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Aris Fioretos
1960 - Present (66 years)
Aris Fioretos is a Swedish writer, translator and scholar of Greek and Austrian extraction who writes in Swedish, German and English. Aside from his own literary career, he is also Professor of Aesthetics at Södertörn University and a member of both the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung and the Akademie der Künste.
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Rachel Fulton Brown
1950 - Present (76 years)
Rachel Fulton Brown is an American medievalist. She is an Associate Professor of Medieval History, Fundamentals, and the College at the University of Chicago. Fulton Brown has authored a variety of texts on the topic of Christian studies and the Middle Ages, and a 2019 book chronicling her friendship with far-right figure Milo Yiannopoulos through Yiannopoulos's publishing imprint, Dangerous Books. Fulton Brown has also written for Breitbart. In December 2020, United States president Donald Trump announced an intent to appoint Fulton Brown to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee, which th...
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Armin B. Cremers
1946 - Present (80 years)
Armin Bernd Cremers is a German mathematician and computer scientist. He is a professor in the computer science institute at the University of Bonn, Germany. He is most notable for his contributions to several fields of discrete mathematics including formal languages and automata theory. In more recent years he has been recognized for his work in artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics as well as in geoinformatics and deductive databases.
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Giovanni De Micheli
1955 - Present (71 years)
Giovanni De Micheli is Professor and Director of the Institute of Electrical Engineering and of the Integrated Systems Centre at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , Switzerland. He is program leader of the Nano-Tera.ch program. Previously, he was Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He holds a Nuclear Engineer degree , a M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science under Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli.
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John Adrian Bondy
1944 - Present (82 years)
John Adrian Bondy is a retired English mathematician, known for his work in combinatorics and graph theory. Career Bondy received his Ph.D. in graph theory from the University of Oxford in 1969. His advisor was Dominic Welsh. Between 1969 and 1994, Bondy was Professor of Graph Theory at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and then, until his retirement, at Université Lyon 1 in France. From 1976, he was managing editor, and, between 1979 and 2004, co-editor-in-chief of Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B. Throughout his career, Bondy has authored over 100 publications with 51 co-autho...
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Jake Roberts
1955 - Present (71 years)
Aurelian Smith Jr. , better known by the ring name Jake "the Snake" Roberts, is an American professional wrestler and actor currently signed to All Elite Wrestling where he performs as manager to Lance Archer, and he also serves a special advisor for AEW's community outreach program, AEW Together. He is also signed to WWE under a legends contract. He is best known for his two stints in the World Wrestling Federation ; the first between 1986 and 1992, and the second between 1996 and 1997. He wrestled in the National Wrestling Alliance in 1983, World Championship Wrestling in 1992, and the Mexico-based Asistencia Asesoría y Administración between 1993 and 1994 and again in 1997.
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Bobby Clarke
1949 - Present (77 years)
Robert Earle Clarke is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played his entire 15-year National Hockey League career with the Philadelphia Flyers and is currently an executive with the team. Popularly known as Bobby Clarke during his playing career and as Bob Clarke since retiring as a player, Clarke is acknowledged by some as being one of the greatest hockey players and captains of all time. He was captain of the Flyers from 1973 to 1979, winning the Stanley Cup with them in both 1974 and 1975. He was again captain of the Flyers from 1982 to 1984 before retiring. A three-tim...
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Jens Lehmann
1969 - Present (57 years)
Jens Gerhard Lehmann is a German former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He was a member of Arsenal's "Invincibles", playing every match of their unbeaten title-winning season. He holds the UEFA Champions League record for the most consecutive clean sheets, not conceding a single goal in eight consecutive full matches while he played for Arsenal. He also has the highest number of continuous minutes without conceding goals. In total, this lasted 853 minutes. He is regarded as one of the best goalkeepers of his generation.
