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Paskal Sotirovski
1927 - 2003 (76 years)
Paskal Sotirovski, was a Macedonian astrophysicist, specializing in solar physics. Education Paskal finished primary school in Macedonia. He continued his education in Gornji Milanovac where he finished three grades of the high school. Eventually, he graduated from the Educational School in Belgrade.
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Ravi Shastri
1962 - Present (64 years)
Ravishankar Jayadritha Shastri is the former head coach of the India national cricket team and a cricket commentator. As a player, he played for the India national cricket team between 1981 and 1992 in both Test matches and One Day Internationals. Although he started his career as a left arm spin bowler, he later transformed into a batting all-rounder. Shastri was a member of the Indian team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup.
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Richard Burt Melrose
1949 - Present (77 years)
Richard Burt Melrose is an Australian mathematician and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who works on geometric analysis, partial differential equations, and differential geometry.
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Leon Hadar
1951 - Present (75 years)
Leon Hadar, is a global affairs analyst, journalist, blogger and author. A long-time critic of American policy in the Middle East, and a former research fellow with the Cato Institute, Hadar has been a contributing editor for The American Conservative and a contributor to National Interest, Asia Times and The Spectator, a columnist for Haaretz and a blogger for the Huffington Post. Hadar has published numerous analyses and commentaries on U.S. global diplomatic and trade policies, with a special focus on the Middle East and East and South Asia. Hadar is the author of two books on U.S. policy i...
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Robert J. Marks II
1950 - Present (76 years)
Robert Jackson Marks II is an American electrical engineer, computer scientist and Distinguished Professor at Baylor University. His contributions include the Zhao-Atlas-Marks time-frequency distribution in the field of signal processing, the Cheung–Marks theorem in Shannon sampling theory and the Papoulis-Marks-Cheung approach in multidimensional sampling. He was instrumental in the defining of the field of computational intelligence and co-edited the first book using computational intelligence in the title. A Christian and an old earth creationist, he is a subject of the 2008 pro-intellig...
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Alan Gaius Ramsay McIntosh
1942 - 2016 (74 years)
Alan Gaius Ramsay McIntosh was an Australian mathematician who dealt with analysis . He was a professor at the Australian National University in Canberra. McIntosh studied at the University of New England with a bachelor's degree in 1962 and PhD in 1966 with Frantisek Wolf at the University of California, Berkeley, . In Berkeley, he was also a student of Tosio Kato. As a post-doctoral student, he was at the Institute for Advanced Study and from 1967 he taught at Macquarie University and from 1999 at the Australian National University. In 2014 he became emeritus.
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Boris Magasanik
1919 - 2013 (94 years)
Boris Magasanik was a microbiologist and biochemist who was the Jacques Monod Professor Emeritus of Microbiology in the Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After moving from Harvard Medical School in 1960, Magasanik spent the rest of his research career at MIT, including an influential decade as the head of the Department of Biology from 1967–77. Magasanik's research interests focused on gene regulation, including study of nitrogen metabolic regulation in bacteria, catabolite repression, and intracellular signaling via two-component systems. Magasanik retired i...
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Ahsan Kareem
1947 - Present (79 years)
Ahsan Kareem is the Robert M. Moran Professor of Engineering in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at the University of Notre Dame. He is Director of the Nathaz Modeling Laboratory and served as the past Chair at the Department of CEEES at the University of Notre Dame.
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Stephan Lewandowsky
1958 - Present (68 years)
Stephan Lewandowsky is an Australian psychologist. He has worked in both the United States and Australia, and is currently based at the University of Bristol, UK, where he is the chair of cognitive psychology at the School of Psychological Science. His research, which originally pertained to computer simulations of people's decision-making processes, recently has focused on the public's understanding of science and why people often embrace beliefs that are sharply at odds with scientific evidence.
