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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammar%20Al-Chalabi
Ammar Al-Chalabi is Professor of Neurology and Complex Disease Genetics at the Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute at King's College London, where he is also head of the Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience and Director of the King's Motor Neuron Disease Research Centre. In 2020, he received the Forbe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe%20Pape
Uwe Pape (born 5 May 1936) is a German business information scientist and organ expert. Early life and education Pape was born in Bremen. After graduating from gymnasium there, Pape studied mathematics, physics, pedagogy and philosophy at the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen from 1955 to 1959, graduating with a d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri%20Shvachkin
Yuri Petrovich Shvachkin (Russian: Ю́рий Петро́вич Швачкин; 15 November 1930 in Yevpatoria, USSR – 20 February 2021 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet and Russian chemist. Career He was a Doctor of Chemistry, Professor of the Department of Chemistry of Natural Compounds, Faculty of Chemistry, Moscow State University. He ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20Mitchell%20%28scientist%29
Margaret Mitchell is a computer scientist who works on algorithmic bias and fairness in machine learning. She is most well known for her work on automatically removing undesired biases concerning demographic groups from machine learning models, as well as more transparent reporting of their intended use. Education Mit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens%20O.%20Herrle
Jens Herrle (born 1968) is a German micropaleontologist. He is professor at the institute of earth sciences at the Frankfurter Goethe-Universität. At the German society for polar science, he is speaker of the working group for geology and geophysics. Life Herrle studied geology at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum until 19...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichola%20Raihani
Nichola Jayne Raihani is a British psychologist who is a Professor of Evolution and Behaviour at University College London. Her research considers the evolution of cooperation in nature. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology in 2019. Her first book, The Social Instinct, was released in 2021. Early lif...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrovirology
Astrovirology is an emerging subdiscipline of astrobiology which aims to understand what role viruses played in the origin and evolution of life on Earth as well as the potential for viruses beyond Earth. Viruses and early life on Earth Viruses drive evolution Viruses are a major driving force in evolution; the arms...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elifas%20Bisanda
Elifas Tozo Bisanda (born in 10 October 1956) is a Tanzanian academic Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Vice-Chancellor of Open University of Tanzania since 2015. He is also currently the Chairperson of the UNESCO National Commission of the United Republic of Tanzania. He is also the former chairperson of the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola%20Priesemann
Viola Priesemann (born 28 April 1982) is a German physicist and computational neuroscientist. One of her research priorities is to explore how the human brain organizes its neuronal capacities, to enable meaningful information processing. Education and career Viola Priesemann was born in Bobingen, Germany. She studi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%20Alexander%20%28chemist%29
Jerome Alexander (1876–1959) was an American chemist, a leading expert on colloidal chemistry and among the first American researchers to use an ultramicroscope. Life Alexander was born in New York city on 21 December 1876 and studied at the College of the City of New York, graduating Master of Science in 1899. After ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preslav%20Nakov
Preslav Nakov (born on 26 January 1977 in Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria) is a computer scientist who works on natural language processing. He is particularly known for his research on fake news detection, automatic detection of offensive language, and biomedical text mining. Nakov obtained a PhD in computer science under th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy%20Czerwi%C5%84ski
Jerzy Czerwiński (; born 19 June 1960) is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Senate of Poland (10th term) representing the constituency of Opole. Life In 1984, he graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the Silesian University of Technology, in 1993 he completed postgraduate studies in comput...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude%20Laurgeau
Claude Laurgeau (born November 1942) is a French professor in robotics. His primary interest is intelligent transportation systems. He was a professor at the University of Nantes from 1975 to 1982, then director of the "Productive robotics research" department at the IT Agency from 1982 to 1987. In 1989, he was appoi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arve%20Elvebakk
Arve Elvebakk (born 1951) is a Norwegian mycologist and professor working from the Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø. He has published widely on Arctic biology, and climatology. Additionally, he collaborates with many mycologists across the world, and has published names for lichens in Australia, New Zealand, the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold%20Webb
