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Charles Woodson
1976 - Present (50 years)
Charles Cameron Woodson is an American former football player who was a defensive back in the National Football League for 18 seasons with the Oakland Raiders and Green Bay Packers. He spent his first 14 seasons playing cornerback and his final four as a safety. Woodson played college football for the Michigan Wolverines, winning the Heisman Trophy as a junior. To date, he is the only defensive player to win the Heisman.
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Riccardo Barbieri
1944 - Present (82 years)
Riccardo Barbieri is an Italian theoretical physicist and a professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. He has written more than two hundred research papers in the field of theoretical elementary particle physics, and has been particularly influential in physics beyond the Standard Model.
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D. Mark Hegsted
1914 - 2009 (95 years)
David Mark Hegsted was an American nutritionist who studied the connections between food consumption and heart disease. His work included studies that showed that consumption of saturated fats led to increases in cholesterol, leading to the development of dietary guidelines intended to help Americans achieve better health through improved food choices.
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Stephen Clarkson
1937 - 2016 (79 years)
Stephen Clarkson, was one of Canada’s preeminent political scientists and a professor of political economy at the University of Toronto. Life and career Clarkson's work focused mainly on two areas: the evolution of North America as a continental state, reinstitutionalized by the North American Free Trade Agreement and two decades of neoconservatism; and the impact of globalization and trade liberalization on the Canadian state. His trilogy on these themes include Uncle Sam and Us: Globalization, Neoconservatism and the Canadian State, published in 2002; Does North America Exist? and Depend...
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George C. Clerk
1931 - 2019 (88 years)
George Carver Clerk, was a Ghanaian botanist and plant pathologist. A professor and later, an emeritus professor at the University of Ghana, Legon, he also focused his research on West African mycology and ecology. Clerk, along with his academic contemporary Ebenezer Laing , was one of Ghana's earliest practitioners of botany as a scientific discipline, in addition to his pioneering role as a plant pathologist in West Africa. In 1973, G. C. Clerk became a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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William N. Goetzmann
1956 - Present (70 years)
William N. Goetzmann is the Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies at the Yale School of Management, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2018, he received the James R. Vertin Award by the Chartered Financial Analysts Institute Research Foundation "for a body of research notable for its relevance and enduring value to investment professionals".
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James Thorp
1937 - 2018 (81 years)
James S. Thorp was the head of the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. He was the Hugh P. and Ethel C. Kelly Professor Emeritus & Research Professor. He received all his degrees from Cornell University. Professor Thorp was a teacher, a researcher, and for many years served as the director, in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell, where he worked for 42 years, 1962-2004.
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James Duderstadt
1942 - Present (84 years)
James Johnson Duderstadt was the President of the University of Michigan from 1988 to 1996. Duderstadt was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1987 for significant contributions to nuclear science and engineering relating to fission and fusion energy systems and reactor theory and design.
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Eva Longoria
1975 - Present (51 years)
Eva Jacqueline Longoria Bastón is an American actress, producer, and director. After a number of guest roles on several television series, she was recognized for her portrayal of Isabella Braña on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, on which she starred from 2001 to 2003. She is most known for her role as Gabrielle Solis on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives, which ran from 2004 to 2012, and for which she received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. She has also appeared in The Sentinel , Over Her Dead Body , For Greater Glory , Frontera , Lowriders , and Overboard .
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Ellis Batten Page
1924 - 2005 (81 years)
Ellis Batten “Bo” Page Ed.D. is widely acknowledged as the father of automated essay scoring, a multi-disciplinary field exploring computer evaluation and scoring of student writing, particularly essays. Page's development of and pioneering work with Project Essay Grade software in the mid-1960s set the stage for the practical application of computer essay scoring technology following the microcomputer revolution of the 1990s.
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Simon Marginson
1951 - Present (75 years)
Simon Marginson is an Australian academic who researches higher education. He held professorships in education or higher education at Monash University and the University of Melbourne before moving to the United Kingdom as professor of international higher education at University College London . As of 2021, he is the director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education and professor of higher education at the University of Oxford.
