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Céline Guivarch
1980 - Present (45 years)
Céline Guivarc'h is a French climate scientist modelling the impact of climate change from a multidisciplinary perspective and how to limit it. She is a research director at École des Ponts ParisTech. She is a member of the French High Council on Climate and a lead author on the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report .
Go to ProfileFriederike Moltmann is a linguist and philosopher. She has done pioneering work at the intersection of philosophy and linguistics, especially on the interface between metaphysics and natural language semantics, but also on the interface between philosophy of mind and mathematics. She is an important proponent of natural language ontology. She is currently Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris.
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Denyce Graves
1964 - Present (61 years)
Denyce Graves is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer. Early life Graves was born on March 7, 1964, in Washington, D.C., to Charles Graves and Dorothy Graves-Kenner. She is the middle of three children and was raised by her mother on Galveston Street, S.W., in the Bellevue section of Washington. She graduated from the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in 1981. Graves studied voice at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the New England Conservatory with Helen Hodam. She worked at the Wolf Trap Opera Company, which provides further training and experience for young singers who are between their academic training and full-time professional careers.
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Julia Wolfe
1958 - Present (67 years)
Julia Wolfe is an American composer and professor of music at New York University. According to The Wall Street Journal, Wolfe's music has "long inhabited a terrain of its own, a place where classical forms are recharged by the repetitive patterns of minimalism and the driving energy of rock". Her work Anthracite Fields, an oratorio for chorus and instruments, was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Music. She has also received the Herb Alpert Award and was named a MacArthur Fellow .
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Graziella Sciutti
1927 - 2001 (74 years)
Graziella Sciutti was an Italian soprano opera singer and later vocal teacher and opera producer. Career Sciutti was born in Turin, Italy. Her parents were musical, her father being an organist; her mother was French. She studied privately with Ginevra Marinuzzi, then in Rome at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia under Rachele Margliano-Mori with the intention of making a career on the concert platform. From 1948 she participated in broadcasts on Italian Radio, her first being L'oca del Cairo.
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Lyudmila Verbitskaya
1936 - 2019 (83 years)
Lyudmila Verbitskaya was a Russian linguist and teacher. She served as president of Saint Petersburg State University. Career Lyudmila Alekseevna Verbitskaya was born in Leningrad on 17 October 1936.
Go to ProfileEllen Ernst Kossek is an American academic and social scientist who is known for research on work, family, and personal life. She is the Basil S. Turner Distinguished Professor at Purdue University’s Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business. She previously served as the Research Director of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence for Purdue University’s Provost’s Office and as a University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University’s School of Human Resources and Labor Relations. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Mount Holyoke College, her Master of Business Administration from the Stephen M.
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Lynn Schofield Clark
Lynn Schofield Clark is an American media critic and scholar whose research focuses on media studies and film studies. She is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Media, Film, and Journalism Studies at the University of Denver. She is author of several books and articles on the role social and visual media play in the lives of diverse U.S. adolescents. In her 2017 book co-authored with Regina Marchi, Young People and the Future of News, Clark and Marchi utilize an ethnographic approach to tell the stories of how young people engage with social media and legacy media both as producers and consumers of news.
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Ji-young Kim
1978 - Present (47 years)
Ji-young Kim is a South Korean prima ballerina and is currently a principal dancer with the Korea National Ballet in Seoul, South Korea. Early years Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea. She tried a number of hobbies while young, including Taekwondo and piano. She developed an interest in ballet and began taking ballet classes when she was ten years old.
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Jessica Moore
1982 - Present (43 years)
Jessica Carol Moore is an American journalist who currently works for WCBS-TV in New York City. Awards and nominations 2010, won Ohio Valley Regional Emmy Award for WLEX-TV2011, won KAPB Award for WLEX-TV2013, won The Best of Silver State Awards for KSNV-DT along with KVVU-TV Anchor and Reporter John Huck2014, nominated 3 Pacific Southwest Regional Emmy Awards for KSNV-DT 2015, nominated Pacific Southwest Regional Emmy Award for KSNV-DT 2016, won Pacific Southwest Regional Emmy Award for KSNV
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Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre
1978 - Present (47 years)
Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre is a Montreal-based filmmaker most notable for her animated documentary films. After completing a BFA with honours in animation and an MFA in film production at Concordia University, she attended a Berlinale Talent Campus at the Berlin Film Festival in 2004, the Talent Lab at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2007, and participated in a three-month residency in Japan in Sapporo in 2009.
