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Robert Bruce Lindsay
Robert Bruce Lindsay (1 January 1900 – 2 March 1985) was an United States physicist and physics professor, known for his prolific authorship of physics books in acoustics, and historical and philosophical analyses of physics.[1][2] R(obert) Bruce Lindsay's January 1, 1900 birth date hailed a new century. At the age of 20, he received both a BA and an MS in physics from Brown University. Bef
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Miklos Porkolab
Miklos Porkolab (born March 24, 1939) is a Hungarian-American physicist specializing in plasma physics. He emigrated in 1957 from Hungary to Canada, where he studied at the University of British Columbia (Bachelor, 1963) and then at Stanford University, where he obtained his Master degree in 1964 and his PhD in 1968. He then moved to the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, where he worked as a
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John Texter
John Texter (born August 9, 1949, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is an American engineer, chemist, and educator, and is professor of polymer and coating technology at Eastern Michigan University (EMU) in Ypsilanti, Michigan.[1] He is best known for his work in applied dispersion technology and small particle science, for his international conference organization activities, including Particles 2001
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Allan David Stephen Barr
Allan David Stephen Barr (A. D. S. Barr) (11 September 1930 – 11 February 2018) was a British Chartered Engineer who was a professor at the University of Aberdeen. Barr was selected as Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1983.[1] Allan David Stephen Barr was born on 11 September 1930, in Glasgow, Scotland, son of Allan and Agnes Barr. His father, Allan Barr, was a Professor, a theo
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John Fleming
John Irving Fleming is an Australian priest and bioethicist. He was the founding president of Campion College.[1] Fleming was originally an Anglican priest but later became a Roman Catholic priest. He is currently suspended from public ministry. The son of an Anglican priest, Fleming graduated with a B.A. from the University of Adelaide, a Licentiate in Theology from the Australian College of
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Alexei Yuryevich Smirnov
Alexei Yuryevich Smirnov (Russian: Алексе́й Ю́рьевич Cмирно́в; born October 16, 1951) is a neutrino physics researcher and one of the discoverers of the MSW Effect. Alexei Smirnov graduated from MSU Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University in 1974. In 1977, he began to work at the Institute for Nuclear Research (INR) of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, where he
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Olaf Lechtenfeld
Olaf Lechtenfeld is a German mathematical physicist, academic and researcher. He is a full professor at the Institute of Theoretical Physics at Leibniz University, where he founded the Riemann Center for Geometry and Physics.[1] Lechtenfeld’s research is focused on string theory, gauge theory and integrable models. He has published over 200 research papers on mathematical physics, classical a
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Joseph Francisco
Joseph S. Francisco (born 1955) was President of the American Chemical Society from 2009-2010.[1] Until 2018, he served as the Dean of College of Arts and Sciences,[2] Elmer H. and Ruby M.Cordes Chair in chemistry[3] at University of Nebraska in Lincoln. He received his bachelors from the University of Texas at Austin in 1977 and his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983.[1]
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Harry Harlow
Harry Frederick Harlow (October 31, 1905 – December 6, 1981) was an American psychologist best known for his maternal-separation, dependency needs, and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys, which manifested the importance of caregiving and companionship to social and cognitive development. He conducted most of his research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where humanistic ps
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Stanley Mazor
Stanley Mazor is an American microelectronics engineer who was born on 22 October 1941 in Chicago, Illinois. He is one of the co-inventors of the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004, together with Ted Hoff, Masatoshi Shima, and Federico Faggin. Mazor was born to Jewish parents, As a youth, Mazor's family moved to California, where he attended Oakland High School from which he graduat
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