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Klemens von Klemperer
1916 - 2012 (96 years)
Klemens Wilhelm von Klemperer was a historian of modern Europe and professor at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. He was a prominent member of the generation of young refugees and emigrants who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s and established themselves as historians and often leading scholars in the United States. His teaching and writings focused on 20th century Germany and Central Europe, in particular the Nazi regime and the resistance to Hitler. In 1997, he was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class for his contribution and services to Austrian culture.
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Luiz Bevilacqua
1937 - Present (89 years)
Luiz Bevilacqua is a Brazilian scientist best known for his work as President of the Brazilian Space Agency and as Secretary General of the Ministry of Science and Technology . Currently serves as Emeritus Professor, UFRJ and coordinator of the Center for Cognition and Complex Systems of UFABC.
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Emily Grosholz
1950 - Present (76 years)
Emily Rolfe Grosholz is an American poet and philosopher. She is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy, African American Studies and English, and a member of the Center for Fundamental Theory / Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, at the Pennsylvania State University.
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Don Welch
1932 - 2016 (84 years)
Don Welch was an American poet and academic who was born in Hastings, Nebraska. The author of several published poetry collections and a regular contributor to literary magazines, Welch was an English literature professor at the University of Nebraska at Kearney from 1959 to 1997. While there, he was awarded the Distinguished Paul W. Reynolds and Clarice Kingston Reynolds Endowed Chair in English, Poetry & Creative Writing. In June 2001, a bronze sculpture of Welch was finished and dedicated to him on the campus.
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William E. Caswell
1947 - 2001 (54 years)
William Edward Caswell was an American physicist. He did work in quantum gauge theory, most notably, his 1972 calculation of the beta function to two-loop accuracy. His pioneering work in the days of FORTRAN and punch cards demonstrated the potential of computer algebra. Caswell died during the September 11 attacks as a passenger aboard American Airlines Flight 77, which was crashed into the Pentagon.
Go to ProfilePaul Elliott has been professor of epidemiology and public health medicine at Imperial College London since 1995. He is director of REACT , a community coronavirus testing programme. He is also director of the National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit for Chemical and Radiation Threats & Hazards.
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Bichu Thirumala
1942 - 2021 (79 years)
B. Sivasankaran Nair, popularly known as Bichu Thirumala , was an Indian lyricist and poet. He is known for creating the style of arranging beautiful words in Malayalam film songs. In Malayalam cinema, Bichu Thirumala led the group of lyricists who wrote songs for readymade tunes. He won the Kerala State Film Award for the best lyricist two times. His prolific Malayalam film repertoire includes work with eminent composers like Shyam, G. Devarajan, V. Dakshinamurthy, M.S. Baburaj, K. Raghavan, M.S. Viswanathan, A.T. Ummer, K.J. Joy, Shankar–Ganesh, Jaya Vijaya, Raveendran, Jerry Amaldev, Johnson, Ouseppachan, Ilaiyaraaja, A.
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Leiji Matsumoto
1938 - 2023 (85 years)
was a Japanese manga artist, and creator of several anime and manga series. His widow Miyako Maki is also a manga artist. Matsumoto was famous for his space operas such as Space Battleship Yamato and Galaxy Express 999. His style was characterized by mythological and often tragic storylines with strong moral themes, noble heroes, feminine heroines, and a love of strange worlds and melancholic atmosphere.
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Garson Kanin
1912 - 1999 (87 years)
Garson Kanin was an American writer and director of plays and films. Early life Garson Kanin was born in Rochester, New York; his Jewish family later relocated to Detroit then to New York City. He attended James Madison High School in Brooklyn, dropping out to take up a career on the theatre stage. He subsequently became a professional saxophone player and leader of his own band that went by the name Garson Kanin and His Red Hot Peppers. During this period, he attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts pursuing an acting career.
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Ryan Coogler
1986 - Present (40 years)
Ryan Kyle Coogler is an American filmmaker. He is a recipient of four NAACP Image Awards and four Black Reel Awards, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Grammy Award.