Go to ProfileWeng Cheng-yi is a Taiwanese mechanical engineer. Weng earned a doctorate in mechanical engineering from the University of Rochester. He joined the National Cheng Kung University faculty in 1980. Weng became president of NCKU in 1997. He was the inaugural chairman of the Aviation Safety Council, serving from 25 May 1998 to 19 May 2000. He was minister of the National Science Council from 20 May 2000 to 6 March 2001. Days after taking office, Weng was criticized by members of the Legislative Yuan for being unaware of council proceedings. An anonymous legislator accused Weng of plagiarism in June 2000.
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Marcus Rashford
1997 - Present (29 years)
Marcus Rashford is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for club Manchester United and the England national team. A product of the Manchester United youth system, Rashford joined the club at the age of seven. Rashford scored two goals on both his first-team and European debut against Midtjylland in the UEFA Europa League in February 2016 and his Premier League debut against Arsenal three days later. He also scored in his first Manchester derby, as well as on his EFL Cup and UEFA Champions League debuts. With United, Rashford has won the FA Cup, two EFL Cups, the FA Comm...
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Kevin Boyle
1943 - 2010 (67 years)
Christopher Kevin Boyle was a Northern Irish-born human rights activist, barrister and educator. He was among the first in the academic law community to engage in human rights activism. Born and brought up in Newry, Boyle studied law at Queen's University Belfast. He was a lecturer in law at Queen's when he took part in the 1969 People's Democracy march from Belfast to Derry which was attacked by loyalists at Burntollet. He was later involved in the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association. Boyle's brother, Louis Boyle, also an alumnus of Queen's, was at the time active as a Catholic Unioni...
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Alan Woods
1944 - Present (82 years)
Alan Woods is a British Trotskyist political theorist and author. He is one of the leading members of the International Marxist Tendency as well as of its British affiliate group Socialist Appeal. He is political editor of the IMT's In Defence of Marxism website. Woods was a leading supporter within the Militant tendency within the Labour Party and its parent group the Committee for a Workers' International until the early 1990s. A series of disagreements on tactics and theory led to Woods and Ted Grant leaving the CWI, to found the Committee for a Marxist International in 1992. They continued with the policy of entryism into the Labour Party.
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Jeremih
1987 - Present (39 years)
Jeremy Phillip Felton , known professionally as Jeremih , is an American singer and record producer. In 2009, he signed a record deal with Def Jam Recordings. Jeremih's commercial debut single, "Birthday Sex", peaked at number four on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart—leading his self-titled debut album released in June that year, reaching number six on the US Billboard 200 chart. Jeremih's success continued with the release of his second album, All About You, led by the single "Down on Me" , which also reached the top five of the Billboard Hot 100. In 2014, his single "Don't Tell 'Em" became his third top-ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Sami Hyypiä
1973 - Present (53 years)
Sami Tuomas Hyypiä is a Finnish professional football manager and a former player who played as a defender. Hyypiä began his playing career with Ykkönen side Kumu and soon moved to Veikkausliiga outfit MyPa. He spent four years at the club, helping them win the Finnish Cup in 1992 and 1995. He moved to Willem II in 1995 and spent the next four years there. He became the team captain and was nominated their player of the year after helping them qualify for the UEFA Champions League.
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Rosa Beltrán
1960 - Present (66 years)
Rosa María Beltrán Álvarez is a Mexican novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator. She was the deputy director of La Jornada Semanal from 1999 to 2002 and has been a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores from 1997 to 2000. She was the director of the Literature department at the UNAM and is actually the chair in Coordinación de Difusión Cultural at UNAM. On June 12, 2014, she was appointed as a member by the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua as the 36th Chair, becoming the tenth woman to hold this position.
Go to ProfileMaimuna Majumder is a computational epidemiologist and a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital's Computational Health Informatics Program . She is currently working on modeling the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Dimitri Simes
1947 - Present (79 years)
Dimitri Konstantinovich Simes is a Russian-American author, editor, and political pundit. He is the former president and CEO of The Center for the National Interest, where he served from 1994 to 2022. Simes was selected to lead the Center by former President Richard Nixon, to whom he served as an informal foreign policy advisor and with whom he traveled regularly to Russia and other former Soviet states as well as Western and Central Europe.
