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Bob Kahn
Robert Elliot Kahn (born December 23, 1938) is an Internet pioneer,engineer and computer scientist who, along with Vinton G. Cerf, invented the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), the fundamental communication protocols at the heart of the Internet.
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Bradley Efron
Bradley Efron (born May 24, 1938) is an American statistician best known for proposing the bootstrap resampling technique, which has had a major impact in the field of statistics and virtually every area of statistical application. The bootstrap was one of the first computer-intensive statistical techniques, replacing traditional algebraic derivations with data-based computer simulations.
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Britton Chance
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Bruce Ames
Bruce Ames (born December 16, 1928) is a professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior scientist at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI). He is the inventor of the Ames test, a system for easily and cheaply testing the mutagenicity of compounds.
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Bruno B. Rossi
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Butler Lampson
Butler W. Lampson (born 1943) is a renowned computer scientist.
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C. Kumar N. Patel
C. Kumar N. Patel (b. 2 July, 1938) developed the carbon dioxide laser in 1963; it is now widely used in industry for cutting and welding, as a laser scalpel in surgery, and in laser skin resurfacing. Because the atmosphere is quite transparent to infrared light, CO2 lasers are also used for military rangefinding using LIDAR techniques.
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Calvin F. Quate
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Carl Woese
Carl Richard Woese (; born 15 July 1928, Syracuse, New York) is an American microbiologist and physicist. Woese is famous for defining the Archaea (a new domain or kingdom of life) in 1977 by phylogenetic taxonomy of 16S ribosomal RNA, a technique pioneered by Woese and which is now standard practice. He was also the originator of the RNA world hypothesis in 1967, although not by that name. He currently holds the Stanley O. Ikenberry Chair and is professor of microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Charles Bachman
Charles William "Charlie" Bachman (born December 11, 1924) is an American computer scientist, who spent his entire career as an industrial researcher rather than in academia. He is particularly known for his work in the area of databases.
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Charles H. Townes
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Charles S. Draper
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Charles Yanofsky
Charles Yanofsky (born April 17, 1925) is a leading American geneticist.
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Chen Ning Yang
Chen-Ning Franklin Yang () (born October 1, 1922) is a Chinese-American physicist who worked on statistical mechanics and particle physics. He, together with Tsung-dao Lee, received the 1957 Nobel prize in physics for their work on parity nonconservation of weak interaction. Yang naturalized as a United States citizen in 1964.
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Chien-Shiung Wu
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Chu Ching-wu
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Clarence L. Johnson
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Claude E. Shannon
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D. Allan Bromley
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Daniel C. Drucker
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Daniel Kleppner
Daniel Kleppner, born 1932, is the Lester Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Physics at MIT and co-director of the [http://cua.mit.edu MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms]. He is the winner of the 2005 Wolf Prize in Physics [http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/wolf.html], and the 2007 [http://www.osa.org/aboutosa/awards/osaawards/awardsdesc/ivesquinn/ Frederic Ives Medal]. Prof. Kleppner has also been awarded the National Medal of Science (2006). Together with Robert J. Kolenkow, he authored a popular introductory mechanics textbook for advanced students. Kleppner graduated from Williams College with a B.A. in 1953, Cambridge University with a B.A. in 1955, and Harvard University with a Ph.D. in 1959.
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Daniel Nathans
Daniel Nathans (October 30, 1928 – November 16, 1999) was an American microbiologist.
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Daniel S. Bricklin
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Darleane C. Hoffman
Darleane C. Hoffman (born November 8, 1926) is an American nuclear chemist who was among the researchers who confirmed the existence of Seaborgium, element 106. She is a faculty senior scientist in the Nuclear Science Division of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and a professor in the graduate school at UC Berkeley.
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David G. Nathan
David G. Nathan is a pediatrician and hematologist. He is known for his authorship of ''Nathan and Oski's Hematology of Infancy and Childhood'', a standard reference in pediatrics, currently in its seventh edition. Nathan remains an author on the current edition. Now retired, he was Robert A. Stranahan professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and served as president of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
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David J. Wineland
David J. Wineland (born 1944) is an American physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physics laboratory in Boulder. His work has included advances in optics, specifically laser cooling of ions in Paul traps and use of trapped ions to implement quantum computing operations.
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Dennis Ritchie
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (username: dmr, born September 9, 1941) is an American computer scientist notable for his influence on C and other programming languages, and on operating systems such as Multics and Unix. He received the Turing Award in 1983 and the National Medal of Technology 1998 on April 21, 1999. Ritchie was the head of Lucent Technologies System Software Research Department when he retired in 2007.
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Dennis Sullivan
Dennis Parnell Sullivan (born February 12, 1941) is an American mathematician. He is known for work in topology, both algebraic and geometric, and on dynamical systems. He holds the Albert Einstein Chair at the City University of New York Graduate Center, and is a professor at Stony Brook University.
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Desmond Devlin
Desmond Devlin is an American comedy writer. His work has appeared in the pages of MAD for a quarter-century, and he ranks as one of the magazine's ten most frequent non-illustrating writers. He was nominated for a Harvey Award in 2001 for Best Writer for his work at MAD.
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Detlev Bronk
Detlev Wulf Bronk (August 13, 1897 – November, 1975) was President of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland from 1949 to 1953 and President of the National Academy of Sciences from 1950 to 1962. (prior to that, he was Chairman of the National Research Council) Bronk is credited with reshaping the postwar university environment at Hopkins. While at Hopkins, he unsuccessfully attempted to revive the "Goodnow Plan" but succeeded in acquiring the School of Advanced International Studies in Washington.
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Don L. Anderson
Don L. Anderson (* 5 March 1933, in Frederick, Maryland, USA) is a US geophysicist who has made important contributions to the determination of the large-scale structure of the Earth's interior, especially using seismological methods. He is Eleanor and John R. McMillan Professor emeritus of geophysics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
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Donald C. Spencer
Donald Clayton Spencer (April 25, 1912 - December 23, 2001) was an American mathematician, known for major work on deformation theory of structures arising in differential geometry, and on several complex variables from the point of view of partial differential equations. He was born in Boulder, Colorado, and educated at the University of Colorado and MIT.
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Donald Henderson
Donald Ainslie Henderson, known as D.A. Henderson, (born September 7, 1928) is an American physician and epidemiologist, who headed the international effort during the 1960s to eradicate smallpox. , he is a Distinguished Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Center for Biosecurity and a professor of public health and medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also a Johns Hopkins University Distinguished Service Professor and Dean Emeritus of the School of Public Health, with a joint appointment in the Department of Epidemiology.
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Donald J. Cram
Donald James Cram (April 22, 1919 – June 17, 2001) was an American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J. Pedersen "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity." They were the founders of the field of host-guest chemistry.
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Donald Knuth
Donald Ervin Knuth () (born January 10, 1938) is a computer scientist and Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University.
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Donald Van Slyke
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Douglas Engelbart
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E. Allen Emerson
Ernest Allen Emerson is a computer scientist and endowed professor at the University of Texas, Austin, USA.
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E. Bright Wilson
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E. Donnall Thomas
Dr. Edward Donnall (Don) Thomas (born March 15, 1920) is an American physician, professor emeritus at the University of Washington, and director emeritus of the clinical research division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. In 1990 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Joseph E. Murray for the development of cell and organ transplantation. Thomas developed bone marrow transplantation as a treatment for leukemia.
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E. Margaret Burbidge
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E. O. Wilson
Edward Osborne Wilson (born June 10, 1929) is an American biologist, researcher (sociobiology, biodiversity), theorist (consilience, biophilia), naturalist (conservationist) and author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, the study of ants.
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Edgar F. Codd
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Edmund F. Robertson
Edmund Frederick Robertson FRSE B.Sc M.Sc Ph.D., born on 1 June 1943, is a Professor emeritus of pure mathematics at the University of St Andrews.
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Edmund M. Clarke
Edmund Melson Clarke, Jr. (born July 27, 1945) is a computer scientist and academic noted for developing
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Edsger W. Dijkstra
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Edward B. Lewis
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Edward F. Knipling
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Edward Feigenbaum
Edward Albert Feigenbaum (born January 20, 1936; Weehawken, New Jersey) is a computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence. He is often called the "father of expert systems."
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Edward H. Heinemann
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Edward M. Purcell
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Edward Teller
Edward Teller (January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian-born American theoretical physicist, known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb," even though he did not care for the title.
