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Kevin J. Tracey
1957 - Present (69 years)
Kevin J. Tracey, a neurosurgeon and inventor, is the president and CEO of the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, professor of neurosurgery and molecular medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine, and president of the Elmezzi Graduate School of Molecular Medicine in Manhasset, New York. The Public Library of Science Magazine, PLOS Biology, recognized Tracey in 2019 as one of the most cited researchers in the world.
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David Javerbaum
1971 - Present (55 years)
David Adam Javerbaum is an American comedy writer and lyricist. Javerbaum has won 13 Emmy Awards in his career, 11 of them for his work on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He runs the popular Twitter account @TheTweetOfGod, which at its peak had 6.2 million followers. The account was the basis for his play An Act of God, which opened on Broadway in the spring of 2015 starring Jim Parsons, and again in the spring of 2016 starring Sean Hayes. The play has gone on to receive over 100 productions in 20 countries and 11 languages.
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Anders P. Ravn
1947 - 2019 (72 years)
Anders Peter Ravn was a Danish computer scientist. Anders P. Ravn was born in 1947 in Caracas, Venezuela, the son of Niels and Henny Ravn. He arrived in Denmark in 1948. Ravn received a Master of Science degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Copenhagen in 1973 and a Doctor of Technology degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Denmark in 1995.
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James D. Meindl
1933 - 2020 (87 years)
James Donald Meindl was director of the Joseph M. Pettit Microelectronics Research Center and the Marcus Nanotechnology Research Center and Pettit Chair Professor of Microelectronics at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. He won the 2006 IEEE Medal of Honor "for pioneering contributions to microelectronics, including low power, biomedical, physical limits and on-chip interconnect networks.”
Go to ProfileFarhana Sultana is a Full Professor of Geography at Syracuse University, where she is also a Research Director for the Program on Environmental Collaboration and Conflicts at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Her research considers how water management and climate change impact society. Her first book, The Right to Water: Politics, Governance and Social Struggles, investigates the relationships between human rights and access to clean water. She is a feminist political ecologist whose work focuses on climate justice, water governance, sustainability, international developm...
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Alberto Abadie
1968 - Present (58 years)
Alberto Abadie is professor of the department of economics at MIT and associate director of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society also at MIT. He was born in the Basque Country, Spain. He received his PhD in economics from MIT in 1999. Upon graduating, he joined the faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was promoted to full professor in 2005. He returned to MIT in 2016.
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Elliott Carter
1908 - 2012 (104 years)
Elliott Cook Carter Jr. was an American modernist composer. One of the most respected composers of the second half of the 20th century, he combined elements of European modernism and American "ultra-modernism" into a distinctive style with a personal harmonic and rhythmic language, after an early neoclassical phase. His compositions are performed throughout the world, and include orchestral, chamber music, solo instrumental, and vocal works. The recipient of many awards, Carter was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
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Joe Kinnear
1946 - Present (80 years)
Joseph Patrick Kinnear is an Irish former football manager and player. Kinnear played as a defender, spending the majority of his career—ten seasons—with Tottenham Hotspur. With Tottenham he won the FA Cup, the League Cup twice, the Charity Shield and the UEFA Cup. Kinnear was born in Dublin, moving to Watford, England at the age of seven. He was cappedped 26 times for the Republic of Ireland national football team. Following the end of his playing career he has also been the manager of India, Nepal, Doncaster Rovers, Wimbledon, Luton Town, Nottingham Forest and Newcastle United.
Go to ProfilePeter William Thorne is a climatologist and professor of physical geography in the Department of Geography, Maynooth University. He graduated with a BSc in Environmental Sciences from the University of East Anglia in 1998, and a PhD from the School of Environmental Sciences in 2001. He previously worked at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research and the National Climatic Data Center, and he was a senior scientist at the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Bergen, Norway. He is the chair of the International Surface Temperature Initiative which consists of an interdisc...
