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Jennie Han
Dr Jennie Han graduated from the University of Oxford with a Masters of Arts in Medical Sciences and a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery. During the course, she was awarded the Brian Johnson Prize for Pathology for the best essay in pathology in Oxford University Clinical School. During her clinical placement, she was the Tutor in Anatomy for Christ Church, Oxford. She was also the Presi
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Gregory Jaczko
Gregory B. Jaczko (/ˈjɑːskoʊ/; born October 29, 1970, Norristown, Pennsylvania) was a Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). A physicist with public policy experience in academia and serving on Congressional staffs, he has been deeply interested in the development of nuclear power and its relation to the American public. On May 21, 2012, he announced his resignation pend
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Tadeusz Sendzimir
Tadeusz Sendzimir (originally Sędzimir,[1] July 15, 1894, Lwów – September 1, 1989, Jupiter, Florida[2]) of Ostoja coat of arms was a Poland engineer and inventor of international renown with 120 patents in mining and metallurgy, 73 of which were awarded to him in the United States.[3] His name has been given to revolutionary methods of processing steel and metals used in every industrializ
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Frances Champagne
Frances A. Champagne is a psychologist and professor known for her research in the fields of molecular neuroscience, maternal behavior, and epigenetics. Her main research interest concerns how genetic and environmental factors interact to regulate maternal behavior, and how natural variations in this behavior can shape the behavioral development of offspring through epigenetic changes in gene ex
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William Houlder Zachariasen
(Fredrik) William Houlder "Willie" Zachariasen (5 February 1906 – 24 December 1979) was a Norwegian-American physicist, specializing in X-ray crystallography and famous for his work on the structure of glass.[1] Fredrik William Houlder Zachariasen was born in Langesund at Bamble in Telemark, Norway. He entered the University of Oslo in 1923, where he studied in the Mineralogical Institute.
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Ed Lu
Edward Tsang "Ed" Lu (simplified Chinese: 卢杰; traditional Chinese: 盧傑; pinyin: Lú Jié; born July 1, 1963) is an American physicist and former NASA astronaut. He flew on two Space Shuttle flights, and made an extended stay aboard the International Space Station.[1] In 2007, Lu retired from NASA to become the program manager of Google's Advanced Projects Team.[2][3] In 2002, while still
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Murray Raney
Murray Raney (October 14, 1885 – March 3, 1966) was an United States mechanical engineer born in Carrollton, Kentucky. He was the developer of a nickel catalyst that became known as Raney nickel, which is often used in industrial processes and scientific research for the hydrogenation of multiple covalent bonds present in molecules. Raney was born in Carrollton, Kentucky, to William Wallace
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William T. Kane
William T. Kane (September 8, 1932 – September 23, 2008) was a physicist for Corning Incorporated, formerly Corning Glass Works, Inc., in Corning, New York, who held patents in crystallography and heat-sensing technology—developments which contributed to the early processing and manufacture of fiber optics. He was also the Corning representative for the establishment of international standar
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Theodore Case
Theodore Willard Case (December 12, 1888 – May 13, 1944) was an American chemist, physicist, and inventor known for the invention of the Movietone sound-on-film sound film system. Case was born in Auburn, New York into a prominent family. Generations of the Cases lived on Genesee Street in Auburn, which eventually became the residence of Theodore Case's family. He attended St. John's Northw
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Heinrich Rubens
Heinrich Rubens (30 March 1865, Wiesbaden, Nassau, Germany – 17 July 1922, Berlin, Germany) was a German physicist. He is known for his measurements of the energy of black-body radiation which led Max Planck to the discovery of his radiation law. This was the genesis of quantum theory. After having attended realgymnasium Wöhlerschule in Frankfurt am Main, he started in 1884 to study electric
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