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Shamshad Begum
1919 - 2013 (94 years)
Shamshad Begum was an Indian singer who was one of the first playback singers in the Hindi film industry. Notable for her distinctive voice and range, she sang over 6,000 songs in Hindustani, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, and Punjabi languages, among which 1287 were Hindi film songs. She worked with renowned composers of the time, such as Naushad Ali and O. P. Nayyar, for whom she was one of their favorites. Her songs from the 1940s to the early 1970s remain popular and continue to be remixed.
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Gillian Crampton Smith
Gillian Crampton Smith is a British educator, interaction designer, and a pioneer of computer desktop publishing. Since the early 1980s she has developed several academic graduate programs focused on digital graphic design, typesetting and human-computer interaction, notably at Saint Martin's School of Art, the Royal College of Art , Interaction Design Institute Ivrea and Iuav University of Venice . She is an Honorary Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, and an advisor at the MIT Senseable City Lab.
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Éva Marton
1943 - Present (82 years)
Éva Marton is a Hungarian dramatic soprano, particularly known for her operatic portrayals of Puccini's Turandot and Tosca, and Wagnerianian roles. Vocal training and early years Marton was born in Budapest, where she studied voice at the Franz Liszt Academy. She made her professional debut as Kate Pinkerton in Puccini's Madama Butterfly at Hungary's Margaret Island summer festival. At the Hungarian State Opera, she made her debut as Queen of Shemaka in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel in 1968.
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Claire Hoffman
1977 - Present (48 years)
Claire Denise Hoffman is an American journalist, author, and assistant professor of journalism at the University of California, Riverside. Biography Claire Denise Hoffman was born in Iowa City, Iowa, March 5, 1977. From kindergarten through high school was raised in Fairfield, Iowa, where her divorced mother was part of the Transcendental Meditation movement. She attended Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment. She has a master's degree in Religious Studies from the University of Chicago Divinity School and a master's degree from the Columbia School of Journalism.
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Lights
1987 - Present (38 years)
Lights Poxleitner-Bokan , known mononymously as Lights , is a Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter. Her debut album, The Listening , included the singles "Drive My Soul" and "Saviour". Her second album, Siberia, which featured the single "Toes", was released in 2011. Her work has earned multiple Canadian Independent Music Awards, and Juno Awards including Pop Album of the Year for her third album Little Machines, which included the single "Up We Go", and fourth album Skin & Earth, in 2015 and 2018, respectively. Lights' fifth studio album, PEP, was released in 2022.
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Susanne Marsee
1941 - Present (84 years)
Susanne Marsee is an American mezzo-soprano of note, particularly acclaimed as a singing-actress. Her principal teacher was Nadine Conner, and her educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California at Los Angeles, and advanced studies at the American Opera Center of The Juilliard School. She is of Greek, English, and French heritage.
Go to ProfileYoonjung Kang is a Korean linguist and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Toronto. She is known for her works on phonetics and phonology and is an editor of the journal Phonology. She is a member of editorial boards of Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology, Language and Research and Korean Linguistics.
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Sheila Benson
1930 - 2022 (92 years)
Sheila Benson was an American journalist and film critic. She served as film critic for the Los Angeles Times from 1981 to 1991. Early life and education Benson was born in New York City on December 4, 1930. Her father, Dwight Franklin, was employed as a costume designer and her mother, Mary C. McCall Jr., worked as a screenwriter and novelist.
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Konstanze Vernon
1939 - 2013 (74 years)
Konstanze Vernon was a German ballet dancer, academic teacher and director of a ballet academy and a ballet company. She was from 1963 to 1981 prima ballerina of the ballet at the Bayerische Staatsoper. She taught at the Hochschule für Musik München and founded the ballet academy Heinz-Bosl-Stiftung in memory of her partner on stage Heinz Bosl. After retiring from the stage, she was founding director of the now independent ballet company .
