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#38201

Lubomyr Romankiw

#38213

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

Lubomyr Taras Romankiw is an IBM Fellow and researcher at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. Romankiw earned his B.Sc. from the University of Alberta in 1957, and both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962. He is listed as a inventor on over 65 U.S. patents, 150 papers and has edited 10 volumes of various technical symposia.

#38202

Darrell Hamamoto

#38214

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Darrell Y. Hamamoto is an American writer, academic, and specialist in U.S. media and ethnic studies. He was a scholar of Asian American media and professor for almost 23 years at the University of California, Davis before retiring in 2018.

#38203

Keiko Takemiya

#38215

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Keiko Takemiya is a Japanese manga artist and the former president of Kyoto Seika University. Career Keiko Takemiya is included in the Year 24 Group, a term coined by academics and critics to refer to a group of female authors in the early 1970s who helped transform manga from being created primarily by male authors to being created by female authors. As part of this group, Takemiya pioneered a genre of manga about love between young men called . In 1970, she published a historical short story titled Sunroom Nite in Bessatsu Shōjo Comic, which is possibly the first manga ever published....

#38204

Sherry Li

#38216

Overall Influence

Xiaoye Sherry Li is a researcher in numerical methods at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she works as a senior scientist. She is responsible there for the SuperLU package, a high-performance parallel system for solving sparse systems of linear equations by using their LU decomposition. At the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, she heads the Scalable Solvers Group.

#38205

Daniel Reisner

#38217

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Colonel Adv. Daniel Reisner is the former Head of the International Law Branch of the Israel Defense Forces Legal Division, and a partner with Herzog, Fox & Neeman. External links Herzog, Fox & Neeman bioMartindale-Hubbell bio

#38206

Ted Wragg

#38218

Overall Influence

1938 - 2005 (67 years)

Professor Edward Conrad Wragg known as Ted Wragg, was a British educationalist and academic known for his advocacy of the cause of education and opposition to political interference in the field. He was Professor of Education at the University of Exeter from 1978 to 2003, serving as Emeritus Professor of Education from 2003 till his death, and a regular columnist in the Times Educational Supplement and The Guardian.

#38207

Florence Merlevède

#38219

Overall Influence

Florence Merlevède is a French probability theorist whose research interests focus on dependent and weakly dependent random variables, including Bernstein inequalities and central limit theorems for these variables. She is a professor in the laboratory for analysis and applied mathematics at Gustave Eiffel University, associated with the research group on probability and statistics there.

#38208

Brian Viner

#38220

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Brian Viner is an English journalist and author. Viner was born to an unmarried mother at the now demolished Royal Northern Hospital, London, and was adopted by a couple in Southport, Merseyside when a few weeks old. He met his birth parents for the first time in the 1990s.

#38209

Richard Vinen

#38221

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Richard Charles Vinen is a British historian and academic who holds a professorship at King's College London. Vinen is a specialist in 20th-century European history, particularly of Britain and France.

#38210

Dick Francis

#38222

Overall Influence

1920 - 2010 (90 years)

Richard Stanley Francis was a British steeplechase jockey and crime writer whose novels centre on horse racing in England. After wartime service in the RAF, Francis became a full-time jump-jockey, winning over 350 races and becoming champion jockey of the British National Hunt. He came to further prominence in 1956 as jockey to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, riding her horse Devon Loch which fell when close to winning the Grand National. Francis retired from the turf and became a journalist and novelist.

#38211

David J. Tholen

#38223

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

David James Tholen is an American astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaiʻi. He holds a 1984 PhD from the University of Arizona, and specializes in planetary and Solar System astronomy. He is a discoverer of minor planets and known for the Tholen spectral classification scheme used on asteroids.

#38212

Anne Tamar-Mattis

#38224

Overall Influence

Anne Tamar-Mattis is an American attorney, human rights advocate, and founder of interACT . She currently serves as interACT's Legal Director. Career Anne Tamar-Mattis spent six years as the Director of the National Youth Talkline at Lavender Youth Recreation & Information Center, a national peer-support line for LGBTQ youth. She became the first Program Director for the San Francisco LGBT Community Center in 2001. In 2003 she took a hiatus to attend law school and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law in 2006.

