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Peter Barham
1950 - Present (76 years)
Peter Barham is emeritus professor of physics at the University of Bristol. He was visiting professor of Molecular Gastronomy at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Early life Peter Barham was born in 1950. He received his BSc from the University of Warwick, and his MSc and PhD from the University of Bristol.
Go to ProfileH. Shelton Smith was a scholar of Christianity and professor at Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina. Education and Career H. Shelton Smith received his B.A. from Elon College , was ordained as a minister by the United Church of Christ, and served in 1918–1919 as first lieutenant and chaplain with the American Expeditionary Force in France. He received his graduate training at Yale University and went on to serve as Associate Professor of Religious Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and Associate Professor of Religious Education at Yale University. Three years later...
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Karl Stein
1913 - 2000 (87 years)
Karl Stein was a German mathematician. He is well known for complex analysis and cryptography. Stein manifolds and Stein factorization are named after him. Career Karl Stein received his doctorate with his dissertation on the topic Zur Theorie der Funktionen mehrerer komplexer Veränderlichen; Die Regularitätshüllen niederdimensionaler Mannigfaltigkeiten at the University of Münster under the supervision of Heinrich Behnke in 1937. Karl Stein was conscripted into the Wehrmacht sometime before 1942, and trained as a cryptographer to work at OKW/Chi, the Cipher Department of the High Command of the Wehrmacht.
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Jirō Akagawa
1948 - Present (78 years)
Jirō Akagawa is a Japanese novelist born in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Biography Best known for his humorous mysteries, Akagawa's first short story, "Ghost Train", was published in 1976 and went on to win the annually granted All Yomimono New Mystery Writers' Prize by Bungeishunjū, a Japanese literary publishing company. Other works of his, The Incident in the Bedroom Suburb and Voice from Heaven, were later made into anime, while Sailor Suit and Machine Gun was made into a popular live action movie. His most recognized works to date pertain to his Mike-neko Holmes series. He is extr...
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Gwendolyn Wright
1946 - Present (80 years)
Gwendolyn Wright is an architectural historian and author. She was one of the hosts of the PBS television series History Detectives. She is a professor of architecture at Columbia University, also holding appointments in both its departments of history and art history. Dr. Wright's specialties are US architectural history and urban history from after the Civil War to the present. She also writes about the exchange across national boundaries of architectural styles, influences, and techniques, particularly examining the colonial and neo-colonial attributes of both modernism and historic pre...
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David Fellman
1907 - 2003 (96 years)
David Fellman was a political scientist and constitutional scholar and advocate for academic freedom, who taught general constitutional law, administrative law and civil liberties. Background David Fellman was born on September 14, 1907, in Omaha, Nebraska. In 1905, his orthodox Jewish family immigrated to Omaha, Nebraska, from the Volhynia, Belarus . David Fellman was the third of seven children . At age 21, an older brother died; a few years later, his father died.
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Peggy Sastre
1981 - Present (45 years)
Peggy Sastre is a French science journalist, translator, blogger and essayist. She is a Doctor of Philosophy who worked on Nietzsche and Darwin. She forms the concept of “evofeminism”, offering a biological and evolutionary reading of sexual and gender issues.
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Ken Jowitt
1940 - Present (86 years)
Kenneth Jowitt is an American political scientist. He was the President and Maurine Hotchkis Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and the Robson Professor, emeritus, of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, positions he has held since 2001 and 1995 respectively.
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Harald Walach
1957 - Present (69 years)
Harald Walach is a German parapsychologist and advocate of alternative medicine. Background Walach was born in 1957. He received a degree in Psychology from the University of Freiburg in 1984, a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Basel in 1991, and a PhD in History of Science from the University of Vienna in 1995. In 1998 he received his habilitation in psychology from the University of Freiburg. He was affiliated for a time with the Samueli Institute before its closure in 2017.
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Gian Carlo Menotti
1911 - 2007 (96 years)
Gian Carlo Menotti was an Italian composer, librettist, director, and playwright who is primarily known for his output of 25 operas. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. One of the most frequently performed opera composers of the 20th century, his most successful works were written in the 1940s and 1950s. Highly influenced by Giacomo Puccini and Modest Mussorgsky, Menotti further developed the verismo tradition of opera in the post-World War II era. Rejecting atonality and the aesthetic of the Second Viennese School, Menotti's music i...