Harold Donivan Webb (1909 1989) was a physicist and a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In 1946, he was one of the members of the US Army Signal Corps Project Diana team at Camp Evans, New Jersey, that was the first to bounce radar signals off of the Moon. Dr. Webb co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Eisenhauer
Frank Eisenhauer (born 9 June 1968 in Augsburg) is a German astronomer and astrophysicist, a director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), and a professor at Technical University of Munich. He is best known for his contributions to interferometry and spectroscopy and the study of the black ho...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MarketCast
MarketCast is an American company specializing in fandom, market research and data analytics. Based in Los Angeles, it was founded in 1987 and is a portfolio company of Kohlberg & Company. It offers research and data science to companies ranging from Hollywood studios through streaming media services, video game publis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math%20Gran%20Prix
Math Gran Prix (released as Maths Grand Prix in Europe) is an educational video game written for the Atari 2600 by Suki Lee and published by Atari, Inc. in 1982. Gameplay The player must advance a car through a Grand Prix race by answering mathematics questions, with 9 variations of play. Random bonuses may pop up du...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaundra%20Daily
Shaundra Bryant Daily (born May 29, 1979) is an American professor and author known for her work in the field of human-centered computing and broadening participation in STEM. She is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Duke University. Early life and education ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittig%20reagents
In organic chemistry, Wittig reagents are organophosphorus compounds of the formula R3P=CHR', where R is usually phenyl. They are used to convert ketones and aldehydes to alkenes: Preparation Because they typically hydrolyze and oxidize readily, Wittig reagents are prepared using air-free techniques. They are typicall...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz%20P%C4%99cherz
Janusz Andrzej Pęcherz (born 6 November 1954) is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Senate of Poland (10th term) representing the constituency of Kalisz. He graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry at the Lodz University of Technology. In 2002, he was elected president of Kalisz. In the 2006 local government ele...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20J.%20McClements
David Julian McClements is a British food scientist who is a distinguished professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Food Science. He is an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, American Chemical Society, and Institute of Food Technologists, as well as the editor of the Annual Revie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20nominees%20for%20the%20Nobel%20Prize%20in%20Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics () is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists who have made outstanding contributions in Physics. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes which were established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895. Every year, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences sends out forms, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Bailer
John Bailer is an American statistician. He is University Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Miami University in Ohio, USA. He is also affiliated with the Departments of Media, Journalism and Film, Biology and Sociology and Gerontology at Miami. His work focuses on risk assessment in occupational health, and comb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumatra%20Institute%20of%20Technology
Sumatera Institute of Technology (Indonesian: Institut Teknologi Sumatera, abbreviated as ITERA) is a public university in South Lampung, Lampung, Indonesia. ITERA has three departments and 40 undergraduate programs, with 1 postgraduate program in physics. History ITERA was founded in 2014 as part of the implementat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy%20Bengio
Samy Bengio is a Canadian computer scientist, Senior Director of AI and Machine Learning Research at Apple, and a former long-time scientist at Google known for leading a large group of researchers working in machine learning including adversarial settings. Bengio left Google shortly after the company fired his report,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhett%20Ayers%20Butler
Rhett Ayers Butler (born 1978) is an American journalist, author and entrepreneur who founded Mongabay, a conservation and environmental science news platform, in 1999. Butler founded Mongabay out of his interest in nature and wildlife. The name "mongabay" originated from an anglicized spelling and pronunciation of No...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonis%20Bezas
Antonis Bezas (; Igoumenitsa, born 1964) is a Greek politician. Biography He was born in 1964 in Igoumenitsa. He studied civil engineering in the National Technical University of Athens. He was member of parliament for Thesprotia with New Democracy from 2000 to 2015 and acted as Deputy Minister of Finance from Octob...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitri%20Van%20De%20Ville