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Shneior Lifson
1914 - 2001 (87 years)
Shneior Lifson , was an Israeli chemical physicist, scientific director of the Weizmann Institute of Science, a founder of the Open University of Israel, and laureate of the 1969 Israel Prize in the life sciences. Lifson is best known for his consistent force field method, one of the major theories behind 3-D computer modeling of large molecules.
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Michael Bruno
1932 - 1996 (64 years)
Michael Peter Bruno was an Israeli economist. He was governor of the Bank of Israel and a former World Bank Chief Economist. Biography Michael Peter Bruno was married to Ofra Hanoch , with whom he had three children, daughter Yael and sons Ido and Asa. He died of cancer at home in Jerusalem.He is survived by his second wife Netta .
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Bogdan Maglich
1928 - 2017 (89 years)
Bogdan Cvete Maglić was a Serbian-American experimental nuclear physicist and the leading advocate of a purported non-radioactive aneutronic fusion energy source. Maglich built four models of Migma, devices producing fusion of deuterium atoms in colliding ion beams.
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Morteza Momayez
1935 - 2005 (70 years)
Morteza Momayez was an Iranian graphic designer. He was one of the founders of Iranian Graphic Design Society and held a membership to Alliance Graphique Internationale . He was the president of Tehran International Poster Biennial and Editor-in-chief of “Neshan”. Throughout his career, Momayez initiated many cultural institutes, exhibitions and graphic design publications. In 2004, Momayez received the Art & Culture Award of Excellency from President Mohammad Khatami.
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Philip Hamburger
1957 - Present (69 years)
Philip Hamburger is an American legal scholar. Hamburger holds a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School and a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University . Hamburger is the Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at the Columbia University School of Law. He is a legal historian and a scholar of constitutional law. Before moving to Columbia, Hamburger was John P. Wilson Professor at the University of Chicago Law School, where he was also director of the Bigelow Program and the Legal History Program. He was previously Oswald Symyster Colclough Research Professor at George Washington University Law School and, before that, he taught at the University of Connecticut Law School.
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Razib Khan
1977 - Present (49 years)
Razib Khan is a Bangladeshi-American writer in population genetics and consumer genomics. Life and education Khan was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh but moved to the United States at the age of five. His family is Bengali Muslim from the Comilla District of eastern Bangladesh. In kindergarten his teacher pronounced his name "Razib" and the name stuck. He grew up in Upstate New York and Eastern Oregon. Though brought up a Muslim, he was an atheist from an early age.
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Lawrence H. Johnston
1918 - 2011 (93 years)
Lawrence Harding Johnston was an American physicist, a young contributor to the Manhattan Project. He was the only man to witness all three atomic explosions in 1945: the Trinity nuclear test in New Mexico and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.
Go to ProfileMagnus Lekara Kpakol is a Nigerian American educator who is the CEO, Chairman and Chief Strategist at the Economic and Business Strategies. He is the principal leadership, management and business coach/trainer at the Economic and Business Strategies Ltd. He was the principal consultant at VIJONS International in Dallas Texas and a visiting professor of economics at the University of Dallas, where he taught economic development and international economics before being appointed in 2001 as Chief economic adviser to the president of Nigeria by President Olusegun Obasanjo.
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Rutger Hauer
1944 - 2019 (75 years)
Rutger Oelsen Hauer was a Dutch actor. In 1999, he was named by the Dutch public as the Best Dutch Actor of the Century. Hauer's career began in 1969 with the title role in the Dutch television series Floris and surged with his leading role in Turkish Delight , which in 1999 was named the Best Dutch Film of the Century. After gaining international recognition with Soldier of Orange and Spetters , he moved into American films such as Nighthawks and Blade Runner , starring in the latter as self-aware replicant Roy Batty. His performance in Blade Runner led to roles in The Osterman Weekend , L...
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Lavinia Greenlaw
1962 - Present (64 years)
Lavinia Elaine Greenlaw is an English poet, novelist and non-fiction writer. She won the Prix du Premier Roman with her first novel and her poetry has been shortlisted for awards that include the T. S. Eliot Prize, Forward Prize and Whitbread Poetry Prize. She was shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Poetry Award for A Double Sorrow: A Version of Troilus and Criseyde. Greenlaw currently holds the post of Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.