#38213

Lesley Gill

#38225

Overall Influence

1922 - Present (104 years)

Lesley Gill is an author and a professor of anthropology at Vanderbilt University. Her research focusses on political violence, gender, free market reforms and human rights in Latin America, especially Bolivia. She also writes about the military training that takes place at the School of the Americas and has campaigned for its closure. She has campaigned with Witness for Peace.

#38214

V. Kumar Murty

#38226

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Vijaya Kumar Murty is an Indo-Canadian mathematician working primarily in number theory. He is a professor at the University of Toronto and is the Director of the Fields Institute. Early life and education V. Kumar Murty is the brother of mathematician M. Ram Murty.

#38215

Morna Hooker

#38227

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

Morna Dorothy Hooker is a British theologian and New Testament scholar. Early life and education Morna Hooker was born in Beddington on 19 May 1931. She went to Bristol University where she graduated with first class honours in theology, and then earned her MA. She worked for a PhD degree at the University of Manchester, then at the University of Durham.

#38216

Alizée

#38228

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (42 years)

Alizée Lyonnet , known professionally as Alizée, is a French singer and dancer. She was born and raised in Ajaccio, Corsica. She first became known with her winning performance in the talent show Graines de Star in 1999. While collaborating with Mylène Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat, she followed it with a series of albums that attained popularity by pushing the boundaries of lyrical content in mainstream popular music and imagery in her music videos, which became a fixture on NRJ, Europe 1, MTV, Virgin Radio, and many others. Throughout her career, many of her songs have been in top 25 hit lists on the record charts, including "Moi...

#38217

Ichirō Hariu

#38229

Overall Influence

1925 - 2010 (85 years)

Ichirō Hariu, was a Japanese art critic and literary critic, remembered as one of the "Big Three" art critics of postwar Japan . Early life and education Ichirō Hariu was born on December 1, 1925, in the city of Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture. Hariu graduated from Tohoku University with a degree in literature in 1948, before going on to attend graduate school at Tokyo University. While in graduate school, he participated in the Yoru no Kai literary society alongside Tarō Okamoto, Kiyoteru Hanada, Kōbō Abe, and others. In 1953, Hariu followed the majority of other writers and artists in Japan in ...

#38218

Edward Barbier

#38230

Overall Influence

Edward Barbier is an environmental and resource economist. He holds the title of University Distinguished Professor, Department of Economics, Colorado State University. Barbier is known, since 1989, for the promotion valuation frameworks for valuing nature in economic terms. In 2009, He authored the United Nations’ Global Green New Deal, which connected environmentalism to an economic price. In 2010, he wrote A Global Green New Deal: Rethinking the Economic Recovery, which connected the environment to climate change to human energy and water security, and to human poverty.

#38219

Alberto Salazar

Alberto Salazar

#38231

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Alberto Salazar is an American former track coach and long-distance runner. Born in Cuba, Salazar immigrated to the United States as a child with his family, living in Connecticut and then in Wayland, Massachusetts, where Salazar competed in track and field in high school. Salazar won the New York City Marathon three times in the early 1980s, and won the 1982 Boston Marathon in a race known as the "Duel in the Sun". He set American track records for 5,000 m and 10,000 m in 1982. Salazar was later the head coach of the Nike Oregon Project. He won the IAAF Coaching Achievement Award in 2013.

#38220

Michel Polnareff

#38232

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Michel Polnareff is a French singer-songwriter, who was popular in France from the mid-1960s until the early 1990s with his penultimate original album, Kāma-Sūtra. He is still critically acclaimed and occasionally tours in France, Belgium and Switzerland.

#38221

Steve Stevens

#38233

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Steve Stevens is an American guitarist. He is best known as Billy Idol's guitarist and songwriting collaborator, and for his lead guitar work on the theme to Top Gun – "Top Gun Anthem" – for which he won a Grammy in 1987: Best Pop Instrumental Performance.