Dimitri Van De Ville (born 1975 in Dendermonde) is a Swiss and Belgian computer scientist and neuroscientist specialized in dynamical and network aspects of brain activity. He is a professor of bioengineering at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and the head of the Medical Image Processing Laboratory at E...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miwako%20Doi
Miwako Doi () is a Japanese electrical engineer known for her work on user interfaces, robotics, and document processing. She is executive director of the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, executive vice president for data at Tohoku University, auditor of the National Institute of Information and Communications...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiridoula%20Matsika
Spiridoula Christos Matsika (born 1971) is a Greek theoretical chemist. She was elected as a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2014. Education Spiridoula Christos Matsika was born in 1971 in Greece; she attended the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens for her bachelor's degree in chemistry, graduat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20William%20George
Donald William George (1926–2014) was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Newcastle from 1975 to 1986. Career George was a graduate in Science and Engineering at the University of Sydney, where he was also awarded his doctoral degree for research in the field of plasma physics. George resided at Wesley College...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20C.%20Davenport
James Clinton Davenport (born 1938) is an American physicist and physics professor. He specializes in condensed matter physics and is known for his contributions to physics education. He is one of the founders of the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP). Early life and education James Davenport was born in Un...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eylais
Eylais is a genus of mites belonging to the family Eylaidae. The genus has cosmopolitan distribution. Species: Eylais abitibiensis Marshall, 1929 Eylais amplipons Viets Biology Eylais mite larvae are ectoparasites of diving beetles (Dytiscidae). They attach mainly to the ventral side of the hindwings underneath t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20S.%20Wang
Paul S. Wang is a Chinese-American computer scientist, researcher, author, consultant, and academic. He is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Kent State University. Wang's expertise lies in automation of mathematical computation. He has conducted over forty research projects. His research mainly focuses on Symb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn%20Comrie
Marilyn Comrie is a British technology entrepreneur who is Director of Business for the Blair Project. She was awarded an Order of the British Empire in the 2009 Birthday Honours. She serves as Vice President of the Greater Manchester Chambers of Commerce. Early life and education Comrie studied chemistry at the Uni...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtoun%20Jenda
Overtoun Jenda, born in an urban area of the northern part of Malawi, is an American mathematician and recipient of a 2020 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring. He is a Professor of Mathematics and Assistant Provost for Special Projects and Initiatives at Auburn Universit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neeraj%20Suri
Neeraj Suri is an American-Austrian computer scientist. He is a Distinguished University Professor at Lancaster University (UK) and an adjunct professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He holds a MS and PhD from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His research focuses on Tru...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Khavari
Paul A. Khavari is the Carl J. Herzog Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Founding Co-Director of the Stanford Program in Epithelial Biology. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. The Khavari Laboratory uses multiomic and computational approaches to study stem cell di...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto%20Dou%20Mas%20de%20Xax%C3%A0s
Alberto Dou Mas de Xaxàs (21 December 1915, Olot–10 April 2009, San Cugat del Vallés) was a Spanish Jesuit and mathematician. He fought on the Nationalist side in the Spanish Civil War. In 1960, he was elected president of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society. Selected works Fundamentos de Matemáticas. Fundament...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartmut%20Ehrig
Hartmut Ehrig (born 6 December 1944 in Angermünde; died 17 March 2016) was a German computer scientist and professor of theoretical computer science and formal specification. He was a pioneer in algebraic specification of abstract data types, and in graph grammars. Vita In 1969, Ehrig received his diploma in mathemati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier%20Esparza
Francisco Javier Esparza Estaun (born 27 April 1964 in Pamplona, Spain) is a Spanish computer scientist. He is a professor at the Technische Universität München. Education Javier Esparza Estaun received his Master of Science degree in Theoretical Physics from the University of Zaragoza (1987). He earned his Doctoral...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20L%C3%A9opold