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Sue Nicholls
1943 - Present (82 years)
Susan Frances Harmar Nicholls is an English actress, known for her roles on British television in Crossroads , The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin and, Rentaghost and especially for her long-running part as Audrey Roberts in the soap opera Coronation Street . She also appeared on Broadway in the 1974 revival of the comedy London Assurance.
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Beth Henley
1952 - Present (73 years)
Elizabeth Becker Henley is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actress. Her play Crimes of the Heart won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the 1981 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play, and a nomination for a Tony Award. Her screenplay for Crimes of the Heart was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Sarah Blasko
1976 - Present (49 years)
Sarah Elizabeth Blaskow , known professionally as Sarah Blasko, is an Australian singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. From April 2002, Blasko developed her solo career after fronting Sydney-based band, Acquiesce, between the mid-1990s and 2001. She had performed under her then married name, Sarah Semmens, and, after leaving Acquiesce, as Sorija in a briefly existing duo of that name. As a solo artist Blasko has released six studio albums, The Overture & the Underscore , What the Sea Wants, the Sea Will Have – which peaked at No. 7 on the ARIA Albums Chart, As Day Follows Night –...
Go to ProfileNancy Ellen Longnecker is a New Zealand based science communication academic. She is currently professor of science communication at the University of Otago. Academic career Longnecker's early work focused on nutritional efficiency in agricultural plants. Her 1980 MSc titled 'Factors affecting iron uptake by iron-efficient and inefficient soybean varieties' and a 1986 PhD titled 'A comparison of the resistance of soybean and sunflower to iron-deficiency induced chlorosis' were both obtained through study at Cornell University under supervision by Ross M. Welch. She moved to Australia in 19...
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Joan Dickson
1921 - 1994 (73 years)
Katherine Joan Balfour Dickson was a Scottish cellist and cello teacher. Biography Dickson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 21 December 1921 to Marjorie Balfour Lowe and Dr Douglas Dickson, a lawyer and Writer to the Signet.
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CeCe Winans
1964 - Present (61 years)
Priscilla Marie Winans Love, known professionally as CeCe Winans, is an American gospel singer. Winans has been awarded 15 Grammy Awards, the most for a female gospel singer; 31 GMA Dove Awards, 17 Stellar Awards, 7 NAACP Image Awards, along with many other awards and honors to her credit including being one of the inaugural inductees into the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame. Winans is one of the greatest gospel artists of all time, and is the most-awarded and best-selling gospel act of all time.
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Mayo Fuster Morell
1975 - Present (50 years)
Mayo Fuster Morell is a social researcher. Her research has focused on sharing economy, social movements, online communities and digital Commons, frequently using participatory action research and method triangulation. She has been part of the most important research centres studying Internet and its social effects, including the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, the MIT Center for Civic Media or the Berkeley School of Information. As an active citizen, she is the co-founder of multiple initiatives around digital Commons and Free Culture, such as the Procomuns Forum on collaborative ec...
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Zenaida Manfugás
1932 - 2012 (80 years)
Zenaida Elvira González Manfugás was a Cuban-born American-naturalized pianist, considered to be one of the best Cuban pianists in history. Biography Manfugás was born on February 22, 1922 in Guantánamo, Cuba. Her father was Judge Amando González Veranés and her mother, Andrea Manfugás Crombet, was a renowned pianist and teacher. She had two sisters: Alicia and Aida Esther. Her mother's family is descended from the renowned composer Nene Manfugás, who was a performer of Sonnets in the first half of the 20th century.
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Rina Yerushalmi
1939 - Present (86 years)
Rina Yerushalmi is an Israeli theater director and choreographer. Yerushalmi received an honorary doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2001 and the Israel Prize in Theatre in 2008, among other awards and recognition.
Go to ProfileRachel Brown is a British flautist and author, known especially for her work with Baroque music and flutes. She is currently professor of baroque flute at the Royal College of Music in London, in addition to traveling around the world to give masterclasses. She has performed with many orchestras internationally, including as principal flute with Kent Opera, the Academy of Ancient Music, the Hanover Band, the King's Consort, Collegium Musicum 90, Ex Cathedra, and the Brandenburg Consort. She is known for her extensive work and mastery of both historical and modern flutes.