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Wim Van Grembergen
1947 - Present (79 years)
Willy Van Grembergen is a Belgian organizational theorist and Professor of Information Systems Management at the University of Antwerp, and Academic Director of the IT Alignment and Governance Research Institute., known for his work on IT governance. His recent book on IT Governance: "Enterprise governance of information technology: Achieving strategic alignment and value", Springer, 2009.
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Franz Pacher
1919 - 2018 (99 years)
Franz Pacher was an Austrian civil engineer and a pioneer of modern tunneling. He is one of three men who are considered to be the chief developers of the New Austrian Tunneling method . During the later years of his career, he was involved in nearly 90% of all tunnel constructions in Austria.
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Mentor Përmeti
1920 - 2015 (95 years)
Prof. Dr. Mentor Përmeti was an Albanian agronomist. Biography He pursued his high school in his native city and graduated in the Sofia University, Bulgaria, in 1951. He returned to Albania upon graduation and started to work at the Institute of Agricultural Research. Subsequently he worked at the Department of Agriculture of Albania with different responsibilities. In 1956 he started working as a director at the Agricultural University of Tirana, and, in 1958, he became director of the Institute of Agricultural Research, which had by then transferred to the city of Lushnjë. In 1961 he returned as a vice-provost of the Agricultural University of Tirana.
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Max Weismann
1936 - 2017 (81 years)
Max Weismann was an American philosopher and a long-time friend and colleague of Mortimer Adler, with whom he co-founded the Center for the Study of the Great Ideas in Chicago. He was director and president of the Center and dedicated his time and talents to promoting the philosophical and pedagogical ideas of Dr. Adler, especially the importance of the study of the "Great Books". He also compiled, edited, and published How To Think About the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization, a 600-page tome of never-published work from Adler's television series The Great Ideas. Weism...
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Todd Rose
1974 - Present (52 years)
Larry Todd Rose is a scientist, author, professor and social entrepreneur. He is known for being the co-founder and CEO of Populace, a Boston-based think tank. Prior to Populace, Rose was a professor at the Harvard University where he served as the faculty director of the Mind, Brain, and Education program, as well as led the Laboratory for the Science of Individuality.
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Peter Skalicky
1941 - Present (85 years)
Peter Skalicky is the former rector of TU Wien, Austria. After taking his A-levels in Vienna, he studied physics at TU Wien. He wrote his PhD thesis on Röntgen topography. In 1973 he became an associate professor. Since 1979 he has been a full professor of applied physics. From 1991 until 2011 he was rector of TU Wien. He was followed in this function by Sabine Seidler.
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Hilary Bok
1959 - Present (67 years)
Hilary Bok is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Bioethics and Moral & Political Theory at Johns Hopkins University. Bok received a B.A. in philosophy from Princeton University in 1981 and her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1991.
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Lawrence Thornton
1937 - Present (89 years)
Lawrence Thornton is an American novelist and critic living in Claremont, California. His most well known novel, Imagining Argentina, employs the methods of magic realism to tell a story of the Dirty War . This novel, along with Naming the Spirits and Tales from the Blue Archives, makes up the Argentina Trilogy. His work, published in eighteen languages, is frequently taught in schools and universities. In 2003 a film was made of Imagining Argentina by Christopher Hampton starring Antonio Banderas, Emma Thompson and Claire Bloom . In 1996, Zorongo Flamenco, a Minneapolis-based flamenco troupe, staged a flamenco version of the novel that featured an international cast of dancers and singers.
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Jennifer Chatman
1959 - Present (67 years)
Jennifer A. Chatman is an American academic who is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the Paul J. Cortese Distinguished Professor of Management at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. Chatman is also the Co-Director of the Berkeley Haas Culture Initiative, the Assistant Dean for Learning Strategies at the Haas School of Business, and Editor for the journal Research in Organizational Behavior.
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Mark Bretscher
1940 - Present (86 years)
Mark Steven Bretscher is a British biological scientist and Fellow of the Royal Society. He worked at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, United Kingdom and is currently retired.
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Jim Horning
1942 - 2013 (71 years)
James Jay Horning was an American computer scientist and ACM Fellow. Overview Jim Horning received a PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 1969 for a thesis entitled A Study of Grammatical Inference. He was a founding member, and later chairman, of the Computer Systems Research Group at the University of Toronto, Canada, from 1969 until 1977. He was then a Research Fellow at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center from 1977 until 1984 and a founding member and senior consultant at DEC Systems Research Center from 1984 until 1996. He was founder and director of STAR Lab from 1997 ...
