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Benjamin Chew Tilghman
Benjamin Chew Tilghman (1821—1901) was an American soldier and inventor. He is best known as the inventor of the process of sandblasting. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on October 26, 1821, the third child of Benjamin and Anne Marie (McMurtie). His father was descended from Richard Tilghman, a surgeon in the British Navy; he was related to William Tilghman, Chief Justice of Phil
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Felix Pirani
Felix Arnold Edward Pirani (2 February 1928 – 31 December 2015) was a British theoretical physicist specialising in gravitational physics and general relativity.[1][2][3] Pirani and Hermann Bondi wrote a series of articles (1959 to 1989) that established the existence of plane wave solutions for gravitational waves based on general relativity.[2][4][5][6][7][8] During the last half of the 20t
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Mirza
Mirza Bichurin is Professor and Head of the Department of Design and Technology of Radioelectronic Equipment, Yaroslav-the Wise Novgorod State University, Russia. He has authored 6 books and more than 160 articles in international refereed journals and holds credit for 20 patents. His most famous works: 1.“Magnetoelectricity in Composites.” Eds. M. I. Bichurin and D. Viehland, Pan Stanf
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Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Hans Joachim "John" Schellnhuber (born 7 June 1950)[1][2] is a German atmospheric physicist, climatologist and founding director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and former chair of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU).[3] Schellnhuber studied mathematics and physics, obtaining a doctorate in theoretical physics from the University of Regensburg in 198
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Denis Noble
Denis Noble CBE FRS FMedSci MAE[1] (born 16 November 1936) is a United Kingdom biologist who held the Burdon Sanderson Chair of Cardiovascular Physiology at the University of Oxford from 1984 to 2004 and was appointed Professor Emeritus and co-Director of Computational Physiology. He is one of the pioneers of systems biology and developed the first viable mathematical model of the working heart
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22 Nov 2022
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Mounir Laroussi
File:Mounir Laroussi.tif Mounir Laroussi, is a Tunisian-American scientist. He is known for his work in plasma science, especially low temperature plasmas and their biomedical applications. Mounir Laroussi was born and raised in Sfax, Tunisia, the son of Habib Laroussi and Manana Jeloul. He is the middle child of three siblings. Laroussi attended the Alexander Dumas Elementary School and
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23 Jan 2023
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Armando J. Parodi
Armando J. Parodi (born March 16, 1942) is an Argentinean glycobiologist. He did his initial education at the School of Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. His PhD work was done under Luis Federico Leloir, a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work involving the finding of sugar nucleotides and how they play a role in the making of oligosaccharides and polysaccharides. He a
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08 Dec 2022
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August Komendant
August Eduard Komendant (October 2, 1906 – September 14, 1992) was an Estonian and United States structural engineer and a pioneer in the field of prestressed concrete, which can be used to build stronger and more graceful structures than normal concrete. He was born in Estonia and educated in engineering in Germany. After World War II he immigrated to the United States, where he wrote several
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Thomas Athol Rafter
Thomas Athol Rafter OBE (5 March 1913 – 26 September 1996) was a New Zealand teacher and nuclear chemist. Rafter was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1913.[1] Although carbon dating was invented in the United States by the chemist Willard Libby, New Zealand scientists played a significant part in its early development. Rafter is internationally recognized as one of the pioneers of the tec
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16 Dec 2022
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Hajo Meyer
File:My good fortune in Auschwitz.webm Hajo Meyer (born Hans Joachim Gustav Meyer; 12 August 1924 – 23 August 2014) was a Germany -born Dutch physicist, Holocaust survivor and anti-Zionist political activist.[1][2] Meyer was born in Bielefeld, the son of Therese (Melchior) and Gustav Meyer, a notary, who had fought in the First World War.[3] Meyer was Jewish.[4] Aged 14, he was sent by his
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