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Jean Vander Pyl
1919 - 1999 (80 years)
Jean Thurston Vander Pyl was an American voice actress. Although her career spanned many decades, she is best known as the voice of Wilma Flintstone for the Hanna-Barbera cartoon The Flintstones. In addition to Wilma Flintstone, she also provided the voices of Pebbles Flintstone, Rosie the robot maid on the animated series The Jetsons, Goldie, Lola Glamour, Nurse LaRue, and other characters in Top Cat, Winsome Witch on The Secret Squirrel Show, and Ogee on The Magilla Gorilla Show.
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Sara Kestelman
1944 - Present (81 years)
Sara Kestelman is an English actress. She is known for her role as Lady Frances Brandon, Lady Jane Grey's mother, in the 1986 film Lady Jane, as well as for providing the voice of Kreia in Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords.
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Carol Genetti
1961 - Present (64 years)
Carol E. Genetti is an American linguist who is known for her research into Tibeto-Burman languages and languages of the Himalayans. Academic career Genetti earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1990 from the University of Oregon. Genetti is an emeritus professor from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she was a faculty member in the Department of Linguistics until 2020. Between 2013 and 2020 she was also the Dean of the UCSB Graduate Division, and she served as Chair of the Department of Linguistics from 1999-2005. Genetti now serves as the Vice Provost for Graduate and Postdoct...
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Li Jinfang
1963 - Present (62 years)
Li Jinfang is a Chinese linguist at Minzu University in Beijing, China. Li, an ethnic Zhuang, is a leading specialist in the Kra-Dai languages of southern China, especially the Kra branch. Li's doctoral dissertation focused on the Buyang language, and was published as Studies on the Buyang Language in 1999.
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Joan Miller
1936 - 2014 (78 years)
Joan Miller was an American dancer, choreographer, and educator. She was the artistic director of The Joan Miller Chamber Arts/Dance Players, a mixed-media dance company that used satire to make social commentary and provoke social change, from 1970 to 2007. Miller was also the founder and director of the dance program at Lehman College from 1970 to 2000.
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Geri Allen
1957 - 2017 (60 years)
Geri Antoinette Allen was an American jazz pianist, composer, and educator. She taught at the University of Michigan and the University of Pittsburgh. Early life and education Allen was born in Pontiac, Michigan, on June 12, 1957, and grew up in Detroit. "Her father, Mount Allen Jr, was a school principal, her mother, Barbara, a government administrator in the defence industry." Allen was educated in Detroit Public Schools. She started playing the piano at the age of seven, and settled on becoming a jazz pianist in her early teens.
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Juana Muñoz-Liceras
1948 - Present (77 years)
Juana Muñoz-Liceras is Professor of Hispanic and General Linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. Her main research focus on the acquisition of Spanish as a Second Language as well theoretical linguistics and language contact. She was recognized as one of the 10 most influential Hispanics of 2013 in Canada.
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Goggo Addi
1911 - 1999 (88 years)
Goggo Addi was a Cameroonian storyteller who performed in the Fula language. She hosted storytelling events in the country for several decades, and from 1985 to 1989 she consented to have her stories recorded and transcribed by the researcher Ursula Baumgardt, contributing significantly to perpetuating this West African oral tradition.
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Maryn McKenna
1959 - Present (66 years)
Maryn McKenna is an American author and journalist. She has written for Nature, National Geographic, and Scientific American, and spoke on antibiotics at TED 2015. Fellowships In 2009, McKenna received a Dart Center Ochberg Fellowship from The Journalism School at Columbia University. In 2012, she was awarded an Ethics & Justice Investigative Journalism Fellowship at The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. In 2013, she joined the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to work on a Fellowship.
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Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz
1945 - Present (80 years)
Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz is a German Catholic philosopher and author. She studies Catholic religious philosophy of the 19th and 20th centuries. Biography Education Gerl-Falkovitz studied philosophy, German Studies, and political science at the universities of Munich and Heidelberg from 1965 to 1971; she earned her doctorate from the University of Munich in 1971. In an interview in 2021, she said of this formative period in her life, "The theology of the 1960s, when I was studying in Munich, was not attractive for me: too much historical criticism, also in methodology, too much existentia...