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Donald Firesmith
1952 - Present (74 years)
Donald G. Firesmith is an American software engineer, consultant, and trainer at the Software Engineering Institute. Biography Firesmith received his B.A. in Mathematics and German from Linfield College in 1975 and his M.A. in Mathematics from Arizona State University in 1977. He also studied one year at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
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Eva Adams
1908 - 1991 (83 years)
Eva Adams was the Director of the United States Mint from 1961 to 1969. Biography Eva Bertrand Adams was born in Wonder, Nevada on September 10, 1908, the daughter of Verner Laur Adams and his wife Cora Adams. During Eva's childhood, the Adams family moved around the state often as her father was called out to work to set up numerous facilities in mining camps for Wingfield. These facilities included hotels, commissaries, and bars. Due to the frequent re-locating in her early years she learned independence and how to make friends easily, and adapted to be happy wherever she was. Eventually Adams' mother insisted the family settle down in Reno, Nevada.
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Robert F. Inger
1920 - 2019 (99 years)
Robert Frederick Inger was an American herpetologist. During his lifetime, he wrote numerous books and publications about herpetology. He was also the curator for amphibians and reptiles at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois.
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Walt Frazier
1945 - Present (81 years)
Walter "Clyde" Frazier Jr. is an American former professional basketball player of the National Basketball Association . As their floor general and top perimeter defender, he led the New York Knicks to the franchise's only two championships , and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1987. Upon his retirement from basketball, Frazier went into broadcasting; he is currently a color commentator for telecasts of Knicks games on the MSG Network. In 1996, Frazier was honored as one of the league's greatest players of all time by being named to the NBA 50th Anniversary Team.
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Ma Ding
1957 - Present (69 years)
Ma Ding is a Chinese obstetrician and gynecologist who is director of Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tongji Medical College of HUST, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
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Michael King
1945 - 2004 (59 years)
Michael King was a New Zealand historian, author, and biographer. He wrote or edited over 30 books on New Zealand topics, including the best-selling Penguin History of New Zealand, which was the most popular New Zealand book of 2004.
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José Eduardo dos Santos
1942 - 2022 (80 years)
José Eduardo dos Santos was the president of Angola from 1979 to 2017. As president, dos Santos was also the commander-in-chief of the Angolan Armed Forces and president of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola , the party that has ruled Angola since it won independence in 1975. By the time he stepped down in 2017, he was the second-longest-serving president in Africa, surpassed only by Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea.
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Irwin Sobel
1940 - Present (86 years)
Irwin Sobel is a scientist and researcher in digital image processing. Biography Irwin Sobel was born in New York City. He graduated from MIT in 1961 and did his Ph.D. research at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Project with thesis Camera Models and Machine Perception.
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Michael D. Higgins
1941 - Present (85 years)
Michael Daniel Higgins is an Irish politician, poet, broadcaster and sociologist who has served as the ninth president of Ireland since 2011. Entering national politics through the Labour Party, he served as a senator from 1973 to 1977 having been nominated by the Taoiseach. Elected in 1981 as a Teachta Dála , he represented the Galway West constituency from 1981 to 1982 and 1987 to 2011. Between these terms, he returned to Seanad Éireann from 1983 to 1987 as a senator for the National University. He served as minister for arts, culture and the Gaeltacht from 1993 to 1997 and mayor of Galway from 1981 to 1982 and 1990 to 1991.
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G. Alan Marlatt
1941 - 2011 (70 years)
Gordon Alan Marlatt was a leading American-Canadian clinical psychologist in the field of addictive behaviors from the 1980s through the 2000s. He conducted pioneering research in harm reduction, brief interventions, and relapse prevention.
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Edgar Andrews
1932 - Present (94 years)
Edgar Harold Andrews is an English physicist and engineer. He is emeritus professor of materials at Queen Mary, University of London. Education After completing a BSc degree in theoretical physics at the University of London in 1953, Andrews obtained a PhD in applied physics in 1960 and a DSc in physics in 1968.
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Barry S. Strauss
1953 - Present (73 years)
Barry S. Strauss is an American historian. He is a professor of history and humanistic studies at Cornell University, and a visiting Corliss Page Dean Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Life and work Strauss is an expert on ancient military history and has written or edited numerous books, including The Battle of Salamis , The Trojan War , The Spartacus War , Masters of Command , The Death of Caesar , Ten Caesars , and The War That Made The Roman Empire . His books have been translated into nineteen languages.
