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#14001

Erik Husfeldt

1901 - 1984 (83 years)

Erik Husfeldt, also spelled Erik Huusfeldt , was a Danish physician who developed groundbreaking practices for the treatment of heart and lung conditions and the development of anesthesia. During World War II, he was a resistance fighter, rescuer, and member of the Danish Freedom Council. He was also the second in command in Frode Jakobsen's Ringen.

#14002

Richard Hurd

1900 - Present (126 years)

Richard Hurd is a professor of labor relations emeritus and former director of Labor Studies at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Hurd has a Ph.D. in economics from Vanderbilt University.

#14003

Ernst Posner

1892 - 1980 (88 years)

Ernst Maximilian Posner was a Prussian state archivist who fled to the United States during World War II where he served as the history department chairman, dean of the graduate school, and director of the School of Social Science and Public Affairs at American University. Additionally, he was a frequent archival consultant to the United States government.

#14004

Harold Pender

1879 - 1959 (80 years)

Harold Pender was an American academic, author, and inventor. He was the first Dean of the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering, a position he held from the founding of the School in 1923 until his retirement in 1949. During his tenure, the Moore School built the ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, and began construction of its successor machine, the EDVAC. Pender also proposed the Moore School Lectures, the first course in computers, which the Moore School offered by invitation in the summer of 1946.

#14005

Robert Lumiansky

1913 - 1987 (74 years)

Robert Mayer Lumiansky was an American scholar of Medieval English and president of the American Council of Learned Societies. Born in Darlington, South Carolina, Robert Lumiansky received a bachelor's degree from The Citadel, a master's degree from the University of South Carolina, and a doctorate from the University of North Carolina. He was professor and chairman of the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania from 1965 to 1973 and professor of English at New York University from 1975 to 1983. He was a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

#14006

Clarence Manning

1893 - 1972 (79 years)

Clarence Augustus Manning was an American slavicist. He worked for 43 years at the Columbia University in New York, eventually being appointed chairman of the Department of Slavic Studies. He published a number of studies on Slavic languages, countries and people, as well as translations of important Slavic works of literature, and was a pioneer in opening the field of study of Slavic peoples in the U.S. beyond the dominance of Russian studies of the times.

#14007

W. A. Mackintosh

1895 - 1970 (75 years)

William Archibald Mackintosh, was a Canadian economist and political scientist, and was the twelfth principal of Queen's University from 1951 until 1961. He is best known for developing the staple thesis that explains Canadian economic history in terms of a series of exports of staple products – fish, fur, timber, and wheat.

#14008

Vivek Goel

Vivek Goel is the current President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Waterloo. As a physician and public health researcher, he was also a university administrator, and served as a special advisor to the president and provost of the University of Toronto, and as a professor for the Dalla Lana School of Public Health.

#14009

Lloyd A. Jeffress

Lloyd A. Jeffress

1900 - 1986 (86 years)

Lloyd Alexander Jeffress was an acoustical scientist, a professor of experimental psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, and a developer of mine-hunting models for the US Navy during World War II and after, Jeffress was known to psychologists for his pioneering research on auditory masking in psychoacoustics, his stimulus-oriented approach to signal-detection theory in psychophysics, and his "ingenious" electronic and mathematical models of the auditory process.

#14010

Richard Shope

1901 - 1966 (65 years)

Richard Edwin Shope was an American virologist who, together with his mentor Paul A. Lewis at the Rockefeller Institute, identified influenzavirus A in pigs in 1931. Using Shope's technique, Smith, Andrewes, and Laidlaw of England's Medical Research Council cultured it from a human in 1933. They and Shope in 1935 and 1936, respectively, identified it as the virus circulating in the 1918 pandemic. In 1933, Shope identified the Shope papilloma virus, which infects rabbits. His discovery later assisted other researchers to link the papilloma virus to warts and cervical cancer. He received the...