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Howard Benson
1956 - Present (70 years)
Howard Benson is an American record producer. He was nominated for the Producer of the Year Grammy Award in 2007 and 2008. Early life and education Benson was born and raised in a middle-class family in greater Philadelphia, the son of Estelle and Robert Benson. He is of Jewish descent. He began playing keyboards in rock bands at the age of 13. He attended college at Drexel University and studied engineering. During his years at Drexel, Benson took a year off and studied composition at the Philadelphia College for Performing Arts. Benson graduated from Drexel with a degree in materials engineering.
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J. Deotis Roberts
1927 - 2022 (95 years)
James Deotis Roberts was an American theologian, and a pioneering figure in the black theology movement. Biography Born in Spindale, North Carolina, Roberts earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Johnson C. Smith University, a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Shaw University, and a Master of Sacred Theology degree from Hartford Seminary. In 1957, he became the first African American to earn a PhD from New College, University of Edinburgh, in philosophical theology. Later in 1994, he was awarded an honorary DLitt, also from the University of Edinburgh.
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George W. Stocking Jr.
1928 - 2013 (85 years)
George W. Stocking Jr. was a German-born American scholar noted for his scholarship on the history of anthropology. Early life and education Stocking was born in Berlin, Germany in 1928. His father, the economist George W. Stocking Sr., was conducting research on the German potash industry. Stocking senior moved frequently to take different academic positions, as well as to conduct research and undertake policy and applied work. As a result, George Stocking Jr. moved around frequently as a child. The majority of his childhood, however, was spent in Texas, where his father was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Thomas M. Klapötke
1961 - Present (65 years)
Thomas Matthias Klapötke is a German inorganic chemist at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, studying explosives. Klapötke grew up in Berlin and studied at the Technical University of Berlin , completing his undergraduate degree in 1982, his PhD in 1986, and his habilitation in 1990. Klapötke worked as a lecturer at TU Berlin until 1995, when the University of Glasgow hired him for the Ramsay professorship. Since 1997, Klapötke has worked at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich as a professor of Inorganic Chemistry.
Go to ProfileMichael P. Brenner is an American applied mathematician and physicist. Biography Brenner earned a bachelor's of science degree in physics and mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania and obtained a doctorate in physics under Leo Kadanoff at the University of Chicago. From 1995-2001, he was an assistant and associate professor of applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 2001, he has been a professor at Harvard University. Within the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, Brenner is the Michael F. Cronin Professor of ...
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Valery Senderov
1945 - 2014 (69 years)
Valery Senderov was a Soviet dissident, mathematician, teacher, and advocate of human rights known for his struggle against state-sponsored antisemitism. Biography Senderov was born on 17 March 1945 in Moscow. In 1962, he was accepted at the prestigious Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, where he studied mathematics. In 1968, just before completing his doctoral dissertation, Senderov was expelled for the dissemination of "philosophical literature", which was a euphemism for anything that was viewed by the censors as being anti-Soviet. He was given the opportunity to complete his degr...
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Paolo Gentiloni
1954 - Present (72 years)
Paolo Gentiloni Silveri is an Italian politician who has served as European Commissioner for Economy in the von der Leyen Commission since 1 December 2019. He previously served as prime minister of Italy from December 2016 to June 2018.
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Lee Feigon
1945 - Present (81 years)
Lee Feigon is an American historian who specialized in the study of 20th-century Chinese history. In 2002 he published Mao: A Reinterpretation, a work of historical revisionism that sought to highlight what Feigon saw as the positive aspects of Mao Zedong's political leadership. He subsequently used that book as a basis for a documentary, The Passion of the Mao.
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Mason Cooley
1927 - 2002 (75 years)
Mason Cooley was an American aphorist known for his witty aphorisms. One of these such aphorisms Cooley developed was "The time I kill is killing me." He was professor emeritus of French, speech and world literature at the College of Staten Island. He was also an assistant professor of English at Columbia University from 1959 to 1967 and an adjunct professor from 1980 to 1988.
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Renfrey Potts
1925 - 2005 (80 years)
Renfrey Burnard Potts AO was an Australian mathematician and is notable for the Potts model and his achievements in: operations research, especially networks; transportation science, car-following and road traffic; Ising-type models in mathematical physics; difference equations; and robotics. He was interested in computing from the early days of the computing revolution and oversaw the first computer purchases at the University of Adelaide.
