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Elliot Jager
Elliot Jager (born November 3, 1954) is an American-born Israeli journalist, political scientist, and author of The Pater: My Father, My Judaism, My Childlessness. He is a former editorial page editor of The Jerusalem Post and a former senior contributing editor at The Jerusalem Report. His book The Balfour Declaration Sixty-Seven Words – 100 Years of Conflict was published by Gefen in fall 20
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Roland Wiesendanger
Roland Wiesendanger (born 5 October 1961) is a German physicist, specializing in nanoscience. Since 1993 he has been a full professor at the University of Hamburg, Germany, where he established a National Center of Competence in Nanotechnology. He has been awarded three times in a row with the ERC Advanced Grant of the European Research Council as first scientist in Europe. In the Laudatio for t
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Ulf Leonhardt
Ulf Leonhardt, FRSE (born 9 October 1965 in Schlema, Germany) is a German and British scientist. In 2006, he published the first scientific paper on invisibility cloaking with metamaterials at the same time Pendry's group published their paper in the journal Science. He has been involved with the science of cloaking objects since then.[1][2][3][4] He is a Wolfson Research Merit Award holder fro
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David Abram
David Abram (born June 24, 1957) is an American philosopher, cultural ecologist, and performance artist, best known for his work bridging the philosophical tradition of phenomenology with environmental and ecological issues.[1][2] He is the author of Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology[3] (2010) and The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World (1996), for which
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Richard M. Osgood Jr.
Richard Magee Osgood Junior (born December 28, 1943 in Kansas City).[1] is an American applied and pure physicist (condensed matter and chemical physics of surfaces, laser technology, nano-optics). He is currently Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering[2] and Applied Physics[3] at Columbia University. Osgood began his scientific career in 1966, after graduating from the U.S. Military Aca
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Cynthia Clark
Cynthia Zang Facer Clark FRSS (born April 1, 1942)[1] is an American statistician known for her work improving the quality of data in the Federal Statistical System of the United States, and especially in the National Agricultural Statistics Service.[2][3] She has also served as the president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics[4] and the Washington Statistical Society.[5] (As of 2018) she is
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Charles T. Main
Charles Thomas Main (born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, February 16, 1856 – March 6, 1943)[1] was an American mechanical engineer and business executive, who worked for New England textile mills, and also in the then new field of hydroelectricity. He is known as founder of Charles T. Main, Inc., and as president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1918-19. He was th
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Francis Perrin
Francis Perrin (17 August 1901 – 4 July 1992) was a France physicist,[1] the son of Nobel prize-winning physicist Jean Perrin. Francis Perrin was born in Paris and attended École Normale Supérieure in Paris. In 1928 he obtained a doctorate in mathematical sciences from the faculté des sciences of Paris, based upon a thesis on Brownian motion[2] and became a faculty member of Collège de
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Oleg D. Jefimenko
Oleg Dmitrovich Jefimenko (October 14, 1922, Kharkiv, Ukraine – May 14, 2009, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States) was a physicist and Professor Emeritus at West Virginia University. Jefimenko received his B.A. degree at Lewis and Clark College in 1952 and his M. A. degree at the University of Oregon in 1954. He received his Ph.D. degree at the University of Oregon in 1956. Jefimenko w
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John Howard Redfield
John Howard Redfield (June 8, 1879 – April 17, 1944) was an United States mathematician, best known for discovery of what is now called Pólya enumeration theorem (PET) in 1927,[1] ten years ahead of similar but independent discovery made by George Pólya. Redfield was a great-grandson of William Charles Redfield, one of the founders and the first president of AAAS. Redfield's ability is ev
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