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Edward Witten
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Edwin N. Lightfoot
Edwin N. Lightfoot is a Chemical Engineer and the Hilldale Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is known for his research in Transport phenomena, including biological mass-transfer processes, mass-transport reaction modeling, and separations processes. He, along with R. Byron Bird and Warren E. Stewart, is the author of the classic textbook
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Efraim Racker
Efraim Racker (1913 - 1991) was an Austrian biochemist who was responsible for identifying and purifying Factor 1 (F1), the first part of the ATP synthase enzyme to be characterised. F1 is only a part of a larger ATP synthase complex known as Complex V. It is a peripheral membrane protein attached to component Fo, which is integral to the membrane.
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Elaine Fuchs
Elaine Fuchs is a cell biologist, famous for her work on the biology and molecular mechanisms of mammalian skin and skin diseases, and has led the modernization of dermatology. Fuchs also pioneered reverse genetics approaches, which assess protein function first and then assesses its role in development and disease. In particular, Fuchs researches skin stem cells, and their production of hair and skin. She is currently the Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at Rockefeller University.
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Eleanor J. Gibson
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Eli Ruckenstein
Dr Eli Ruckenstein is a Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. His main research areas are catalysis, surface phenomena, colloids and emulsions, and bio-compatible surfaces and materials.
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Elias M. Stein
Elias Menachem Stein (born January 13, 1931) is a mathematician and a leading figure in the field of harmonic analysis. He is the Albert Baldwin Dod Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University. His honors include the Steele Prize (1984 and 2002), the Schock Prize in Mathematics (1993), the Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1999), and the National Medal of Science (2002). In addition, he has fellowships to National Science Foundation, Sloan Foundation, Guggenheim, and National Academy of Sciences. In 2005, Stein was awarded the Stefan Bergman prize in recognition of his contributions in real, complex, and harmonic analysis.
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Elkan Blout
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Elvin A. Kabat
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Emmett N. Leith
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Eric Kandel
Eric Richard Kandel (born November 7, 1929) is an Austrian-born American neuroscientist who was a recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons. He shared the prize with fellow recipients Arvid Carlsson and Paul Greengard.
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Ernest R. Davidson
Ernest R. Davidson, born October 12, 1936 in Terre Haute, Indiana, is Professor of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. He graduated from Wiley High School, Terre Haute and Rose Polytechnic Institute.
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Ernie Kovacs
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Ernst Mayr
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Erwin Chargaff
Erwin Chargaff (Czernowitz, August 11, 1905 – New York City, USA, June 20, 2002) was an American biochemist who emigrated to the United States during the Nazi era. Through careful experimentation, Chargaff discovered two rules that helped lead to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.
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Erwin Wilhelm Müller
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Esther M. Conwell
Esther Marly Conwell (New York, b. 1922) is a physicist who studied properties of semiconductors and organic conductors, especially transport.
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Eugene M. Shoemaker
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Eugene Parker
Eugene N. Parker (born June 10, 1927) is an American solar astrophysicist who received his B.S. degree in physics from Michigan State University in 1948 and Ph.D. from Caltech in 1951. In the mid 1950s Parker developer the theory on the supersonic solar wind and predicted the Parker spiral shape of the solar magnetic field in the outer solar system. In 1987, Parker proposed that the solar corona might be heated by myriad tiny "micro-flares", miniature solar flares that occur all over the surface of the Sun.
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Eugene Wigner
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Evelyn M. Witkin
Evelyn M. Witkin, born Evelyn Maisel (born March 9, 1921) is an American geneticist whose research has been widely influential in the areas of DNA mutagenesis and DNA repair.
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F. Albert Cotton
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Fernando J. Corbató
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Folke K Skoog
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Francis Peyton Rous
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Francis S. Collins
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Francisco J. Ayala
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Frank H. Westheimer
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Frank Kelly Freas
Frank Kelly Freas (27 August 1922 – 2 January 2005), called the "Dean of Science Fiction Artists," was a science fiction and fantasy artist with a career spanning more than 50 years.
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Frank Press
Frank Press (born December 4, 1924) is an American geophysicist.
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Fred Brooks
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (born April 19, 1931) is a software engineer and computer scientist, best-known for managing the development of IBM's System/360 family of computers and the OS/360 software support package, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month. Brooks has received many awards in his lifetime, including the National Medal of Technology in 1985 and the Turing Award in 1999.
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Frederick Reines
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Frederick Rossini
Frederick Dominic Rossini (1899- 1990) was an American thermodynamicist noted for his work in chemical thermodynamics.
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Frederick Seitz
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Frederick Terman
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Fritz Albert Lipmann
Fritz Albert Lipmann (June 12, 1899 – July 24, 1986) was a German-American biochemist and a co-discoverer in 1945 of coenzyme A. For this, together with other research on coenzyme A, he was awarded half the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953 (shared with Hans Adolf Krebs).
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G. Brent Dalrymple
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G. Evelyn Hutchinson
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G. Ledyard Stebbins
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Gabor A. Somorjai
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Gary Becker
Gary Stanley Becker (born December 2, 1930) is an American economist and a Nobel laureate. Born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, Becker earned a B.A. at Princeton University in 1951 and a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1955. He taught at Columbia University from 1957 to 1968, and then returned to The University of Chicago, where he holds joint appointments with the departments of economics, sociology, and the Booth School of Business. Becker is a founding parter of [http://www.greatestgood.com The Greatest Good], a business and philanthropy consulting company. Becker won the John Bates Clark Medal in 1967, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1992, and received the United States' Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007.
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Gene Likens
Gene Elden Likens (born January 6, 1935) is an American ecologist and a leading pioneer in the study of acid rain.
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George C. Pimentel
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George Dantzig
George Bernard Dantzig (November 8, 1914 – May 13, 2005) was an American mathematician, and the Professor Emeritus of Transportation Sciences and Professor of Operations Research and of Computer Science at Stanford.
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George Emil Palade
George Emil Palade (November 19, 1912 – October 7, 2008) was a Romanian-American cell biologist. In 1974, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Albert Claude and Christian de Duve, for discovering the vacuole.
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George F. Carrier
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George Heilmeier
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George Kistiakowsky
George Bogdan Kistiakowsky (November 18, 1900 – December 7, 1982) () was a Ukrainian-American chemistry professor at Harvard who participated in the Manhattan Project and later served as President Eisenhower's Science Advisor. Born in Kiev, in the Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire (in present day Ukraine), he attended private schools in Kiev and Moscow until the Russian Revolution broke out in 1917. He then joined the anti-Communist White Army serving in the infantry and tank corps. In 1920 he escaped to Yugoslavia and then on to Germany.
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George M. Whitesides
George M. Whitesides (b. August 3, 1939, Louisville, Kentucky) is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at Harvard University. He is best known for his work in the areas of NMR spectroscopy, organometallic chemistry, molecular self-assembly, soft lithography, microfabrication, microfluidics, and nanotechnology. Whitesides is also known for his "outline system" for writing scientific papers. , he has the highest Hirsch index rating of all living chemists.
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George Necula
George Ciprian Necula is a Romanian computer scientist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley who does research in the area of programming languages and software engineering, with a particular focus on software verification and formal methods. He is best known for his Ph.D. thesis work first describing proof-carrying code, a work that received the 2007 SIGPLAN Most Influential POPL Paper Award.
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George Pake
George Pake (April 1, 1924 – March 4, 2004) was a physicist and research executive primarily known for helping found Xerox PARC. Pake earned his bachelors and masters degrees from the Carnegie Institute of Technology and his doctorate in physics at Harvard University in 1948.
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George S. Hammond
George S. Hammond (1921 - October 5, 2005) was a chemist at Iowa State University and the California Institute of Technology. Among his awards were the Norris Award in 1968 and the Priestley Medal in 1976. Hammond's postulate, also known as the Hammond-Leffler postulate, was based on his 1955 publication.
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George Stigler
George Joseph Stigler (January 17, 1911 – December 1, 1991) was a U.S. economist. He won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1982, and was a key leader of the Chicago School of Economics, along with his close friend Milton Friedman.
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George Uhlenbeck
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George Wetherill
George Wetherill (August 12, 1925 -- July 19, 2006) was the Director Emeritus, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, DC, USA.
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George Woodbridge
:For the British actor, see George Woodbridge (actor).
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Gertrude B. Elion
Gertrude Belle Elion (January 23, 1918 – February 21, 1999) was an American biochemist and pharmacologist, and a 1988 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Working alone as well as with George H. Hitchings, Elion developed a multitude of new drugs, using innovative research methods that would later lead to the development of the AIDS drug AZT.
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Gilbert F. White
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Gilbert Stork
Gilbert Stork (born December 31, 1921) is a Belgian-born U.S. organic chemist. He is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Columbia University. The Stork enamine synthesis is named in his honor.
