Elizabeth Nunez is a Trinidadian American novelist and Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College–CUNY, New York City. Her novels have won a number of awards: Prospero's Daughter received The New York Times Editors' Choice and 2006 Novel of the Year from Black Issues Book Review, Bruised Hibiscus won the 2001 American Book Award, and Beyond the Limbo Silence won the 1999 Independent Publishers Book Award. In addition, Nunez was shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Discretion; Boundaries was selected as a New York Times Editors' Choice and nominated for a 2012 NAACP Ima...
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John Kao
1950 - Present (76 years)
John Kao is an author and strategic advisor based in San Francisco. His work concentrates on issues of innovation and organizational transformation. Life and career Kao was born in 1950 to Chinese immigrant parents. An accomplished jazz pianist, he spent the summer of 1969 playing keyboards for Frank Zappa. Kao studied philosophy at Yale College, received an MD from Yale Medical School, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He taught at Harvard Business School from 1982 to 1996, where he specialized in innovation and entrepreneurship. He has also held faculty appointments at the Massachuse...
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Thomas Rosenboom
1956 - Present (70 years)
Thomas Rosenboom , is a Dutch author of novels and short stories. His novels Gewassen vlees and Publieke werken won him the Libris Prize in 1995 and 2000; he is the only author to have won it twice. Career Rosenboom received his secondary education in Arnhem and then studied psychology in Nijmegen, but after three years switched to Dutch literature and linguistics, gaining his degree cum laude in 1983. His authorial debut was a novella, Bedenkingen, which he published in the literary magazine De Revisor. His 1983 collection De mensen thuis, which included Bedenkingen, won him the Lucy B. en C.W.
Go to ProfileSamuel J Leffler is a computer scientist, known for his extensive work on BSD, from the 1980s to FreeBSD in the present day. Among other projects, he created HylaFAX , LibTIFF, and the FreeBSD Wireless Device Drivers.
Go to ProfileAndrea Nolan is Professor of Veterinary Pharmacology and Principal & Vice Chancellor of Edinburgh Napier University. In 1999, she was the first woman ever appointed to head a British veterinary school.
Go to ProfileMarcia F. Bartusiak is an author, journalist, and Professor of the Practice Emeritus of the Graduate Program in Science Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Trained in both communications and physics , she writes about the fields of astronomy and physics. Bartusiak has been published in National Geographic, Discover, Astronomy, Sky & Telescope, Science, Popular Science, World Book Encyclopedia, Smithsonian, and MIT Technology Review. The author of seven books, she is also a columnist for Natural History magazine.
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Brian Manning
1927 - 2004 (77 years)
Brian Manning was a British Marxist historian. Biography Manning's father was sports writer Lionel Manning and his half-brother was Daily Mail sports columnist and one-time Conservative candidate J. L. Manning. Manning was the uncle of Doctor Who actor Katy Manning.
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Betty Reardon
1929 - Present (97 years)
Betty A. Reardon was an American teacher and the founder and director of the Peace Education Center and Peace Education Graduate Degree Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. She was a leader in peace education and a scholar in human rights education at the primary and secondary levels. Along with Elise Boulding and Cynthia Enloe, she was also considered part of the "pioneering generation of women in peace studies" because of her efforts to highlight the dominance of "white haired wise men" in the field, and her desire to make women’s ideas and issues a central part of the debate on world peace.
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Teoman Duralı
1947 - 2021 (74 years)
Şaban Teoman Duralı was Turkish philosopher, thinker and academician, who was faculty at the Department of Philosophy, Ibn Haldun University. He wrote many articles and books and was widely published in areas such as history of philosophy, history of biology, linguistics, political philosophy and the philosophy of war.
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Stefan Hedlund
1953 - Present (73 years)
Stefan Peter Hedlund is a Swedish academic, an expert on Soviet and Communist studies/Russian studies, and Professor of East European Studies at Uppsala University . Currently he is also Research Director at UCRS Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies. He has published extensively on the Soviet economic system, Russian economic reform and the attempted transition to democracy and market economy.