#14011

Irving Samuel Cutter

1875 - 1945 (70 years)

Irving Samuel Cutter was a medical doctor, teacher of medicine and a medical journalist from Keene, New Hampshire. Career He was born in New Hampshire, and educated in the Midwest, graduating from the University of Nebraska in 1898. He received his medical degree from the same institution in 1910 and his D.Sc degree in 1925. Cutter became a high school instructor in Humboldt, Nebraska in 1896 and was the principal of Beatrice High School 1898–1900. He instructed physiological chemistry at the University of Nebraska 1910–1913 and went on to teach biochemistry, 1913–1915 working as Professor of Biochemistry and director of laboratories.

#14012

King-Sun Fu

1930 - 1985 (55 years)

King-Sun Fu was a Chinese-born American computer scientist. He was a Goss Distinguished Professor at Purdue University School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in West Lafayette, Indiana. He was instrumental in the founding of International Association for Pattern Recognition , served as its first president, and is widely recognized for his extensive and pioneering contributions to the field of pattern recognition and machine intelligence. In honor of the memory of Professor King-Sun Fu, IAPR gives the biennial King-Sun Fu Prize to a living person in the recognition of an outstanding technical contribution to the field of pattern recognition.

#14013

Forest Baskett

Forest Baskett is an American venture capitalist, computer scientist and former professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University. He is a venture capitalist at New Enterprise Associates. Baskett designed the operating system for the original Cray-1 supercomputer, was an original pioneer of Very Large Scale Integration, and co-introduced the eponymous BCMP networks.

#14014

Joyce Currie Little

Joyce Currie Little was an American computer scientist, engineer, and educator. She was a professor and chairperson in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Towson University in Towson, Maryland.

#14015

Natalie Enright Jerger

Natalie Dana Enright Jerger is an American computer scientist known for research in computer science including computer architecture and interconnection networks. Education and career Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, she attended Kent Place School and received a BS in computer engineering from Purdue University in 2002. She received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying Computer Architecture.

#14016

Joshua R. Smith

Joshua R. Smith is an American computer scientist and electrical engineer and a professor at the University of Washington. He is known for research on wireless power , backscatter communication , and robotic manipulation.

#14017

Dan Willard

Dan Edward Willard was an American computer scientist and logician, and a professor of computer science at the University at Albany. Education and career Willard did his undergraduate studies in mathematics at Stony Brook University, graduating in 1970. He went on to graduate studies in mathematics at Harvard University, earning a master's degree in 1972 and a doctorate in 1978. After leaving Harvard, he worked at Bell Labs for four years before joining the Albany faculty in 1983.

#14018

Norbert Wiener

1894 - 1964 (70 years)

Norbert Wiener was an American mathematician, computer scientist and philosopher. He became a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . A child prodigy, Wiener later became an early researcher in stochastic and mathematical noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems.

#14019

Bennie Osburn

1900 - Present (126 years)

Bennie I. Osburn was the Dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine at UC Davis. He was appointed in 1996 and reappointed for another 5-year term by Chancellor Larry Vanderhoef in 2006. He retired as dean in 2011, and was succeeded by Dr. Michael Lairmore.

#14020

J. S. Mitchell

1909 - 1987 (78 years)

Joseph Stanley Mitchell, CBE, FRS, FRCP was a British radiotherapist and academic. He was Regius Professor of Physic at the University of Cambridge from 1957 to 1975. Early life Mitchel was born on 22 July 1909 in Birmingham, England. He was only son and the eldest child born to Joseph Brown Mitchell and his wife Ethel Maud Mary Mitchell . He was educated at Marlborough Road School and at King Edward's School, Birmingham, a boys school. He had been awarded an open scholarship to attend King Edward's School.

#14021

Nicholas Tatonetti

Nicholas Tatonetti is an American bioscientist who is Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Chief Officer of Cancer Data Science at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University. His lab develops data mining approaches to understand clinical and molecular data.