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Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn Theodore Seaborg (; April 19, 1912 – February 25, 1999) was an American scientist who won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements", contributed to the discovery and isolation of ten elements, and developed the actinide concept, which led to the current arrangement of the actinoid series in the periodic table of the elements. He spent most of his career as an educator and research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley where he became the second Chancellor in its history and served as a University Professor. Seaborg advised ten presidents from Truman to Clinton on nuclear policy and was the chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission from 1961 to 1971 where he pushed for commercial nuclear energy and peaceful applications of nuclear science. Throughout his career, Seaborg worked for arms control. He was signator to the Franck Report and contributed to the achievement of the Limited Test Ban Treaty, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Seaborg was a well-known advocate of science education and federal funding for pure research. He was a key contributor to the report "A Nation at Risk" as a member of President Reagan's National Commission on Excellence in Education and was the principal author of the Seaborg Report on academic science issued in the closing days of the Eisenhower administration.
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Gordon H. Bower
Gordon H. Bower (born December 30, 1932) is a cognitive psychologist studying human memory, language comprehension, emotion, and behavior modification. He received his Ph.D. in learning theory from Yale University in 1959. He currently holds the A. R. Lang Emeritus Professorship at Stanford University. In addition to his research, Bower also was a notable adviser to numerous students, including John R. Anderson, Lawrence W. Barsalou, Lera Boroditsky, Keith Holyoak, Stephen Kosslyn, Alan Lesgold, and Robert Sternberg, among others.
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Guy L. Steele
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H. Guyford Stever
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Hans A. Bethe
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Har Gobind Khorana
Har Gobind Khorana, or Hargobind Khorana (, born January 9, 1922) is an Indian American molecular biologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (shared with Robert W. Holley and Marshall Warren Nirenberg) in 1968 for his work on the interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis. Khorana and Nirenberg were also awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in the same year. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1966, and subsequently received the National Medal of Science. He currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States serving as MIT's Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Biology and Chemistry, Emeritus.
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Harden M. McConnell
Harden M. McConnell (born July 18, 1927 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American physical chemist at Stanford University.
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Harold E. Edgerton
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Harold Varmus
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Harry B. Gray
Harry Barkus Gray (b. 14 November 1935 in Woodburn, Kentucky, U.S.) is an Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology. He won the Priestley Medal in 1991, The Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry in 2004, and the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 2004.
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Harry Eagle
Harry Eagle (born in New York City on 1905; died June 21, 1992) was an American physician and pathologist. He studied, and later worked, at Johns Hopkins University before moving on to the National Institutes of Health. From 1961 to 1988 he worked at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is best known for Eagle's minimal essential medium, which is important in understanding how human and mammalian cells reproduce. In 1973, he was a co-winner of the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize. In 1987, he was awarded the National Medal of Science for his work in the Biological Sciences.
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Harry Harlow
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Helmut Landsberg
Helmut Erich Landsberg was a noted and influential climatologist. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany, February 9, 1906 and died December 6, 1985 in Geneva, Switzerland while attending a meeting of the World Meteorological Organization. Landsberg was an important figure in meteorology and atmospheric science in education, public service and administration. He authored several notable works, particularly in the field of particulate matter and its influence on air pollution and human health. He is the first to write in English about the use of statistical analysis in the field of climatology and implemented such statistical analysis in aiding military operations during World War II. He received a number of significant honors during his life. Several honors are now bestowed in his name in recognition of his contributions to his field.
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Henry Stommel
Henry Melson Stommel (September 27, 1920 - January 17, 1992) was a major contributor to the field of physical oceanography. Beginning in the 1940s, he advanced theories about global ocean circulation patterns and the behavior of the Gulf Stream that form the basis of physical oceanography today. Widely recognized as one of the most influential and productive oceanographers of his time, Stommel was both a groundbreaking theoretician and an astute, seagoing observer.
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Henry Taube
Professor Henry Taube, Ph.D , M.Sc , B.Sc , FRSC (November 30, 1915 – November 16, 2005) was a Canadian-born American chemist noted for having been awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "his work in the mechanisms of electron-transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes." He was the first Canadian-born chemist to win the Nobel Prize. Taube completed his undergraduate and Masters degrees at the University of Saskatchewan, and his Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Herbert A. Simon
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Herbert C. Brown
Herbert Charles Brown (May 22, 1912 – December 19, 2004) was a chemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate for his work with organoboranes.
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Herbert Friedman
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Herbert S. Gutowsky
Herbert S. Gutowsky (November 8, 1919 - January 13, 2000) was an American chemist who was a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His pioneering work made nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy one of the most effective tools in chemical and medical research.
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Herman Feshbach
Herman Feshbach (February 2, 1917, in New York City — 22 December, 2000, in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American physicist. He was an Institute Professor Emeritus of physics at MIT. Feshbach is best known for Feshbach resonance and for writing, with Philip M. Morse, Methods of Theoretical Physics.
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Herman Goldstine
Herman Heine Goldstine (September 13, 1913 – June 16, 2004), mathematician, computer scientist and scientific administrator, was one of the original developers of ENIAC, the first of the modern electronic digital computers.
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Hermann Zapf
Hermann Zapf (born November 8, 1918) is a German typeface designer who lives in Darmstadt, Germany. He is married to calligrapher and typeface designer Gudrun Zapf von Hesse.
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Horace Barker
Horace Albert "Nook" Barker (November 29, 1907 – December 24, 2000) was an American biochemist and microbiologist who studied the operation of biological and chemical processes in plants, humans and other animals, including using radioactive tracers to determine the role enzymes play in synthesizing sucrose. He was recognized with the National Medal of Science for his role in identifying an active form of Vitamin B12.
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Howard M. Temin
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Hyman Bass
Hyman Bass (born October 5, 1932, Houston, Texas) is an American mathematician, known for work in algebra. From 1959-1998 he was Professor in the Mathematics Department at Columbia University, where he is now professor emeritus. He is currently the Roger Lyndon Collegiate Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Michigan.
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Igor I. Sikorsky
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Irving Schild
Irving Schild is a commercial photographer who has worked extensively for agencies and clients. He has also been the primary photographer for MAD Magazine for the past four decades.
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Isabella L. Karle
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Isadore Singer
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Ivan Sutherland
Ivan Edward Sutherland (born 1938 in Hastings, Nebraska) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He received the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 1988 for the invention of Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that has become ubiquitous in personal computers.
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J. Craig Venter
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J. Michael Bishop
John Michael Bishop (born February 22, 1936) is an American immunologist and microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (with Harold E. Varmus) and was co-winner of 1984 Alfred P. Sloan Prize . He currently serves as an active faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco.
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J. Presper Eckert
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J. Robert Schrieffer
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Jack St. Clair Kilby
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Jack Steinberger
Jack Steinberger (born May 25, 1921) is a German-American physicist currently residing near Geneva, Switzerland. He co-discovered the muon neutrino, along with Leon Lederman and Melvin Schwartz, for which they were given the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Jacob Bjerknes
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James Cronin
James Watson Cronin (born September 29, 1931) is an American nuclear physicist.
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James D. Watson
James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist and zoologist, best known as one of co-discoverers of the structure of DNA with Francis Crick, in 1953. Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material". He studied at the University of Chicago and Indiana University and subsequently worked at the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory in England, where he first met his future collaborator and personal friend Francis Crick.
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James E. Darnell
James Edwin Darnell Jr. (born September 9, 1930 - Columbus, Mississippi) is an American biologist who made significant contributions to RNA processing and cytokine signaling and is author of the cell biology textbook Molecular Cell Biology.
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James E. Gunn
James Edward Gunn (born 1938) is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University. He received the 2009 National Medal of Science.
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James Glimm
James Gilbert Glimm (born 24 March 1934) is an American mathematical physicist, and Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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James H. Wilkinson
James Hardy Wilkinson (27 September 1919 – 5 October 1986) was a prominent figure in the field of numerical analysis, a field at the boundary of applied mathematics and computer science particularly useful to physics and engineering.
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James L. Flanagan
James Loton Flanagan is an electrical engineer, and was Rutgers University's vice president for research until 2004. He is also director of Rutgers' Center for Advanced Information Processing and the Board of Governors Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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James V. Neel
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James Warhola
James Warhola (born March 16, 1955) is an American artist who has illustrated more than two dozen children's books since 1987.
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Jan D. Achenbach
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Janet Rowley
Janet Davison Rowley (born April 5, 1925) is an American human geneticist and the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the cause of leukemia and other cancers.