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Maurice Noble
1910 - 2001 (91 years)
Maurice James Noble was an American animation production designer, background artist and layout designer whose contributions to the industry spanned more than 60 years. He was a long-time associate and right-hand man of animation director Chuck Jones, especially at Warner Bros. in the 1950s. His work contributed to such cartoon classics as Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century, What's Opera, Doc? and the Road Runner series.
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Julius Tomin
1938 - Present (88 years)
Julius Tomin is a Czech philosopher. He became known in the 1970s and 1980s for his involvement with the Jan Hus Educational Foundation, which ran an underground education network in the former Czechoslovakia, offering seminars in philosophy in people's homes.
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Wayne Teasdale
1945 - 2004 (59 years)
Wayne Robert Teasdale was a Catholic monk, author and teacher from Connecticut, best known as an energetic proponent of mutual understanding between the world's religions, for an interfaith dialogue which he termed "interspirituality". He was also an active campaigner on issues of social justice.
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Mike Batt
1949 - Present (77 years)
Michael Philip Batt, LVO is an English singer-songwriter, musician, arranger, record producer, director and conductor. He was formerly the Deputy Chairman of the British Phonographic Industry. Having attained significant international recognition as a solo artist, his notable contributions in the UK include creating The Wombles pop act, writing many hits including the chart-topping "Bright Eyes", and the introduction of Katie Melua to the music scene.
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Elizabeth Mertz
1955 - Present (71 years)
Elizabeth Mertz is a linguistic and legal anthropologist who is also a law professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she teaches family law courses. She has been on the research faculty of the American Bar Foundation since 1989. She has a PhD in Anthropology from Duke University and a JD from Northwestern University . Her early research focused on language, identity and politics in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and her dissertation dealt with language shift in Cape Breton Scottish Gaelic, drawing on semiotic anthropology.
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Audrey Smedley
1930 - 2020 (90 years)
Audrey Smedley was an American social anthropologist and professor emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University in anthropology and African-American studies. Early life and education Smedley received her BA and MA in history and anthropology from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Manchester in the UK, based on field research in northern Nigeria. She taught undergraduate and graduate-level courses in social anthropology, African societies and cultures, the history of anthropology, and anthropological theory.
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Ted Conover
1958 - Present (68 years)
Ted Conover is an American author and journalist who has been called a "master of immersion" and "master of experience-based narrative nonfiction." A graduate of Amherst College and a former Marshall Scholar, he is also a professor and past director of the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University. He teaches graduate courses in the New York University Literary Reportage concentration, as well as undergraduate courses on the "journalism of empathy" and undercover reporting.
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Sarah Birch
1963 - Present (63 years)
Sarah Birch, is an American political scientist and academic, specialising in comparative politics. Since 2016, she has been Professor of Political Science at King's College London. She had taught at the University of Essex between 1996 and 2013, and held the Chair of Comparative Politics at the University of Glasgow between 2013 and 2016.
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Y. P. Varshni
1932 - Present (94 years)
Y. P. Varshni is a scientist in the areas of physics and astrophysics. Varshni studied at Allahabad University, where he obtained his BSc in 1950, his MSc in 1952, and his PhD in 1956. He published his first research paper in 1951 at the age of 19. He served as an assistant professor in the Physics Dept., Allahabad University for the period 1955–60.
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Wilma Subra
1943 - Present (83 years)
Wilma Subra is an American environmental scientist. She is President of the Subra Company, an environmental consulting firm. Subra was born in Morgan City, Louisiana, and was raised there and in nearby Bayou Vista. Her father was a chemist, and her grandfather an oyster fisherman. She obtained a bachelor's degree in microbiology and chemistry in 1965 from the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette, and her master's a year later.