#38222

Isao Imai

#38234

Overall Influence

1914 - 2004 (90 years)

was a Japanese theoretical physicist, known for fluid mechanics and mathematical physics. Imai was born on 7 October 1914 in Dairen. A few years later, his family returned to Kobe, where he spent his childhood. He skipped one grade in elementary school and another in middle school, and he entered the First Higher School. He proceeded to the Imperial University of Tokyo, majoring in physics, and graduated at the age of 21. Upon his graduation in 1936, he was appointed assistant to Susumu Tomotika in the newly established Imperial University of Osaka. Two years later, he returned to the Imperial University of Tokyo as a lecturer, and in 1942 was promoted to assistant professor.

#38223

Lars-Erik Tammelin

#38235

Overall Influence

1923 - 1991 (68 years)

Lars-Erik Tammelin was a Swedish chemist, defence researcher and civil servant. Tammelin served as Director-General of the Swedish National Defence Research Institute from 1984 to 1985. Career Tammelin was born in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of Supreme Court Justice Erik Tammelin and his wife Elsa . Tammelin, who was an organic chemist, was recruited to the Swedish National Defence Research Institute in 1950 for research on nerve gas and nerve gas countermeasures. At this time, FOA had become aware that large quantities of nerve gas, primarily Tabun, had been stockpiled during World War II. ...

#38224

Rick Tocchet

#38236

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Richard Tocchet is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player. He is the head coach of the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League . Playing as a right winger, he played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Los Angeles Kings, Boston Bruins, Washington Capitals, and Phoenix Coyotes. He was the head coach of the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning for two seasons and the Arizona Coyotes for four seasons. During the 2010 playoffs, he was an analyst on Flyers Postgame Live on Comcast SportsNet. In 2021, he became a studio analys...

#38225

Dianne Berry

#38237

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Dianne Claire Berry, is British psychologist and academic. She is Professor of Psychology and Dean of Postgraduate Research Studies at the University of Reading, having previously served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Dean of Social Sciences. She joined the University in 1990 as a lecturer, receiving a chair in 1997.

#38226

Mirta González Suárez

#38238

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Mirta González Suárez is a Costa Rican social psychologist and novelist. She is an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Costa Rica, where she has conducted research in women's studies and political psychology. Her first novel, Crimen con sonrisa , won a national literary award, the in 2013. In 2016 she won the award "UNA palabra" by the National University of Costa Rica for her novel "La gobernadora" and in 2021 the "Juegos Florales Hispanoamericanos de Quetzaltenango 2021" for the novel "La Independencia".

#38227

Donald Edward Osterbrock

#38239

Overall Influence

1924 - 2007 (83 years)

Donald Edward Osterbrock was an American astronomer, best known for his work on star formation and on the history of astronomy. Biography Osterbrock was born in Cincinnati. His father was an electrical engineer. He served with the US Army in the Second World War, making weather observations in the Pacific. He did undergraduate classes in physics at the University of Chicago as part of his weather training.

#38228

Sebastian Giovinco

Sebastian Giovinco

#38240

Overall Influence

1987 - Present (39 years)

Sebastian Giovinco is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a forward. A quick and creative player on the ball, Giovinco was a versatile attacker capable of playing in multiple offensive positions but mainly operating behind a lone striker as a trequartista.

#38229

Roel van den Broek

#38241

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

Roelof "Roel" van den Broek is a Dutch religious scholar. He was a professor of Religious History of the Hellenistic period at Utrecht University between 1979 and 1991. He subsequently was a professor of history of Christianity until his retirement in 1997.

#38230

Robert W. Tucker

#38242

Overall Influence

1924 - Present (102 years)

Robert Warren Tucker , an American realist, is a writer and teacher who is Professor Emeritus of American Foreign Policy at the Johns Hopkins University, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Tucker was a Marshall Scholar.