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Nitin Gadkari
1957 - Present (69 years)
Nitin Jairam Gadkari is an Indian politician from Maharashtra who is the current Minister for Road Transport & Highways in the Government of India. He is also the longest serving Minister for Road Transport & Highways currently running his tenure for over nine years. Gadkari earlier served as the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party from 2009 to 2013. He is also known for his work as the Public Works Department Minister of the State of Maharashtra, where, under his leadership, a series of roads, highways and flyovers across the state were constructed.
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Giuseppe Mingione
1972 - Present (54 years)
Giuseppe Mingione is an Italian mathematician who is active in the fields of partial differential equations and calculus of variations. Scientific activity Mingione received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Naples Federico II in 1999 having Nicola Fusco as advisor; he is professor of mathematics at the University of Parma. He has mainly worked on regularity aspects of the Calculus of Variations, solving a few longstanding questions about the Hausdorff dimension of the singular sets of minimisers of vectorial integral functionals and the boundary singularities of solutions to nonlinear elliptic systems.
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David Robert Grimes
1985 - Present (41 years)
David Robert Grimes is an Irish science writer with professional training in physics and cancer biology, who contributes to several media outlets on questions of science and society. He has a diverse range of research interests and is a vocal advocate for increased public understanding of science. He was the 2014 recipient of the Sense about Science/Nature Maddox Prize for "Standing up for Science in the face of Adversity". He is a fellow with the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.
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Rahul Potluri
1983 - Present (43 years)
Rahul Potluri is a British physician, researcher and founder of ACALM Study Unit, United Kingdom . His clinical epidemiology research unit is one of the first to use big data in healthcare and medical research. His work has shown for the first time a link between high cholesterol and breast cancer. Further research has suggested the role of cholesterol and possibly statins improving the mortality in patients with breast cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer and bowel cancer. Other prominent studies include health services research evaluating differences in death rates from weekend admission ...
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Jack Pettigrew
1943 - 2019 (76 years)
John Douglas "Jack" Pettigrew was an Australian neuroscientist. He was Emeritus Professor of Physiology and Director of the Vision, Touch and Hearing Research Centre at the University of Queensland in Australia.
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Kenneth S. Davis
1912 - 1999 (87 years)
Kenneth Sydney Davis was an American historian and university professor, most renowned for his series of biographies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Davis also wrote biographies of Charles Lindbergh, Adlai Stevenson, and authored the first biography of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, entitled Dwight D. Eisenhower: Soldier of Democracy.
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Alvin Dark
1922 - 2014 (92 years)
Alvin Ralph Dark , nicknamed "Blackie" and "the Swamp Fox", was an American professional baseball shortstop and manager. He played fourteen years in Major League Baseball for the Boston/Milwaukee Braves , the New York Giants , the St. Louis Cardinals , the Chicago Cubs , and the Philadelphia Phillies . Later, he managed the San Francisco Giants , the Kansas City/Oakland Athletics , the Cleveland Indians , and the San Diego Padres . He was a three-time All-Star and a two-time World Series champion, once as a player and once as a manager .
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Serap Yazıcı
1963 - Present (63 years)
Serap Yazıcı is a Turkish politician and academic of Constitutional Law. She was a member of a committee tasked with drafting a proposal for the new constitution of Turkey. A member of the Republican People's Party, she was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey from Antalya in the 2023 Turkish parliamentary election.
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Roland Martin
1912 - 1997 (85 years)
Roland Martin was a French archaeologist. From 1934 to 1938 Martin studied at the Sorbonne and the École normale supérieure. From 1938 until 1946, he was a member of the French School at Athens. From 1936 to 1971, he taught at the University of Dijon, since 1956 as a professor. From 1965 to 1980 he was Directeur d'études at the École pratique des hautes études and from 1971 to 1980 professor of Greek Archaeology at the University Paris I.
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Adrian Sutil
1983 - Present (43 years)
Adrian Sutil is a German racing driver who raced in Formula One for seven seasons: from 2007–2011, then 2013–2014. He drove for the Spyker F1 Team, Force India F1 Team and the Sauber F1 Team. He was also the reserve driver for the Williams F1 Team in .