Pierre Léopold (born 6 May 1960) is a research director at the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (Inserm) and a member of the Institut de France. He heads the Unit of Genetics and Developmental Biology (UMR3215 CNRS / U934 Inserm) at the Curie Institute (Paris), and works with his team to unders...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake%20MacMillan
John MacMillan (1924–2014), always known as Jake MacMillan, was a British scientist who worked at the interface between biology and chemistry. He "became renowned for his work on isolating, naming and determining the chemical structure of gibberellins, which regulate growth and influence processes such as stem elongat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tshaka%20Cunningham
Tshaka Cunningham is the Chief Scientific Officer of Polaris Genomics, a company focused on diagnosis and treatment for individuals with behavioral health conditions, and Executive Director of the Faith Based Genetics Research Institute. Early life and education Growing up in Washington D.C., Cunningham was introduce...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pichet%20Durongkaveroj
Pichet Durongkaveroj () is a former Thai politician. He was the Minister of Science and Technology and Minister of Digital Economy and Society in the first cabinet of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha. Education Pichet graduated from high school from Assumption College. He has a B.E. in electrical engineering from the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain%20Stewart%20%28physicist%29
Iain William Stewart is a Canadian-American theoretical nuclear and particle physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is the Otto and Jane Morningstar Professor of Science and the current Director of the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics (CTP). He is best known for his work on effective field t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9line%20d%27Orgeville
Céline d'Orgeville is a Professor and instrument scientist at the Australian National University Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics. She leads teams designing laser and optical systems for ground based astronomical telescopes. She is a Fellow of SPIE and the Astronomical Society of Australia. Early life and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlene%20Maclin
Arlene Paige Maclin is an American physicist and academic administrator. Maclin was one of the first African American women to receive a PhD in physics. She is a professor at Howard University. Early life and education Maclin was born in Rawlings, Virginia on June 7, 1945. She earned her B.S. in engineering physics f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%20Liu
Jane Win-Shih Liu is a Chinese-American computer scientist known for her work on real-time computing. She is a professor emerita at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Shun Hing Honorary Chair Professor of Computer Science at National Tsing Hua University, a distinguished visiting fellow of the Academia Sin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Dwight%20Lahr
Charles Dwight Lahr (February 6, 1944 – December 26, 2016) was an American mathematician, the first tenured African-American professor of mathematics at an Ivy League university, and a university administrator. Biography Born in Philadelphia, Dwight Lahr attended Central High School and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vamos%20Juan
Vamos Juan is a Spanish comedy television series starring Javier Cámara and María Pujalte. It is the sequel to Vota Juan. The plot concerns the attempts of Juan Carrasco to return to politics. Premise Both Juan Carrasco (Javier Cámara) and Macarena Lombardo (María Pujalte) have returned to Logroño, where the former w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddharth%20Garg
Siddharth Garg is a cybersecurity researcher and associate professor at New York University Tandon School of Engineering. He is also a member of NYU WIRELESS. Garg is known for his research leveraging machine learning to securely manufacture computer chips so they are less prone to hacking. In 2016, he was named one of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%20Bon
Stefan A. F. Bon is a Professor of Chemical Engineering in the department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. His research considers polymer-based colloids. He is a Fellow of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, an elected member of the International Polymer Colloids Group (IPCG...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Panaretos
Victor Michael Panaretos (born 1982) is a Greek mathematical statistician. He is currently Professor and Director at the Institute of Mathematics of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where he holds the chair of Mathematical Statistics. Panaretos works at the interface of nonparametric statistics, ra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20D.%20Brown%20II
Charles D. Brown II is an American physicist and postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, studying many-body physics of ultracold atoms in optical lattices. Brown is also a lead organiser of #BlackInPhysics week, a campaign to recognise and amplify the scientific contributions of Black physici...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julianne%20Pollard-Larkin