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Nancy Springer
1948 - Present (78 years)
Nancy Springer is an American author of fantasy, young adult literature, mystery, and science fiction. Her novel Larque on the Wing won the Tiptree Award in 1994. She also received the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for her novels Toughing It in 1995 and Looking for Jamie Bridger in 1996. Additionally, she received the Carolyn W. Field Award from the Pennsylvania Library Association in 1999 for her novel I am Mordred. She has written more than fifty books over a career that has spanned nearly four decades.
Go to ProfileLillian Lee is a computer scientist whose research involves natural language processing, sentiment analysis, and computational social science. She is a professor of computer science and information science at Cornell University, and co-editor-in-chief of the journal Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Saul Gorn
1912 - 1992 (80 years)
Saul Gorn was an American pioneer in computer and information science who was a member of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania for more than 30 years. Gorn was hired by the Moore School as an associate professor in 1955. He worked on the early ENIAC and EDVAC computers.
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Bob Johnson
1944 - Present (82 years)
Robert Johnson is a British guitarist. He was formerly in British folk rock band Steeleye Span from 1972 to 1977, and again from 1980 to 2001. Early life Johnson was born in London; his mother was a music teacher. He was educated at Westminster City School in London and the University of Hertfordshire.
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Jack Kevorkian
1928 - 2011 (83 years)
Murad Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian was an Armenian-American pathologist and euthanasia proponent. He publicly championed a terminal patient's right to die by physician-assisted suicide, embodied in his quote, "Dying is not a crime". Kevorkian said that he assisted at least 130 patients to that end. He was convicted of murder in 1999 and was often portrayed in the media with the name of "Dr. Death".
Go to ProfilePeter Noyes is a Welsh academic who was the Vice-Chancellor of University of Wales, Newport in Newport, South Wales, UK, 2006-2012. Noyes has a degree in social psychology from Loughborough University and a Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of London. Noyes joined the University of Wales administrative staff in 1996, after previously working at the Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education; he was appointed as vice-chancellor in 2006. On 8 May 2012 he issued a statement that he would be stepping down from his post at the end of the academic year for "personal reason...
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Kai Larsen
1926 - 2012 (86 years)
Kai Larsen was a Danish botanist. Kai Larsen was professor of botany at Århus University, Denmark. He was the Danish editor of Flora Nordica, editor of Flora of Thailand, advisor to Flora of China and executive member of Flora Malesiana.
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Benedict Kingsbury
1961 - Present (65 years)
Benedict William Kingsbury is Vice Dean and Director of the Institute for International Law and Justice at New York University and a leading scholar in international law and diplomacy. He was recently also announced as a faculty director for the new NYU Law Guarini Institute for Global Legal Studies. Born in Holland and raised in Hamilton, New Zealand he was a Rhodes Scholar in 1982, a commercial law graduate from Canterbury University in Christchurch, New Zealand and a doctor of International Relations and Law at Balliol College, University of Oxford. He lectured at Oxford University and Duke University prior to his New York University Law School appointment.
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Columba Cary-Elwes
1903 - 1994 (91 years)
Dom Columba Cary-Elwes, OSB was an English Benedictine monk who professed vows at Ampleforth Abbey in York, England. As a missionary he travelled to Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya and has written books on Christianity. He was the founding prior of the Priory of Saints Louis and Mary in Saint Louis, Missouri.
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Cesar Romero
1907 - 1994 (87 years)
César Julio Romero Jr. was an American actor and activist. He was active in film, radio, and television for almost 60 years. His wide range of screen roles included Latin lovers, historical figures in costume dramas, characters in light domestic comedies, and the Joker on the live action Batman television series of the mid-1960s, which was included in TV Guides 2013 list of The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time. He was the first actor to play the character.
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Margaret D. Klein
1957 - Present (69 years)
Margaret DeLuca "Peg" Klein is a former United States Navy officer who held the rank of rear admiral at the time of her retirement in March 2017. She currently serves as the dean of the College of Leadership and Ethics at the Naval War College.
