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#2651

Victoria Meadows

#128332

Overall Influence

Victoria Suzanne Meadows is a Professor with the Astronomy Department and Director of the Astrobiology Program at the University of Washington. She is also the Principal Investigator for the NASA Astrobiology Institute's Virtual Planetary Laboratory Lead Team and the chair of the NAI Focus Group on Habitability and Astronomical Biosignatures . The research direction of the team is to create computer models that can be used to understand planet formation, stability and orbital evolution, and to simulate the environment and spectra of planets that can potentially be habitable.

#2652

Bridgette Barry

#128385

Overall Influence

Bridgette Anne Barry was an American biophysicist and biochemist. She was a professor and researcher of molecular biophysics and biochemistry in the Georgia Tech chemistry and biochemistry department from 2003 until her death. Her research focused on protein electron and oxygen evolution mechanisms.

#2653

Paul Daniel Dapkus

#128418

Overall Influence

#2654

Nitin Samarth

#128449

Overall Influence

#2655

Antonia Papandreou

#128547

Overall Influence

Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola from the Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2013 for contributions to applications of time-frequency signal processing.

#2656

Juliet Lee-Franzini

#128721

Overall Influence

1933 - 2014 (81 years)

Juliet Lee-Franzini was Chinese-born physics who was the founding faculty member of the high energy physics experimental group at Stony Brook University. Early life and education Juliet Lee-Franzini was born of Chinese parents in Paris, France in 1933 and educated in the United States. She earned her BA at Hunter College in 1953, her MA and PhD from Columbia University in 1957 and 1960.

#2657

Roxanne Johnson

#128853

Overall Influence

Roxanne L. Johnson is an American chemist specialized in developing and applying quantitative methods to determine nutrients, organic and inorganic carbon and total suspended solids in estuarine seawater systems. She works for the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

#2658

Debu Tripathy

#128859

Overall Influence

#2659

Gideon Schreiber

#128883

Overall Influence

#2660

Ann Heinson

#129040

Overall Influence

Ann Heinson is an American high-energy particle physicist known for her work on single top quark physics. She established and led the DØ Single Top Group which first published experimental observations of the top quark, and in 1997 she co-authored a paper which laid the foundations for further investigation into the top quark.

#2661

Alice C. Parker

#129201

Overall Influence

Alice Cline Parker is an American electrical engineer. Her early research studied electronic design automation; later in her career, her interests shifted to neuromorphic engineering, biomimetic architecture for computer vision, analog circuits, carbon nanotube field-effect transistors, and nanotechnology. She is Dean's Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering of the University of Southern California.

#2662

Albert Erives

#129267

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (53 years)

Albert Erives is a developmental geneticist who studies transcriptional enhancers underlying animal development and diseases of development . Erives also proposed the pacRNA model for the dual origin of the genetic code and universal homochirality. He is known for work at the intersection of genetics, evolution, developmental biology, and gene regulation. He has worked at the California Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley, and Dartmouth College, and is an associate professor at the University of Iowa.

#2663

Stephen Garoff

#129370

Overall Influence

Stephen Garoff is an American physicist. Garoff earned a bachelor's degree at Yale University in 1972 and studied applied physics at Harvard University, completing a master's degree in 1974, followed by a doctorate in 1977. Garoff subsequently became a research scientist for Exxon until 1986, when he moved to Schlumberger in the same role. Garoff joined the Carnegie Mellon University faculty in 1988 as professor of physics, and concurrently held courtesy appoints in materials science and engineering and chemical engineering. In 1998, he was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society, "[...

#2664

Miqin Zhang

#129421

Overall Influence

Miqin Zhang is an American materials scientist who is the Kyocera Professor of Materials Science at the University of Washington. Her research considers the development of new biomaterials for medical applications. Her group develops nanoparticles for cancer diagnosis and imaging, biocompatible materials for drug delivery and cell-based biosensors.

#2665

Grant W. Robinson

#129433

Overall Influence

#2666

Peter Schnohr

#129434

Overall Influence

#2667

Emile A. Okal

#129470

Overall Influence

#2668

Rick Freuler

#129521

Overall Influence

Dr. Richard "Rick" J. Freuler is a professor and director of the Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors program at the Ohio State University. As the director of FEH, he also teaches some of the classes.