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Bob Lanier
1925 - 2014 (89 years)
Robert Clayton Lanier was an American businessman and politician. He served as mayor of the city of Houston, Texas, from 1992 to 1998. At the time of his death, he was Houston's oldest living mayor.
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Chris Hann
1953 - Present (73 years)
Areas of Specialization: Ethnography, History and Anthropology Christopher Hann is one of the founding Directors of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and a well-known British social anthropologist. He studied philosophy, politics and economics at Jesus College at Cambridge, before taking on his graduate studies at University of Cambridge’s Corpus Christi College. As a graduate student, he focused his research on Eastern Europe, learning to speak and read Hungarian, and conducting field work in the Hungarian village of Tázlár. Perhaps best known for his ethnographic work, Hann has also explored the connections between anthropology and history.
Go to ProfileDeclan Walsh is an Irish author and journalist who is the Chief Africa Correspondent for The New York Times. Walsh was expelled from Pakistan in May 2013—an experience he wrote about in his 2020 book The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State—but continued covering the country from London.
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Burkhard Schwenker
1958 - Present (68 years)
Burkhard Schwenker is a German business consultant. He served as CEO of Roland Berger from 2003 until July 2010, when he was appointed head of the supervisory board of the firm. He served as CEO again from May 2013 to July 2014, after his successor/antecessor Martin C. Wittig stepped back due to health reasons. He again served as chairman of the supervisory board until he was appointed chairman of Roland Berger's advisory council in July 2015.
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Józef Czyrek
1928 - 2013 (85 years)
Józef Czyrek was a Polish politician who served as the minister of foreign affairs of the People's Republic of Poland from 1980 to 1982. Early life and education Czyrek was born in Białobrzegi, in the Lwów Voivodeship of Poland, in 1928. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics from Jagiellonian University in 1950.
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Ian Holm
1931 - 2020 (89 years)
Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert was an English actor. After beginning his career on the British stage as a leading member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he became a successful and prolific performer on television and in films. He received numerous accolades including two BAFTA Awards and a Tony Award, along with nominations for an Academy Award and two Emmy Awards. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1989 by Queen Elizabeth II.
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David Plante
1940 - Present (86 years)
David Robert Plante is an American novelist, diarist, and memoirist of both French-Canadian and North American Indian descent. Life The son of Albina Bisson and Aniclet Plante, Plante is of both French-Canadian and North American Indian descent. He graduated from Boston College and the Université catholique de Louvain. He taught creative writing at Columbia University before retiring. His diary is kept in the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library. His papers are kept in the library of The University of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Plante lives in London, Lucca, Italy, and Athens, Greece. He has ...
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Billie Lee Turner II
1945 - Present (81 years)
Billie Lee Turner II is an American geographer and human-environmental scientist, member of the National Academy of Sciences and other honorary institutions. Prominent among the third generation of the Berkeley School of Latin Americanist Geography and cultural ecological research, he has been a leader in bridging this work with the Chicago School of natural hazards and risk research. In August 2008, he took a position as the first Gilbert F. White Chair in Environment and Society at Arizona State University, where he is affiliated with the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and the School of Sustainability.
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David Bader
1969 - Present (57 years)
David A. Bader is a Distinguished Professor and Director of the Institute for Data Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Previously, he served as the Chair of the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Computational Science & Engineering, where he was also a founding professor, and the executive director of High-Performance Computing at the Georgia Tech College of Computing. In 2007, he was named the first director of the Sony Toshiba IBM Center of Competence for the Cell Processor at Georgia Tech.
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Vinzenz Brinkmann
1958 - Present (68 years)
Vinzenz Brinkmann is a German classical archaeologist. Life Brinkmann grew up in Gauting, southwest of Munich, and studied Classical Archeology in Munich and Athens. In 1987 he earned his doctorate under Volkmar von Graeve at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich with his work "Observations to the Formal Structure and the Meaning of the Friezes of Siphnierschatzhauses". He worked as a curator at the State Collection of Antiquities and the Glyptothek in Munich, and finished his habilitation in Bochum in 2001. Since 2007 he has headed the antiquities collection of the Liebieghaus sculpture c...