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Ira M. Lapidus
1937 - Present (89 years)
Ira M. Lapidus is an Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic History at The University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of A History of Islamic Societies, and Contemporary Islamic Movements in Historical Perspective, among other works.
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Teshome Gabriel
1939 - 2010 (71 years)
Teshome H. Gabriel was an Ethiopian-born American cinema scholar and professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in Los Angeles. Gabriel was considered an expert on cinema and film of Africa and the developing world. A colleague at UCLA, Vinay Lal, noted that Gabriel was "one of the first scholars to theorize in a critical fashion about Third World cinema."
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Ichisada Miyazaki
1901 - 1995 (94 years)
Ichisada Miyazaki was a Japanese historian specializing in Chinese history. He represents the second generation of the Kyoto school founded by his teacher Naitō Konan . Early life Miyazaki is the second son of a primary school teacher who dwelled in Iiyama in the northeast of Nagano Prefecture. He finished his studies at Akitsu Elementary School . He became a student of Iiyama junior high school. In third year, he attended a school excursion for a week. This is the first time he visited Kyoto. They returned to Nagano through Nara and Osaka.
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Munindar P. Singh
1964 - Present (62 years)
Munindar P. Singh is a SAS institute distinguished professor and a full professor in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. Singh is an IEEE Fellow, a AAAI Fellow, a AAAS Fellow, an ACM Fellow, a Member of Academia Europaea, and a ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award recipient.
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Mark Doty
1953 - Present (73 years)
Mark Doty is an American poet and memoirist best known for his work My Alexandria. He was the winner of the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008. Early life Mark Doty was born in Maryville, Tennessee, to Lawrence and Ruth Doty, with an older sister, Sarah Alice Doty. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont.
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Dan Jurafsky
1962 - Present (64 years)
Daniel Jurafsky is a professor of linguistics and computer science at Stanford University, and also an author. With Daniel Gildea, he is known for developing the first automatic system for semantic role labeling . He is the author of The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu and a textbook on speech and language processing . Jurafsky was given a MacArthur Fellowship in 2002.
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Mien-Chie Hung
1950 - Present (76 years)
Mien-Chie Hung is a Taiwanese-born American molecular biologist and cancer researcher. He is a Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.
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Alfred I. Tauber
1947 - Present (79 years)
Alfred I. Tauber is an American philosopher and historian of science, who, from 1993 to 2010, served as director of the Boston University Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University.
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Raphaël Liogier
1967 - Present (59 years)
Raphaël Liogier is a French sociologist and philosopher. He received his PhD in social sciences at the University Paul Cézanne in France, where he also received master's degrees in public law and in political science. Other degrees include a degree in philosophy from the University of Provence, and a Masters of Science by research in philosophy from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Liogier has also studied social sciences as a visiting undergraduate at the University of California at Berkeley.
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Frank Smithies
1912 - 2002 (90 years)
Frank Smithies FRSE was a British mathematician who worked on integral equations, functional analysis, and the history of mathematics. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1961. He was an alumnus and an academic of Cambridge University.
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Abdoulaye Wade
1926 - Present (100 years)
Abdoulaye Wade is a French then Senegalese politician who was President of Senegal from 2000 to 2012. He is also the Secretary-General of the Senegalese Democratic Party , having led the party since it was founded in 1974. A long-time opposition leader, he ran for President four times, beginning in 1978, before he was elected in 2000. He won re-election in 2007 with a majority in the first round, but in 2012 he was defeated in a controversial bid for a third term.
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Paul Copan
1962 - Present (64 years)
Paul Copan is a Christian theologian, analytic philosopher, apologist, and author. He is currently a professor at the Palm Beach Atlantic University and holds the endowed Pledger Family Chair of Philosophy and Ethics. He has written and edited over 40 books in the area of philosophy of religion, apologetics, theology, and ethics in the Bible. He has contributed a great number of articles to various professional journals and has written many essays for edited books. For six years he served as the president of the Evangelical Philosophical Society.