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Charles Czeisler
1952 - Present (74 years)
Charles Andrew Czeisler is a Hungarian-American physician and sleep and circadian researcher. He is a leading researcher and author in the fields of the effects of light on human physiology, circadian rhythms and sleep medicine.
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Naveen Garg
1971 - Present (55 years)
Naveen Garg is a Professor of Computer Science in Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, specializing in algorithms and complexity in theoretical computer science. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, India's highest prize for excellence in science, mathematics and technology, in the mathematical sciences category in the year 2016. Naveen Garg's contributions are primarily in the design and analysis of approximation algorithms for NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems arising in network design, scheduling, routing, facility location etc.
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Alexis Smith
1949 - Present (77 years)
Alexis Smith is an American artist. She has worked in collage and installation. Biography Smith's father was a psychiatrist and she spent her childhood years living first on a citrus grove in Covina, California and then on the grounds of a mental hospital. "It was just off enough to be affecting," she later stated, "it had that edge of nonreality, of literal craziness".
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Russell Brown
1965 - Present (61 years)
Russell S. Brown is a former puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. He was nominated by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to replace outgoing justice Marshall Rothstein and served in the role starting on August 31, 2015. Prior to his appointment to the Supreme Court, he was a justice at the Alberta Court of Appeal, and before that a law professor at the University of Alberta. He resigned on June 12, 2023, prior to the completion of an investigation by the Canadian Judicial Council into alleged harassment.
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Guruswami Ravichandran
1959 - Present (67 years)
Guruswami Ravichandran is a professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at California Institute of Technology. He is also serving as the Otis Booth Leadership Chair of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at Caltech. He served as the director of Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at California Institute of Technology from 2009 to 2015. He was named Fellow of the Society for Experimental Mechanics in 2010 and served as the President of the Society for Experimental Mechanics from 2015 to 2016.
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Charly García
1951 - Present (75 years)
Carlos Alberto García Moreno better known by his stage name Charly García, is an Argentine singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer and record producer, considered one of the most important and avant-garde figures of Argentine and Latin American music. Named the father of rock nacional, García is widely acclaimed for his recording work, both in his multiple groups and as a soloist, due to his complex compositions, addressing multiple genres, such as pop rock, funk rock, folk rock, jazz, synth-pop and progressive rock, and for his transgressive and critical statements towards modern ...
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Harry F. Noller
1939 - Present (87 years)
Harry F. Noller is an American biochemist, and since 1992 the director of the University of California, Santa Cruz's Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA. He has made significant contributions to our understanding of the ribosome and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Michael Livingston
1975 - Present (51 years)
Michael Livingston is a historian, a professor of medieval literature, and a historical fantasy novelist. His 2015 debut novel, The Shards of Heaven, was followed by two sequels. Early life, education and career Originally from Colorado, Livingston has a B.A. in history from Baylor University, an M.A. in medieval studies from Western Michigan University, and both an M.A. and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Rochester. He has been a professor at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina since 2006. In his academic life he wrote numerous articles on the world of J.R.R. Tolkien, Beowulf,...
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Melissa McCarthy
1970 - Present (56 years)
Melissa Ann McCarthy is an American actress, screenwriter, producer, and fashion designer. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards, and nominations for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. McCarthy was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2016, and she has been featured multiple times in annual rankings of the highest-paid actresses in the world. In 2020, The New York Times ranked her #22 in its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century.
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Peter Landau
1935 - 2019 (84 years)
Peter Landau was a German jurist, legal historian and expert on canon law. After going to school in Berlin, where he was born, and Eisenberg, Thuringia, Landau studied law, history, and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin, at University of Freiburg, and University of Bonn. After graduating, he served as the assistant of Stephan Kuttner at Yale University. After his doctoral promotion in 1964 and a habilitating in 1964, Landau accepted a call to University of Regensburg where he became a regular professor. In 1970/71 he served as Prorector of that university and in 1978/79 he was the Dean of the faculty of law.
