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#39301

Brackette Williams

#39313

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Brackette F. Williams is an American anthropologist, and Senior Justice Advocate, Open Society Institute. She is currently an associate professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Arizona.

#39302

Stefan Mieczysław Grzybowski

#39314

Overall Influence

1902 - 2003 (101 years)

Stefan Mieczysław Grzybowski was a full professor of law at the Jagiellonian University. Early life and education Grzybowski was born in Zator, Poland; his father, Stefan Marian Grzybowskiwas a physician. He graduated in law from the Jagiellonian University in 1926, and defending his Ph.D. on the subject of the legal nature of a public commercial company in 1927. In 1931, the Scientific Culture Fund granted him a scholarship to study abroad and three years later he published his habilitation thesis titled Personal protection of the attitude towards the work after the artist's death - general ...

#39303

Tyler Hamilton

#39315

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Tyler Hamilton is an American former professional road bicycle racer. He is the only American rider to win one of the five Monuments of cycling, taking Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 2003. Hamilton became a professional cyclist in 1995 with the US Postal Service cycling team. He was a teammate of Lance Armstrong during the 1999, 2000 and 2001 Tours de France, where Armstrong won the general classification. He was a key asset for Armstrong, being a very good climber as well as time-trialist. Hamilton appeared at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. In 2004, he won a gold medal at the individual time trial.

#39304

Tom Snyder

#39316

Overall Influence

1936 - 2007 (71 years)

Thomas James Snyder was an American television personality, news anchor, and radio personality best known for his late night talk shows Tomorrow, on NBC in the 1970s and 1980s, and The Late Late Show, on CBS in the 1990s. Snyder was also the pioneer anchor of the prime time NBC News Update, in the 1970s and early 1980s, which was a one-minute capsule of news updates.

#39305

Gérard Lopez

#39317

Overall Influence

1949 - 2022 (73 years)

Gérard Lopez is a French psychiatrist. He was a pioneer in development of abuse and rape victim treatment, rape trauma syndrome, psychological trauma and the effects and aftermath of rape. He is president and founder of the Institut de Victimologie de Paris.

#39306

Jyeshtharaj Joshi

Jyeshtharaj Joshi

#39318

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Jyeshtharaj Bhalchandra Joshi is an Indian chemical engineer, nuclear scientist, consultant and professor, widely known for his innovations in nuclear reactor designs and generally regarded as a respected teacher. He is the DAE-Homi Bhabha Chair Professor, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, and is the recipient of Shantiswarup Bhatnagar Prize for Engineering Sciences and many other awards and recognitions. He received the third highest civilian honour, the Padma Bhushan, in 2014 for his services to the field of chemical engineering and nuclear science.

#39307

Arnold B. Grobman

#39319

Overall Influence

1918 - 2012 (94 years)

Arnold B. Grobman was an American zoologist. Biography Grobman was born on April 28, 1918, in Newark, New Jersey as Morton Arnold Grobman, later changing his name to Arnold Brams Grobman, taking his mother's maiden name as his middle name. He received his education in the public school system in Newark, New Jersey and began his post-secondary education at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, earning his bachelor's degree in 1939. In 1943, he received a PhD from University of Rochester, then became an instructor in the Department of Zoology, a position that he kept through 1944. From 1944 ...

#39308

David Biale

#39320

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

David Biale is an American historian specializing in Jewish history. Biale earned a degree in history from the University of California, Berkeley in 1971, and remained at the institution to complete a master's degree in modern European history in 1972. During his doctoral studies, Biale specialized in Jewish history, and obtained a Ph.D. in the subject from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1977. Between 1986 and 1999, Biale was the Koret Professor of Jewish History and director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union. He subsequently joined the University of California, Davis, as Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor of Jewish History.

#39309

Sun Jinliang

#39321

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Sun Jinliang is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and professor of material science and engineering in Shanghai University.

#39310

Janet Iwasa

#39322

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Janet Iwasa is an American data visualization expert and assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Utah. Early life and education In 1978, Janet Iwasa was born to parents Mikeko and Kuni Iwasa in Bloomington, Indiana. She was the youngest of three children. Following her father joining the National Institutes of Health, she moved, with her family, to Maryland. She later went on to participate in an internship at the Institute for Genomic Research.

#39311

Robert L. Greene

#39323

Overall Influence

Robert L. Greene is an American psychologist known for his work on human learning and memory. He has conducted notable experiments on why some lists of words are more memorable. Career Greene earned a B.A. from University of Pennsylvania in 1979 and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1984.

#39312

Gina Lucia

#39324

Overall Influence

Gina Lucia is an American art director, artist, designer, and educator. She has been published in the U.S., Brazil and Spain and has exhibited her work in galleries in New York City, Los Angeles, CA and in Jersey City, New Jersey.