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James L. Ryan
1932 - Present (94 years)
James Leo Ryan is an inactive senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Education and career Born in Detroit, Michigan, Ryan graduated from Detroit Catholic Central High School. He received a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Detroit School of Law in 1956. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Detroit in 1992. Ryan served as a law specialist in the United States Navy and was assigned to the Judge Advocate General and duty with the United States Marine Corps. Upon his release from active duty in 1960, he continued to ...
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Brandon Marshall
1984 - Present (42 years)
Brandon Tyrone Marshall is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for 13 seasons in the National Football League . He played college football for the UCF Knights, and was selected by the Denver Broncos in the fourth round of the 2006 NFL Draft. Marshall has also played for the Miami Dolphins, Chicago Bears, New York Jets, New York Giants, and the Seattle Seahawks. After his retirement from the NFL, Marshall became a TV personality, and is a former co-host on FS1's morning show First Things First. Marshall is currently a co-host on Showtime's Inside the NFL and...
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Ottón Solís
1954 - Present (72 years)
Ottón Solís Fallas is a Costa Rican politician. He graduated with a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Costa Rica in 1976 and gained a master's degree in economics from the University of Manchester in 1978. He is currently serving his second term as congressman, was a founding member of the Citizens' Action Party , and ran as its three-time presidential candidate. As an academic, he has taught at several universities in the United States and Costa Rica.
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Horace Silver
1928 - 2014 (86 years)
Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, particularly in the hard bop style that he helped pioneer in the 1950s. After playing tenor saxophone and piano at school in Connecticut, Silver got his break on piano when his trio was recruited by Stan Getz in 1950. Silver soon moved to New York City, where he developed a reputation as a composer and for his bluesy playing. Frequent sideman recordings in the mid-1950s helped further, but it was his work with the Jazz Messengers, co-led by Art Blakey, that brought both his writing and playing most attention.
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Clark Terry
1920 - 2015 (95 years)
Clark Virgil Terry Jr. was an American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, and a composer and educator. He played with Charlie Barnet , Count Basie , Duke Ellington , Quincy Jones , and Oscar Peterson . He was with The Tonight Show Band on The Tonight Show from 1962 to 1972. His career in jazz spanned more than 70 years, during which he became one of the most recorded jazz musicians, appearing on over 900 recordings. Terry also mentored Quincy Jones, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Wynton Marsalis, Pat Metheny, Dianne Reeves, and Terri Lyne Carrington.
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Cher
1946 - Present (80 years)
Cher is an American singer, actress and television personality. Often referred to by the media as the "Goddess of Pop", she has been described as embodying female autonomy in a male-dominated industry. Known for her distinctive contralto singing voice and for having worked in numerous areas of entertainment, as well as adopting a variety of styles and appearances, Cher rose to fame in 1965 as one half of the folk rock husband-wife duo Sonny & Cher before launching a successful, six-decade-long solo career.
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Ellen Ash Peters
1930 - Present (96 years)
Ellen Ash Peters is an American lawyer and judge. She was appointed to the Connecticut Supreme Court in 1978. She was the first woman appointed to that court. Early life and education Ellen Ash was born in Berlin on March 21, 1930; her father was Jewish and a lawyer, and her grandfather was also a lawyer.
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Andrew Chesterman
1946 - Present (80 years)
Andrew Peter Clement Chesterman is an English scholar based in Finland. He is best known for his work in Translation Studies and was Professor of Multilingual Communication at the University of Helsinki from 2002 to 2010. Chesterman was CETRA Professor in 1999 , a member of the executive board of the European Society for Translation Studies from 1998 to 2004, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center of Translation Studies from 2007 to 2010. He has been a member of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters since 2005 and a Knight, First Class, of the Order of the White R...
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Stanley Sheinbaum
1920 - 2016 (96 years)
Stanley K. Sheinbaum was an American peace and human rights activist. One of the so-called Malibu Mafia, Sheinbaum joined with other wealthy Angelenos to fund liberal and progressive causes and politicians. He organized the legal defense of Daniel Ellsberg who had released the Pentagon Papers, and he initiated Israel–Palestine talks which eventually brought about the Oslo Accords of 1993.
