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Natalia Kryvda
Natalia Kryvda (Ukrainian: Наталія Юріївна Кривда; 25 July 1966, Kyiv) is a Ukrainian philosopher and public intellectual, Ph.D., professor at the department of Ukrainian philosophy and culture at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.[1] She is also an academic director of MBA programs at Edinburgh Business School at House of Knowledge.[2] Her sizeable body of work in
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David Rutledge
Dr. David B. Rutledge (born 1952) is the Kiyo and Eiko Tomiyasu Professor (em.) of Engineering and former Chair of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).[1] His earlier work on microwave circuits has been important for various advances in wireless communications and has been useful for applications such as radar, remote sensing, and s
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Yoav Sarig
Yoav Sarig (born July 27, 1937)[1] is an Israeli scientist, inventor and agricultural engineer. He is an expert in the field of mechanical harvesting of fruit, and is the holder of several patents for mechanical apparatus for the harvesting and processing of jojoba beans, pecan nuts and pomegranates. Sarig was born in Tel-Aviv.[2] He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the Technion
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Hélio Gelli Pereira
Hélio Gelli Pereira (September 23, 1918 – 16 August 1994) was a Brazilian-British virologist specialising in adenoviruses. Pereira was a co-recipient of the 1988 UNESCO Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology and was known for his work on the book, Viruses of Vertebrates.[1] He contributed to several areas of virology in research and international public service.[2] Pereira was born in the
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Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin OM KBE PRS[1] (5 February 1914 – 20 December 1998) was an English physiologist and biophysicist, who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Andrew Huxley and John Eccles. Hodgkin was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, to George Hodgkin and Mary Wilson Hodgkin. His father died of dysentery in Baghdad in 1918. His mother was remarried to Lionel Smith, wit
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Cora L. V. Scott
Cora Lodencia Veronica Scott (April 21, 1840 – January 3, 1923) was one of the best-known mediums of the Spiritualism movement of the last half of the 19th century. Most of her work was done as a trance lecturer, though she also wrote some books whose composition was attributed to spirit guides rather than her own personality. Cora Scott was born on April 21, 1840 near Cuba, New York. At he
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Frederick Stark Pearson
Frederick Stark Pearson (July 3, 1861 – May 7, 1915) was an United States electrical engineer and entrepreneur. Dr. Frederick Stark Pearson was the son of Ambrose and Hannah (Edgerly) Pearson. He graduated from Tufts University in 1883 with an A.M.B. and received an A.M.M. degree one year later. Previously, for one year (1879–80), he was instructor in chemistry in the Massachusetts Instit
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Monika Schultz
Monika Karin Schultz (born August 15, 1967 in Pasadena, Texas) is an American engineer. She currently works as a manager in coaching and development at Intertek in the Houston, Texas area.[1] She formerly worked for the United Space Alliance, a NASA contractor. She considers Nassau Bay, Texas her hometown.[2] In April 2005, Schultz served as an aquanaut on the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Op
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Guru Nanak
Gurū Nānak (15 April 1469 – 22 September 1539), also referred to as Bābā Nānak ('father Nānak'),[1] was the founder of Sikhism and is the first of the ten Sikh Gurus. His birth is celebrated worldwide as Guru Nanak Gurpurab on Katak Pooranmashi ('full-moon of Kattak'), i.e. October–November. Nanak is said to have travelled far and wide across Asia teaching people the message of ik onk
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Erhard Kietz
Dr. Erhard Karl Kietz (* August 22, 1909 in Leipzig Germany – April 6, 1982 in Blütlingen (Wustrow, Lower Saxony) Germany ) was a German-born physicist, who researched frequency constancy of video signals. Born August 22, 1909 in Leipzig, Germany as the eldest child of mathematics teacher Georg and Anna Kietz, Erhard Karl Kietz attended the Nikolai School in Leipzig and then studied physic
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