#39313

Celso-Ramón García

#39325

Overall Influence

1922 - 2004 (82 years)

Celso-Ramón García was an American physician who specialized in reproductive endocrinology and infertility. He oversaw early clinical trials of the first oral contraceptive pill in Puerto Rican women and later became a professor of human reproduction at the University of Pennsylvania.

#39314

Mae Ngai

#39326

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Mae Ngai is an American historian and Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History at Columbia University. She focuses on nationalism, citizenship, ethnicity, immigration, and race in 20th-century United States history.

#39315

Ammar Nakshawani

Ammar Nakshawani

#39327

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Ammar Nakshawani is a British Shia scholar, author and orator. Nakshawani was listed as one of The 500 Most Influential Muslims in 2014. He was a visiting scholar at Columbia University's Middle East Institute and University of Cambridge Centre of Islamic Studies. He previously held the Imam Ali Chair for Shi'i Studies and Dialogue among Islamic Legal Schools at Hartford Seminary.

#39316

Joseph R. Shoenfield

#39328

Overall Influence

1927 - 2000 (73 years)

Joseph Robert Shoenfield was an American mathematical logician. Education Shoenfield obtained his PhD in 1953 with Raymond Louis Wilder at the University of Michigan . Career From 1952, he lectured at Duke University, where he remained until becoming emeritus in 1992. From 1970 to 1973 he was president of the mathematics faculty. In 1956/57 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study. Shoenfield worked on recursion theory, model theory and axiomatic set theory. His textbook on mathematical logic has become a classic.

#39317

Wu Yundong

#39329

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Wu Yundong is a Chinese chemist. He is a theoretical organic chemist based in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and holds a concurrent position in Peking University. He was born 10 May 1957 in Liyang, Jiangsu, China. He graduated with a BS from Lanzhou University in 1982 and received his PhD in 1986 from the University of Pittsburgh, working with Kendall N. Houk in computational organic chemistry. He went on to become a research associate in University of California Los Angeles from 1989 to 1992, before beginning his independent research career in Hong Kong.

#39318

John Zaller

#39330

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

John Raymond Zaller is a political scientist and professor specializing in public opinion at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was an Editor of the American Political Science Review. He graduated from Saint Monica Catholic High School in Santa Monica, CA. He pursued his undergraduate studies at the University of California, Riverside. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984.

#39319

Pat Brown

#39331

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Pat Brown is an American writer, criminal profiler and commentator. Early life and education Brown was born in New Jersey and moved with her family to Virginia at age nine. She has lived in Maryland since 1982.

#39320

Otis Davis

#39332

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Otis Crandall Davis is a former American athlete, winner of two gold medals for record-breaking performances in both the 400 m and 4 × 400 m relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Davis set a new world record of 44.9 seconds in the 400 m event, and he became the first man to break the 45-second barrier.

#39321

Robert Slade

#39333

Overall Influence

Robert Michael Slade, also known as Robert M. Slade and Rob Slade, is a Canadian information security consultant, researcher and instructor. He is the author of Robert Slade's Guide to Computer Viruses, Software Forensics, Dictionary of Information Security and co-author of Viruses Revealed. Slade is the author of thousands of technical book reviews, today published on the techbooks mailing list and in the RISKS Digest, and archived in his Internet Review Project. An expert on computer viruses and malware, he is also the Mr. Slade of "Mr. Slade's lists".

#39322

Mary Clemente Davlin

#39334

Overall Influence

1929 - 2017 (88 years)

Mary Clemente Davlin was a Sinsinawa Dominican Sister, an advocate for diversity in higher education, and a noted scholar of medieval studies, particularly the allegorical poem Piers Plowman. Early life and education Marguerite "Marge" Davlin was born on Chicago's South Side to Mary Margaret Ryan Davlin and John Joseph Davlin. She was known as Marge all her life. In Chicago she attended St. Philip Neri elementary school and Aquinas Dominican high school. She earned a bachelor's degree at Rosary College and a master's degree at the University of Wisconsin Madison, after which she studied Italian and violin at the Pius XII Institute in Florence, Italy.

#39323

Leo Goodman

#39335

Overall Influence

1928 - 2020 (92 years)

Leo Aria Goodman was an American statistician. He was known particularly for developing statistical methods for the social sciences, including statistical methods for analyzing categorical data and data from statistical surveys.

#39324

Richard Mattson

#39336

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Richard Lewis Mattson is an American computer scientist known for his pioneering work on using memory trace data to simulate the performance of the memory hierarchy. He developed the stack distance profile, and used it to model page misses in virtual memory systems as a function of the amount of real memory available. The same methods have been applied as well more recently for modeling the behavior of CPU caches at lower levels of the memory hierarchy, and of web caches for internet content.

