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Ulrich Sigwart
1941 - Present (85 years)
Ulrich Sigwart is a German retired cardiologist known for his pioneering role in the conception and clinical use of stents to keep blood vessels open, and introducing a non-surgical intervention, alcohol septal ablation for the treatment of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy.
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Anne Beloff-Chain
1921 - 1991 (70 years)
Anne Ethel Beloff-Chain, Lady Chain was a British biochemist. She worked at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità , Imperial College London and the University of Buckingham . Her research focused on carbohydrate metabolism and the hormones involved in diabetes and obesity.
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Richard Steigmann-Gall
1965 - Present (61 years)
Richard Steigmann-Gall is an Associate Professor of History at Kent State University, and the former Director of the Jewish Studies Program from 2004 to 2010. Education Steigmann-Gall received a BA in history in 1989, an MA in European History in 1992 from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in European History in 1999 from the University of Toronto.
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Vytautas Kavolis
1930 - 1996 (66 years)
Vytautas Kavolis was a Lithuanian sociologist, literary critic, and culture historian. Biography Kavolis was born in Kaunas. With his parents, Kavolis left Lithuania in the wake of the Soviet occupation in 1944, living first in West Germany and then in the United States. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Chicago, receiving his master's degree and doctorate from Harvard University. He then taught at Tufts University and Dickinson College, where he was the head of the sociology department. He was Charles A. Dana Professor of Comparative Civilizations and Professor of Sociology at Dickinson from 1964 until his sudden death in 1996.
Go to ProfileDavid Anthony Nixon is a Canadian dance choreographer. Born in Chatham, Ontario, Nixon trained at the National Ballet School of Canada and danced with the National Ballet of Canada. He joined the Deutsche Oper Ballet, in Berlin, in 1985 as a principal dancer where he won the Critics Award for Best Male Performance in 1987. Nixon's Liaisons was produced at the Hebbel Theatre in Berlin in 1990.
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Jesse Williams
1981 - Present (45 years)
Jesse Wesley Williams is an American actor, director, producer and activist. He played Dr. Jackson Avery on the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy and has appeared in films such as The Cabin in the Woods and The Butler . He has provided voice acting and motion capture for Markus in the video game Detroit: Become Human . He served as an executive producer of the Academy Award-winning short, Two Distant Strangers and the Tony Award-winning revival of Take Me Out , the latter of which he was also nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.
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Sidney Loeb
1917 - 2008 (91 years)
Sidney Loeb was an American-Israeli chemical engineer. Loeb made reverse osmosis practical by developing, together with Srinivasa Sourirajan, semi-permeable anisotropic membranes. The invention of the practical reverse osmosis membrane revolutionized water desalination. Loeb invented the power generating process pressure retarded osmosis --making accessible a rich previously unknown source of green energy, and a method of producing power by a reverse electrodialysis heat engine, among other inventions in related fields. The production of energy by PRO and RED, among others, is sometimes ca...
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Evry Schatzman
1920 - 2010 (90 years)
Evry Léon Schatzman was a French scientist hailed as "the father of modern French astrophysics". Background His father, Benjamin Schatzman, was a dentist born in Tulcea, Romania, and emigrated at a young age with his family to Palestine. Schatzman began his studies at the École normale supérieure in November 1939. After the German invasion of France, Schatzman, who was Jewish, fled occupied France, arriving in Lyon in January 1942. He worked there for a year and then moved to Haute-Provence Observatory where he hid under the pseudonym Antoine Emile Louis Sellier.
Go to ProfileClifford John Thornton Stott is professor of social psychology at Keele University. He is a specialist in the psychology of crowds, group identity, and football hooliganism. Research His initial research interest was in political dissent and this led to research into how peaceful protests change to become violent through observing the psychology of crowds. His work indicated that, rather than riots being driven by hooligans who are predisposed to violence , they are structured and led by beliefs. The majority of the crowd consider that they are peaceful protestors with a right to express their views.