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Moshe Katsav
1945 - Present (81 years)
Moshe Katsav is an Israeli former politician who was the eighth President of Israel from 2000 to 2007. He was also a leading Likud member of the Israeli Knesset and a minister in its cabinet. He was the first Mizrahi Jew to be elected to the presidency, and second non-Ashkenazi president after Yitzhak Navon.
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Philip A. Kuhn
1933 - 2016 (83 years)
Philip A. Kuhn was an American historian of China and the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. Kuhn was praised by his colleagues. Frederic Wakeman described Kuhn as "one of the West's premier China historians." Stanford University historian Harold L. Kahn added that “Every twenty years, like clockwork, Philip Kuhn produces a book that we are required to read. What he says sticks to the ribs and gives much pleasure,” and Yale University historian Peter Perdue wrote that Kuhn "shaped the field of Qing history more profo...
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Richard Drayton
1964 - Present (62 years)
Richard Drayton FRHistS is a Guyana-born historian and Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London. Biography Richard Drayton was born in Guyana in 1964, to parents Kathleen and Harold Drayton , and grew up in Barbados, where he migrated with his family in 1972. He went to school at Harrison College in Bridgetown, from which he left as a Barbados Scholar to Harvard University. He was a graduate student at Balliol College, Oxford as the Commonwealth Caribbean Rhodes Scholar, and at Yale University, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation under the direction of Paul Kennedy.
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Ingo Walter
1940 - Present (86 years)
Ingo Walter is a professor of finance, corporate governance and ethics as well as Vice Dean of Faculty at New York University's Stern School of Business. Academic Interests Walter researches and consults in the areas of international trade policy, international banking, environmental economics, and economics of multinational corporate operations.
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Mark Stockman
1947 - 2020 (73 years)
Mark Stockman was a Soviet-born American physicist. He was a professor of physics and astronomy at Georgia State University. Best known for his contributions to plasmonics, Stockman has co-theorized plasmonic lasers, also known as spasers, in 2003.
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Marie Gil
1950 - Present (76 years)
Marie Gil is a French writer and Professor of French Literature in Paris. She studied at HEC Paris, Ecole Normale Supérieure and Paris-Sorbonne University, was a Fellow of the Fondation Thiers and taught French Literature at Paris-Sorbonne University and at the University of Franche-Comté, and is currently vice-president of the Collège international de philosophie. She is also director of the Roland Barthes research group at the Ecole Normale Supérieure.
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Gordon Greenidge
1951 - Present (75 years)
Sir Cuthbert Gordon Greenidge is a retired Barbadian cricketer, who represented the West Indies in Test and One-day Cricket for 17 years, as well as Barbados and Hampshire in first-class cricket. Greenidge is regarded worldwide as one of the greatest and most destructive opening batsmen in cricket history. In 2009, Greenidge was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.
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Sanford J. Ungar
1945 - Present (81 years)
Sanford J. "Sandy" Ungar is an American journalist, author, and the inaugural director of the Free Speech Project at Georgetown University. He was the tenth president of Goucher College and the 24th director of Voice of America.
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Phyllis Tickle
1934 - 2015 (81 years)
Phyllis Natalie Tickle was an American author and lecturer whose work focuses on spirituality and religion issues. After serving as a teacher, professor, and academic dean, Tickle entered the publishing industry, serving as the founding editor of the religion department at Publishers Weekly, before then becoming a popular writer. She is well known as a leading voice in the emergence church movement. She is perhaps best known for The Divine Hours series of books, published by Doubleday Press, and her book The Great Emergence- How Christianity Is Changing and Why. Tickle was a member of the Episcopal Church, where she was licensed as both a lector and a lay eucharistic minister.
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Richard L. Hoffman
1927 - 2012 (85 years)
Richard Lawrence Hoffman was an American zoologist known as an international expert on millipedes, and a leading authority on the natural history of Virginia and the Appalachian Mountains. He was a biology professor at Virginia's Radford College for almost thirty years, and curator of invertebrates at the Virginia Museum of Natural History for another twenty years. He co-founded the Virginia Natural History Society, described over 400 species of millipedes, and produced more than 480 scientific publications. He is commemorated in the scientific and/or common names of over 30 animal species, i...
