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#14901

Albert Hanson

1913 - 1971 (58 years)

Albert Henry Hanson was the first Professor of Politics at the University of Leeds. Early life and education Hanson was born in Swindon and educated at Swindon Grammar School and Jesus College, Oxford, graduating with a first-class BA in Modern History in 1934. Whilst at Oxford University, he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain, remaining a member until 1953 when he concluded that membership conflicted with his academic independence.

#14902

Benno Lischer

1876 - 1959 (83 years)

Benno Edward Lischer was an American orthodontist who at one point was the president of American Association of Dental Schools and American Association of Orthodontists. He was the first full-time dean at Washington University School of Dental Medicine.

#14903

Harris Fletcher

1892 - 1979 (87 years)

Harris Francis Fletcher was an American academic, professor of English at the University of Illinois for 36 years from 1926 to 1962, an author, and a leading authority on the work of John Milton. Early life He was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Fletcher received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1925.

#14904

Victor D'Amico

1904 - 1987 (83 years)

Victor D'Amico was an American teaching artist and the founding Director of the Department of Education of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. D’Amico explored the essence of the art experience as spiritual involvement, and the ability to communicate one's most profound ideas and emotions through aesthetic expression. He considered that the individual's personality had to be respected and developed by providing opportunities for creative experimentation. D'Amico's philosophy was based on the fundamental faith in the creative potential in every man, woman and child. He believed "that the arts ...

#14905

Stefan Mazurkiewicz

Stefan Mazurkiewicz

1888 - 1945 (57 years)

Stefan Mazurkiewicz was a Polish mathematician who worked in mathematical analysis, topology, and probability. He was a student of Wacław Sierpiński and a member of the Polish Academy of Learning . His students included Karol Borsuk, Bronisław Knaster, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Stanisław Saks, and Antoni Zygmund. For a time Mazurkiewicz was a professor at the University of Paris; however, he spent most of his career as a professor at the University of Warsaw.

#14906

Klaus Samelson

1918 - 1980 (62 years)

Klaus Samelson was a German mathematician, physicist, and computer pioneer in the area of programming language translation and push-pop stack algorithms for sequential formula translation on computers.

#14907

James Corry

1899 - 1985 (86 years)

James Alexander Corry was a Canadian academic and the thirteenth Principal of Queen's University, Ontario, from 1961 until 1968. Born in Millbank, Ontario, he graduated in 1923 from the University of Saskatchewan. He attended Lincoln College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. In 1927 he became a professor of law at the University of Saskatchewan. In 1936 he joined Queen's University as a professor of political science. In 1957, when the Queen's Faculty of Law was re-established with his assistance, he was one of the three charter professors, along with Daniel Soberman and Stuart Ryan. From 1951 until 1961 he was a Vice-Principal of Queen's.

#14908

Steven Anson Coons

1912 - 1979 (67 years)

Steven Anson Coons was an early pioneer in the field of computer graphical methods. He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Mechanical Engineering Department. He was also a professor at Syracuse University after leaving MIT. Steven Coons had a vision of interactive computer graphics as a design tool to aid the engineer.

#14909

Roscoe C. Martin

1903 - 1972 (69 years)

Roscoe Coleman Martin was an American political scientist. He was Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at Austin in the 1930s. From 1938 to 1949, he was Professor of Political Science and Director of the Bureau of Public Administration at the University of Alabama , where he strengthened the links between UA and the Tennessee Valley Authority . Finally, he was Professor at Syracuse University in New York from 1949 onwards. He was a pioneer in the academic discipline of Public Administration.

#14910

George Hector Percival

1902 - 1983 (81 years)

George Hector Percival FRSE FRCPE was a British dermatologist, academic author and president of the British Association of Dermatologists. Life He was born in Kirkcaldy in Fife the son of E J Percival.

#14911

Iwo Lominski

1905 - 1968 (63 years)

Iwo Robert Waclaw Lominski FRSE was a Polish-born microbiologist working in Britain in the 20th century. In articles he is referred to as I. R. W. Lominski. Life He was born in Kraków in Poland in 1905. He studied medicine at the University of Kraków and gained his doctorate in 1931. He obtained a prestigious position in the Pasteur Institute in Paris.

