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Chih-Kung Jen
Chih-Kung Jen (Chinese: 任之恭; pinyin: Rén Zhīgōng; August 15 or October 2, 1906 – November 19, 1995) was a Chinese physicist who emigrated to the U.S. and participated in some of the 20th century's major scientific, political and social developments in both the United States and China. Born in a mud house in a remote and largely illiterate village in China, he was awarded a scholarshi
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George Catlin
Sir George Edward Gordon Catlin (26 July 1896 – 7 February 1979)[1] was an English political scientist and philosopher. A strong proponent of Anglo-American co-operation, he worked for many years as a professor at Cornell University and other universities and colleges in the United States and Canada. He preached the use of a natural science model for political science. McMaster University Libr
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Kate Claghorn
Kate Holladay Claghorn (1864–1938) was an American sociologist, economist, statistician, legal scholar, and Progressive Era activist, who became one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Claghorn was born on February 12, 1864 in Aurora, Illinois, but grew up in New York City . She earned a bachelor's degree in 1892 from Bryn Mawr College, and com
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Oskar Negt
Oskar Reinhard Negt (German pronunciation: [ˈneːkt]; born 1 August 1934 in Kapkeim, East Prussia) is a philosopher and critical social theorist. He is an emeritus professor of sociology at Leibniz University Hannover, and one of Germany's most prominent social scientists.[1][2] Little of his work has been translated into English. Negt studied law and philosophy in the University of Göttingen
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Evan O'Neill Kane
Evan O'Neill Kane (December 23, 1924 – March 23, 2006), known as E. O. Kane in his publications, was an American physicist who established some of the basic understanding of the theory of semiconductors that are now used in consumer and other electronics. He was one of the main developers of the k·p perturbation theory which is used to calculate band structures. Kane's great, great uncle,
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Domenico Grasso
Dr. Domenico Grasso (b. 1955 Worcester, Massachusetts) was provost of the University of Delaware. Prior to holding this position, he was Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate College at the University of Vermont. He did his secondary school education at St. John's High School (Massachusetts) and holds a B.Sc. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, an M.S. from Purdue University and
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Martin Lings
Martin Lings (24 January 1909 – 12 May 2005), also known as Abū Bakr Sirāj ad-Dīn, was an England writer, scholar, and philosopher. A student of the Swiss metaphysician Frithjof Schuon[1] and an authority on the work of William Shakespeare, he is best known as the author of Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources, first published in 1983 and still in print. Lings was born in Bur
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Arthur W. Conway
Arthur William Conway FRS[1] (2 October 1875 – 11 July 1950) was a distinguished Irish mathematician and mathematical physicist who wrote one of the first books on relativity and co-edited two volumes of William Rowan Hamilton's collected works. He also served as President of University College Dublin between 1940 and 1947.[2] Memorial plaque in Wexford town. https://handwiki.org/wi
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Jason Crain
Jason Crain (born August 24, 1966) is an American physicist based in the United Kingdom. He was appointed to IBM Research in 2016. He previously held the Chair of Applied Physics at the University of Edinburgh[1] in Scotland and was appointed Director of Research at the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in London (as of 2015) where he also held the role of Head of Physical Sciences (since
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Robert L. Forward
Robert Lull Forward (August 15, 1932 – September 21, 2002) was an American physicist and science fiction writer.[1] His literary work was noted for its scientific credibility and use of ideas developed from his career as an aerospace engineer. He also made important contributions to gravitational wave detection research.[2] Forward earned his doctorate from the University of Maryland in 196
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