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Etta Jones
1928 - 2001 (73 years)
Etta Jones was an American jazz singer. Her best-known recordings are "Don't Go to Strangers" and "Save Your Love for Me". She worked with Buddy Johnson, Oliver Nelson, Earl Hines, Barney Bigard, Gene Ammons, Kenny Burrell, Milt Jackson, Cedar Walton, and Houston Person.
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Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh
1959 - Present (66 years)
Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh is an Irish fiddler and the lead vocalist for the Irish folk music band Altan, which she co-founded with her husband Frankie Kennedy in 1987. Ní Mhaonaigh is recognised as a leading exponent in the Donegal fiddle tradition, and she is often considered one of the foremost singers in the Irish language, her native tongue. She was part of the Irish supergroup T with the Maggies who performed in January 2009 at Temple Bar TradFest in Dublin their first ever two concerts under that name and who released in October 2010 their debut album. After nearly 22 years with Altan, on 2...
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Doris Jean Austin
1949 - 1994 (45 years)
Doris Jean Austin was an American author and journalist. Early life and education Doris Jean Austin was born in 1949 in Mobile, Alabama, in the United States. She was raised by her mother and grandmother. When she was six years old, Austin moved with her family to Jersey City, New Jersey, where she attended Lincoln High School. She was influenced to become a writer by her high school English teacher Reverend Ercell F. Webb. She was raised in a strict Baptist household, which would also serve as an inspiration for her work. She died in 1994 of liver cancer.
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Kata Csizér
1971 - Present (54 years)
Kata Csizér is a Hungarian linguist. She is currently a professor at the School of English and American Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of the Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary. Her research focuses on applied linguistics with a special focus on motivation in second-language learning and teaching students with special needs.
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Maggie Tallerman
1957 - Present (68 years)
Maggie Tallerman is a professor of linguistics at Newcastle University. Her research interests include Celtic linguistics, language origins and evolution , language typology, morphology and morphosyntax. She is a leading expert in the fields of language evolution and syntax of the Welsh language.
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Elizabeth V. Hume
1956 - Present (69 years)
Elizabeth Valerie Hume is a Canadian phonologist, professor emerita at the Ohio State University. Education and career Hume received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1992, under the supervision of G. N. Clements. She was a Professor of Linguistics at the Ohio State University from 1992 to 2011. From 2006 to 2011, she served as professor and chair of the Department of Linguistics. From 2011 to 2017, she was a Professor of Linguistics at University of Canterbury in New Zealand. She returned to Ohio State to serve as Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education from October 1, 2017 - Nov...
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Doris Debenjak
1936 - 2013 (77 years)
Doris Debenjak was a Slovene and Gottschee German linguist and translator. Life and work Doris Krisch was born in Ljubljana to Gottschee German parents. She grew up speaking both German and Slovene. She was married to the Slovene philosopher and translator Božidar Debenjak.
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Ada Vidovič Muha
1940 - Present (85 years)
Ada Vidovič Muha is a Slovene linguist. She is an emeritus professor who has many books published on the linguistics of Slovene. Life Muha was born in Pivka in 1940. In 1963 she graduated from the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana after studying Slovene and the Serbo-Croatian language in literature. After graduation, she studied at Charles University in Prague. She received her master's degree from the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana in 1979 on "the syntactic role of the adjective word" and she became an assistant Professor. In 1984 she gained a doctorate in linguistic sciences.
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Ernabel Demillo
1965 - Present (60 years)
Ernabel Castro Demillo is an American television journalist. She is the host and producer of CUNY TV's monthly magazine show, "Asian American Life", which debuted on June 10, 2013. The premiere show was nominated for a NY News Emmy for Best Community Affairs/Public Programming in 2014. The show has been nominated for 10 Emmys since its debut. Her short documentary featured on Asian American Life in 2019, “Fighting Hunger, Feeding Minds: A New Yorker’s Mission to Keep Kids in School in Rural Philippines” won a 2021 Emmy. Demillo was also notably nominated for a New York Emmy for Best Hist...
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Natalia Gvishiani
1959 - Present (66 years)
Natalia Gvishiani is a Russian linguist, professor, scholar and academic. She totals more than 110 publications on Terminology and Philology. In 2010, the Moscow State University made her a Distinguished professor
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