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Leslie Iversen
1937 - 2020 (83 years)
Leslie Lars Iversen , was a British pharmacologist, known for his work on the neurochemistry of neurotransmission. Career and research From 1971 to 1982, Iversen was Director of the MRC Neurochemical Pharmacology Unit in Cambridge. Between 1982 and 1995 he worked as Director of the Merck, Sharp & Dohme Neuroscience Research Centre. In 1995 he became Visiting Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Oxford.
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Gerard Casey
1951 - Present (75 years)
Gerard Casey is an Irish academic who is Professor Emeritus at University College Dublin. Career He holds law degrees from the University of London and UCD as well as a primary degree in philosophy from University College Cork, an MA and PhD from the University of Notre Dame and the higher doctorate, DLitt, from the National University of Ireland. He was formerly Assistant Professor at The Catholic University of America 1983–1986. He was a member of the School of Philosophy in University College Dublin from 1986 until he retired in December 2015. He is a Fellow of Mises UK, an Associated...
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Pee Wee Reese
1918 - 1999 (81 years)
Harold Peter Henry "Pee Wee" Reese was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a shortstop for the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers from 1940 to 1958. A ten-time All-Star, Reese contributed to seven National League championships for the Dodgers and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1984. Reese is also famous for his support of his teammate Jackie Robinson, the first black player in the major leagues' modern era, especially in Robinson's difficult first years.
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Ellis Kolchin
1916 - 1991 (75 years)
Ellis Robert Kolchin was an American mathematician at Columbia University. Kolchin earned a doctorate in mathematics from Columbia University in 1941 under supervision of Joseph Ritt. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1954 and 1961.
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Steven Block
1952 - Present (74 years)
Steven M. Block is an American biophysicist and Professor at Stanford University with a joint appointment in the departments of Biology and Applied Physics. In addition, he is a member of the scientific advisory group JASON, a senior fellow of Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and an amateur bluegrass musician. Block received his B.A. and M.A. from Oxford University. He has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and is a winner of the Max Delbruck Prize of the American Physical Society , as well as the Single Molecule Biophysics Prize of the Biophysical Society .
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Olivier Ramaré
1965 - Present (61 years)
Olivier Ramaré is a French mathematician who works as Senior researcher for the CNRS. He is currently attached to Aix-Marseille Université. Ramaré earned a doctorate in 1991 from the University of Bordeaux with a dissertation Contribution au problème de Goldbach : tout entier >1 est somme d'au plus treize nombres premiers supervised by Jean-Marc Deshouillers.
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Hiromichi Kataura
1959 - Present (67 years)
is a Japanese scientist known for his work on synthesis and characterization of single-wall and double-wall carbon nanotubes and on encapsulation of water, fullerenes and other organic molecules into carbon nanotubes.
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Martin Glaberman
1918 - 2001 (83 years)
Martin Glaberman was an American Marxist writer on labor, historian, academic, and autoworker. Biography Glaberman was associated with the Johnson-Forest Tendency, a radical left group which understood the Soviet Union as a state capitalist society that split from the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party, which understood the Soviet Union as a degenerated workers' state.
Go to ProfileAbū al-Jūd Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. al-Layth was an Iranian mathematician who lived during 10th century and was a contemporary of al-Biruni. He used conics to solve quartic and cubic equations, a century before the more famous work of Omar Khayyam, although his solution did not deal with all the cases.
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Christian Marazzi
1951 - Present (75 years)
Christian Marazzi is a Swiss economist and author. Biography He was born in Lugano, Switzerland in 1951. Education He graduated in political science from the University of Padua. He completed his master's degree in economics at the London School of Economics.
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Ricardo Ramina
1951 - Present (75 years)
Ricardo Ramina is a notable Brazilian neurosurgeon and university Professor. Ramina is well known around the world for his expertise in the treatment of complex neurosurgical problems such as Vestibular schwannomas, skull base tumors, glomus jugulare, Meningiomas and Aneurysms.