Julianne Pollard-Larkin is an American medical physicist, assistant professor at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX and is also the interim Physics Service Chief for the Thoracic service of MD Anderson’s Division of Radiation Oncology. She is also the Vice-Chair of the American Association of Physicists in Medici...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef%20Gitelson
Josef (Joseph or Iosif) Isaevich Gitelson (); (6 July 1928 – 25 September 2022) was a Soviet and Russian biophysicist. PhD in biology (1955), DrSc in medicine (1961), Professor, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1991); Corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1979), Member of the USSR Academy of S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristina%20Nevado
Cristina Nevado (born 1977) is a Spanish chemist who is a Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Zurich. Her research considers chemical synthesis and organometallic reactions. She received the 2021 Margaret Faul Women in Chemistry Award. Early life and education Nevado was born in Madrid and grew up in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairong%20Qi
Hairong Qi (born 1970) is a Chinese computer scientist known for her work in image processing, computer vision, signal processing, sensor networks, and visual sensor networks. She is Gonzalez Family Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee. Education and career Qi studied...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Mittelstaedt
Peter Mittelstaedt pseudonym Karl Rottmann (born November 24, 1929 in Leipzig - November 21, 2014 in Erftstadt), was a German physicist, philosopher, and scientific theorist. Biography After studying physics at the universities of Jena, Bonn, and Göttingen, with a doctorate in theoretical physics in Göttingen in 1956 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhi%20Tree%20Bookstore
The Bodhi Tree Bookstore, originally Bodhi Tree Book and Tea Shop, was an independent bookstore specializing in world religions, wisdom traditions, metaphysics, psychology, philosophy, and health. It was founded in 1970 in Los Angeles, California (now West Hollywood, California). According to Buddhist tradition, the Bo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica%20Esquivel
Jessica Esquivel is a Black Mexican and American physicist and science communicator, working at the Muon g-2 particle physics experiment at Fermilab. She is an advocate for gender and racial equity in science, and a lead organiser of #BlackInPhysics, a campaign to recognize and amplify the work of Black physicists worl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate%20Dempsey%20%28poet%29
Kate Dempsey (born 1962), Irish based poet and founder of Kinsale Mead Co. Biography Born in Bishop's Stortford in 1962, Kate Dempsey grew up in Bothwell and Coventry. She went to Finham Park School before she graduated with a degree in Physics from St Hilda's College, Oxford. After college, she worked in IT and lived...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli%20Keshet
Eli Keshet () is an Israeli biochemist and professor of molecular biology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the laureate of the 2021 Israel Prize for Life Sciences. Biography Keshet completed his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His post-doctoral work included studies in the la...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen%20Kuhl
Ellen Kuhl is the Walter B. Reinhold Professor in the School of Engineering and Robert Bosch Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. She is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, Bioengineering. Kuhl is known for her research on Living Matter Physics, the design of theoretical and compu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20B.%20Johnson%20%28pathologist%29
Frank Bacchus Johnson (1919–2005) was an African American chemical pathologist of the 20th century. Johnson was born on February 1, 1919, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry followed by a Doctor of Medicine a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20noise%20cancelling
Adaptive noise cancelling is an unorthodox signal processing technique that is highly effective in suppressing additive interference or noise corrupting a received target signal at the main or primary sensor in certain common situations where the interference is known and is accessible but unavoidable and where the tar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Bielawski
Christopher William Bielawski is a distinguished professor at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology and group leader of the Synthesis Group in the Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials. His research in synthesis and polymer chemistry has resulted in more than 290 publications and multiple patents. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prasarn%20Trairatvorakul
Prasarn Trairatvorakul (; born 20 August 1952) is a Thai banker. He is former governor of Bank of Thailand. Education He graduated with first class honours, gold medal in bachelor's degree of electrical engineering from Chulalongkorn University. He also has a masters of engineering degree in industrial engineering and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%20Leiserowitz
Leslie Leiserowitz (, born 1934 in Johannesburg) is an Israeli chemist and crystallographer. Leiserowitz studied electrical engineering at the University of Cape Town with a bachelor's degree, and then worked briefly as an electrical engineer and received a master's degree in physics (X-ray crystallography, under Regi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20R.%20Berger