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John Rankin
1957 - Present (69 years)
John James Rankin, is a British diplomat and a former ambassador to Nepal. He is the current Governor of the British Virgin Islands. He was Governor of Bermuda from December 2016 to December 2020. Early life and education Rankin was born on 12 March 1957. He was educated at Hutchesons' Boys' Grammar School, a private school in Glasgow, Scotland. He studied Scots law at the University of Glasgow, graduating with a first class honours Bachelor of Laws degree. He later studied international law at McGill University, graduating with a Master of Laws degree.
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Ritch Savin-Williams
1949 - Present (77 years)
Ritch C. Savin-Williams is professor emeritus of developmental psychology at Cornell University who specializes in gay, lesbian, and bisexual research involving adolescents. Education Savin-Williams earned his Bachelor of Arts in psychology from the University of Missouri in 1971. He later earned an MA in religious studies in 1973 and a Ph.D. in human development in 1977 from the University of Chicago. Savin-Williams retrained in clinical psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 1989 to 1993 before completing his residency at Children's Hospital of Michigan.
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Jon Savage
1953 - Present (73 years)
Jon Savage is an English writer, broadcaster and music journalist, best known for his definitive history of the Sex Pistols and punk music, England's Dreaming . Career Savage read Classics at Magdalene College, Cambridge, graduating in 1975. Becoming a music journalist at the dawn of British punk, he wrote articles on all of the major punk acts, publishing a fanzine called London's Outrage in 1976. A year later he began working as a journalist for Sounds, which was, at that time, one of the UK's three major music papers, along with the New Musical Express and Melody Maker. Savage interviewed punk, new wave and electronic music artists for Sounds.
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James Cromwell
1940 - Present (86 years)
James Oliver Cromwell is an American actor and activist. Known for his extensive work as a character actor, he has received a Primetime Emmy Award as well as a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Babe . Other notable roles include in Star Trek: First Contact , L.A. Confidential , The Green Mile , The Queen , W. , Secretariat , The Artist , Still Mine , Marshall , and Emperor . He has also voiced roles in Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron , and Big Hero 6 .
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Frederick M. Abbott
1952 - Present (74 years)
Frederick M. Abbott is an American legal academic who is active in scholarly and public policy discussion involving global intellectual property protections and economic law, especially access to medicine. He holds the Edward Ball Eminent Scholar at Florida State University College of Law. He has written scores of journal articles and his books include The International Intellectual Property System: Commentary and Materials , China in the World Trading System: Defining the Principles of Engagement , Public Policy and Global Technological Integration , and Law and Policy of Regional Integration .
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Dan Blazer
1944 - Present (82 years)
Daniel German Blazer is the J.P. Gibbons Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at Duke University School of Medicine. Education After graduating from Cohn High School in 1962, Blazer received his bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University in 1965. He later received his MD from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in 1969 and his MPH and PhD in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1979 and 1980, respectively.
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Robert G. Bland
1948 - Present (78 years)
Robert Gary Bland is an American mathematician and operations researcher, a professor of operations research and information engineering at Cornell University. He was born in New York City. Bland did both his undergraduate and graduate studies at Cornell University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1969, M.S. in 1972, and a Ph.D. in 1974 under the supervision of D. R. Fulkerson. He began his faculty career at Binghamton University, but then returned to Cornell in 1978.
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Lorin Maazel
1930 - 2014 (84 years)
Lorin Varencove Maazel was an American conductor, violinist and composer. He began conducting at the age of eight and by 1953 had decided to pursue a career in music. He had established a reputation in the concert halls of Europe by 1960 but, by comparison, his career in the U.S. progressed far more slowly. He served as music director of The Cleveland Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic, among other posts. Maazel was well-regarded in baton technique and possessed a photographic memory for scores.
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George Steinmetz
1957 - Present (69 years)
George Steinmetz is an American photographer. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Smithsonian, Time, The New York Times Magazine, GEO, and he is a regular contributor to National Geographic.