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David Stavens
1982 - Present (44 years)
David Stavens is an American entrepreneur and scientist. He was co-founder and CEO of Udacity, a co-creator of Stanley, the winning car of the second driverless car competition of the DARPA Grand Challenge, and co-founder and CEO of Nines. Stavens has published in the fields of robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence and has helped start organizations with an aggregate market cap of over $30 billion.
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Vladimir Guerrero
1975 - Present (51 years)
Vladimir Guerrero Alvino Sr. , nicknamed "Vlad the Impaler", is a Dominican former professional baseball player who spent 16 seasons in Major League Baseball as a right fielder and designated hitter. He played for the Montreal Expos , Anaheim Angels / Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim , Texas Rangers , and Baltimore Orioles .
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Ernest L. Eliel
1921 - 2008 (87 years)
Ernest Ludwig Eliel was an organic chemist born in Cologne, Germany. Among his awards were the Priestley Medal in 1996 and the NAS Award for Chemistry in Service to Society in 1997. When the Nazis came to power, he left Germany and moved to Scotland, then Canada, then Cuba. He received his B.S. from the University of Havana in 1946. He moved to the United States in 1946 and taught at the University of Notre Dame from 1948. In 1972 he moved to be the W.R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill until his retirement in 1993. Eliel was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1980.
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Julien Freund
1921 - 1993 (72 years)
Julien Freund was a French philosopher and sociologist. Freund was called an "unsatisfied liberal-conservative" by Pierre-André Taguieff, for introducing France to the ideas of Max Weber. His work as a sociologist and political theorist is a continuation of Carl Schmitt's. Freund, like many people from Alsace, was fluent in German and French. His works have been translated into nearly 20 languages.
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Richard Stengel
1955 - Present (71 years)
Richard Allen Stengel is an American editor, author, and former government official. He was Time magazine's 16th managing editor from 2006 to 2013. He was also chief executive of the National Constitution Center from 2004 to 2006, and served as President Obama's Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs from 2014 to 2016. Stengel has written a number of books, including a collaboration with Nelson Mandela on Mandela's autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom.
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Leonardo Benevolo
1923 - 2017 (94 years)
Leonardo Benevolo was an Italian architect, city planner and architecture historian. Born in Orta San Giulio, Italy, Benevolo studied architecture in Rome where he graduated in 1946. Later taught history of architecture in Rome, Florence, Venice and Palermo. His book Storia dell'archittetura moderna first published in 1960 has been reprinted 18 times, as of 1996, and translated into six other languages. Benevolo developed the concept of ‘neo-conservative’ city which became an important contribution to the understanding of cities’ evolution.
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Heiko Braak
1937 - Present (89 years)
Heiko Braak is a German anatomist. Braak was born in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, and studied medicine at the universities of Hamburg, Berlin, and Kiel. He was Professor at the Institute of Clinical Neuroanatomy, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main. Currently he is based at the 'Clinical Neuroanatomy Section, Department of Neurology, Center for Biomedical Research, University of Ulm, Germany.
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Walter Warwick Sawyer
1911 - 2008 (97 years)
Walter Warwick Sawyer was a mathematician, mathematics educator and author, who taught on several continents. Life and career Walter Warwick Sawyer was born in St. Ives, Hunts, England on April 5, 1911. He attended Highgate School in London. He was an undergraduate at St. John's College, Cambridge, obtaining a BA in 1933 and specializing in quantum theory and relativity. He was an assistant lecturer in mathematics from 1933 to 1937 at University College, Dundee and from 1937 to 1944 at University of Manchester. In 1940 he met Betty [Hilda Elizabeth Crowther] and within two weeks, they were married.
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Marc Harrison
1936 - 1998 (62 years)
Marc Harrison, was an industrial designer and educator whose work aligned with the idea of universal design that makes products easier to use for people with disabilities as well as people without disabilities.
Go to ProfileTony Jun Huang is the William Bevan Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke University. Huang is an expert in the fields of acoustofluidics, optofluidics, and micro/nano systems for biomedical diagnostics and therapeutics. He is widely recognized for his breakthroughs in developing acoustic tweezer technologies to manipulate nanoparticles , cells and microorganisms in complex biofluids and applying acoustic tweezer technologies to various fields in biology and medicine.
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