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Lawrence G. Sager
1941 - Present (85 years)
Lawrence Gene Sager is a former dean of the University of Texas School of Law. He holds the Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair. Sager, who joined the Law School faculty in 2002, is the 13th dean in the Law School's 123-year history. He is best known for his theory of underenforcement.
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Jeremy Mould
1949 - Present (77 years)
Jeremy Richard Mould is an Australian astronomer currently at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing at Swinburne University of Technology. Mould was previously Director of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian National University and the American National Optical Astronomy Observatory. He is an Honorary Professorial Fellow, at the University of Melbourne.
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Royall Tyler
1936 - Present (90 years)
Royall Tyler is a scholar, writer, and translator of Japanese literature. Notable works of his include English translations of The Tale of the Heike which won the 2012 Lois Roth Award, as well as The Tale of Genji which was awarded the Japan-US Friendship Commission Translation Prize in 2001. Tyler's first book of poetry was published in 2014, entitled A Great Valley Under the Stars, and his published collection of poetry, Under Currockbilly which recounts his life during the year 2014, suggests he has spent periods of his life in France, Japan, the United States, Australia, and elsewhere.
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Arnved Nedkvitne
1947 - Present (79 years)
Arnved Nedkvitne is a Norwegian historian of the Middle Ages and Professor Emeritus of mediaeval history. He held the chair of Norwegian mediaeval history at the University of Trondheim from 1991 to 1993 and at the University of Oslo from 1993 to 2009. He is a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, and was elected in 1993. Nedkvitne is regarded as "one of Norway's preeminent commercial historians" and as Norway's foremost mediaeval historian. His research has focused on Norwegian urban history, foreign trade, the economy of coastal communities and pre-modern social organisation.
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Suzanne Desan
1957 - Present (69 years)
Suzanne M. Desan is an American historian. She is the Vilas-Shinner Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the author or editor of four books on French history. Early life Suzanne Desan graduated from Princeton University. She earned a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Her sister is Christine Desan, Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School .
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Christopher Edwards
1942 - Present (84 years)
Sir Christopher Richard Watkin Edwards is a former Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University. Career Educated at Marlborough College and Christ's College, Cambridge, Edwards became senior lecturer in medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London in 1975, Professor of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1980 and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1991. He was appointed the first Principal of the Imperial College School of Medicine in 1995 before becoming Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University in 2001.
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Jeremy Lawrance
1952 - Present (74 years)
Jeremy Norcliffe Haslehurst Lawrance FBA is a Ugandan born British linguist and historian. Professor at Manchester and later at Nottingham, and Fellow of the British Academy since 2011, he was President of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland from 2004 to 2006.
Go to ProfileAlex Toker is currently a professor at the Department of Pathology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Signal Transduction and Associate Director of the Cancer Research Institute in the Cancer Center. His research focus on understanding mechanism of cancer including tumor cell survival, invasion and metastasis. He is currently editor-in-chief of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
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Hue Jackson
1965 - Present (61 years)
Hue Jackson is an American football coach who was the head football coach at Grambling State University. An offensive assistant at both the collegiate and professional levels, he held coordinator positions in the National Football League with the Washington Redskins in 2003, the Atlanta Falcons in 2007, the Oakland Raiders in 2010, and the Cincinnati Bengals from 2014 to 2015. He also served as the head coach of the Raiders in 2011 and Cleveland Browns from 2016 to 2018. Jackson compiled a 3–36–1 record with the Browns, including a winless season in 2017, which is the worst record among coac...
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Carl Hausman
1953 - Present (73 years)
Carl Hausman is Professor of Journalism at Rowan University and the author of several books about media ethics, journalism, and media technology. Early life and education Hausman received his B.A. in political science from the University of the State of New York in 1985, an M.A. in media and communications from Antioch University in 1987, and a Ph.D. in Journalism from the Union Institute and University in 1990; he was awarded a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities that funded post-doctoral research about privacy and ethics at New York University. Hausman’s doctoral dissertation was publishe...