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Pamela C. Rasmussen
1959 - Present (67 years)
Pamela Cecile Rasmussen is an American ornithologist and expert on Asian birds. She was formerly a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and is based at the Michigan State University. She is associated with other major centers of research in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Mary Osborn
1940 - Present (86 years)
Mary Osborn is a L'Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science Award-winning English cell biologist who, until she stopped running an active laboratory in 2005, was on the scientific staff at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany. Osborn established two techniques frequently used by cell biologists. She pioneered both molecular weight determination of proteins using SDS PAGE and immunofluorescence microscopy. Osborn also used the immunofluorescence microscopy method to work out the details of the eukaryotic cytoskeleton. Small differences in the intermediate filament constituents helped her distinguish differentiated cells from each other.
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Don Ameche
1908 - 1993 (85 years)
Don Ameche was an American actor, comedian and vaudevillian. After playing in college shows, stocks, and vaudevilles, he became a major radio star in the early 1930s, which led to the offer of a movie contract from 20th Century Fox in 1935.
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Chika Okeke-Agulu
1966 - Present (60 years)
Chika Okeke-Agulu is a Nigerian artist, art historian, art curator, and blogger specializing in African and African diaspora art history. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Biography Chika Okeke-Agulu was born in Umuahia in Nigeria in 1966. He studied at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka , University of South Florida , and Emory University .
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Noah Wardrip-Fruin
1972 - Present (54 years)
Noah Wardrip-Fruin is a professor in the Computational Media department of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is an advisor for the Expressive Intelligence Studio. He is an alumnus of the Literary Arts MFA program and Special Graduate Study PhD program at Brown University. In addition to his research in digital media, computer games, and software studies, he served for 10 years as a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Literature Organization.
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Roland Siegwart
1959 - Present (67 years)
Roland Siegwart , is director of the Autonomous Systems Lab in Switzerland, of the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at ETH Zurich and a known robotics expert. Early life Siegwart was born in Lausanne and grew up in the Canton of Schwyz. He received an MA in mechanical engineering from ETH Zurich in 1983 and, in 1989, a PhD degree with distinction Silver Medal ETH for his work on Electro-magnetically Suspended Milling Spindle with Active Digital Control.
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David Wagoner
1926 - 2021 (95 years)
David Russell Wagoner was an American poet, novelist, and educator. Biography David Russell Wagoner was born on June 5, 1926, in Massillon, Ohio. Raised in Whiting, Indiana, from the age of seven, Wagoner attended Pennsylvania State University where he was a member of Naval ROTC and graduated in three years. He received an M.A. in English from the Indiana University in 1949 and had a long association with the University of Washington where he taught, beginning in 1954, on the suggestion of friend and fellow poet Theodore Roethke.
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Julia Glass
1956 - Present (70 years)
Julia Glass is an American novelist. Her debut novel, Three Junes, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2002. Glass followed Three Junes with a second novel, The Whole World Over, in 2006, set in the same Bank Street–Greenwich Village universe, with three interwoven stories featuring several characters from Three Junes. Her third novel, I See You Everywhere, was published in 2008; her fourth, The Widower's Tale, in 2010; her fifth, And the Dark Sacred Night, in 2014; her sixth, The House Among the Trees, in 2017; her seventh, Vigil Harbor, in 2022.
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Vladimir Plungian
1960 - Present (66 years)
Vladimir Plungian is a Russian linguist, specialist in linguistic typology and theory of grammar, morphology, corpus linguistics, African studies, poetics. Vladimir Plungian is a Doctor of Philology , full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences , member of Academia Europaea . He has worked at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Language Institute. He is also Professor at the Moscow State University.
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Josiah Ober
1953 - Present (73 years)
Josiah Ober is an American historian of ancient Greece and classical political theorist. He is Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Professor in honor of Constantine Mitsotakis, and professor of classics and political science, at Stanford University. His teaching and research links ancient Greek history and philosophy with modern political theory and practice.