#39325

W. Clark Still

#39337

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

William Clark Still is an American organic chemist. As a distinguished professor at Columbia University, Clark Still made significant contributions to the field of organic chemistry, particularly in the areas of natural product synthesis, reaction development, conformational analysis, macrocyclic stereocontrol, and computational chemistry. Still and coworkers also developed the purification technique known as flash column chromatography which is widely used for the purification of organic compounds.

#39326

William A. Edelstein

William A. Edelstein

#39338

Overall Influence

1944 - 2014 (70 years)

William A. Edelstein was an American physicist. One of the key developers of magnetic resonance imaging , he was part of the team that developed the first full-body MRI scanner at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and was the primary inventor of spin-warp imaging, which is still used in all commercial MRI systems.

#39327

Irving Bluestone

#39339

Overall Influence

1917 - 2007 (90 years)

Irving Julius Bluestone was an American trade union leader. He was the chief negotiator for almost a half a million workers at General Motors in the 1970s, and an advocate of worker participation in management. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Herman and Rebecca Chasman Bluestone, Lithuanian Jewish emigrants.

#39328

Alan Hirsch

#39340

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Alan Hirsch is an Australian author, serial entrepreneur, thought leader in the missional church movement, key missions strategist for churches around the world, and founder of numerous global organizations.

#39329

Norman Tebbit

#39341

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

Norman Beresford Tebbit, Baron Tebbit, is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet from 1981 to 1987 as Secretary of State for Employment , Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Chairman of the Conservative Party . He was a Member of Parliament from 1970 to 1992, representing the constituencies of Epping and Chingford .

#39330

Thomas D. Kirsch

#39342

Overall Influence

Thomas Dean Kirsch is an American physician, scientist, and writer whose career has focused on disaster preparedness and response. He has been described as “…an expert in disaster research, planning and response, and disaster and wilderness medicine… both nationally and internationally”.

#39331

Robert Provenzano

#39343

Overall Influence

Robert Provenzano is an American nephrologist. He is also an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine. Affiliations Robert works with several professional societies and advisory boards. He is past-President of the Renal Physicians Association, immediate past-Chair of the Board of Trustees for the National Kidney Foundation of Michigan, and an active member of the American Society of Nephrology and the American Society of Transplantation, and a fellow of the American College of Physicians.

#39332

Shammi Kapoor

#39344

Overall Influence

1930 - 2011 (81 years)

Shammi Kapoor Born to actor Prithviraj Kapoor and a member of the Kapoor family, he made his film debut with the commercially unsuccessful Jeewan Jyoti . Following roles in continued box-office flops, he had his breakthrough with Tumsa Nahi Dekha , which attained him the image of a stylish playboy and dancer, and subsequently gained further recognition with Dil Deke Dekho . Kapoor rose to widespread recognition with the romantic blockbuster Junglee , and went on to become one of the most marketable Bollywood stars throughout the 1960s, appearing in a number of highly successful films such as ...

#39333

María José Martínez Sánchez

María José Martínez Sánchez

#39345

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

María José Martínez Sánchez is a Spanish former professional tennis player. In singles, she won five WTA Tour singles titles, her biggest being a Premier 5 title at the 2010 Italian Open where she defeated two former world No. 1 players, Ana Ivanovic and Jelena Janković, en route to the title. As a junior, she won the Orange Bowl and French Open. She reached her career high ranking in singles of world No. 19 on 10 May 2010.

#39334

Heimo Zobernig

#39346

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Heimo Zobernig is an Austrian artist who works in a variety of media from painting and sculpture to site specific installation and design. Education Zobernig attended the Academy of Fine Arts , Vienna in the late 1970s and graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts , Vienna in 1983.

#39335

Carsten Lund

#39347

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Carsten Lund is a Danish-born theoretical computer scientist, currently working at AT&T Labs in Bedminster, New Jersey, United States. Lund was born in Aarhus, Denmark, and received the "kandidat" degree in 1988 from the University of Aarhus and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in computer science. His thesis, entitled The Power of Interaction, was chosen as an ACM 'Distinguished Dissertation'.

#39336

Aitor Karanka

#39348

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Aitor Karanka de la Hoz is a Spanish football manager and former player. Save for a brief spell in the United States at age 32, Karanka played solely in Spain for Athletic Bilbao and Real Madrid, appearing in 275 La Liga matches over 13 seasons and winning six honours with the latter. He earned one cap for Spain, in 1995.

#39337

Iain Mattaj

#39349

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Iain William Mattaj FRS FRSE is a British scientist and Honorary Professor at Heidelberg University in Germany. From 2005 to 2018 he was Director General of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory . He stepped down from the position at the end of 2018 following his appointment to Human Technopole. In January 2019 he took office as the first Director of Human Technopole, the new Italian institute for life sciences in Milan, Italy.