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Ben Stein
1944 - Present (82 years)
Benjamin Jeremy Stein is an American writer, lawyer, actor, comedian, and commentator on political and economic issues. He began his career as a speechwriter for U.S. presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford before entering the entertainment field as an actor, comedian, and game show host. He is best known on screen as the economics teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, as the host of Win Ben Stein's Money, and as Dr. Arthur Neuman in The Mask and Son of the Mask. Stein also co-wrote and starred in the 2008 propaganda film Expelled promoting pseudoscientific intelligent design creationist claims of persecution.
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Mose Durst
1939 - Present (87 years)
Mose Durst is an author, educator, and the former president of the Unification Church of the United States. Durst was born in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, to immigrant parents from Russia. He received a Master's degree and Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Oregon. He taught at Laney College in Oakland, California. In 1972 he converted from Judaism and joined the Unification Church in Oakland, then became a lecturer and a church leader in California. In 1974, he married Korean missionary Yon Soo Lim, and they led the Northern California church to...
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Yoshihiko Wada
1940 - Present (86 years)
Yoshihiko Wada is a Japanese painter. Biography Born in Miyama , Kitamura, Mie, Japan in 1940, his father was a cleric.He graduated from Asahigaoka High School in Aichi.In 1959, he enrolled on the oil painting course at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.In 1964 he held his first solo exhibition.In 1965 he worked as a part-time lecturer at Musashino Art University In 1971 he won a scholarship from the Italian government and stayed in Rome for six years, also travelled in Spain while studying Western art.Returned to Japan in 1977In 1980 he was an assistant professor of the Ja...
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Birgitta Odén
1921 - 2016 (95 years)
Agnes Birgitta Odén-Dunér was a Swedish historian. She was the first woman to hold a professorship at Lund University, and was also the first female history professor in Sweden. She was a member of several local and international literal and historical academies such as the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters; The Science Society in Lund ; the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities; the Academy of Finland; the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1977; and the Academia Europaea.
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David E. Pritchard
1941 - Present (85 years)
David Edward Pritchard is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , working on atomic physics and educational research. Career Early work Pritchard completed his PhD in 1968 in Harvard University under the supervision of Daniel Kleppner. For his thesis he built the first atomic scattering machine with polarized atoms to study differential spin exchange scattering - the process that excites the 21 cm hydrogen radiation.
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Mark Edward Lewis
1954 - Present (72 years)
Mark Edward Lewis is an American sinologist and historian of ancient China. Life and career Mark Edward Lewis was born on September 25, 1954. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and studied Chinese at the International Chinese Language Program . His dissertation, entitled "The Imperial Transformation of Violence in Ancient China," was written under the Chinese-American historian Ho Ping-ti. He was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard University Society of Fellows.
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Mourad Ismail
1944 - Present (82 years)
Mourad E. H. Ismail is a mathematician working on orthogonal polynomials and special functions. Ismail received his bachelor's degree from Cairo University. He holds Masters and doctorate degrees from the University of Alberta. He worked at and visited several universities. Currently he holds a research professorship at the University of Central Florida and a Distinguished Scientist Fellowship at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia.
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Logic
1990 - Present (36 years)
Sir Robert Bryson Hall II , known professionally as Logic, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He has released eight studio albums and received two Grammy Award nominations.
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Leonel Fernández
1953 - Present (73 years)
Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna is a Dominican lawyer, academic, and was the 50th and 52nd President of the Dominican Republic from 1996 to 2000 and from 2004 to 2012. From 2016 until 2020, he was the President of the EU–LAC Foundation.
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James Wyngaarden
1924 - 2019 (95 years)
James Barnes Wyngaarden was an American physician, researcher and academic administrator. He was a co-editor of Cecil Textbook of Medicine, one of the leading internal medicine texts, and served as director of National Institutes of Health between 1982 and 1989. He had four daughters and one son.
Go to ProfileNing Li was a Chinese American scientist. In 1983 she emigrated with her family from China to the USA. She is known for her physics and anti-gravity research. In the 1990s, Li worked as a research scientist at the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, University of Alabama in Huntsville. In 1999, she left the university to form a company, AC Gravity, LLC, to continue anti-gravity research.
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