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Gholamhossein Ebrahimi Dinani
1934 - Present (92 years)
Gholam-hossein Ebrahimi Dinani is an Iranian philosopher. He is best known for his research and writings about illuminationism and Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi. The three-time winner of Book of the Year award in Iran, Dinani is a professor emeritus at the University of Tehran, and lectures at Tarbiat Modares University and Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Moreover, his public lectures at Institute for Research in Philosophy attract a diverse audience from students and scholars of theology and philosophy in general.
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Lionel Crawford
1932 - Present (94 years)
Dr Lionel Vivian Crawford is a British cancer expert and virologist. He was educated at Rendcomb College between 1941 and 1950 before being called up for National Service. After demobilization in 1952 he studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge with a State Scholarship, graduating with a first class degree in Botany, Zoology, Organic Chemistry and Biology in 1955. after graduate work at the Cambridge Department of Chemical Microbiology he completed his PhD in 1958 in biochemistry. Until 1960 he worked as a visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley and the California Institute of Technology, at which point he became a researcher at the Glasgow Institute of Virology.
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Ingo Wegener
1950 - 2008 (58 years)
Ingo Wegener was an influential German computer scientist working in the field of theoretical computer science. Education and career Wegener was educated at the Bielefeld University. He earned a diploma in mathematics there in 1976, a doctorate in 1978, and a habilitation in 1981. His doctoral dissertation, Boolesche Funktionen, deren monotone Komplexität fast quadratisch ist, was jointly supervised by and Rudolf Ahlswede.
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Peter L. Strauss
1940 - Present (86 years)
Peter L. Strauss is an American lawyer, author and academic who is the Betts Professor of Law Emeritus at Columbia Law School. Strauss taught courses in Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Family Law, Legal Education, Legal Methods, and Legislation and the Regulatory State. He is the author of several legal textbooks and has served as an attorney with the U.S Government.
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Patrick O'Neil
1950 - 2019 (69 years)
Patrick Eugene O'Neil was an American computer scientist, an expert on databases, and a professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts Boston. O'Neil did his undergraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving a B.S. in mathematics in 1963. After earning a master's degree at the University of Chicago, he moved to Rockefeller University, where he earned a Ph.D. in combinatorial mathematics in 1969 under the supervision of Gian-Carlo Rota. He was an assistant professor at MIT from 1970 to 1972, but then left academia for industry, returning in 1988 as a member of the UMass/Boston faculty.
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Josef Wiesehöfer
1951 - Present (75 years)
Josef Wiesehöfer is a German classical scholar and former professor of Ancient history at the Department of Classics of the University of Kiel. He is an internationally renowned expert on the history of pre-Islamic Persia and the forms of contact between the Greek and Roman World and the Ancient Near East. His most famous publication is Ancient Persia, 550 BC to 650 AD .
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Craig Gentry
1972 - Present (54 years)
Craig Gentry is an American computer scientist working as CTO of TripleBlind. He is best known for his work in cryptography, specifically fully homomorphic encryption. Education In 1993, while studying at Duke University, he became a Putnam Fellow. In 2009, his dissertation, in which he constructed the first Fully Homomorphic Encryption scheme, won the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.
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Wu Guoguang
1957 - Present (69 years)
Wu Guoguang , is a Senior Research Scholar at Stanford University in his affiliation with Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions , as SCCEI is a joint effort of Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research for “bridging the divide between cutting-edge empirical research on China’s economy and the policies guiding U.S.-China economic, trade and business practices.” He is concurrently a Senior Fellow on Chinese Politics at Center for China Analysis of the Asia Society Policy Institute , as CCA aims to “serve as a leading ...
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Jay Rockefeller
1937 - Present (89 years)
John Davison "Jay" Rockefeller IV is a retired American politician who served as a United States senator from West Virginia . He was first elected to the Senate in 1984, while in office as governor of West Virginia . Rockefeller moved to Emmons, West Virginia, to serve as a VISTA worker in 1964 and was first elected to public office as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates . Rockefeller was later elected secretary of state of West Virginia and was president of West Virginia Wesleyan College . He became the state's senior U.S. senator when the long-serving Senator Robert Byrd died ...