#39338

Robert A. Pearce

#39350

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Robert Alasdair Pearce is a British academic. He was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Lampeter between 2003 and 2008. Educated at Grammar Schools in Birmingham, Bristol and Gloucester, Pearce went on to study law at Pembroke College, Oxford . From there he went on to hold academic positions at the Universities of Newcastle upon Tyne, Lancaster, University College Cork , and at the University of Western Ontario.

#39339

Ann-Dorte Christensen

#39351

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Ann-Dorte Christensen is a Danish professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Aalborg University. Education In 1982 Christensen graduated as Master of Philosophy in social science at Aalborg University. Subsequently, Christensen worked as a postgraduate fellow on the project "The new social movements of the 60s and 70s" at the Department of Education and Socialization at Aalborg University.

#39340

Nonda Katsalidis

#39352

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Nonda Katsalidis is a Greek-Australian architect. He is currently a practising director of architecture firm Fender Katsalidis Architects in partnership with Karl Fender. Early life Nonda Katsalidis was born in 1951 in Athens, Greece. He migrated to Melbourne, Australia when he was five years old, with his two-year-old brother and parents. He graduated from the University of Melbourne with a degree in architecture in 1976.

#39341

Ka Yee Christina Lee

#39353

Overall Influence

Ka Yee Christina Lee is Executive Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and the David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Chemistry University of Chicago. She works on membrane biophysics, including protein–lipid interactions, Alzheimer's disease and respiratory distress syndrome. She is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and American Physical Society.

#39342

Elmer Bernstein

#39354

Overall Influence

1922 - 2004 (82 years)

Elmer Bernstein was an American composer and conductor. In a career that spanned over five decades, he composed "some of the most recognizable and memorable themes in Hollywood history", including over 150 original film scores, as well as scores for nearly 80 television productions. For his work he received an Academy Award for Thoroughly Modern Millie and Primetime Emmy Award. He also received seven Golden Globe Awards, five Grammy Awards, and two Tony Award nominations.

#39343

Gary McGraw

#39355

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Gary McGraw is an American computer scientist, author, and researcher. Education McGraw holds a dual PhD in Cognitive Science and Computer Science from Indiana University and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Virginia. His doctoral dissertation is titled "Letter Spirit: Emergent High-Level Perception of Letters Using Fluid Concepts."

#39344

Henry Farber

#39356

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Henry Stuart Farber is an American economist and the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics at Princeton University. His research revolves around different topics related to labor economics, econometrics, law and economics, and industrial relations.

#39345

Hitoshi Oshitani

#39357

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Hitoshi Oshitani is a Japanese university professor, virologist, medical doctor, public health expert and scientist who currently serves as the professor of virology, Department of Microbiology at Tohoku University. He is acclaimed and accredited with the crafting of the successful pandemic strategy of Japan called the "Three C's": Avoiding closed spaces, crowds and contact situations. He has been dubbed as the global ambassador of the "Japanese Model". He is also an integral member of the expert panel advising the Government of Japan in handling the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. Despite being ...

#39346

María Yzuel

#39358

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

María Josefa Yzuel Giménez is a professor of physics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She has worked in medical optics, diffraction image theory, image quality evaluation and liquid crystals. She served as president of SPIE in 2009.

#39347

Nancy R. Howell

#39359

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Nancy R. Howell is an American professor of Theology and Philosophy of Religion at Saint Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Missouri. Biography Howell earned a B.S. at The College of William and Mary, and a Th.M. and M.Div. at the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Howell earned a M.A. and Ph.D. at Claremont Graduate School. During her doctoral studies she studied with, and was the teaching assistant for, John B. Cobb. She initially worked as the academic dean of Saint Paul School of Theology.

#39348

John G. Kelton

#39360

Overall Influence

John G. Kelton, M.D., FRCPC, C.M. is a Canadian hematologist and the past Dean of the McMaster University Medical School and the Dean and Vice-President of the McMaster Faculty of Health Sciences. He completed his 15-year term in June 2016 and is currently the Executive Director of the Michael G. DeGroote Initiative for Innovation in Healthcare at McMaster University in Hamilton. He is an expert on heparin-induced thrombocytopenia. He is known for developing a diagnostic test for heparin-induced thrombocytopenia in 1986.

#39349

Randy Meisner

#39361

Overall Influence

1946 - 2023 (77 years)

Randall Herman Meisner was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and founding member of the Eagles. Throughout his professional musical career, Meisner's main role was that of bassist and backing high-harmony vocalist as a group member and session musician. He co-wrote and sang lead vocal on the Eagles hit song "Take It to the Limit".

#39350

Mariana Weissmann

#39362

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Mariana Weissmann is an Argentinian physicist, specializing in the computational physics of condensed matter. In 2003, Weissmann became the first Argentinian scientist to receive the L'Oréal-UNESCO Award to Women in Science. The same year she received the Prize Konex in Physics.

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