#14912

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.

#14913

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.

#14914

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.

#14915

Henry E. Sigerist

Henry E. Sigerist

1891 - 1957 (66 years)

Henry Ernest Sigerist was a Swiss medical historian and proponent of universal health care. Career After graduating with an M.D. at the University of Zurich in 1917, Sigerist devoted himself to the study of the history of medicine. Socialized Medicine in the Soviet Union , and History of Medicine were among his most important works. He emerged as a major spokesman for "compulsory health insurance". From 1932 to 1947 he was director at the Johns Hopkins University Institute of History of Medicine. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1945 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1951.

#14916

Lance Hoffman

Lance J. Hoffman is Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. He initiated and taught the first course on computer security in a regular accredited degree program in the United States at the University of California, Berkeley in 1970 and established the computer security program there and at GW and led GW’s to national recognition as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education.

#14917

Frank Rosenblatt

Frank Rosenblatt

1928 - 1971 (43 years)

Frank Rosenblatt was an American psychologist notable in the field of artificial intelligence. He is sometimes called the father of deep learning for his pioneering work on neural networks. Life and career Rosenblatt was born into a Jewish family in New Rochelle, New York as the son of Dr. Frank and Katherine Rosenblatt.

#14918

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.

#14919

Wilhelm Magnus

1907 - 1990 (83 years)

Hans Heinrich Wilhelm Magnus known as Wilhelm Magnus was a German-American mathematician. He made important contributions in combinatorial group theory, Lie algebras, mathematical physics, elliptic functions, and the study of tessellations.

#14920

Ashok Agrawala

Ashok Agrawala is Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Maryland at College Park and Director of the Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab. He is the author of seven books and over two hundred peer-reviewed publications. Glenn Ricart and Ashok Agrawala developed the Ricart-Agrawala Algorithm. The Ricart-Agrawala Algorithm is an algorithm for mutual exclusion on a distributed system. This algorithm is an extension and optimization of Lamport's Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithm.

#14921

Richard V. Andree

1919 - 1987 (68 years)

Richard Vernon Andree was an American mathematician and computer scientist. Andree taught at the University of Oklahoma for 37 years, and served as a professor emeritus there until his death. He and his wife, Josephine, founded the Mu Alpha Theta mathematics honor society. Andree wrote a book on abstract algebra entitled Selections From Modern Abstract Algebra which was first published in 1958. He also wrote and published at his own expense numerous puzzle books and enjoyed cryptography. Andree and his students developed the ALPS programming language for the Bendix G-15 computer.

#14922

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.

#14923

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.

#14924

Eugenio Moggi

Eugenio Moggi is a professor of computer science at the University of Genoa, Italy. He first described the general use of monads to structure programs. Biography Academic qualifications:PhD in Computer Science, University of Edinburgh 1988Laurea in Computer Science, University of Pisa 1983Diploma, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa 1983

#14925

Lennart Augustsson

Lennart Augustsson is a Swedish computer scientist. He was formerly a lecturer at the Computing Science Department at Chalmers University of Technology. His research field is functional programming and implementations of functional programming languages.

#14926

John Alexander Loraine

1924 - 1988 (64 years)

John Alexander Loraine FRSE FRCPE FIB was a Scottish physician and endocrinologist. He wrote widely on human sexuality. Life Loraine was born in Edinburgh on 14 May 1924, the son of Ruth and Lachlan Dempster Loraine. He was educated at George Watson's College then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an MB ChB. He did further postgraduate studies, specialising in sexuality and endocrinology and gained both a PhD and DSc. For the degree of DSc he submitted his previously published work, The clinical application of hormone assay.

#14927

Jacek Lipkowski

1900 - Present (126 years)

#14928

Oscar Jacobson

1882 - 1966 (84 years)

Oscar Brousse Jacobson was a Swedish-born American painter and museum curator. From 1915 to 1945, he was the director of the University of Oklahoma's School of Art, later known as the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. He curated exhibitions and wrote books about Native American art.