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Jared Diamond
Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American scientist and author whose work draws from a variety of fields. He is currently Professor of Geography and Physiology at UCLA. He is best known for the award-winning popular science books The Third Chimpanzee; Guns, Germs, and Steel; and .
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Jay Laurence Lush
Jay Laurence Lush (, Shambaugh, Iowa - ) was a pioneering animal geneticist who made important contributions to livestock breeding. He is sometimes known as the father of modern scientific animal breeding. Lush received National Medal of Science in 1968 and the Wolf Prize in 1979.
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Jay Lynch
Jay Lynch (b. January 7, 1945) is an American cartoonist who played a key role in the underground comix movement with his Bijou Funnies and other titles. His work is sometimes signed Jayzey Lynch. He has contributed to Mad, and in 2008, he expanded into the children's book field.
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Jeffrey Vitter
Jeffrey Scott Vitter (born 1955 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is provost and executive vice chancellor at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.
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Jeremiah P. Ostriker
Jeremiah (Jerry) Paul Ostriker (born 1937) is an astrophysicist at Princeton University. He received his B.A. from Harvard, his Ph.D at the University of Chicago, and then carried out post-doctoral work at Cambridge. From 1971 to 1995, Ostriker was a professor at Princeton, and served as Provost there from 1995 to 2001. From 2001 to 2003, he was appointed as Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. He has since returned to Princeton.
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Jerry DeFuccio
Jerry DeFuccio (July 3, 1925–August 10, 2001) was an American comic book writer and editor, known primarily for his work at Mad, where he was an associate editor for 25 years. In addition to his work on that magazine, he was closely involved in many of the Mad paperbacks, editing ''Clods' Letters to Mad'' and many other reprints and spin-offs. Some of his contributions to EC Comics appeared under the pseudonym Jerry Dee.
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Jerzy Neyman
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Jesse Beams
Jesse Wakefield Beams (December 25, 1898 in Belle Plaine, Kansas; died July 23, 1977) was an American physicist at the University of Virginia.
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Joan A. Steitz
Joan Argetsinger Steitz (born 26 January 1941) is a molecular biologist at Yale University, famed for her discoveries involving RNA, including ground-breaking insights such as that ribosomes interact with mRNA by complementary base pairing and that introns are spliced by snRNPs, small nuclear ribonucleoproteins which occur in eukaryotes (such as yeasts and humans).
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Joanna S. Fowler
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Joe Orlando
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Joe Raiola
Joe Raiola is a comedy writer and since 1985, an associate editor for MAD Magazine. He is also the creator of the one-man lecture circuit performances "Almost Obscene" and "The Joy of Censorship."
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John A. Wheeler
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John Backus
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John Bardeen
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John C. Slater
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John Cocke
John Cocke (May 30, 1925 – July 16, 2002) was an American computer scientist recognized for his large contribution to computer architecture and optimizing compiler design. He is considered by many to be "the father of RISC architecture."
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John D. Roberts
John D. Roberts (born 8 June 1918) is an award-winning American chemist. He has made contributions to the integration of physical chemistry, spectroscopy and organic chemistry for the understanding of chemical reaction rates.
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John Griggs Thompson
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John H. Van Vleck
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John Hopcroft
John Edward Hopcroft (born October 7, 1939) is an American theoretical computer scientist. His textbooks on theory of computation (also known as the Cinderella book) and data structures are regarded as standards in their fields. He is the IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics in Computer Science at Cornell University.[http://www.cs.cornell.edu/jeh/]
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John Horton Conway
John Horton Conway (b. 26 December 1937) is a prolific mathematician active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory. He has also contributed to many branches of recreational mathematics, notably the invention of the cellular automaton called the Game of Life.
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John Milnor
John Willard Milnor (born February 20, 1931, in Orange, New Jersey) is an American mathematician known for his work in differential topology, K-theory and dynamical systems, and for his influential books. He won the Fields Medal in 1962 and Wolf Prize in 1989. As of 2005, Milnor is a distinguished professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His wife, Dusa McDuff, is a professor of mathematics at Barnard College.
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John N. Bahcall
John Norris Bahcall (December 30, 1934 – August 17, 2005) was an American astrophysicist, best known for his contributions to the solar neutrino problem, the development of the Hubble Space Telescope and for his leadership and development of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
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John Ousterhout
John Kenneth Ousterhout () is the chairman of Electric Cloud, Inc. and a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He founded Electric Cloud with John Graham-Cumming. Ousterhout previously was a professor of computer science at University of California, Berkeley where he created the Tcl scripting language and the Tk platform-independent widget toolkit. Ousterhout also led the research group that designed the experimental Sprite operating system and the first log-structured file system. Ousterhout is also the original author of the Magic VLSI Computer-aided design program.
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John Robinson Pierce
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John Ross (chemist)
John Ross (born 1926) is Camille and Henry Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, at Stanford University.
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John Roy Whinnery
John Roy Whinnery (b. July 26, 1916 in Read, Colorado, d. February 1, 2009 in Walnut Creek, CA), was an American electrical engineer and educator who worked in the fields of microwave theory and laser experimentation.
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John Severin
John Severin (born December 26, 1921, Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American comic book artist noted for his distinctive artwork with EC Comics, primarily on the war comics Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat; for Marvel Comics, primarily on its war and Western comics; and for the satiric magazine Cracked.
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John Sinfelt
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John Tukey
John Wilder Tukey (June 16, 1915 – July 26, 2000) was an American statistician.
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John W. Backus
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John W. Cahn
John Werner Cahn (born January 9, 1928 - Cologne, Germany) is an American scientist and winner of the National Medal of Science in 1998. Since 1977, he has held a position at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (formerly the National Bureau of Standards, NBS). Cahn has had a profound influence on the course of materials and mathematics research during his career. One of foremost authorities on thermodynamics, Cahn has applied the basic laws of thermodynamics to describe and predict a wide range of physical phenomena.
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Joseph L. Goldstein
Joseph L. Goldstein (born April 18, 1940) from Kingstree, South Carolina is a Nobel Prize winning biochemist and geneticist, and a pioneer in the study of cholesterol metabolism.
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Joseph Leo Doob
Joseph Leo Doob (February 27, 1910–June 7, 2004) was an American mathematician, specializing in analysis and probability theory.
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Joseph Sifakis
Joseph Sifakis () is a Greek-French computer scientist, laureate of the 2007 Turing Award, along with Edmund M. Clarke and E. Allen Emerson, for his work on model checking.
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Joshua Lederberg
Joshua Lederberg (May 23, 1925 – February 2, 2008) was an American molecular biologist known for his work in genetics, artificial intelligence, and space exploration. He was just 33 years old when he won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that bacteria can mate and exchange genes. He shared the prize with Edward L. Tatum and George Beadle who won for their work with genetics.
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Judea Pearl
Judea Pearl (born 1936) is a computer scientist and philosopher, best known for developing the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and the development of Bayesian networks (see the article on belief propagation).
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Julian Schwinger
Julian Seymour Schwinger (February 12, 1918 – July 16, 1994) was an American theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics, in particular for developing a relativistically invariant perturbation theory, and for renormalizing QED to one loop order.
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Juris Hartmanis
Juris Hartmanis (born July 5, 1928 in Riga, Latvia) is a prominent computer scientist and computational theorist who, with Richard E. Stearns, received the 1993 ACM Turing Award "in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory".
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Karen K. Uhlenbeck
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Karl Folkers
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Katherine Esau
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Keith Roberts Porter
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Ken Thompson
Ken Thompson (born February 4, 1943), commonly referred to as ken in hacker circles, is an American pioneer of computer science notable for his work with the B programming language and his shepherding of the Unix and Plan 9 operating systems. Most recently Thompson is also the co-creator of Google's programming language Go.
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Kenneth Arrow
Kenneth Joseph Arrow (born August 23, 1921) is an American economist and joint winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with John Hicks in 1972. To date, he is the youngest person to have received this award, at 51.
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Kenneth E. Iverson
Kenneth Eugene Iverson (17 December 1920 - 19 October 2004) was a Canadian computer scientist noted for the development of the APL programming language in 1962. He was honored with the Turing Award in 1979 for his contributions to mathematical notation and programming language theory. The Iverson Award for contributions to APL was named in his honor.
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Kenneth N. Stevens
Kenneth N. Stevens is Clarence J. LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at MIT. Stevens heads the Speech Communication Group in MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), and is one of the world's leading scientists in acoustic phonetics. He earned his ScD from MIT in 1952, under the direction of Leo Beranek, and was awarded the National Medal of Science from President Bill Clinton in 1999.