Paul R. Berger (born 8 May 1963) is a professor in electrical and computer engineering at Ohio State University and physics (by courtesy), and a distinguished visiting professor (Docent) at Tampere University in Finland, recognized for his work on self-assembled quantum dots under strained-layer epitaxy, quantum tunnel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir%20Lahav
Meir Lahav (, born 1936 in Sofia, Bulgaria) is an Israeli chemist and materials scientist and emeritus professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Biography Lahav emigrated to Israel in 1948. He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he obtained a master's degree in polymer chemistry in 1962. With G...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Denvir
Tim Denvir (born 1939) is a British software engineer, specialising in formal methods. Denvir studied for a Mathematics degree at Trinity College, Cambridge during 1959–1962. Before his degree, during 1958–1959, Tim Denvir was an engineering assistant at Texas Instruments, designing, building and testing electronic c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromaterials
In physics, electrical engineering and materials science, electromaterials are the set of materials which store, controllably convert, exchange and conduct electrically charged particles. The term electromaterial can refer to any electronically or ionically active material. While this definition is quite broad, the ter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica%20Anderson
Monica Anderson is an American computer scientist who is an associate professor of Computer Science at the University of Alabama. Anderson works on robotics, with a focus on multi-agent systems, multi-robot systems, and user interfaces. Anderson received the UPE Excellence in Instruction Award in 2008, and co-organized...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somnath%20Ghosh
Somnath Ghosh is the Michael G. Callas Chair Professor in the Department of Civil & Systems Engineering and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). He is the founding director of the JHU Center for Integrated Structure-Materials Modeling and Simulatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerstin%20Dautenhahn
Kerstin Dautenhahn (born 1964) is a German computer scientist specializing in social robotics and human–robot interaction. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Waterloo, where she holds the Canada 150 Research Chair in Intelligent Robotics and directs the Social and Intelligent...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Penn
R. Lee Penn is an American chemist and the Merck Professor of Chemistry at the University of Minnesota. Their research considers crystal growth, materials and environmental chemistry. Penn is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society. In 2020 Penn was awarded the University of Minnesota George W. Taylor Award for Disti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odete%20Muximpua
Odete Muximpua is a Mozambican engineer, a specialist in water supply and sanitation. She is the first woman engineer with a Master's degree in Mozambique. Life Odete Muximpua was raised by her mother and grandmother in Quelimane. She was the first person in her family to go to university, topping the national entry e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosario%20Gonz%C3%A1lez-F%C3%A9rez
Rosario González-Férez is a professor in the Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics at the University of Granada. In 2013 she was awarded the Mildred Dresselhaus Award, and in 2018 she as appointed to the IUPAP commission on Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. References External links Academic staf...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QNu%20Labs
QNu Labs (or QuNu Labs Private Limited) is a cybersecurity company headquartered in Bengaluru, India. It is credited to be the first firm in India to successfully develop commercial cybersecurity products using quantum physics. It has a subsidiary called QNu Labs Inc, which was set up in Massachusetts, US in 2019. The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen%20Gonzales
Eileen Gonzales is an American astrophysicist and postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Astronomy at Cornell University, where her research focuses on exoplanets and brown dwarfs. She is also a co-founder and lead organizer of #BlackInPhysics, a campaign to recognize and celebrate Black physicists and amplify their ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria%20Chibuogu%20Nneji
Victoria Chibuogu Nneji is a Nigerian-born American computer scientist, design and innovation strategist, and a lecturing fellow, known for her research on robotics, automation, human-centered design, and autonomous transportation. Biography Victoria Chibuogu Nneji was born in Lagos, Nigeria; at age 5 she and her fam...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golda%20Schultz
Golda Schultz (born 1983 in Cape Town) is a South African operatic soprano. Life Origin and education Schultz, daughter of a mathematics professor, grew up in Bloemfontein. She studied singing at the University of Cape Town and at the Juilliard School in New York. She was also taught by Johan Botha (tenor), Kiri Te ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Nathan%20Calkins
