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Gustave Trouvé
Gustave Pierre Trouvé (2 January 1839 – 27 July 1902) was a France electrical engineer and inventor in the 19th century. Trouvé was born on 2 January 1839 in La Haye-Descartes (Indre-et-Loire, France) and died on 27 July 1902 in Paris. A polymath, he was highly respected for his innovative skill in miniaturization. Gustave Trouvé was born into a modest family, his father, Jacques Trouv
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John S. Casement
John Stephen "Jack" Casement (January 19, 1829 – December 13, 1909) was a general and brigade commander in the Union Army during the American Civil War and a noted railroad contractor. He directed the construction of the Union Pacific's section of the Transcontinental Railroad, which linked the Western United States with the East. John S. Casement was born in Geneva, New York. He worked as
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Ewan Birney
John Frederick William Birney (known as Ewan) (born 6 December 1972)[1][2][3][4] CBE FRS FMedSci[5][6] is joint director with Rolf Apweiler of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI),[7][8][9] part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire. He also serves as non-executive director of Genomics England, chair of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (
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Joseph Polchinski
Joseph Gerard Polchinski Jr.[1] (May 16, 1954 – February 2, 2018) was an American theoretical physicist and string theorist.[2][3] Polchinski was born in White Plains, New York, the elder of two children to Joseph Gerard Polchinski Sr. (1929–2002),[4] a financial consultant and manager, and Joan (née Thornton), an office worker and homemaker.[5] Polchinski is primarily of Irish descent w
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B. A. Chopade
Professor B. A. Chopade is a distinguish scientist, innovator and academician of international repute. His research area includes microbiology, biotechnology and nanotechnology. He is research mentor, institution builder, great visionary and innovative administrator. Currently he is working as Vice-Chancellor as well as advisor to the Pro- Chancellor at AKS University, Satna, Madhya Pradesh, Ind
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Mildred Dresselhaus
Mildred Dresselhaus[1] (née Spiewak; November 11, 1930 – February 20, 2017),[2] known as the "queen of carbon science",[3] was the first female Institute Professor and professor emerita of physics and electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[4] Dresselhaus won numerous awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Medal of Science, the Enrico Fer
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Elena Filonova
https://urfu.ru/ru/about/personal-pages/personal/person/elena.filonova/ https://science.urfu.ru/portal/ru/persons/--(effc56a3-2f6c-4140-8dc6-8797bdd43528).html https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6602857032 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1LIaseoAAAAJ&hl=ru https://www.researchgate.net/profile/E-Filonova https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7273-7525 https://www.webofscience
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Susan Kilrain
Susan Kilrain (born October 24, 1961) is an engineer, a former United States Navy officer, and a former NASA astronaut. Kilrain was born in Augusta, Georgia, as Susan Leigh Still to Dr. Joseph Still, M.D. and his wife, Jean Ann Batho; she has nine siblings. Her father was a prominent burn surgeon who founded and directed the Joseph M. Still Burn Center in Augusta, Georgia. Kilrain graduated f
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Frances E. Allen
Frances Elizabeth "Fran" Allen (born August 4, 1932) is an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers.[1][2][3] Allen was the first female IBM Fellow and in 2006 became the first woman to win the Turing Award.[4] Her achievements include seminal work in compilers, program optimization, and parallelization.[5] Since 2002, she has been a Fellow Emerita from IBM.[6
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Jeffrey Satinover
Jeffrey Burke Satinover (September 4, 1947) is an American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and physicist. He is known for books on a number of controversial topics in physics and neuroscience, and on religion, but especially for his writing and public-policy efforts relating to homosexuality, same-sex marriage and the ex-gay movement. Satinover was born in Chicago, Illinois, on September 4, 1947
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