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Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi
1954 - Present (72 years)
Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi is a Nigerian diplomat. He is best known as the former President of the United Nations Human Rights Council. Uhomoibhi's term as President was from 19 June 2008 to 18 June 2009. Martin Uhomoibhi served as Permanent Secretary of the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In October 2015 he was appointed as Joint Special Representative for Darfur and Head of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur .
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Peter Szendy
1966 - Present (60 years)
Peter Szendy is a French philosopher and musicologist. He is the David Herlihy Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature at Brown University. His Écoute, une histoire de nos oreilles is a critique of Romantic and Modernist conceptions of listening. Paying close attention to arrangements as "signed listenings" and to the juridical history of the listener, Szendy suggests an alternative model based on deconstruction: listening, he argues , is a "tolerated theft", and our ears are always already haunted by the ear of the other.
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Gheorghe Hagi
1965 - Present (61 years)
Gheorghe Hagi is a Romanian professional football manager and former player, who is currently the owner and manager of Liga I club Farul Constanța. Deployed as an attacking midfielder, Hagi was considered one of the best players in the world during the 1980s and '90s, and is regarded by many as the greatest Romanian footballer of all time. Fans of Turkish club Galatasaray, with whom Hagi ended his career, called him "Comandante" , while he was known as "Regele" to Romanian supporters. Nicknamed "The Maradona of the Carpathians", he was a creative advanced playmaker renowned for his dribbling...
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Lewis Nkosi
1936 - 2010 (74 years)
Lewis Nkosi was a South African writer, who spent 30 years in exile as a consequence of restrictions placed on him and his writing by the Suppression of Communism Act and the Publications and Entertainment Act passed in the 1950s and 1960s. A multifaceted personality, he attempted multiple genre for his writing, including literary criticism, poetry, drama, novels, short stories, essays, as well as journalism.
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Mahmoud M. Ayoub
1935 - 2021 (86 years)
Mahmoud M. Ayoub was a Lebanese Islamic scholar and professor of religious and inter-faith studies. Early life Mahmoud was born into a devout Muslim family on June 1, 1935, at Ain Qana , a small town with an integrated religious population. His upbringing was socially integrated with events and people from both the Islamic and Christian religious faiths. Mahmoud Ayoub attended a British Presbyterian missionary school for the blind as a child. He described his experience in that school noting that "the school authorities did not really have an educational programme for us, what they wanted to...
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Leslie Norris
1921 - 2006 (85 years)
George Leslie Norris , was a prize-winning Welsh poet and short story writer. He taught at academic institutions in Britain and the United States, including Brigham Young University. Norris is considered one of the most important Welsh writers of the post-war period, and his literary publications have won many prizes.
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Simon Shnoll
1930 - 2021 (91 years)
Simon El'evich Shnol was a biophysicist, and a historian of Soviet science. He was a professor at Physics Department of Moscow State University and a member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. His fields of interest were the oscillatory processes in biology, the theory of evolution, chronobiology, and the history of science. He had mentored many successful scientists, including Anatoly Zhabotinsky.
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D. Michael Fisher
1944 - Present (82 years)
Dennis Michael Fisher is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He also serves as the Distinguished Jurist in Residence at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. A former politician, Fisher has served as a state representative, state senator, and as Attorney General of Pennsylvania. He was the Republican nominee for Governor of Pennsylvania in 2002, losing to Ed Rendell.
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Benjamin Kaplan
1911 - 2010 (99 years)
Benjamin Kaplan was an American copyright and procedure scholar and jurist. He was also notable as "one of the principal architects" of the Nuremberg trials. And as Reporter to the U.S. Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, he played a pivotal role in the 1966 revisions to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23, which transformed class action practice in the U.S.
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James Birren
1918 - 2016 (98 years)
James E. Birren was one of the founders of the organized field of gerontology. He was a past president of The Gerontological Society of America, and author of over 250 publications. Personal life Birren was born on April 4, 1918, in Chicago. With the original intent to study engineering, Birren enrolled in Wright Junior College to study technical subjects. Birren changed his mind due to the Great Depression in America and decided to transfer to Chicago Teachers College to pursue what he thought to be a more practical career. It was there he took his first course in psychology, and he was enco...