#14022

Bernard Vauquois

1929 - 1985 (56 years)

Bernard Vauquois was a French mathematician and computer scientist. He was a pioneer of computer science and machine translation in France. An astronomer-turned-computer scientist, he is known for his work on the programming language ALGOL 60, and later for extensive work on the theoretical and practical problems of MT, of which the eponymous Vauquois triangle is one of the most widely-known contributions.

#14023

Howard Liddell

1895 - 1967 (72 years)

Howard Scott Liddell was an American professor of psychology who was involved in the Macy Conferences. Liddell graduated from the University of Michigan in 1917. After completing his MA, he moved to Cornell University as an instructor, completing his Ph.D. in 1923 and becoming an assistant professor in 1926. In 1930 he was appointed Chairman of Department of Physiology in the Medical College He became professor of Psychology in 1939 and then professor of Psychobiology in 1947. The Behavior Farm Laboratory which he founded at Cornell University was renamed the Liddell Laboratory of Comparati...

#14024

Thornton Carle Fry

1892 - 1991 (99 years)

Thornton Carle Fry was an applied mathematician, known for his two widely-used textbooks, Probability and its engineering uses and Elementary differential equations . Career Thornton C. Fry received his bachelor's degree from Findlay College in 1912 and then pursued graduate study in Wisconsin in mathematics, physics, and astronomy. He received his M.A. in 1913 and his Ph.D. in 1920 in applied mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with thesis under the supervision of Charles S. Slichter.

#14025

Mark Rothko

1903 - 1970 (67 years)

Mark Rothko , born Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz , was a Latvian-born American abstract painter. He is best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular regions of color, which he produced from 1949 to 1970.

#14026

Mahmud Hasan

1897 - Present (129 years)

Mahmood Hasan was an academic who served as the 5th vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka. Early life and education Hasan earned his bachelor's and master's in English from Presidency College, Calcutta in 1918 and 1920 respectively. He later got another master's degree and a Ph.D. degree in English from the Oxford University in 1926.

#14027

Nelson C. Brown

1885 - 1940 (55 years)

Nelson Courtlandt Brown was an American forester. Early life Brown was born on March 1, 1985, in South Orange, New Jersey. He graduated from Yale University with a bachelors of Arts degree in 1906 and a Master of Forestry degree in 1908.

#14028

John Turner MacGregor-Morris

1872 - 1959 (87 years)

John Turner MacGregor-Morris was a professor of electrical engineering at Queen Mary University of London. His papers are held by the Queen Mary Archives. Selected publications Cathode Ray Oscillography. 1936. Sir Ambrose Fleming and the Birth of the Valve. 1954.

#14029

Beatrice Worsley

1921 - 1972 (51 years)

Beatrice Helen Worsley was the first female Canadian computer scientist. She received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Cambridge with Maurice Wilkes as adviser, the first Ph.D. granted in what would today be known as computer science. She wrote the first program to run on EDSAC, co-wrote the first compiler for Toronto's Ferranti Mark 1, wrote numerous papers in computer science, and taught computers and engineering at Queen's University and the University of Toronto for over 20 years before her death at the age of 50.

#14030

William F. Friedman

William F. Friedman

1891 - 1969 (78 years)

William Frederick Friedman was a US Army cryptographer who ran the research division of the Army's Signal Intelligence Service in the 1930s, and parts of its follow-on services into the 1950s. In 1940, subordinates of his led by Frank Rowlett broke Japan's PURPLE cipher, thus disclosing Japanese diplomatic secrets before America's entrance into World War II.

#14031

Adele Goldstine

1920 - 1964 (44 years)

Adele Goldstine was an American mathematician and computer programmer. She wrote the manual for the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC. Through her work programming the computer, she was also an instrumental player in converting the ENIAC from a computer that needed to be reprogrammed each time it was used to one that was able to perform a set of fifty stored instructions.

#14032

Peter Noble

1899 - 1987 (88 years)

Sir Peter Scott Noble was a British academic who was principal of King's College London from 1952 to 1968 and later vice-chancellor of the University of London from 1961 to 1964. Education Noble was educated at Fraserburgh Academy, Scotland, followed by University of Aberdeen and then St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a double first in classics and Oriental language. He was made a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.