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Alicia Lourteig
1913 - 2003 (90 years)
Alicia Lourteig was an Argentine and French botanist, world specialist in Oxalidaceae. Personal life and education Alicia Lourteig was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her parents originated from France and Argentina. She studied pharmacy and biochemistry at university in Buenos Aires, and her doctorate was awarded in 1946.
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Marina Goldovskaya
1941 - 2022 (81 years)
Marina Yevseyevna Goldovskaya was a Russian-American documentary filmmaker known for her candid portrayal of people. Early life and education Her father worked with Eisenstein in starting the VGIK. Career Goldovskaya documented ordinary people, seamstresses, a female astronaut, literary and artistic legends, as well as political leaders. Born in Moscow, she was the winner of USSR State Prize in 1989.
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Süleyman Ateş
1933 - Present (93 years)
Süleyman Ateş is a Turkish theologian, philosopher, and writer. He was 12th Director of religious affairs of Turkey. He graduated at Ankara University and passed out the highest degree. He attended an assistant program in the same university. He searched some studies in his field in Ruhr-University Bochum. He taught Commentary of Quran and Quran receding in Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University and Al-Emir Abdulkadir University Algeria. He served as the head of the department of Elemental Islamic Sciences at Ondokuz Mayıs University and as the head of Elemental Islamic Sciences in the Faculty of Theology in Istanbul University.
Go to ProfileLinda Ann Parrack Livingstone is an American academic administrator who has served as president of Baylor University since June 1, 2017. Early life Linda Parrack was born to basketball coach Doyle Parrack and his wife Charlotte. She grew up in Perkins, Oklahoma, and attended Oklahoma State University, where she also played basketball. Livingstone earned her bachelor's degree in economics and management and graduated Omicron Delta Kappa in 1982, where she later returned to school for a master's in business administration . She received a doctorate in 1992.
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R. Laird Harris
1911 - 2008 (97 years)
Robert Laird Harris was a Presbyterian minister, church leader, and Old Testament scholar. Biography Harris was born near Upper Makefield Township, Pennsylvania. He was son of Rev. Walter B.Harris, a Presbyterian minister with a Princeton degree who married Pearl Graves. Known as R. Laird or just Laird, he had an older sister Dr. Bethel Fleming, who became a pioneer physician in Nepal. Her story is told in The Fabulous Flemings of Kathmandu, by Grace Nies Fletcher . He earned a B.S. from the University of Delaware , a Th.B. and a Th.M. from Westminster Theological Seminary, an A.M. from University of Pennsylvania , and a Ph.D.
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David W. Oxtoby
1951 - Present (75 years)
David William Oxtoby is an American academic who served as the ninth president of Pomona College. He held the position from July 1, 2003, to July 1, 2017. Education A theoretical chemist, he received his bachelor's degree in chemistry and physics at Harvard University and his PhD in chemistry in 1975 from the University of California, Berkeley.
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George P. Chrousos
1951 - Present (75 years)
George P. Chrousos is professor of Pediatrics and Endocrinology Emeritus and former chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the Athens University Medical School, Greece. Earlier he was senior investigator, director of the Pediatric Endocrinology Section and Training Program, and chief of the Pediatric and Reproductive Endocrinology Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development , National Institutes of Health . He is also clinical professor of Pediatrics, Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown University Medical School and distinguished visiting scientist, NICHD, NIH.
Go to ProfileGordon Sidney Claridge was a British psychologist and author, best known for his theoretical and empirical work on the concept of schizotypy or psychosis-proneness. Biography Claridge took his first degree in Psychology at University College, London, in 1953. His PhD work was at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, jointly supervised by Hans Eysenck and Neil O’Connor. He qualified under in-service training as a clinical psychologist, and from 1957-61 worked as Eysenck’s Research Assistant, based in the Royal Victoria Military Hospital, Netley, Southampton.
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Don Lind
1930 - 2022 (92 years)
Don Leslie Lind was an American scientist, naval officer, aviator, and NASA astronaut. He graduated from the University of Utah with an undergraduate degree in physics in 1953. Following his military service obligation, he earned a PhD in high-energy nuclear physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964.
