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James O. Clephane
James Ogilvie Clephane (February 21, 1842[1] – November 30, 1910[2]) was an American inventor, bar-admitted court reporter and venture capitalist in Washington, D.C. and New York City . He was involved in improving, promoting and supporting several inventions during the Gilded Age, including the typewriter, the graphophone, and the linotype machine. He has been called the "father of the linoty
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Wilson Marcy Powell
Wilson Marcy Powell (July 18, 1903 – March 2, 1974) was an American physicist and a member of the Physics department at the University of California, Berkeley. The son of Harvard lawyer Wilson Marcy Powell, Sr. and Elsie Knapp, Wilson was born in Litchfield, Connecticut.[1] He matriculated into Harvard College in 1922 and graduated in 1926. During his undergraduate years, Powell went on two
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Thomas W. Campbell
Thomas Warren Campbell (December 9, 1944) is a physicist, lecturer, and author of the My Big T.O.E. (Theory of Everything) trilogy, a work that claims to unify general relativity, quantum mechanics, and metaphysics along with the origins of consciousness. The work is based on the simulation argument, which posits that reality is both virtual and subjective. Campbell agrees with other notable phi
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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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Pranavananda
Swami Pranavananda (Bengali: স্বামী প্রণবানন্দ) also known as Yugacharya Srimat Swami Pranavananda Ji Maharaj, (29 January 1896 – 8 February 1941)[1] was a Hindu yogi and saint who founded an organization known as the Bharat Sevashram Sangha.[2] He is remembered for his pioneering efforts to bring the modern Hindu society into the new age without compromising th
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Oliver Reynolds Wulf
Oliver Reynolds Wulf (22 April 1897, Norwich, Connecticut – 11 January 1987) was a chemist, physicist, and meteorologist, known for his research on nitrogen fixation, ozone, atmospheric dynamics, and ions and winds in the ionosphere.[1] After high school in Connecticut, Oliver entered Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1915. His education was interrupted when he joined the U. S. Navy in Jun
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Friedhelm Hengsbach
Friedhelm Hengsbach is a professor emeritus for Christian social ethics. He was also director of the Oswald von Nell-Breuning Institute for Economic and Social Ethical Studies of the Jesuit Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology in Frankfurt. Friedhelm Hengsbach was born in Dortmund in 1937. After attending grammar school and passing his A-levels he joined the Society of Jes
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Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann
Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann (German pronunciation: [ˈhaɪ̯nʁɪç ˈɡʊsta(ː)f ˈviːdəman];[1][2]) FRS(For) HFRSE (2 October 1826 – 24 March 1899) was a German physicist and scientific author. Wiedemann was born in Berlin the son of a merchant who died two years later. Following the death of his mother in 1842 he lived with his grandparents.[3] After attending a private school as well
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Robert M. Nerem
Robert M. Nerem, often referred to as Bob Nerem, a member of the U. S. National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine, held the Parker H. Petit Distinguished Chair for Engineering in Medicine and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Georgia Institute of Technology[1] where he is now an Emeritus Professor. Nerem was born on July 20, 1937. He received B.S. from the University of O
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Waheed Arian
Waheed Arian (born 5 August 1983) is a British doctor and radiologist, born in Afghanistan, who founded a telemedicine charity called Arian Teleheal. The charity enables doctors in conflict zones and low resource countries to use their smartphones to receive advice from volunteer specialists in the UK, Canada, the US and other countries. Arian has won several international awards for his achieve
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