#14033

Soheil Afnan

1904 - 1990 (86 years)

Soheil Muhsin Afnan was a scholar of Philosophy, Arabic, Persian, and Greek whose intellectual works included translations of Greek texts into Persian as well as the publication of philosophical lexicons.

#14034

Ben Mark Cherrington

1885 - 1980 (95 years)

Ben Mark Cherrington was Acting Chancellor at the University of Denver from October 1943 to February 1946. During his term of office as chancellor he added the School of Speech and the Hotel and Restaurant Management School to the University's programs. He was the Director of the Social Science Foundation which later evolved into the Graduate School of International Studies at the University for 25 years. Cherrington was also an author of the Charter of the United Nations and a co-founder of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization . He was honored by Queen Elizabe...

#14035

Winfred G. Leutner

1879 - 1961 (82 years)

Winfred George Leutner was the ninth President of Western Reserve University, now Case Western Reserve University. Leutner was born March 1, 1879, in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1901, he graduated from Western Reserve's Adelbert College, now Case Western Reserve University. Leutner continued his education at Johns Hopkins University, earning his master's degree in 1903 and Ph.D. in 1905. From 1907 to 1908 he studied overseas at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and Rome. Leutner was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Beta Theta Pi. He married Emily Payne Smith in 1910, together hav...

#14036

Jan Cybis

1897 - 1972 (75 years)

Jan Cybis was a prominent Polish painter and art teacher. Biography Cybis was born in Fröbel and studied at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, settling in that city from 1934. The German Expressionist Otto Mueller was his mentor. He studied under Józef Pankiewicz among others, developing a reputation for a post-impressionist style using rich, saturated color influenced by the French.

#14037

Hezekiah Oluwasanmi

1919 - 1983 (64 years)

Hezekiah Adedunmola Oluwasanmi was a Nigerian academic and professor who served as the vice chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University from 1966 to 1975. He was instrumental in founding the university. He was a professor of agricultural economics at the University of Ibadan prior to his appointment at Obafemi Awolowo University as vice chancellor.

#14038

Leonard Bahr

1905 - 1990 (85 years)

Leonard Marion Bahr was an American portrait painter, muralist, illustrator and educator. He worked for many years as a painting professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art . Personal life Leonard Marion Bahr was born on May 12, 1905, in Maryland.

#14039

Birinchi Kumar Barua

1908 - 1964 (56 years)

Birinchi Kumar Barua was a folklorist, scholar, novelist, playwright, historian, linguist, educationist, administrator and eminent 20th century littérateur of Assam, with both scholarly and creative pursuits. He was the pioneer in the study of folklore in North East India, and was one of the many founders of Gauhati University. Barua's contributions to Assamese literature are significant, both as a novelist and as an early literary critic.

#14040

Frederick S. Wight

1902 - 1986 (84 years)

Frederick S. Wight was a multi-talented cultural leader who played a significant role in transforming Los Angeles into a major art center. An influential educator at the University of California, Los Angeles, who presented museum-quality exhibitions at the campus gallery later named the Wight Art Gallery, Wight was also a highly accomplished painter and writer. In his final years he concentrated on his painting, producing radiant landscapes that appear to be animated by mysterious, spiritual forces.

#14041

James Anderson Scott Watson

1889 - 1966 (77 years)

Sir James Anderson Scott Watson CBE, FRSE was a 20th-century Scottish agriculturalist. Education and early life Watson was born on 16 November 1889 in Forfar, the son of William Watson a farmer at Downieken near Dundee. He studied science at the University of Edinburgh graduating with a BSc in 1908. He then went to the United States to study agriculture at the University of Iowa, gaining an MSc in 1910.