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Joshua Cohen
1980 - Present (46 years)
Joshua Aaron Cohen is an American novelist and story writer, best known for his works Witz , Book of Numbers , and Moving Kings . Cohen won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Netanyahus .
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Thomas C. Mendenhall
1910 - 1998 (88 years)
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall II was a professor of history at Yale University, the sixth President of Smith College, and the leading authority on the history of collegiate rowing in the United States. Early life and education The grandson and namesake of Thomas Corwin Mendenhall , physicist and meteorologist, his father was a Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Charles Elwood Mendenhall , and his mother, Dorothy Reed Mendenhall , a well-known pediatrician. The young Thomas Mendenhall grew up in Madison, Wisconsin and went to Andover before graduating from Yale University in 1932.
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Mariam Ghani
1978 - Present (48 years)
Mariam Ghani is an Afghan-American visual artist, photographer, filmmaker and social activist. Biography Mariam Ghani was born in 1978 in Brooklyn, New York, of Afghan and Lebanese descent. Her father, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, was president of Afghanistan. Her mother, Rula Saade, is a Lebanese citizen. Ghani grew up in exile and was unable to travel to Afghanistan until 2002, at age 24. Her family lived in the suburbs of Maryland. Ghani earned her degrees from New York University and the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan in comparative literature and video photography and installation art. Ghani was an Eyebeam resident.
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Christoph Waltz
1956 - Present (70 years)
Christoph Waltz is a German and Austrian actor. He is known for playing villainous and supporting roles in English-language films since 2009. He has been primarily active in the United States. His accolades include two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Go to ProfileKim Binsted is a professor in the Information and Computer Sciences Department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Binsted's work explores artificial intelligence, human-computer interfaces, and long-duration human space exploration.
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Víctor Manuel Fernández
1962 - Present (64 years)
Víctor Manuel "Tucho" Fernández is an Argentine prelate of the Catholic Church and a theologian. He served as rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina from December 2009 to April 2018. He was named Archbishop of La Plata on 2 June 2018. On 1 July 2023, Pope Francis named Fernández prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith as of mid-September. Pope Francis made Fernández a cardinal on 30 September 2023.
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Charles V. Shank
1943 - Present (83 years)
Charles Vernon Shank is an American physicist, best known as the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 1989 to 2004. Early life and education Charles Vernon Shank was born in Mount Holly, New Jersey, on July 12, 1943. He entered the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in 1965, his Master of Science in 1966, and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1969, all in electrical engineering, writing his doctoral thesis on "Nonlinear Wave Interaction Spectroscopy", under the supervision of Steven E. Schwartz.
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W. G. Hoskins
1908 - 1992 (84 years)
William George Hoskins was an English local historian who founded the first university department of English Local History. His great contribution to the study of history was in the field of landscape history.
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Eduardo Lourenço
1923 - 2020 (97 years)
Eduardo Lourenço de Faria , best known as Eduardo Lourenço, was a Portuguese essayist, professor, critic, philosopher and writer. Early life Coming from a small village in Beira Interior, he is the eldest of the seven children of Abílio de Faria, Captain of Infantry, and Maria de Jesus Lourenço. He moved to Guarda in 1932 and entered the Military College in 1934, one year after his father left for Nampula, Mozambique.
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Julian Lennon
1963 - Present (63 years)
Julian Charles John Lennon is an English musician, photographer, author, and philanthropist. He is the son of Beatles member John Lennon and his first wife, Cynthia, and he is named after his paternal grandmother, Julia Lennon. Julian inspired three Beatles songs: "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" , "Hey Jude" and "Good Night" . His parents divorced in 1968 after his father had an affair with Yoko Ono. Around the world he has had eight hit singles.
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Edward L. Schneider
1940 - Present (86 years)
Edward L. Schneider is a Professor of Gerontology at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, Professor of Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, with a joint appointment in biological sciences and molecular biology at the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
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Catharina Stroppel
1971 - Present (55 years)
Catharina Stroppel is a German mathematician whose research concerns representation theory, low-dimensional topology, and category theory. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Bonn, and vice-coordinator of the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics in Bonn.
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