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Miguel Esteves Cardoso
1955 - Present (71 years)
Miguel Vicente Esteves Cardoso is a Portuguese writer, translator, critic and journalist. He is a well-known monarchist. Early life Cardoso was born in an upper-middle-class family in Lisbon. His father, Joaquim Carlos Esteves Cardoso , was Portuguese and his mother , Hazel Diana Smith, was English. He had a good education and the advantage of a bilingual and bicultural upbringing, helping him to develop an outsider's detachment from the culture of his birth country. In 1979, he graduated from Manchester University in political studies and four years later, in 1983, he received his doctorate in Political Philosophy.
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Kumar Sangakkara
1977 - Present (49 years)
Kumar Chokshanada Sangakkara born 27 October 1977 is a Sri Lankan former professional cricketer who represented Sri Lanka in 134 Test matches from 2000 to 2015, including fifteen as captain. In first-class cricket, he played for Nondescripts Cricket Club from 1997–98 to 2013–14 and for Surrey County Cricket Club from 2015 to 2017. He also played for numerous franchise teams. He was born in Matale, Central Province.
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William R. Newman
1955 - Present (71 years)
William R. Newman is Distinguished Professor and Ruth N. Halls Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University. Most of Newman’s work in the History of Science has been devoted to alchemy and "chymistry," the art-nature debate, and matter theories, particularly atomism. Newman is also General Editor of the Chymistry of Isaac Newton, an online resource combining born-digital editions of Newton’s alchemical writings with multimedia replications of Newton’s alchemical experiments. In addition, he was Director of the Catapult Center for Digital Humanities and Computational Analysis of Texts at Indiana University.
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Kate Burridge
1952 - Present (74 years)
Kathryn "Kate" Burridge is a prominent Australian linguist specialising in the Germanic languages. Burridge currently occupies the Chair of Linguistics in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University.
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Mary Gordon
1949 - Present (77 years)
Mary Catherine Gordon is an American writer from Queens and Valley Stream, New York. She is the McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College. She is best known for her novels, memoirs and literary criticism. In 2008, she was named Official State Author of New York.
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Donald Marquardt
1929 - 1997 (68 years)
Donald W. Marquardt was an American statistician, the rediscoverer of the Levenberg–Marquardt nonlinear least squares fitting algorithm. Marquardt was educated at Columbia University with bachelor's degree in 1950 in physics and mathematics and at the University of Delaware with master's degree in 1956 in mathematics and statistics. Marquardt joined DuPont in 1953 and worked there for 39 years. He also founded and managed the DuPont Quality Management & Technology Center. In 1963 he published his famous paper "algorithm for least-squares estimation of nonlinear problems" in SIAM journal. Marquardt developed his algorithm to solve fitting nonlinear chemical models to laboratory data.
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Daina Taimiņa
1954 - Present (72 years)
Daina Taimiņa is a Latvian mathematician, retired adjunct associate professor of mathematics at Cornell University, known for developing a way of modeling hyperbolic geometry with crocheted objects.
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Dragoš Kalajić
1943 - 2005 (62 years)
Dragoš Kalajić was a Serbian painter, philosopher and writer. Early life and education Dragoš Kalajić was born on 22 February 1943 in Belgrade. Dragoš's father Velimir Kalajić was a Chetnik military judge, his mother Tatjana Kalajić taught mathematics at the Faculty of Mining and Geology, University of Belgrade.
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Michael J. Piore
1940 - Present (86 years)
Michael Joseph Piore is an American economist and professor of economics and political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research centers on labor economics, immigration, and innovation. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1984.
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Guillermo Sapiro
1966 - Present (60 years)
Guillermo Sapiro is an Israeli-Uruguayan computer scientist, electrical engineer and professor who has made notable contributions to image processing. He worked at The University of Minnesota for 15 years before becoming a professor at Duke University. He has also worked at Hewlett Packard Labs researching image processing and is known for being one of the people who originally developed the LOCO-I Compression Algorithm for lossless image compression while he was working there. He has also made significant contributions towards the development of the rotobrush tool in Adobe After Effects, which has been included in After Effects since version CS5.