#14042

Herschel Levit

1912 - 1986 (74 years)

Herschel "Harry" Levit was an American social realist artist, designer, illustrator, author, and educator. In the 1930s and 1940s, he was active in the Federal Art Project sponsored by the Works Progress Administration . He was a Professor emeritus at Pratt Institute, teaching from 1947 to 1977 and teaching at Parsons School of Design, from 1977 to 1986.

#14043

Alfred Rusescu

1895 - 1981 (86 years)

Alfred Rusescu was a Romanian pediatrician. Born in Bucharest into a family of intellectuals, he attended Gheorghe Lazăr High School. In 1913, Rusescu entered the Medicine faculty of the University of Bucharest. Following graduation, he studied medicine at the University of Paris from 1920 to 1925. His thesis dealt with the development of waistlines in infants. From 1922 to 1926, he was an intern at Notre-Dame de Bon Secours Hospital in Paris, under the noted pediatrician .

#14044

Herman Lukoff

1923 - 1979 (56 years)

Herman Lukoff was a computer pioneer and fellow of the IEEE. Formative years Lukoff was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Aaron and Anna Lukoff. He graduated from the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in 1943. While at the Moore School, he helped to develop the ENIAC and EDVAC computers.

#14045

Ulrich Hütter

1910 - 1990 (80 years)

Ulrich Hütter was an Austro-German aeronautical engineer and university teacher who came to wider prominence through his second career as a pioneer of wind power technology. Life Ulrich Hütter was born in Pilsen in Bohemia, Austria-Hungary . Eduard Hütter , his father, was an architect originally from Salzburg, whose professional career increasingly focused on monument conservation on behalf of the government. The family relocated to Salzburg in connection with Eduard Hütter's work after the war ended, and Ulrich Hütter enrolled at the classics-focused "Humanistisches Gymnasium" there in 192...

#14046

Nico H.J. van den Boogaard

1938 - 1982 (44 years)

Nicolaas Hendricus Johannes van den Boogaard was a medievalist scholar, professor, and dean of the Faculty of Letters at the University of Amsterdam. Career In addition to his work as a teacher and administrator, he published widely on medieval French literature. His doctoral dissertation, Rondeaux et refrains du XIIe siècle au début du XIVe: Collationnement, introduction et notes , continues to be cited. This dissertation built a corpus of Old French lyric poetry that Van den Boogaard then put into a computer database. In 1970, he enlarged the database and generated statistical information about several genres of medieval French literature.

#14047

Oladele Ajose

1907 - 1978 (71 years)

Oladele Adebayo Ajose was a Lagos prince who was the vice-chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University. He was an early advocate of primary health care in Nigeria and the first tenured African professor at the University of Ibadan and in Nigeria. He was one of the earliest Africans to hold a professorial chair.

#14048

Herbert Read

1893 - 1968 (75 years)

Sir Herbert Edward Read, was an English art historian, poet, literary critic and philosopher, best known for numerous books on art, which included influential volumes on the role of art in education. Read was co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. As well as being a prominent English anarchist, he was one of the earliest English writers to take notice of existentialism. He was co-editor with Michael Fordham of the British edition in English of The Collected Works of C. G. Jung.

#14049

A. L. Strand

1894 - 1980 (86 years)

August Leroy Strand was an American entomologist who served as President of Montana State University from 1937 to 1942, and as President of Oregon State University from 1942 to 1961. Life and career Strand was born on February 12, 1894, in Victoria, Texas, to August M. and Christina Strand. His father was born in Sweden about 1855, and his mother in Sweden about 1861. They emigrated to the United States, first taking up residence in Missouri, where their first three children were born: Rose L. in 1885, Ettie C. in 1888, and May F. in 1887. The family moved to Victoria, Texas, where August was born in 1894.

#14050

Dwight Hillis Wilson

1909 - 1962 (53 years)

Dwight Hillis Wilson Sr. was an American archivist, researcher, and teacher. He was the first archivist of Fisk University. Personal life Wilson was born on October 18, 1909, in Raleigh, North Carolina. His father, a Methodist minister, was also born in South Carolina while his mother came from Pennsylvania.

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