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Julius Sumner Miller
Julius Sumner Miller (May 17, 1909 – April 14, 1987) was an United States physicist and television personality.[1] He is best known for his work on children's television programs in North America and Australia. Julius Sumner Miller was born in Billerica, Massachusetts, as the youngest of nine children. His father was Latvian, and his Lithuanian mother spoke 12 languages.[2][3] Miller grad
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Tse Ka Kui
Tse Ka Kui (born 10 September 1948) is an active social entrepreneur in Hong Kong. Tse has held senior executive positions in Shui on Group for ten years before setting up his own management consulting company, K K Tse & Associates in 1992. He was a co-founder Dialogue in the Dark (Hong Kong) Ltd., which brought Dialogue in the Dark to Hong Kong and China in 2008. In 2012, he found Education for
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R. Orin Cornett
R. Orin Cornett (November 13, 1913 – December 7, 2002) was an American physicist, university professor and administrator, and the inventor of a literacy system for the deaf, known as Cued Speech. R. (Richard) Orin Cornett was born in Driftwood, Oklahoma, a now unincorporated town near the Kansas border located in Alfalfa County, on November 14, 1913.[1] He earned his BS degree in Mathematic
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Hans Thoenen
Hans Thoenen (born 5 May 1928 in Zweisimmen, Switzerland; died 23 June 2012 in Munich, Germany) was a Swiss neurobiologist best known for his work on neurotrophins.[1][2][3] Thoenen studied medicine at the Universities of Bern and Innsbruck, graduating in 1953 and receiving his doctorate from Bern in 1957. In 1961 he joined the research laboratories of the Swiss pharmaceutical company Hoffman
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Émile Benveniste
Émile Benveniste (French: [bɛ̃vǝnist]; 27 May 1902 – 3 October 1976) was a France structural linguist and semiotician. He is best known for his work on Indo-European languages and his critical reformulation of the linguistic paradigm established by Ferdinand de Saussure. Benveniste was born in Aleppo, Aleppo Vilayet, Ottoman Syria to a Sephardi family. His father sent him to Paris to u
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Lawrence W. Barsalou
Lawrence W. Barsalou (born November 3, 1951) is an American psychologist and a cognitive scientist, currently working at the University of Glasgow.[1] At the University of Glasgow, Barsalou is a professor of psychology, performing research in the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology. He received a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of California, San Diego in 1977 (George
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Carlos Osuna
Carlos Osuna (born November 22, 1970) is a Mexican computer programmer, software architect and entrepreneur best known as being one of the founders of Espacios Business Media during its inception days. He installed one of the first commercial Linux web hosting servers in Latin America, using Red Hat in 1997. He later left that company in 1998 to pursue other interests, joining Consiss,[1] an up
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Paul Lin Ta-kuang
Paul Lin Ta-kuang (simplified Chinese: 林达光; traditional Chinese: 林達光; pinyin: Lín Dáguāng; Wade–Giles: Lin Ta-kuang (March 14, 1920 – July 4, 2004) was a Canadian-Chinese political scientist and peace activist, the founding Director of McGill’s Center for East Asian Studies (1965-1982) and Rector of the University of East Asia in Macau (now Macau University) from 1986 to 198
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Jeremy Bernstein
Jeremy Bernstein (born December 31, 1929, in Rochester, New York) is an American theoretical physicist and science essayist. Bernstein's parents, Philip S. Bernstein, a Reform rabbi, and Sophie Rubin Bernstein named him after the biblical Jeremiah, the subject of his father's masters thesis. Philip's parents were immigrants from Lithuania, while Sophie was of Russian-Jewish descent. The famil
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Jim Bell
James Dalton Bell (born 1958) is an American crypto-anarchist who created the idea of arranging for anonymously sponsored assassination payments via the Internet, which he called "assassination politics".[1] He was imprisoned on felony charges of tax evasion in 1997.[1] In 2001, Wired called Bell "one of the Internet's most famous essayists"[2] and "the world's most notorious crypto-convict".[3]
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