Go to ProfileAnders Krogh is a bioinformatician at the University of Copenhagen, where he leads the university's bioinformatics center. He is known for his pioneering work on the use of hidden Markov models in bioinformatics , and is co-author of a widely used textbook in bioinformatics. In addition, he also co-authored one of the early textbooks on neural networks. His current research interests include promoter analysis, non-coding RNA, gene prediction and protein structure prediction.
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Ursula Wolf
1951 - Present (75 years)
Ursula Wolf is a German philosophy professor and writer. Biography She has been philosophy teacher at the Free University of Berlin, at the University of Frankfurt, and, now, at the University of Mannheim, where she holds a full professorship in that specialty.
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Peter Schlechtriem
1933 - 2007 (74 years)
Peter Schlechtriem was a German jurisprudential scholar. Biography Peter H. Schlechtriem was born March 2, 1933, in Jena and studied law at the University of Hamburg and the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg. After having passed both his State Examinations in law, he in 1964 received the title of Doctor iuris from the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg for his dissertation on foreign inheritance law. In 1965 the University of Chicago Law School awarded him a Master of Comparative Law. Peter Schlechtriem subsequently returned to Freiburg where in 1970 he completed his Habilitation with...
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Christopher A. Lipinski
2000 - Present (26 years)
Christopher A. Lipinski is a medicinal chemist who is working at Pfizer, Inc. He is known for his "rule of five", an algorithm that predicts drug compounds that are likely to have oral activity. By the number of citations, he is the most cited author of some pharmacology journals: Journal of Pharmacological and Toxicological Methods, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, Drug Discovery Today: Technologies.
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Carey Harrison
1944 - Present (82 years)
Carey Harrison is an English novelist and dramatist. Early years and education Harrison was born in London to actor Rex Harrison and actress Lilli Palmer, and raised in Los Angeles and New York, where he attended the Lycée Français. Subsequently, in Britain, he attended Sunningdale School, Harrow School, and Jesus College, Cambridge.
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Bernard Bass
1925 - 2007 (82 years)
Bernard Morris Bass was an American scholar in the fields of leadership studies and organizational behavior. He was distinguished professor emeritus in the School of Management at Binghamton University, where he was also the founding director of the Center for Leadership Studies. He was a founding editor-in-chief of Leadership Quarterly. He was also a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the Academy of Management. He is well known for his research on transformational leadership, which was inspired by the work of James MacGregor Burns. His Bass Handbook of Leadership has been described as "the authoritative resource book in leadership".
Go to ProfileXiang Gao is a Chinese violinist from Fuzhou. He has been cited by The New York Times as "a rare and soulful virtuoso". He has also been a featured soloist performing for world leaders including two U.S. Presidents, three Chinese Presidents, and Juan Carlos I.
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Kii-Ming Lo
1954 - Present (72 years)
Kii-Ming Lo , born November 4, 1954, in Keelung, is a Taiwanese musicologist. Life Kii-Ming Lo was born on November 4, 1954, in Keelung, Taiwan. After initial studies of textile technology at Fu Jen Catholic University , which she completed with a bachelor's degree, she went to Germany in order to study musicology. From 1980 to 1988 she studied musicology , sinology and ethnology at Heidelberg University. She received her doctorate in 1989 under the supervision of Ludwig Finscher with the dissertation »Turandot« auf der Opernbühne , which since then has become a reference book on the subject [Frankfurt / Bern 1996].
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Eugene B. Redmond
1937 - Present (89 years)
Eugene B. Redmond is an American poet, and academic. His poetry is closely connected to the Black Arts Movement and the city of East St. Louis, Illinois. Life Eugene B. Redmond was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He earned his bachelor's degree from Southern Illinois University in 1964, and his master's degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1966, both in English Literature. He became a teacher-counselor at Southern Illinois University's Experiment in Higher Education, in East St. Louis, where he worked under the direction of Dr. Edward W. Crosby, his mentor, until 1969. He left SIU ...