#14929

Alan Smeaton

Alan F. Smeaton MRIA is a researcher and academic at Dublin City University. He was founder of TRECVid, and the Centre for Digital Video Processing, and a winner of the University President's Research Award in Science and Engineering in 2002 and the DCU Educational Trust Leadership Award in 2009. Smeaton is a founding director of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at Dublin City University . Prior to that he was a Principal Investigator and Deputy Director of CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies . As of 2013, Smeaton was serving on the editorial board of the ACM Journal on Computers and Cultural Heritage, Information Processing and Management.

#14930

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.

#14931

Donald Burmister

1883 - 1981 (98 years)

Donald M. Burmister was a professor of civil engineering and a pioneer in the field of soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering. Career Donald Burmister served as faculty member at Columbia University for 34 years, beginning in 1929. He was a consultant on the foundation design for many notable construction projects including the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Verazanno-Narrows Bridge, Tappan Zee Bridge, first New York World's Fair at Flushing Meadows, and reconstruction of the White House in 1950.

#14932

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...

#14933

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.

#14934

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.

#14935

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.

#14936

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...

#14937

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...

#14938

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.

#14939

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.

#14940

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.

#14941

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.

#14942

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.

#14943

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.

#14944

Annette Smith Burgess

1899 - 1962 (63 years)

Annette Smith Burgess was an American medical illustrator and instructor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Early life Annette Smith was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1899 to Richard Henry Smith and his wife. She attended public schools in Baltimore. She graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art where she studied under Max Brödel. She attended Johns Hopkins University from 1923 to 1926.

#14945

Henry Rankin Poore

Henry Rankin Poore

1859 - 1940 (81 years)

Henry Rankin Poore was an American painter and illustrator, known for incorporating human and animal figures into his landscape and genre paintings. He was also a lecturer and critic, and a prolific author on art and composition.

#14946

Friedrich Karrenberg

1904 - 1966 (62 years)

Friedrich Karrenberg was a German Evangelical-reformed social ethicist and professor. He was a leading member of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland. Life Karrenberg was born in Velbert, a manufacturing town a short distance to the east of Düsseldorf. He came from an entrepreneurial family. Hugo Karrenberg, his father, owned a factory making barrels and rivets, in which Friedrich served an apprenticeship. He would take over the business when his father died in 1940. Early on he also involved himself in youth movement activities, one effect of which was to awaken an interest in socio-ethical questions.

#14947

Carl Holty

1900 - 1973 (73 years)

Carl Robert Holty was a German-born American abstract painter. Raised in Wisconsin, he was the first major abstract painter to gain notoriety from the state. Harold Rosenberg described Holty as "a figure of our art history," known for his use of color, shape and form.

#14948

Richard Koppe

1916 - 1973 (57 years)

Richard Koppe was an American artist whose work has been exhibited in many museums in America including the MOMA and the Whitney. Koppe was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and moved to Chicago in 1937 to study at the New Bauhaus . In 1950, his work was exhibited at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in the exhibition "American Painting Today." He headed the Department of Visual Design at the Institute of Design until 1963. In 2015, 70 of his paintings, prints and drawings were exhibited at the Elmhurst Art Museum. Koppe was married to Catherine Hinkle, also an artist.

#14949

Chang Hsin-hai

1900 - 1972 (72 years)

Chang Hsin-hai , also known as H. H. Chang, was an early 20th century Chinese scholar and writer. Early life and academic training Chang Hsin‐hai was born June 25, 1898, in Shanghai, China. After studying at Songhua College in Peking from 1916 to 1918, he relocated to the United States to complete his higher education. He received an A.B. from Johns Hopkins University in 1919, an A.M., and a Ph. D. in English literature from Harvard University in 1920 and 1923, respectively. While completing his doctoral work, Chang served as an attache to the Chinese Delegation at the Washington Disarmament ...

#14950

Cecilia Hennel Hendricks

1883 - 1969 (86 years)

Cecilia Hennel Hendricks was a faculty member at Indiana University Bloomington, Wyoming homesteaderer, and ran for the State Superintendent of Public Instruction in Wyoming in 1926. Biography Cecilia Hennel was born in Evansville, Indiana, on March 2, 1883, to parents Joseph H. Thuman Hennel and Anna Marie Thuman Hennel. The Hennels moved from Evansville to Bloomington in 1905 so that their daughters Cora, Cecillia, and Edith could attend Indiana University.

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