarz (/ʃwɔːrts/; born November 22, 1941) is an United States theoretical physicist.[1] Along with Yoichiro Nambu, Holger Bech Nielsen, Joël Scherk, Gabriele Veneziano, Michael Green, and Leonard Susskind, he is regarded as one of the founders of string theory. He studied mathematics at Harvard College (A.B., 1962) and theoretical physics at the University of California at Be
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Jeff Gill
Jefferson Morris Gill (born December 22, 1960) is Distinguished Professor of Government, and of Mathematics & Statistics, the Director of the Center for Data Science, the Editor of Political Analysis, and a member of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience at American University as of the Fall of 2017. He was a Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis and the Director
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Robert Muller
Robert Muller (March 11, 1923 – September 20, 2010) was an international civil servant with the United Nations . Serving with the UN for 40 years and rising to the rank of Assistant Secretary-General, his ideas about world government, world peace and spirituality led to the increased representation of religions in the UN, especially of New Age Movement. He was known by some as "the philosopher
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Elizabeth Lack
Elizabeth Lack (1916–2015) was a British ornithologist and researcher, best known for her contributions to the massive reference book, A Dictionary of Birds. Born Elizabeth Silva in June 1916 in Hertfordshire, England, her father was starch manufacturer, Jack Silva of Kent. She grew passionate about birds and nature while she was still a young girl. She also had parallel interests in violin
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