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Jean Bertoin
1961 - Present (65 years)
Jean Bertoin is a French mathematician, specializing in probability theory and professor at the University of Zurich. Education and career Bertoin received in 1987 his doctorate from University of Paris VI under Marc Yor with Étude des processus de Dirichlet. Bertoin taught and did research there and is now a professor at the University of Zurich.
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Lou Diamond Phillips
1962 - Present (64 years)
Louis Diamond Phillips is a Filipino-American actor and film director. His breakthrough came when he starred as Ritchie Valens in the biographical drama film La Bamba . For Stand and Deliver , Phillips was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and won an Independent Spirit Award.
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Rick Parfitt
1948 - 2016 (68 years)
Richard John Parfitt, was an English musician, best known as a rhythm guitarist, singer and songwriter with rock band Status Quo. Parfitt began his career in the early 1960s, playing in pubs and holiday camps. He joined Status Quo in 1967 when they were looking for an additional singer. He wrote songs for the band and remained with them for 49 years. He occasionally guested with other bands, and recorded an unreleased solo album in 1985. In 2016, Parfitt temporarily retired from touring with the band due to ill health, and died in December of that year. His only solo album, Over and Out, was...
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Barbara Tate
1927 - 2009 (82 years)
Barbara Tate was a British artist and writer, perhaps best known for her bestselling book West End Girls, which was published shortly after her death. Career in Art Born in Uxbridge as Barbara June Peddle, her father Charles Jonathan Peddle was a carpenter and lorry-driver. A violent man, he once tied a noose around her neck when she was aged 3 and balanced her on her toes until she was rescued hours later when her mother came home. Abandoned soon after by her mother Elsie Irene, née Williams , she was brought up by her maternal grandparents. In 1944 aged 17 she won a scholarship to Ealing S...
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Wilson Carey McWilliams
1933 - 2005 (72 years)
Wilson Carey McWilliams , son of Carey McWilliams, was a political scientist at Rutgers University. Biography McWilliams served in the 11th Airborne Division of the United States Army from 1955 to 1961, after which he took his master's degree and Ph.D. degrees at the University of California, Berkeley. There he studied under Sheldon Wolin, John Schaar and Norman Jacobson, and also recognized the influences of political theorists Leo Strauss and Bertrand de Jouvenel. He wrote a Masters thesis on the political realism of Hans Morgenthau and Reinhold Niebuhr. He was also active in the early sta...
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Girey Bairov
1922 - 1999 (77 years)
Girey Alievich Bairov was a Crimean Tatar pediatric surgeon in the Soviet Union; he was one of the founders of pediatric surgery in Leningrad and later became head of the Department of Pediatric Surgery at the Leningrad/Saint Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University. In 1963 he became a corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences.
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Wendy Law-Yone
1947 - Present (79 years)
Wendy Law-Yone is the critically acclaimed Burmese-born American author of A Daughter's Memoir of Burma , Golden Parasol , The Road to Wanting , Irrawaddy Tango , and The Coffin Tree . Biography The daughter of notable Burmese newspaper publisher, editor and politician Edward Michael Law-Yone, Law-Yone was born in Mandalay but grew up in Rangoon. Her background is diverse, with one grandfather a merchant from Yunnan and another a colonial officer from Great Britain. Law-Yone states that she is "half Burman, a quarter Chinese and a quarter English".
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Kent Greenfield
1962 - Present (64 years)
Kent Greenfield is an American lawyer, Professor of Law and Law Fund Research Scholar at Boston College, and frequent commentator to The Huffington Post. He is the author of The Myth of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits and The Failure of Corporate Law: Fundamental Flaws and Progressive Possibilities, published by University of Chicago Press in 2006, and scholarly articles. He is best known for his "stakeholder" critique of the conventional legal doctrine and theory of corporate law, and for his leadership in a legal battle between law schools and the Pentagon over free sp...
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AAMS Arefin Siddique
1953 - Present (73 years)
Abu Ahsan Mohammad Shamsul Arefin Siddique is a Bangladeshi academic who served as the 27th vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka during 2009–2017. On 15 July 2020, he was appointed as the chairman of the board of directors of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha .
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