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Kenneth Stewart Cole
Kenneth Stewart Cole (July 10, 1900 – April 18, 1984) was an American biophysicist described by his peers as "a pioneer in the application of physical science to biology". Cole was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1967.
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Konrad E. Bloch
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Kristen Nygaard
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Kurt Gödel
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Kurt O. Friedrichs
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Lars Onsager
Lars Onsager (November 27, 1903 – October 5, 1976) was a Norwegian-born American physical chemist and theoretical physicist, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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Lawrence M. Breed
Lawrence M. Breed was the 1973 recipient (with Richard Lathwell and Roger Moore) of the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery.
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Leo Beranek
Leo Leroy Beranek (born September 15, 1914) is an acoustics expert, former MIT professor and a founder and former president of Bolt, Beranek and Newman (now BBN Technologies).
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Leo Kadanoff
Leo Philip Kadanoff (born 14 January 1937) is a professor of physics (emeritus as of 2004) at the University of Chicago and the current President of the American Physical Society (APS). He has contributed to the fields of statistical physics, chaos theory, and theoretical condensed matter physics.
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Leon M. Lederman
Leon Max Lederman (born July 15, 1922) is an American experimental physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work with neutrinos. He is Director Emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, USA. He founded the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, in Aurora, Illinois in 1986, and has served in the capacity of Resident Scholar since 1998.
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Leonard Adleman
Leonard Max Adleman (born December 31, 1945) is a theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science and molecular biology at the University of Southern California. He is known for being a co-inventor of the RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) cryptosystem in 1977, and of DNA computing. RSA is in widespread use in security applications, including https.
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Leonard Kleinrock
Leonard Kleinrock (born June 13, 1934, in New York) is an engineer and computer scientist, and a computer science professor at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, who made several important contributions to the field of computer networking, in particular to the theoretical side of computer networking. He also played an important role in the development of the ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet, at UCLA.
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Leonidas J. Guibas
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Leslie Valiant
Leslie Gabriel Valiant (born 28 March 1949) is a British computer scientist and computational theorist.
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Lewis Sarett
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Linus Carl Pauling
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Lonnie Thompson
Lonnie Thompson (b. 1948), is a paleoclimatologist and Distinguished University Professor in the School of Earth Sciences at The Ohio State University. He has achieved global recognition for his drilling and analysis of ice cores from mountain glaciers and ice caps in the tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world. He and his wife, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, run the ice core paleoclimatology research group at the Byrd Polar Research Center.
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Lou Silverstone
Lou Silverstone is a comedy writer who was one of "The Usual Gang of Idiots" at MAD Magazine from 1962 to 1990.
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Lubert Stryer
Lubert Stryer is the Mrs. George A. Winzer Professor of Cell Biology, Emeritus at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was a Helen Hay Whitney Research Fellow from 1961 to 1964 before initiating his own research program at Stanford. Following a move to Yale in 1969, he returned to Stanford in September 1976 as the Winzer Professor and is a Professor of Neurobiology (at Stanford) since September 1993. Dr. Stryer received his B.S. from the University of Chicago and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School.
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Luis von Ahn
Luis von Ahn (born in 1979 in Guatemala City, Guatemala) is an entrepreneur and a professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known as a one of the pioneers of the idea of crowdsourcing. He is the founder of the company reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in 2009. As a professor, his research includes CAPTCHAs and human computation, and has earned him international recognition and numerous honors. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (a.k.a., the "genius grant") in 2006, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship in 2009, a Sloan Fellowship in 2009, and a Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship in 2007. He has also been named one of the 50 Best Brains in Science by Discover Magazine, and has made it to many recognition lists that include Popular Science Magazine's Brilliant 10, Silicon.com's 50 Most Influential People in Technology, Technology Review's TR35: Young Innovators Under 35, and FastCompany's 100 Most Innovative People in Business.
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Luis Walter Alvarez
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Lyman Spitzer
Lyman Strong Spitzer, Jr. (June 26, 1914 – March 31, 1997) was an American theoretical physicist and astronomer best known for his research in star formation and for his promotions of telescopes in space and research into plasma physics. A graduate of Phillips Academy, Princeton University, and Yale University, Spitzer invented the Stellarator plasma device and is the namesake of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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Lynn Margulis
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Manson Benedict
Manson Benedict (9 October 1907 in Lake Linden, Michigan — 18 September 2006 in Naples, Florida) was a nuclear engineer and a professor of nuclear engineering at MIT. From 1958 to 1968, he was the chairman of the advisory committee to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
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Manuel Blum
Manuel Blum (born 26 April 1938 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1995 "In recognition of his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking".
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Maria Reidelbach
Maria Reidelbach (born July 23, 1956) is a Manhattan-based installation artist, curator and author, who is the creator of award-winning public art. In 1991, she wrote the definitive history of Mad, the bestselling Completely Mad: A History of the Comic Book and Magazine (Little, Brown), ranked by Library Journal as "essential for pop culture collections."
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Mario R. Capecchi
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Marshall Rosenbluth
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Marston Morse
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Martin David Kruskal
Martin David Kruskal (September 28, 1925 – December 26, 2006) was an American mathematician and physicist. He made fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, ranging from plasma physics to general relativity and from nonlinear analysis to asymptotic analysis. His single most celebrated contribution was the discovery and theory of solitons.
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Martin Schwarzschild
Martin Schwarzschild (May 31, 1912 – April 10, 1997) was a German American astronomer. He was the son of famed astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild and the nephew of the Swiss astrophysicist Robert Emden.
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Marvin L. Cohen
Marvin L. Cohen (born Montreal in March 3, 1935) is a Canadian-born American physicist. He is a professor of condensed matter physics and materials science at the University of California, Berkeley. Nobel laureate Robert B. Laughlin studied under John D. Joannopoulos, a student of Cohen's.
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Marvin Minsky
Marvin Lee Minsky (born August 9, 1927) is an American cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy.
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Mary Ellen Avery
Mary Ellen Avery (born May 6, 1927)
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Marye Anne Fox
Marye Anne Payne Fox (born 9 December 1947) is a physical organic chemist and university administrator. She was the first female chief executive of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. In April 2004, Fox was named Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego.
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Maurice Ewing
William Maurice "Doc" Ewing (May 12, 1906 – May 4, 1974) was an American geophysicist and oceanographer.
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Maurice Goldhaber
Maurice Goldhaber (born April 18, 1911) is an American physicist, who in 1957 (with Lee Grodzins and Andrew Sunyar) established that neutrinos have negative helicity.
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Maurice Hilleman
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Maurice Wilkes
Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes DFBCS FREng FRS (born June 26, 1913) is a British computer scientist credited with several important developments in computing.
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Max Tishler
Max Tishler (October 30, 1906 – March 18, 1989) was a scientist at Merck & Co. who led the research teams that synthesized ascorbic acid, riboflavin, cortisone, miamin, pyridoxin, pantothenic acid, nicotinamide, methionine, threonine, and tryptophan. He also led a microbiological group that developed the fermentation processes for actinomycin D, vitamin B12, streptomycin, and penicillin. Tishler invented sulfaquinoxaline for the treatment for coccidiosis.
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Melvin Calvin
Melvin Ellis Calvin (April 8, 1911 - January 8, 1997) was an American chemist most famed for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He spent most of his five-decade career at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Michael E. Debakey
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Michael Fredman
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Michael Heidelberger
Michael Heidelberger (April 29, 1888 – June 25, 1991) was an American immunologist who is regarded as the father of modern immunology. He and Oswald Avery showed that the polysaccharides of pneumococcus are antigens, enabling him to show that antibodies are proteins. He spent almost his entire career at Columbia University, though in his later years he was also on the faculty of New York University. In 1934 and 1936 he received the Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1967 he received the National Medal of Science, and then he earned the Lasker Award for basic medical research in 1953 and again in 1978.
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Michael O. Rabin
:For the violinist, see Michael Rabin (violinist).
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Michael S. Brown
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Mildred Cohn
Mildred Cohn (July 12, 1913 – October 12, 2009) was an American biochemist. She graduated from high school at 14 and went on to receive her Bachelor's from Hunter College in 1931, her master's in 1932 from Columbia University, and her PhD in physical chemistry in 1938 from Columbia. Cohn joined the staff of the University of Pennsylvania in 1960.
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Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman (July 31, 1912 November 16, 2006) was an American economist, statistician, a professor at the University of Chicago, and the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics. Among scholars, he is best known for his theoretical and empirical research, especially consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy.
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Monte Wolverton
Monte Wolverton is an American editorial cartoonist who is best known for his satiric pages in Mad, his Weekly Wolvertoon website and his contributions as the managing editor of The Plain Truth.