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Irina Rakobolskaya
1919 - 2016 (97 years)
Irina Vyacheslavovna Rakobolskaya was a mathematician and physicist who served as the chief of staff of the women's 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment during World War II. After the war she worked as a physicist at Moscow State University and studied cosmic rays. She received numerous high state awards in her career and was awarded the title Honored Scientist of the Russian SFSR in 1990. She co-authored a book with Natalya Meklin-Kravtsova, an aviator from the regiment, titled We Were Called Night Witches about their experiences in the war, as their nickname given by their Germa...
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Iulia Motoc
1967 - Present (59 years)
Iulia Antoanella Motoc is a Romanian judge and international law expert, currently a Judge at the European Court of Human Rights and a professor at the University of Bucharest. Before beginning her service at the Court, she served as a Judge at the Constitutional Court of Romania. Motoc was UN Special Rapporteur for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and she chaired a number of international experts bodies and was Vice-President of the UN Human Rights Committee. On 1 October 2013, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe elected Motoc a Judge of the European Court of Human Rights with respect to Romania.
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Graeme Maxton
1960 - Present (66 years)
Graeme Maxton is a British climate change economist and writer. Biography Maxton was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and currently lives in Asia. He is related to politicians John Maxton, the Lord Maxton, and the 1930s Leader of the Independent Labour Party James Maxton. Until 2018, he was the Secretary General of the Club of Rome based in Switzerland. He was previously regional director of the Economist Intelligence Unit in Asia, worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, Citigroup and American Express and was a visiting professor at Cass Business School between 1988 and 2002.
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Anni-Frid Lyngstad
1945 - Present (81 years)
Anni-Frid Lyngstad , also known simply as Frida, is a Norwegian-born Swedish singer who is best known as one of the founding members and lead singers of the pop band ABBA. Courtesy titles Princess Reuss and Countess of Plauen are also in use due to her third marriage. Born in Bjørkåsen , Norway, to a Norwegian mother and a German father, she grew up in Torshälla, Sweden, and started her first solo career there, as a jazz singer in 1967, through a talent competition called New Faces.
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Alfonso Valencia
1959 - Present (67 years)
Areas of Specialization: Computational Biology Alfonso Valencia is director of the Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute and the Life Sciences department at Barcelona Supercomputing Center. He is a professor for the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies and former president of the International Society for Computational Biology. He earned his PhD in molecular biology from the Autonomous University of Madrid before completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. His scientific research has focused on biomedical systems, using computational biology and bioinformatics methods.
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Paulinho da Costa
1948 - Present (78 years)
Paulinho da Costa is a Brazilian percussionist considered one of the most recorded musicians of modern times. Beginning his career as a samba musician in Brazil, he moved to the United States in the early 1970s and worked with Brazilian bandleader Sérgio Mendes. He went on to perform with many American pop, rock and jazz musicians and participated in thousands of albums. DownBeat magazine call him "one of the most talented percussionists of our time." He played on such albums as Earth, Wind & Fire's I Am, Michael Jackson's Thriller, Madonna's True Blue, Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love, hi...
Go to ProfileJosé Meseguer is a Spanish computer scientist, and professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He leads the university's Formal Methods and Declarative Languages Laboratory. Career José Meseguer obtained his PhD in mathematics in 1975 with a thesis titled Primitive recursion in model categories under Michael Pfender at the University of Zaragoza, after which he did post-doctoral work at the University of Santiago de Compostela and the University of California at Berkeley. In 1980 he joined the Computer Science Laboratory at SRI International, eventually becoming a Principal Scientist and Head of the Logic and Declarative Languages Group.
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Braden Allenby
1950 - Present (76 years)
Braden R. Allenby is an American environmental scientist, environmental attorney and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and of Law, at Arizona State University. Biography Allenby was born in Highland Park, Illinois on December 29, 1950, to Dr. Richard J. Allenby, Jr. and Julia T. Allenby. He is the oldest of three brothers, Dr. Kent Allenby and Peter Allenby.
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