#2669

Daniel M. Sigman

#129523

Overall Influence

#2670

Stephen P. Fortmann

#129557

Overall Influence

#2671

Michael Trenary

#129560

Overall Influence

Michael Trenary is an American chemist currently Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago. His interests are chemical and surface reaction mechanisms. He was Elected as Fellow at the American Vacuum Society in 2002, American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2009 and American Chemical Society in 2011.

#2672

Sidney Strickland

#129595

Overall Influence

#2673

Jonathan Chernoff

#129610

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

#2674

Candace Sidner

#129637

Overall Influence

Candace Lee Sidner is an American computer scientist whose research has applied artificial intelligence and natural language processing to problems in personal information management, intelligent user interfaces, and human–robot interaction. She is a research professor of computer science at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and a former president of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

#2675

Kakani Katija Young

#129676

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (42 years)

Kakani Katija is a bioengineer from Hawaii. While earning her Master's and PhD in Aeronautics and Bioengineering, Katija began to study the mechanics of swimming and feeding marine organisms. Biography Kakani Katija completed her bachelor's degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Washington in 2004. She furthered her studies, earning a Master's in Aeronautics in 2005 at the California Institute of Technology and her Doctorate at Caltech in 2010 in Bioengineering.

#2676

Edith Chen

#129751

Overall Influence

Edith Chen is a scientist known for researching the psychosocial and biological pathways that explain relationships between low socioeconomic status and physical health outcomes in childhood. She is currently a professor at Northwestern University. Scientific Award for an early career contribution within her first nine years of receiving her PhD. Chen was awarded the 2015 George A. Miller Award for an Outstanding Recent Article on General Psychology for the article “Psychological stress in childhood and susceptibility to the chronic diseases of aging: Moving toward a model of behavioral and biological mechanisms” alongside authors Gregory E.

#2677

William A. Harris

#129838

Overall Influence

#2678

Michael Lee Roukes

#129888

Overall Influence

#2679

Lyndon Jones

#129920

Overall Influence

Lyndon William James Jones is a British optometrist. Early life and education Jones completed his Bachelor of Optometry from the University of Wales in 1985 and earned his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Aston University in 1998. During his time in England, Jones and his wife Debbie ran their own private practice.

#2680

Sarah Milkovich

Sarah Milkovich

#129933

Overall Influence

Sarah Milkovich is lead of Science Operations for the Mars 2020 rover at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She was investigation scientist for the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Education Milkovich grew up in Ithaca, New York. Here she became interested in astronomy watching TV specials about spacecraft of Nova and PBS, and during vacations in northern Minnesota. She used to watch the Perseid Meteor Shower with her parents. Milkovich attended Phillips Exeter Academy, which she graduated in 1996. Whilst a high school student, she worked as an intern for the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft.

#2681

Ernst K. Zinner

#130039

Overall Influence

#2682

Nimrod Moiseyev

#130129

Overall Influence

#2683

Mary Anne White

#130166

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Mary Anne White is a Canadian materials scientist who is the Harry Shirreff Professor of Chemical Research at Dalhousie University. Her research considers novel solar thermal materials and their application in renewable energy devices. She is the author of a textbook titled Physical Properties of Materials. She was appointed an Officer to the Order of Canada in 2016.

#2684

Valerie Hu

#130193

Overall Influence

Valerie Wailin Hu is a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at George Washington University, where she studies autism biomarkers. Education Hu has a bachelor's degree from the University of Hawaiʻi and a PhD from Caltech ; she conducted postdoctoral research into membrane biochemistry and immunology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

#2685

Michael Q Zhang

#130235

Overall Influence

#2686

Daniel M. Popper

#130241

Overall Influence

1913 - 1999 (86 years)

Daniel M. Popper was an American astrophysicist. Life and career Popper was born in Oakland, California. He studied at the University of California, Berkeley where he received his Ph.D in 1938. He joined the University of California, Los Angeles in 1947, becoming a full professor in 1955. He worked at UCLA until his retirement in 1978. Popper died in 1999.