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Mort Drucker
Mort Drucker (b. March 22, 1929) is an American caricaturist and comics artist best known as a decades-long contributor to the satiric magazine Mad, specializing in drawing movie satires.
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Mostafa El-Sayed
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Nancy C. Andreasen
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Nathan M. Newmark
Nathan Mortimore Newmark (September 22, 1910 - January 25, 1981) was an American structural engineer and academic. He was awarded the National Medal of Science for engineering.
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Neal E. Miller
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Nick Holonyak Jr.
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Nicolaas Bloembergen
Nicolaas Bloembergen (born Dordrecht, March 11, 1920) is a Dutch-American physicist and Nobel laureate.
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Niklaus Wirth
Niklaus Emil Wirth (born February 15, 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984 he won the Turing Award for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages.
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Nina Fedoroff
Nina Vsevolod Fedoroff (born 1942) is an American professor at Penn State university known for her research in life sciences and biotechnology. She received in 2006 the National Medal of Science in the field of Biological Sciences, the highest award for lifetime achievement in scientific research in the United States.
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Norbert Wiener
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Norman Borlaug
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Norman F. Ramsey
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Norman Hackerman
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Ole-Johan Dahl
Ole-Johan Dahl (October 12, 1931 – June 29, 2002) was a Norwegian computer scientist and is considered to be one of the fathers of Simula and object-oriented programming along with Kristen Nygaard.
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Oren Patashnik
Oren Patashnik (born 1954) is a computer scientist. He is notable for co-creating BibTeX, and co-writing Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science. He is a researcher at the Center for Communications Research, La Jolla.
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Orville Vogel
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Oscar Zariski
Oscar Zariski (born Oscher Zaritsky April 24, 1899, in Kobrin, Russia (today Belarus), died July 4, 1986, Brookline, Massachusetts) was a Jewish-American mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century.
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Othmar Ammann
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Patrick Suppes
Patrick Colonel Suppes (b. 1922, Tulsa, OK) is an American philosopher who has made significant contributions to philosophy of science, theory of measurement, foundations of quantum mechanics, decision theory, psychology, and educational technology.
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Paul Alfred Weiss
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Paul Bartlett
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Paul Berg
Paul Berg (born on June 30, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.) is an American biochemist and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1943, received his B.S. in biochemistry from Penn State University in 1948 and Ph.D. in biochemistry from Case Western Reserve University in 1952. He is a member of the Beta Sigma Rho fraternity (now Beta Sigma Beta). In 1980 he shared half of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry with the team of Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger. All three were recognized for their important contributions to basic research in nucleic acids. His studies as a postgraduate involved the use of radioisotope tracers in intermediary metabolism. This resulted in the understanding of how foodstuffs are converted to cellular materials, through the use of isotopic carbons or heavy nitrogen atoms. Paul Berg's doctorate paper is now known as the conversion of formic acid, formaldehyde and methanol to fully reduced states of methyl groups in methionine. He was also one of the first to demonstrate that folic acid and B12 cofactors had roles in the processes mentioned.
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Paul C. Lauterbur
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Paul C. Zamecnik
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Paul Flory
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Paul H. Cress
Paul H. Cress (1939-2004) was a Canadian computer scientist. He was a young lecturer in computer science at the University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) when, starting in 1966, he and his colleague Paul Dirksen led a team of programmers developing a fast FORTRAN compiler called WATFOR (WATerloo FORtran), for the IBM System/360 family of computers. The /360 WATFOR project was initiated by Professor J. Wesley Graham, following the successful implementation in 1965 of a WATFOR compiler for the IBM 7040 computer. An enhanced version of the /360 WATFOR compiler was called WATFIV, variously interpreted to mean "WATerloo Fortran IV" or "WATFOR-plus-one".
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Paul Samuelson
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Peter C. Goldmark
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Peter Debye
Peter Joseph William Debye (March 24, 1884 – November 2, 1966) was a Dutch physicist and physical chemist, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry.
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Peter Dervan
Peter B. Dervan (born June 28, 1945) is the Bren Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology. The primary focus of his research is the development and study of small organic molecules that can sequence-specifically recognize DNA, a field in which he is an internationally recognized authority. He is married to fellow Caltech chemist Jacqueline Barton.
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Peter Goldreich
Peter Goldreich (born July 14, 1939) is an American astrophysicist whose research focuses on planetary rings, helioseismology and neutron stars. He is currently the Lee DuBridge Professor of Astrophysics and Planetary Physics at California Institute of Technology. Since 2005 he has also been a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Asteroid 3805 Goldreich is named after him.
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Peter H. Raven
Peter Hamilton Raven (born June 13, 1936) is a botanist and environmentalist, notable as the longtime director, now President Emeritus, of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
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Peter Kuper
Peter Kuper (born September 22, 1958) is an American alternative cartoonist and illustrator known for his autobiographical, social, and political observations.
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Peter Lax
Peter David Lax (born 1 May 1926 in Budapest, Hungary) is a mathematician working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics. He has made important contributions to integrable systems, fluid dynamics and shock waves, solitonic physics, hyperbolic conservation laws, and mathematical and scientific computing, among other fields. Lax is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.
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Peter Naur
Peter Naur (born October 25, 1928) is a Danish pioneer in computer science and Turing award winner. His last name is the N in the BNF notation (Backus-Naur form), used in the description of the syntax for most programming languages. He contributed to the creation of the ALGOL 60 programming language.
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Philip Abelson
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Philip Handler
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Philip Leder
Philip Leder (b. November 19, 1934) is an American geneticist. He was born in Washington, D.C. and studied at Harvard University, graduating in 1956. In 1960, he graduated from Harvard Medical School.
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Phillip A. Sharp
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Raj Reddy
Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy (born June 13, 1937) is one of the early pioneers in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) for over 40 years. He was the founding Director of the Robotics Institute and the Dean of the School of Computer Science (SCS) at CMU. He was instrumental in helping to create Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies in India, to cater to the educational needs of the low income, gifted rural youth. He is also the Chairman of International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad.
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Ralph A. Alpher
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Ralph Brazelton Peck
Dr. Ralph Brazelton Peck (June 23, 1912 – February 18, 2008) was an eminent civil engineer specializing in soil mechanics. He died on February 18, 2008 from congestive heart failure. He was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1975 "for his development of the science and art of subsurface engineering, combining the contributions of the sciences of geology and soil mechanics with the practical art of foundation design."
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Ralph E. Gomory
Ralph Edward Gomory is an American applied mathematician and executive. Gomory worked at IBM as a researcher and later as an executive. During that time, his research led to the creation of new areas of applied mathematics.
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Ralph F. Hirschmann
Ralph Franz Hirschmann (May 6, 1922 – June 20, 2009) was a German American biochemist who led a team that was responsible for the first organic synthesis of an enzyme, a ribonuclease.
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Raoul Bott
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Ray W. Clough
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Raymond D. Mindlin
Raymond David Mindlin (New York City, 17 September 1906 to 22 November 1987) was a mechanician who made seminal contributions to many branches of applied mechanics, applied physics, and engineering sciences.
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Raymond Kurzweil
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Riccardo Giacconi
Riccardo Giacconi (born October 6, 1931) is an Italian/American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who laid the foundations of X-ray astronomy.
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Richard Garwin
Richard Lawrence Garwin (born April 19, 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio), is an American physicist. He received his bachelor's degree from the Case Institute of Technology in 1947 and obtained his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1949, where he worked in the lab of Enrico Fermi.
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Richard H. Lathwell
Richard H. Lathwell was the 1973 recipient (with Larry Breed and Roger Moore) of the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery.
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Richard Hamming
Richard Wesley Hamming (Chicago, February 11, 1915 – Monterey, California, January 7, 1998) was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer science and telecommunications. His contributions include the Hamming code (which makes use of a Hamming matrix), the Hamming window (described in Section 5.8 of his book Digital Filters), Hamming numbers, Sphere-packing (or hamming bound) and the Hamming distance.
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Richard Karp
Richard Manning Karp (born 1935) is a computer scientist and computational theorist at the University of California, Berkeley, notable for research in the theory of algorithms, for which he received a Turing Award in 1985, The Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science in 2004, and the Kyoto Prize in 2008.
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Richard N. Zare
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Richard P. Feynman
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Richard Stallman
Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often shortened to rms, is an American software freedom activist and computer programmer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, and has been the project's lead architect and organizer. With the launch of the GNU Project, he initiated the free software movement; in October 1985 he founded the Free Software Foundation.