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Stockwell Day
1950 - Present (76 years)
Stockwell Burt Day Jr. is a Canadian former politician who led the Canadian Alliance from 2000 to 2001, and a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. A provincial cabinet minister from Alberta, Day served as minister of labour, minister of social services, and treasurer under Premier Ralph Klein. He successfully ran for leader of the newly formed Canadian Alliance against former Reform Party leader Preston Manning, winning that position on July 8, 2000. Following his election as leader, Day won the by-election to become the Member of Parliament for the riding of Okanagan—Coquihalla in British Columbia.
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Aleks Buda
1910 - 1993 (83 years)
Aleks Buda was an Albanian historian. After completion of his education in Italy and Austria, he returned to Albania. Although his education was in literature, he made a career as a historian during the socialist period in Albania. He was a member and president of the Academy of Sciences of Albania.
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Martín Kohan
1967 - Present (59 years)
Martín Kohan is an Argentine academic, essayist and novelist. He was born and raised in Buenos Aires. He teaches literary theory at the University of Buenos Aires and the University of Patagonia. He has published more than a dozen books in various genres - essays, short stories and novels. His best-known novel is Ciencias morales which won the Premio Herralde and was turned into a film called La mirada invisible by the director Diego Lerman. His work has been translated into English, French, Italian, German and Hebrew. Two of his novels are available in English: School for Patriots and Seconds Out.
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Juan Atkins
1962 - Present (64 years)
Juan Atkins , also known as Model 500 and Infiniti, is an American record producer and DJ from Detroit, Michigan. Mixmag has described him as "the original pioneer of Detroit techno." He has been a member of The Belleville Three, Cybotron, and Borderland.
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Karen Barkey
1959 - Present (67 years)
Karen Barkey is the Haas Distinguished Chair of Religious Diversity at the Othering & Belonging Institute and a professor of sociology at University of California, Berkeley. She is also the director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion at UC Berkeley. She was previously a professor of sociology and history at Columbia University. She was awarded the Germaine Tillion Chair of Mediterranean studies at IMéRA for 2021–2022.
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Jhené Aiko
1988 - Present (38 years)
Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo is an American R&B singer-songwriter. Aiko embarked on her musical career in 2002, as a backing vocalist and music video performer for R&B group B2K. To promote and cultivate her own following, she was marketed by their record label, The Ultimate Group as a "cousin" of group member Lil' Fizz, despite them not being related. Her debut album, slated for a 2003 release through Epic Records, was ultimately shelved due to Aiko instead further pursuing her education.
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Robinson Canó
1982 - Present (44 years)
Robinson José Canó Mercedes is a Dominican–American professional baseball second baseman who plays for the Dubai Wolves of the league Baseball United. He has played in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees, Seattle Mariners, New York Mets, San Diego Padres, and Atlanta Braves.
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Detlef Lohse
1963 - Present (63 years)
Detlef Lohse is a German physicist and professor in the University of Twente's Department of Physics of Fluids in the Netherlands. Biography Lohse studied at the University of Kiel and University of Bonn, graduating in Bonn in 1989 with a degree in Physics, and completed his PhD at the University of Marburg in 1992. He served as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Chicago with Leo Kadanoff from 1993 to 1995, and was finally made chair of Physics of Fluids at the University of Twente in 1998. Lohse has been an external member of the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen, Germany.
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Klaus Müllen
1947 - Present (79 years)
Klaus Müllen is a German chemist working in the fields of polymer chemistry, supramolecular chemistry and nanotechnology. He is known for the synthesis and exploration of the properties of graphene-like nanostructures and their potential applications in organic electronics.
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Jafar Panahi
1960 - Present (66 years)
Jafar Panâhi is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film editor, commonly associated with the Iranian New Wave film movement. After several years of making short films and working as an assistant director for fellow Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, Panahi achieved international recognition with his feature film debut, The White Balloon . The film won the Caméra d'Or at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, the first major award an Iranian film won at Cannes.