#2687

Nicholas Chiorazzi

#130283

Overall Influence

#2688

Danny Reible

#130344

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Danny Reible is an American engineer, currently the Donovan Maddox Distinguished Engineering Chair and Paul Whitfield Horn Professor at Texas Tech University. He was previously the director of the Center for Research for Water Resources and Bettie Margaret Smith Chaired Professor at University of Texas at Austin, the director of the Hazardous Substance Research Center/South and Southwest and Chevron Professor at Louisiana State University and also the Shell Professor of Environmental Engineering at University of Sydney. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

#2689

Yongjie Jessica Zhang

#130370

Overall Influence

Yongjie Jessica Zhang is an American mechanical engineer. She is the George Tallman Ladd and Florence Barrett Ladd Professor of mechanical engineering and, by courtesy, of biomedical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Engineering with Computers.

#2690

Ken Riley

#130473

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (89 years)

Ken Riley is a physicist. Career Ken Riley read mathematics at the University of Cambridge and proceeded to a Ph.D. there in theoretical and experimental nuclear physics. He became a research associate in elementary particle physics in Brookhaven, and then, having taken up lectureship at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, continued this research at the Rutherford Laboratory and Stanford; in particular he was involved in the experimental discovery of a number of the early baryonic resonances.

#2691

Alison Rodger

#130566

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Alison Rodger FRSC FRACI FAA CChem is a professor of chemistry at Macquarie University. Her research considers biomacromolecular structures and their characterisation. She is currently developing Raman Linear Difference Spectroscopy and fluorescence detected liner dichroism to understand biomacromolecular structure and interactions with application to the division of bacterial cells.

#2692

Stanley Martin Flatté

#130726

Overall Influence

1940 - 2007 (67 years)

Stanley Martin Flatté was a particle physicist and expert on wave propagation in atmospheric optics, ocean acoustics, and seismology. Biography Flatté received in 1962 a B.S. in physics from California Institute of Technology and in 1966 a Ph.D. in physics from UC Berkeley. After 5 years as a research physicist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, he joined in 1971 the UC Santa Cruz faculty, where he remained until his retirement in 2004. At UCSC he was affiliated with the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, the Institute of Marine Sciences, and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics.

#2693

James F. Woodward

#130747

Overall Influence

#2694

Chung Owyang

#130774

Overall Influence

#2695

James G. Ogg

#130874

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

#2696

Mi Lu

#130925

Overall Influence

Mi Lu is an engineer and professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She is noted for her contributions in computer arithmetic, parallel algorithms, computer architectures, and computer networks. She has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Texas A&M University since 1987. She is the author of the book Arithmetic and Logic in Computer Systems and book chapters in Handbook of Bioinspired Algorithms and Applications and Biocomputing.

#2697

Alexander Kiselev

#131025

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Alexander A. Kiselev is an American mathematician, specializing in spectral theory, partial differential equations, and fluid mechanics. Career Alexander Kiselev received his bachelor's degree in 1992 from Saint Petersburg State University and his PhD in 1997 from Caltech under supervision of Barry Simon. In 1997-1998 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, where he co-authored a paper on Christ–Kiselev maximal inequality. Between 1998 and 2002 he was an E. Dickson Instructor and then assistant professor at the University of Chicago where he worked with Peter Constantin on reaction-diffusion equations and fluid mechanics.

#2698

Jin Zhang

#131260

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (53 years)

Jin Zhang is a Chinese-American biochemist. She is a professor of pharmacology, chemistry and biochemistry, and biomedical engineering at the University of California, San Diego. Early life and education Zhang was born in Beijing, China. She received her Bachelor of Science in chemistry from Tsinghua University in Beijing in 1995. She completed her PhD with David G. Lynn at the University of Chicago in 2000, and conducted postdoctoral research with Roger Y. Tsien and Susan S. Taylor at the University of California, San Diego.

#2699

Shuguang Zhang

#131334

Overall Influence

#2700

Qiang Cui

#131372

Overall Influence

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