Gary Nathan Calkins (18 January 1869 – 4 January 1943) was an American protozoologist and a professor at Columbia University. He wrote several landmark textbooks on the biology of the protozoa. He described conjugation in Paramoecium and in his taxonomic approach separated chlorophyll containing flagellates from other ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baek%20Seung-Jin
Baek Seung-Jin (; born 1982) is a South Korean policy scientist of the United Nations, specializing in political economy of sustainable development. Early life and education Born in Seoul, South Korea in 1982, Baek Seung-Jin studied mathematics at Korea University where he earned qualification of U.S. Certified Publi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wen%20Li%20%28space%20physicist%29
Wen Li is a space physicist at Boston University. Her research interests include space plasma waves, Earth's radiation belt physics, solar-wind magnetosphere coupling, energetic particle precipitation, and Jovian magnetosphere and aurora: She is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. Biography In 2005, Wen Li rec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aidong%20Zhang
Aidong Zhang is a computer scientist whose research topics include machine learning and bioinformatics. She is William Wulf Faculty Fellow and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, where she also holds affiliations with the Department of Biomedical Engineering and School of Data Science. Educat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August%20Maramaa
August Maramaa (before 1922 August Marfeldt; 6 April 1881 Aakre Parish, Tartu County – 26 December 1941 Vyatski Prison Camp, Kirov, Russia) was an Estonian politician, teacher and mayor of Viljandi from 1919-1921 and 1927-1939. He graduated in 1902. He worked as a teacher and school leader in Viljandi Country and Vilj...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%20P.%20Strausz
Otto P. Strausz (January 29, 1924 – May 14, 2019) was a Canadian professor of chemistry. Life and career He was born in Miskolc (Hungary), drafted for service by the Hungarian army in 1942, and deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp in October 1944. He was liberated in bad health by the American army in April 1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammetmyrat%20Geldinyyazov
Mammetmyrat Geldinyyazov () is a Turkmen politician and educator, currently serving as deputy chairman for science, education, and health of the Turkmenistan government. Geldinyyazov was born in 1971 in the town of Jebel in Balkan province of Turkmenistan. He was graduated from the Turkmen State University in 1993 as...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMaster%20Manufacturing%20Research%20Institute
The McMaster Manufacturing Research Institute (MMRI) is a major manufacturing research facility affiliated with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. The institute opened in 2001, and has an endowed research chair affiliated with it. It is a member of SONAMI (the Souther...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanna%20Tosato
Giovanna Tosato (born ) is an Italian–American physician-scientist and cancer researcher investigating the endothelium, angiogenesis, and the hematopoietic stem cell niche. She heads the molecular and cell biology section in the laboratory of cellular oncology at the National Cancer Institute in the United States. Tosa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micha%C3%ABl%20Gillon
Michaël Gillon (born 1974) is a Belgian astronomer and astrophysicist. His research focuses on exoplanets and he conducts his research at the University of Liège. He holds a master's degree in biochemistry and astrophysics and also a PhD in astrophysics, and completed his post-doctorate at Geneva Observatory. Co-discov...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity%20sector%20in%20Imperial%20Russia
The Electricity sector in Imperial Russia developed in the late nineteenth century. Vladimir Chikolev founded the electrical engineering section of the Imperial Russian Technical Society in 1878. References Electric power in Russia Economy of the Russian Empire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat%20Fierz
Beat Fierz (born in Basel, Switzerland) is a Swiss chemist and molecular biologist, currently an Associate Professor at the EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). His research is focused on understanding dynamic processes of large molecular systems, particularly in chromatin regulation. Career Beat Fierz s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Chikolev
Vladimir Chikolev (23 July 23 [4 August], 1845, Peski - 22 February [6 March], 1898, St Petersburg) was a Russian scientist who specialised in electrical engineering. He founded the company Elektrotekhnik. References 1845 births 1898 deaths
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou%20Yulin
Zhou Yulin (; 12 February 1923 – 2 March 2021) was a Chinese mathematician and academic of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Biography Zhou was born in Shanghai, on 12 February 1923, while his ancestral home was in Zhenhai, Zhejiang. In 1941, he was admitted to Utopia University, where he majored in mathematics. After ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Medusa%20and%20the%20Snail
The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher is a 1979 collection of essays by the American science writer Lewis Thomas. It was published by Viking Press in 1979 and reissued by Penguin Books in 1995. Most of the essays in the book had first appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine. It is Thomas's s...