#38231

Wai Chee Dimock

#38243

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Wai Chee Dimock writes about public health, climate change, and indigenous communities, focusing especially on the symbiotic relation between humans and nonhumans. She is a professor at Yale, and a researcher and writer at the Harvard University Center for the Environment. Her essays have appeared in Artforum, The Hill, Los Angeles Review of Books, Chronicle of Higher Education, New York Times, New Yorker, and Scientific American.

#38232

Alpha Chiang

#38244

Overall Influence

1927 - Present (99 years)

Alpha Chung-i Chiang is an American mathematical economist, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Connecticut, and author of perhaps the most well known mathematical economics textbook; Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics.

#38233

Inocencio Arias

#38245

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Inocencio F. Arias, also known as Chencho , is a multifarious Spanish diplomat, who served as consul general in Los Angeles, California, United States. He retired in 2010. Career His previous assignment was as Permanent Representative of Spain to the United Nations in New York City. In the Security Council he presided the Antiterrorism Committee of the United Nations. Previously, he served as State Secretary for International cooperation and for Ibero-American Affairs and as Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs .

#38234

Boyd Hilton

#38246

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Andrew John Boyd Hilton, FBA is a British historian and a professor and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He specialises in modern British history, from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century.

#38235

Rudy Sarzo

#38247

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Rodolfo Maximiliano Sarzo Lavieille Grande Ruiz Payret y Chaumont is a Cuban American hard rock/heavy metal bassist. He remains best known for his work with Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne, and Whitesnake, and has also played with several well known heavy metal and hard rock acts including Manic Eden, Dio, Blue Öyster Cult, Geoff Tate's Queensrÿche, Devil City Angels, and the Guess Who. He re-joined Quiet Riot in 2021. Though not a founding member, he is the longest-serving member currently in the band.

#38236

Pierre-Marc Johnson

#38248

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

#38237

Ray Stevens

#38249

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Harold Ray Ragsdale , known professionally as Ray Stevens, is an American country and pop singer-songwriter and comedian, known for his Grammy-winning recordings "Everything Is Beautiful" and "Misty", as well as novelty hits such as "Gitarzan" and "The Streak". Stevens has received gold albums for his music sales and has worked as a producer, music arranger, and television host. He is also an inductee of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, the Christian Music Hall of Fame, and the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

#38238

Mara Sapon-Shevin

#38250

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Mara Sapon-Shevin is a professor of inclusive education at Syracuse University. She is a critic of gifted education and turned down an offer of a place for her daughter in a gifted education program on the grounds that "I would never have wanted to raise a child who thought that she was better or smarter than other people". She is also an advocate against bullying, especially bullying against perceived or actual members of the LGBT community.

#38239

Mel Tormé

#38251

Overall Influence

1925 - 1999 (74 years)

Melvin Howard Tormé , nicknamed "The Velvet Fog", was an American musician, singer, composer, arranger, drummer, actor, and author. He composed the music for "The Christmas Song" and co-wrote the lyrics with Bob Wells. Tormé won 2 Grammy Awards and was nominated a total of 14 times.

#38240

Larry E. Greiner

#38252

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Larry E. Greiner is an American economist, former Professor of Management and Organizations at University of Southern California USC Marshall School of Business. Academic background Greiner bachelor's degree from the University of Kansas at a young age first. In 1958, Greiner entered Harvard Business School, and where he received an MBA within 2 years, DBA from Harvard Business School in 1966 again.

#38241

David S. H. Rosenthal

David S. H. Rosenthal

#38253

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

David Stuart Holmes Rosenthal is a British-American computer scientist. Biography Rosenthal is the son of Michael David Holmes Rosenthal and Marjorie Mary "Molly" Rosenthal . His brother Mark Geoffrey Thomas Rosenthal ran to be a member of the UK Parliament for Ynys Môn in 2015.