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Geoffrey Howe
1926 - 2015 (89 years)
Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon, , known from 1970 to 1992 as Sir Geoffrey Howe, was a British politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1989 to 1990. A member of the Conservative Party, he was Margaret Thatcher's longest-serving Cabinet minister, successively holding the posts of chancellor of the Exchequer, foreign secretary, and finally leader of the House of Commons, deputy prime minister and lord president of the Council. His resignation on 1 November 1990 is widely considered to have precipitated the leadership challenge that led to T...
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Gil Troy
1960 - Present (66 years)
Gil Troy is an American presidential historian and a popular commentator on politics and other issues. He is a professor of history at McGill University. Troy is the author of nine books, and the editor of two. He writes a column for The Daily Beast on forgotten history, putting current events in historical perspective and is a columnist for The Jerusalem Post.
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Sean Waltman
1972 - Present (54 years)
Sean Michael Waltman is an American professional wrestler and martial artist. He is currently signed to WWE under a legends contract. He is best known for his appearances for the World Wrestling Federation under the ring names 1–2–3 Kid, Kamikaze Kid, and X-Pac; World Championship Wrestling as Syxx; and NWA Total Nonstop Action as Syxx-Pac and under his real name.
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Barbara McQuade
1964 - Present (62 years)
Barbara Lynn McQuade is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan from 2010 to 2017. As part of President Donald Trump's 2017 dismissal of U.S. attorneys, she stepped down in March 2017. She is a professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School and a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.
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Roger Hunt
1938 - 2021 (83 years)
Roger Hunt was an English professional footballer who played as a forward. Eleven years with Liverpool, he was the club's record goalscorer with 286 goals until being overtaken by Ian Rush. Nonetheless, Hunt remains Liverpool's record league goalscorer with 244 goals. Under Bill Shankly, Hunt won two league titless and an FA Cup. In August 1964 he also scored the first ever goal seen on the BBC's Match of the Day. Regarded as one of Liverpool's greatest ever players, Hunt is referred to as Sir Roger by the club's fans, ranking 13th on the 100 Players Who Shook the Kop, an official fan poll.
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Richard M. Dudley
1938 - 2020 (82 years)
Richard Mansfield Dudley was Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Education and career Dudley was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his BA at Harvard College and received his PhD at Princeton University in 1962 under the supervision of Edward Nelson and Gilbert Hunt. He was a Putnam Fellow in 1958. He was an instructor and assistant professor at University of California, Berkeley between 1962 and 1967, before moving to MIT as a professor in mathematics, where he stayed from 1967 until 2015, when he retired.
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Thomas W. Hungerford
1936 - 2014 (78 years)
Thomas William Hungerford was an American mathematician who worked in algebra and mathematics education. He is the author or coauthor of several widely used and widely cited textbooks covering high-school to graduate-level mathematics. From 1963 until 1980 he taught at the University of Washington and then at Cleveland State University until 2003. From 2003–2014 he was at Saint Louis University. Hungerford had a special interest in promoting the use of technology to teach mathematics.
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Bam Margera
1979 - Present (47 years)
Brandon "Bam" Margera is an American former professional skateboarder, stunt performer, television personality, and filmmaker. He rose to prominence in the early 2000s as one of the stars of the MTV reality stunt show Jackass and subsequent sequels. He also created the Jackass spin-off shows Viva La Bam, Bam's Unholy Union, Bam's World Domination, and Bam's Bad Ass Game Show, and co-wrote and directed the films Haggard and Minghags.
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Bonnie Ethel Cone
1907 - 2003 (96 years)
Bonnie Ethel Cone was an American educator best known as the founder of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Cone was born to a prominent family in Lodge, South Carolina where her father served as Mayor. She earned her B.A. from Coker College and an M.A. in mathematics from Duke University. Cone was one of many mathematicians and scientists chosen to assist with the Manhattan Project during WWII.
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