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Richard T. Whitcomb
Richard T. Whitcomb (February 21, 1921–October 13, 2009), was an American aeronautical engineer noted for his significant contributions to the science of aerodynamics.
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Rita Levi-Montalcini
Rita Levi-Montalcini (born April 22, 1909), Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian neurologist who, together with colleague Stanley Cohen, received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of Nerve growth factor (NGF). Since 2001, she has also served in the Italian Senate as a Senator for Life.
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Rita R. Colwell
Rita R. Colwell (born November 23, 1934 in Beverly, Massachusetts) is an environmental microbiologist and scientific administrator. She became the 11th Director of the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) on August 4, 1998.
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Roald Hoffmann
Roald Hoffmann (born July 18, 1937) is an American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He currently teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
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Robert A. Weinberg
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Robert Byron Bird
Robert Byron Bird (born February 5, 1924, Bryan, Texas) is a Chemical Engineer and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is known for his research in Transport phenomena of Non-Newtonian fluids, including fluid dynamics of polymers, polymer kinetic theory, and rheology. He, along with Warren E. Stewart and Edwin N. Lightfoot, is an author of the classic textbook Transport Phenomena. Bird was a recipient of the National Medal of Science in 1987.
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Robert H. Burris
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Robert H. Dicke
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Robert Hofstadter
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Robert Huebner
Robert Joseph Huebner (pronounced HYOOB-ner; February 23, 1914 – August 26, 1998), was an American physician and virologist whose research into viruses, their causes and treatment that led to his breakthrough insights into the connections between viruses and cancer, leading to new treatments, as well as his hypothesized oncogene, which was discovered to be a trigger for normal cells turning cancerous.
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Robert K. Merton
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Robert Kates
Robert W. Kates (born 1929) is an American geographer and independent scholar in Trenton, Maine, and University Professor (Emeritus) at Brown University. In 2008, he was appointed the inaugural Presidential Professor of Sustainability Science at the University of Maine, Orono.
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Robert Lefkowitz
Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D. (born April 15, 1943) is an American physician best known for his work with G protein-coupled receptors. He is a James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at Duke University as well as an investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He received his B.A. in Chemistry as well as his M.D. from Columbia University. He then went on to become a pioneer in cell receptor biology and biochemistry. He recently was awarded the US National Medal of Science and the 2007 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine. He has also been the recipient of the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biochemical Research, Institut de France Fondation Lefoulon-Delalande Grand Prix for Science Award, and the Gairdner Foundation International Award.
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Robert M. Metcalfe
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Robert N. Noyce
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Robert Pound
Robert Vivian Pound (May 16, 1919 – April 12, 2010) was an American physicist who helped discover nuclear magnetic resonance and who devised the famous Pound-Rebka experiment supporting general relativity .
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Robert S. Langer
Robert S. Langer (born August 29, 1948 in Albany, New York) is an American engineer and the David H. Koch Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was formerly the Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and maintains activity in the department of chemical engineering and the department of biological engineering at MIT. He is also a faculty member of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. He is a widely recognized and cited researcher in biotechnology, especially in the fields of drug delivery systems and tissue engineering. Dr. Langer's research laboratory at MIT is the largest biomedical engineering lab in the world, maintaining about $10 million in annual grants and over 100 researchers.
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Robert Solow
Robert Merton Solow (born August 23, 1924) is an American economist particularly known for his work on the theory of economic growth that culminated in the exogenous growth model named after him. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal (in 1961) and the 1987 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
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Robert Tarjan
Robert Endre Tarjan (born April 30, 1948) is a renowned American computer scientist. He is the discoverer of several important graph algorithms, including Tarjan's off-line least common ancestors algorithm, and co-inventor of both splay trees and Fibonacci heaps. Tarjan is currently the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, and is also a Senior Fellow at Hewlett-Packard.
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Robert W. Floyd
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Robin Milner
'Arthur John Robin Gorell Milner FRS FRSE (Robin Milner or A.J.R.G. Milner', born 13 January 1934 near Plymouth, died 20 March 2010 in Cambridge) was a prominent British computer scientist.
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Roger Adams
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Roger Guillemin
Roger Charles Louis Guillemin (born January 11, 1924 in Dijon, Bourgogne, France) received the National Medal of Science in 1976, and the Nobel prize for medicine in 1977 for his work on neurohormones, sharing the prize that year with Andrew Schally and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow.
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Roger Revelle
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Roger Shepard
Roger Newland Shepard (born January 30, 1929 in Palo Alto, California) is a cognitive scientist and author of Toward a Universal Law of Generalization for Psychological Science. He is seen as a father of research on spatial relations.
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Roger W. Sperry
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Ron Rivest
Ronald Linn Rivest (born 1947, Schenectady, New York) is a cryptographer. He is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Computer Science at MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and a member of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He is a member of the Election Assistance Commission's Technical Guidelines Development Committee, tasked with assisting the EAC in drafting the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines.
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Ronald Breslow
Ronald C. D. Breslow (born 14 March 1931, Rahway, New Jersey) is an American chemist. He is currently University Professor at Columbia University, where he is based in the Department of Chemistry and affiliated with the Departments of Biological Sciences and Pharmacology; he has also been on the faculty of its Department of Chemical Engineering. He has taught at Columbia since 1956 and is a former chair of the university's chemistry department.
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Ronald Coifman
Ronald Raphael Coifman is the Phillips Professor of Mathematics at Yale University. Coifman graduated from the University of Geneva in 1965.
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Ronald L. Graham
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Rudolf Kompfner
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Russ Heath
Russell Heath, Jr. (born September 29, 1926) is an American artist best known for his comic book work — particularly his DC Comics war stories for several decades and his 1960s art for Playboy magazine's Little Annie Fanny featurettes — and for his commercial art, two pieces of which, depicting Roman and Revolutionary War battle scenes for toy soldier sets, became familiar bits of Americana after gracing the back covers of countless comic books from the early 1960s to early 1970s.
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Ruth Patrick
Dr. Ruth Myrtle Patrick (born November 26, 1907) is a botanist and limnologist specializing in diatoms and freshwater ecology, who developed ways to measure the health of freshwater ecosystems and established a number of research facilities. She attended the Sunset Hill School in Kansas City, Missouri, graduating in 1925. She earned her PhD at the University of Virginia in 1934. Her work has been widely published and she has received numerous awards for her scientific achievements, including the National Medal of Science in 1996, the Heinz Award Chairman's Medal in 2002, and the A.C. Redfield Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. The Ruth Patrick Science Education Center is named after her. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation R.M.Patrick when citing a botanical name.
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Salome G. Waelsch
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Salvador Luria
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Sam Viviano
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Samuel Karlin
Samuel Karlin (June 8, 1924 - December 18, 2007) was an American mathematician at Stanford University in the late 20th century.
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Saul Winstein
Saul Winstein (October 8, 1912 – November 23, 1969) was the American chemist who discovered the Winstein reaction, in which he argued a non-classical cation was needed to explain the stability of the norbornyl cation. This fueled a debate with Herbert C. Brown over the existence of delocalized cations such as this. Richard F. Heck, who earlier in his career had undertaken postgraduate studies with Winstein, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Co-author of the Grunwald-Winstein equation concerning solvolysis rates.
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Saunders MacLane
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Scott Kim
Scott Kim is an American puzzle and computer game designer, artist, and author. He started writing an occasional "Boggler" column for Discover magazine in 1990, and became an exclusive columnist in 1999, and created hundreds of other puzzles for magazines such as Scientific American and Games, as well as thousands of puzzles for computer games. He was the holder of the Harold Keables chair at Iolani School in 2008.
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Sergio Aragonés
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Sewall Wright
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Seymour Benzer
Seymour Benzer (October 15, 1921 – November 30, 2007) was an accomplished American physicist, molecular biologist and behavioral geneticist. With a career that started with the molecular biology revolution of the 1950s, Seymour Benzer was to the end very active as a researcher, where he led a productive lab as the James G. Boswell Professor of Neuroscience, Emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology.
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Shafrira Goldwasser
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Shiing-Shen Chern
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Shing-Tung Yau
Shing-Tung Yau (; born April 4, 1949) is a Chinese American mathematician working in differential geometry. He was born in Shantou, Guangdong Province, China into a family of scholars from Jiaoling, Guangdong Province.
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Simon Ramo
Simon "Si" Ramo (born May 7, 1913) is an American physicist, engineer, and business leader. He led development of microwave and missile technology and is sometimes known as the father of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). He has been partly responsible for the creation of two Fortune 500 companies of the 1970s; Ramo-Wooldridge (TRW after 1958) and Bunker-Ramo (now part of Honeywell).