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Scott E. Denmark
1953 - Present (73 years)
Scott Eric Denmark is an American chemist who is the Reynold C. Fuson Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . Denmark received an S.B. degree from MIT in 1975 and the D.Sc.Tech. degree from ETH Zurich in 1980, under the supervision of Professor Albert Eschenmoser. He joined the faculty at UIUC the same year and became an associate professor in 1986, full professor in 1987, and was named the Fuson Professor of Chemistry in 1991. He served as the president and editor-in-chief of the Organic Reactions book series between 2008 and 2018. In 2017, Denmark was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Kim TallBear
1968 - Present (58 years)
Kim TallBear (born 1968) is a Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate professor at the University of Alberta, specializing in racial politics in science. Holding the first ever Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Environment, TallBear has published on DNA testing, race science and Indigenous identities, as well as on polyamory as a decolonization practice. TallBear is a citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate in South Dakota, as well as a descendant from the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes of Oklahoma. TallBear pursued post-secondary education at the University of Massachusetts Boston obtaining an undergraduate degree in community planning.
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Patrick Lennox Tierney
1914 - 2015 (101 years)
Patrick Lennox Tierney was an American Japanologist academic in the field of art history, an emeritus professor of the University of Utah, a former Curator of Japanese Art at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, a former Director of the Pacific Asia Museum, and a former Commissioner of Art and Monuments during the Allied occupation of Japan .
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Michael Wigler
1947 - Present (79 years)
Michael Howard Wigler is an American molecular biologist who has directed a laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory since 1978 and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is best known for developing methods to genetically engineer animal cells and his contributions to cancer, genomics and autism genetics.
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Tammy Baldwin
1962 - Present (64 years)
Tammy Suzanne Green Baldwin is an American politician and lawyer who has served as the junior United States senator from Wisconsin since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she served three terms in the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing the 78th district, and from 1999 to 2013 represented Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. In 2012, Baldwin was elected to the United States Senate, defeating Republican nominee Tommy Thompson. In 2018, Baldwin was reelected, defeating Republican nominee Leah Vukmir. On April 12, 2023, Baldwin announced ...
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Mickey Lolich
1940 - Present (86 years)
Michael Stephen Lolich is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a left-handed pitcher from 1963 until 1979, almost entirely for the Detroit Tigers. A three-time All-Star, Lolich is most notable for his performance in the 1968 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals when he earned three complete-game victories, including a win over Bob Gibson in the climactic Game 7. At the time of his retirement in 1979, Lolich held the Major League Baseball record for career strikeouts by a left-handed pitcher.
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Sam Elliott
1944 - Present (82 years)
Samuel Pack Elliott is an American actor. He is the recipient of several accolades, including a Screen Actors Guild Award and a National Board of Review Award. He has been nominated for an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awardss, and two Emmy Awards.
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Paul Laxalt
1922 - 2018 (96 years)
Paul Dominique Laxalt was an American attorney and politician who served as the 22nd governor of Nevada from 1967 to 1971 and a United States senator representing Nevada from 1974 until 1987. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of Ronald Reagan's closest friends in politics. After Reagan was elected president in 1980, many in the national press referred to Laxalt as "the first friend". He was the older brother of writer Robert Laxalt and maternal grandfather of Adam Laxalt, who served as the 33rd attorney general of Nevada from 2015 to 2019.
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W. David Kingery
1926 - 2000 (74 years)
William David Kingery was an American material scientist who developed systematic methods for the study of ceramics. For his work, he was awarded the Kyoto Prize in 1999. Life Kingery was born on July 27, 1926, in White Plains, New York, one of four children. His father was a doctor in private practice. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , he majored in inorganic chemistry, receiving his BSc in 1948.
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Patrick Gardiner
1922 - 1997 (75 years)
Patrick Lancaster Gardiner, FBA was a British academic philosopher and a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Biography Gardiner was born in Chelsea, London, on 17 March 1922. His father was Clive Gardiner, a landscape artist and principal of Goldsmiths College; his mother was Lilian Lancaster, an artist and a pupil of Walter Sickert. His paternal grandfather was Alfred George Gardiner, editor of The Daily News. His younger brother was the architect Stephen Gardiner. He was educated at Westminster School, and then received a First in history from Christ Church, Oxford. After Army service in It...