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Miodrag Stojković
1964 - Present (62 years)
Miodrag Stojković is a Serbian researcher in genetics with the Institute of Human Genetics at Newcastle University. He holds a PhD from the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. As of January 2006, he is serving as a deputy director and head of Cellular Reprogramming Laboratory, Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe, Valencia, Spain.
Go to Profileis a Japanese urologist and developmental biologist, known for his pioneer research on in vitro spermatogenesis. He is Professor of Proteomics at Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University.
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Alexander Downer
1951 - Present (75 years)
Alexander John Gosse Downer is an Australian former politician and diplomat who was leader of the Liberal Party from 1994 to 1995, Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 2007, and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2014 to 2018.
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Suad Joseph
1943 - Present (83 years)
Suad Joseph received her doctorate in Anthropology from Columbia University in 1975. Dr. Joseph is Professor of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies at the University of California, Davis and in 2009 was President of the Middle East Studies Association of North America. Her research addresses issues of gender; families, children, and youth; sociology of the family; and selfhood, citizenship, and the state in the Middle East, with a focus on her native Lebanon. Her earlier work focused on the politicization of religion in Lebanon. Joseph is the founder of the Middle East Research Group in...
Go to ProfileDavid Gustav Epstein is the George E. Allen Professor of Law at University of Richmond School of Law and an expert on bankruptcy. Epstein was raised in Texas by a Jewish family. Epstein received a B.A. from the University of Texas in 1964, a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law in 1966, and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 1969. While a student at UT, he became a member of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity. He was also a clerk for the Texas Supreme Court.
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Wilhelm Keim
1934 - 2018 (84 years)
Wilhelm Keim was a German chemist and professor of chemistry at the Technical Chemistry and former director of the Institute for Technical and Petrol Chemistry at RWTH Aachen in Germany. Wilhelm Keim was one of the key figures in the development of the SHOP – process . SHOP-olefines have a broad range of applications in industrial chemistry, e.g. for the modification of polyethylene as ethylene-alpha-olefine-copolymere, as source for synthetic fatty alcohols or olefine sulfonates.He studied chemistry at the Münster and Saarbrücken University. He earned his PhD degree from Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim an der Ruhr, having studied under Karl Ziegler.
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Juan E. Gilbert
1969 - Present (57 years)
Juan E. Gilbert is an American computer scientist, researcher, inventor, and educator. An advocate of diversity in the computing sciences, Gilbert's efforts to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in the computing disciplines have been recognized by professional engineering organizations and the United States government.
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Germaine Brée
1907 - 2001 (94 years)
Germaine Brée was a French-American literary scholar, who wrote extensively on Marcel Proust, Andre Gide, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Life Born in Paris, Germaine Brée grew up in the English-speaking Channel Islands. After graduating from the University of Paris, she taught in Algeria from 1932 to 1936. Appointed to teach at Bryn Mawr in 1936, she returned to France to fight for the Free French when World War II broke out. She joined a volunteer ambulance unit, rising to the rank of lieutenant, and was assigned to the intelligence section of the Free French in Algiers. She received a Bronze Star and was named to the Legion of Honor.
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Páll Skúlason
1945 - 2015 (70 years)
Páll Skúlason was a professor of philosophy and former Rector of the University of Iceland. Born and raised in Akureyri, in northern Iceland, Páll Skúlason graduated from highschool in 1965. He studied philosophy at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium, earning a BA in 1967 and a doctorate in 1973. His doctoral dissertation, Du cercle et du Sujet: problème de compréhension et de méthode dans la Philosophie de Paul Ricœur, considered the philosophy of French philosopher Paul Ricœur.
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Orin Starn
1960 - Present (66 years)
Orin Starn is an anthropologist and writer at Duke University. Starn is the author of Ishi's Brain: In Search of America's Last Wild Indian and co-author of The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes with Miguel La Serna; his other books include The Passion of Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal, Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes, and he is co-editor of The Peru Reader, Between Resistance and Revolution, and Indigenous Experience Today. Starn has chaired the Duke Cultural Anthropology department, directed the Duke Center ...
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