#38242

Gruff Rhys

#38254

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Gruffudd Maredudd Bowen Rhys is a Welsh musician, composer, producer, filmmaker and author. He performs solo and with several bands, including Super Furry Animals, which obtained mainstream success in the 1990s. He formed the electro-pop outfit Neon Neon with Boom Bip. Their album Stainless Style was nominated for the 2008 Nationwide Mercury Prize. He won the 2011 Welsh Music Prize for his album Hotel Shampoo, which was followed up by American Interior in 2014, accompanied by a film, a book and a mobile app. His most recent album, Seeking New Gods, was released in 2021. He is considered a fig...

#38243

Harshad Bhadeshia

Harshad Bhadeshia

#38255

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Sir Harshad "Harry" Kumar Dharamshi Hansraj Bhadeshia is an Indian-British metallurgist and Emeritus Tata Steel Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge. In 2022 he joined Queen Mary University of London as Professor of Metallurgy.

#38244

William Snyder

#38256

Overall Influence

1901 - Present (125 years)

William Snyder is an American photojournalist and former Director of Photography for The Dallas Morning News. Snyder won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1989 along with reporter David Hanners and artist Karen Blessen for their special report on a 1985 airplane crash, the follow-up investigation, and the implications for air safety. In 1991, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his pictures of ill and orphaned children living in desperate conditions in Romania. In 1993, Snyder and Ken Geiger won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for their photographic coverage of the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

#38245

Yang Huanming

#38257

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Yang Huanming , also known as Henry Yang, is a Chinese biologist, businessman and one of China's leading genetics researchers. He is Chairman and co-founder of the Beijing Genomics Institute, formerly of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was elected as member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007, a foreign academician of Indian National Science Academy in 2009, a member of the German National Academy of Sciences in 2012, and foreign associate of the US National Academy of Science in 2014.

#38246

Samaresh Mitra

#38258

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Samaresh Mitra is an Indian bioinorganic chemist and an INSA Senior Scientist at the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology . He is known for his researches on inorganic paramagnetic complexes and low-symmetry transition metal complexes and is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, the National Academy of Sciences, India and the Indian Academy of Sciences. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian scie...

#38247

Bong Joon-ho

#38259

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Bong Joon-ho is a South Korean film director, producer and screenwriter. The recipient of three Academy Awards, his filmography is characterised by emphasis on social and class themes, genre-mixing, black humor, and sudden tone shifts.

#38248

Helgi Valdimarsson

#38260

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Helgi Valdimarsson was a professor of immunology at the University of Iceland. He established the first Immunology laboratory of Iceland in 1983. He was a senior lecturer at St Mary's Hospital Medical school, London, England, from 1975 to 1981 and a visiting professor at St. Mary's from 1981 to 1990. He has published over 180 articles in international peer-reviewed journals, and for his work on psoriasis he has received several research grants, including European Commission Grant and a Fogarty Scholarship in 2003.

#38249

Darlene Love

#38261

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Darlene Wright , known professionally as Darlene Love, is an American singer and actress. She was the lead singer of the girl group the Blossoms and she also recorded as a solo artist. She began singing as a child with her local church choir. In 1962, she began recording with producer Phil Spector who renamed her Darlene Love. She sang lead on "He's a Rebel" and "He's Sure the Boy I Love," which were credited to the Crystals. She was soon a highly sought-after vocalist and worked with many rock and soul legends of 1960s, including Sam Cooke, Dionne Warwick, Bill Medley, the Beach Boys, Elvis Presley, Tom Jones and Sonny and Cher.

#38250

Adrian Sherwood

#38262

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Adrian Maxwell Sherwood is an English record producer specialising in the genre of dub music. He has created a distinctive production style based on the application of dub effects and dub mixing techniques to other forms of electronic dance music and popular music outside of the genre. He has worked extensively with a variety of reggae artists as well as the musicians Keith LeBlanc, Doug Wimbish and Skip McDonald. Sherwood has remixed tracks by Coldcut, Depeche Mode, The Woodentops, Primal Scream, Pop Will Eat Itself, Sinéad O'Connor, and Skinny Puppy. In his role as a record producer he has ...

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