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David Amaral
1950 - Present (76 years)
David Gil Amaral is a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Davis, United States, and since 1998 has been the research director at the M.I.N.D. Institute, an affiliate of UC Davis, engaged in interdisciplinary research into the causes and treatment of autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders. Amaral joined the UC Davis faculty as a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Center for Neuroscience and as an investigator at the California Regional Primate Research Center in 1991. Since 1995, he has been a professor of psychiatry in the UC Davis School of Medic...
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Yugabharathi
1953 - Present (73 years)
Yugabharathi is a Tamil poet and lyricist. He started his career as editor in Kanaiyazhi and turned into a lyricist in Tamil film industry. Debuting in the film Aanandham with lyrics for the song "Pallankuzhiyin vattam parthaen", he has become a successful lyricist penning more than 1000 songs.
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Sverre Lodgaard
1945 - Present (81 years)
Sverre Lodgaard is a Norwegian political scientist who has held several senior positions within government and non-governmental organizations, including the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs . Lodgaard specializes in peace, foreign and security policy, but has also worked on developing country issues. He has since the 2000s written extensively on nuclear arms control and disarmament issues and on Middle East affairs.
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Nambury S. Raju
1937 - 2005 (68 years)
Nambury S. Raju was an American psychology professor known for his work in psychometrics, meta-analysis, and utility theory. He was a Fellow of the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology. Professional biography At the time of his death, Raju was a Distinguished Professor in the Institute of Psychology at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Illinois. Raju worked at Science Research Associates from 1961 to 1978, specializing in psychometrics and test validation. His first published article, A new working formula for the split-half reliability model appeared in Educational and Psychological Measurement in 1965 and was published with Isaiah Guttman, a colleague from SRA.
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Janis Ian
1951 - Present (75 years)
Janis Ian is an American singer-songwriter who was most commercially successful in the 1960s and 1970s. Her signature songs are the 1966/67 hit "Society's Child " and the 1975 Top Ten single "At Seventeen", from her LP Between the Lines, which in September 1975 reached no. 1 on the Billboard album chart.
Go to ProfilePeter T Poon is a scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology , operating for NASA. He had spent 35 plus years in science and space technology. A graduate of Hong Kong University majoring in Physics and Mathematics, in 1965, Poon completed his PhD degree at the University of Southern California. He subsequently also pursued advanced training in the Advanced Project Management Program at Stanford University.
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Paula S. Fass
1947 - Present (79 years)
Paula S. Fass is an American historian and the Margaret Byrne Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. A social and cultural historian, Fass has published numerous books on the history of childhood and youth in the United States, and served as president of the Society for the History of Children and Youth from 2007 to 2009.
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Martinez Hewlett
1942 - Present (84 years)
Martinez "Marty" Joseph Hewlett is Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Arizona. He received his PhD in 1973 and served in David Baltimore's laboratory. His specialty is researching Bunyaviridae. He is an adjunct professor at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology of the Graduate Theological Union and a lay member of the Dominican Order. Hewlett has written two books on the relationship between science and religion with Ted Peters, as well as the novel Sangre de Cristo: A Novel of Science and Faith, republished as Divine Blood.
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Daniel Loss
1958 - Present (68 years)
Daniel Loss is a Swiss theoretical physicist and a professor of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Basel and RIKEN. With David P. DiVincenzo , he proposed the Loss-DiVincenzo quantum computer in 1997, which would use electron spins in quantum dots as qubits.
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Lisa Cartwright
1959 - Present (67 years)
Lisa Cartwright is a scholar, author, professor and critic best known for helping to found the field of visual culture studies and for coauthoring Practices of Looking, a widely translated visual studies textbook with Marita Sturken that is regarded as one of the first comprehensive books in the field after John Berger's Ways of Seeing. In Practices of Looking, Cartwright and Sturken examine the complexity of the relationship between viewers and objects in a variety of visual media ranging from film and photography to advertising, painting, and printmaking. They pay especially close attention ...
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Kathryn S. McKinley
1962 - Present (64 years)
Kathryn S. McKinley is an American computer scientist noted for her research on compilers, runtime systems, and computer architecture. She is also known for her leadership in broadening participation in computing. McKinley was co-chair of CRA-W from 2011 to 2014.
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