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John Cioffi
John Cioffi (born November 7, 1956) is an American electrical engineer, educator and prolific inventor who has made contributions in telecommunication system theory, specifically in coding theory and information theory. Best known as "the father of DSL,"[1] Cioffi's pioneering research was instrumental in making digital subscriber line (DSL) technology practical and has led to over 400 publicati
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Rochus Eugen Vogt
Rochus Eugen (Robbie) Vogt (born December 21, 1929 in Neckarelz, Germany) is a German-American physicist, famous as the director and principal investigator of the LIGO project from 1987 to 1994.[1] Vogt studied from 1950 to 1952 at the University of Karlsruhe and from 1952 to 1953 at Heidelberg University. In 1953 he came to the United States. At the University of Chicago he graduated in phys
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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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Shmuel Erlich
H. Shmuel Erlich (born July 11, 1937 in Frankfurt) is an Israeli psychoanalyst, organizational consultant and psychologist of clinical psychology. Since 1990 he has been professor of the Sigmund Freud Chair at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2005 he became emeritus.[1] Erlich is one of the spiritual fathers of the Nazareth-Conferences.[2] Almost two years after Shmuel Erlich's birth, a
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Frederick Terman
Frederick Emmons Terman (/ˈtɜːrmən/; June 7, 1900 – December 19, 1982) was an American professor and academic administrator. He is widely credited (together with William Shockley) as being the father of Silicon Valley.[1] Terman completed his undergraduate degree in chemistry and his master's degree in electrical engineering at Stanford University.[2] His father, Lewis Terman, a psychol
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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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Etty Hillesum
Esther "Etty" Hillesum (15 January 1914 – 30 November 1943) was the Dutch author of confessional letters and diaries which describe both her religious awakening and the persecutions of Jewish people in Amsterdam during the German occupation. In 1943 she was deported and killed in Auschwitz concentration camp.[1] Hillesum c. 1940. https://handwiki.org/wiki/index.php?curid=1114473
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Noe Itō
Noe Itō (伊藤 野枝, Itō Noe, January 21, 1895 – September 16, 1923) was a Japanese anarchist, social critic, author and feminist. Itō was born on the island of Kyushu near Fukuoka, Japan on January 21, 1895.[1] At 14 she went to work for the post office; the next year she moved to Tokyo to enter the Ueno Girls' High School. In the summer of her fifth year at Ueno, Ito's uncle arrang
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Gino Claudio Segrè
Gino Claudio Segrè (born October 4, 1938) is a Professor of Physics, Emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books on the history of science, particularly on atomic physics. Segrè’s Faust in Copenhagen was a finalist in the Los Angeles Times Book Fair[1] and winner of the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award.[2] Gino Segrè was born in Flore
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Tanya Harrison
(Dr.) Tanya Harrison is a Planetary Scientist and Manager of Science Programs at Planet Labs, working in their federal arm with science agencies to increase research use of Planet Labs' Earth observing satellite data. Previously she was the Director of Research at Arizona State University's Space Technology and Science Initiative, and was on the science team of the Mars Opportunity and Curiosity
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