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Solomon H. Snyder
Solomon H. Snyder (born December 26, 1938) is an American neuroscientist.
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Solomon Lefschetz
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Stan Freberg
Stanley Victor "Stan" Freberg (born August 7, 1926) is an American author, recording artist, animation voice actor, comedian, radio personality, puppeteer, and advertising creative director.
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Stanley Norman Cohen
Stanley Norman Cohen (born June 30, 1935 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, U.S.) is an American geneticist.
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Stephen Cole Kleene
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Stephen Cook
Stephen Arthur Cook (December 14, 1939, Buffalo, New York) is a renowned American-Canadian computer scientist and mathematician who has made major contributions to the fields of complexity theory and proof complexity. He is currently a University Professor at the University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science and Department of Mathematics.
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Stephen J. Benkovic
Stephen Benkovic is an Evan Pugh Professor and Eberly Chair in Chemistry at Penn State University. His research has focused on mechanistic enzymology and the discovery of enzyme inhibitors. He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1985.
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Stephen J. Lippard
Stephen J. Lippard is an American bioinorganic chemist and the Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Stephen Smale
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Steve Wozniak
Stephen Gary "Woz" Wozniak (born August 11, 1950 in San Jose, California) is an American computer engineer who co-founded Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple Inc.) with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne. His inventions and machines are credited with contributing significantly to the personal computer revolution of the 1970s. Wozniak created the Apple I and Apple II computers in the mid-1970s.
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Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) is an American physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles.
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Susan L. Lindquist
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Theodor O. Diener
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Theodore von Kármán
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Thomas Cech
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Thomas Eisner
Thomas Eisner (born June 25, 1929) is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology at Cornell University, and Director of the Cornell Institute for Research in Chemical Ecology (CIRCE). He is a world authority on animal behavior, ecology, and evolution, and, together with his Cornell colleague, Jerrold Meinwald, is one of the pioneers of chemical ecology, the discipline dealing with the chemical interactions of organisms. He is author or co-author of some 400 scientific articles and 7 books.
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Thomas Starzl
Thomas E. Starzl (born March 11, 1926) is an American physician, researcher, and is an expert on organ transplants. He performed the first human liver transplants, and has often been referred to as "the father of modern transplantation."
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Tobin J. Marks
Tobin Jay Marks (born November 25, 1944) is the Vladimir N. Ipatieff Professor of Catalytic Chemistry and Professor of Material Science and Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University. His research fields are organometallic chemistry, photonics, metal organic chemical vapor deposition and molecular electronics. Professor Marks is the recipient of the 2005 Presidential Medal of Science and is a member of the National Academy of Science.
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Tony Hoare
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Torsten N. Wiesel
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Tung-Yen Lin
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Val Fitch
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Vannevar Bush
Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974; ) was an American engineer and science administrator known for his work on analog computing, his political role in the development of the atomic bomb as a primary organizer of the Manhattan Project, and the idea of the memex, an adjustable microfilm-viewer which is somewhat analogous to the structure of the World Wide Web. More specifically the memex worked as a memory bank to organize and retrieve data. As Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Bush coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare.
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Vaughan Pratt
Vaughan Ronald Pratt (born 1944), a Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, was one of the earliest pioneers in the field of computer science. Publishing since 1969, Pratt has made several contributions to foundational areas such as search algorithms, sorting algorithms, and primality testing. More recently his research has focused on formal modeling of concurrent systems and Chu spaces. A pattern of applying models from diverse areas of mathematics such as geometry, linear algebra, abstract algebra, and especially mathematical logic to computer science pervades his work.
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Vera Rubin
Vera (Cooper) Rubin (born ) is an American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. Her magnum opus was the uncovering of the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves. This phenomenon became known as the galaxy rotation problem.
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Verner Suomi
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Victor A. McKusick
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Victor F. Weisskopf
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Viktor Hamburger
Viktor Hamburger (July 9, 1900 – June 12, 2001) was a German professor and embryologist. Hamburger lectured, among others, Nobel Prize-winning neurologist Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909 - ), who identified nerve growth factor along with Hamburger when they collaborated. Hamburger retired from his professor position in 1969 and continued researching until the 1980s.
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Vint Cerf
Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf (; born June 23, 1943) is an American computer scientist who is recognized as one of
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Vladimir Haensel
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Vladimir K. Zworykin
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W. Daniel Hillis
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W. Jason Morgan
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Walter H. Stockmayer
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Walter Kohn
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Walter Munk
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Warren K. Lewis
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Warren M. Washington
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Wen-mei Hwu
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Wendell L. Roelofs
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William Kahan
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William Kaye Estes
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William N. Joy
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William O. Baker
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Yakir Aharonov
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Yoichiro Nambu
is a Japanese-born American physicist, currently a professor at the University of Chicago. Known for his contributions to the field of theoretical physics, he was awarded a one-half share of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008 for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics. The other half share was split equally between Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature."
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My advice to young people - Donald Knuth [video]
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- Published: 02 May 2012
- Updated: 15 Oct 2012
Visit www.webofstories.com for more Donald Knuth's inspiring thoughts and life stories. Donald Knuth (b. 1938), American computing pioneer, is known for his greatly influential multi-volume work, 'The Art of Computer Programming', his novel 'Surreal Numbers', his invention of TeX and METAFONT electronic publishing tools and his quirky sense of humour.
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Authors@Google: Donald Knuth
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- Published: 17 Mar 2009
- Updated: 10 Oct 2012
Professor Donald Knuth visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss the interactions between faith and science. This event took place on March 16, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series. In the fall of 1999, Donald was invited to give six public lectures at MIT on the general subject of relations between faith and science, during which he touched upon such topics as the interaction of randomization and religion, language translation, art and aesthetics, and the 3:16 project. During his talk at Google, Donald will similarly be focusing on the interactions between faith and science. Donald Knuth is a renowned computer scientist and Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University. He is the author of numerous books, including three volumes (so far) of The Art of Computer Programming, five volumes of Computers & Typesetting, and a non-technical book entitled 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated, and he has been called the father of the analysis of algorithms. Knuth is the creator of the TeX computer typesetting system and the related METAFONT font definition language and rendering system, that are extensively used for book publishing throughout the world. Donald is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering, and he is a foreign associate of the French, Norwegian, Bavarian, and Russian science academies as well as the Royal Society of London. He has <b>...</b>
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"Why Pi?" - from Donald Knuth's Computer Musings
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- Duration: 99:33
- Published: 06 Sep 2011
- Updated: 11 Oct 2012
scpd.stanford.edu Professor Donald Knuth discusses recent discoveries that have uncovered a fascinating relationship between circles and the theory of trees.
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Donald Knuth - All Questions Answered
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- Published: 17 May 2011
- Updated: 04 Oct 2012
scpd.stanford.edu - Donald Knuth, in this Stanford Engineering Hero Lecture, answers questions from the audience--from his opinion of Wikipedia to the next great discovery in computer science to his most memorable mistake.
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Donald Knuth - "Bayesian trees and BDDs"
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- Published: 09 Dec 2011
- Updated: 04 Oct 2012
scpd.stanford.edu Professor Donald Knuth's 17th annual Christmas Tree Lecture. Knuth explains how to apply elementary BDD technology so that the probability of such events (and many others) can be computed in polynomial time.
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Donald Knuth: All Questions Answered - Heroes Lecture Stanford Engineering
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- Duration: 68:51
- Published: 20 Apr 2012
- Updated: 07 Oct 2012
Professor Knuth was the guest of honor at this special event on the evening of May 12. Knuth briefly discussed his work and then opened the room queries from the audience. In his typical self-deprecating style, the Professor warns: "the audience should be aware that the answers will be my best shot, though those outside the field of The Art of Computer Programming may have somewhat less credibility than a Wikipedia article."
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Part I -- Talking with Don Knuth, software pioneer
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- Duration: 12:17
- Published: 13 Jan 2011
- Updated: 10 Aug 2012
Don Knuth has taught many many people to program through his books and classes and here I have a conversation with him about software in the Revolutions Exhibit at the Computer History Museum.
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Proof that Knuth never told Jobs that he was full of shit.
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- Duration: 1:43
- Published: 08 Jun 2011
- Updated: 12 Jan 2012
www.catonmat.net ---- Steve had managed to get Don Knuth, the legendary Stanford professor of computer science, to give a lunchtime lecture to the Mac team. Knuth is the author of at least a dozen books, including the massive and somewhat impenetrable trilogy "The Art of Computer Programming." I was sitting in Steve's office when Lynn Takahashi, Steve's assistant, announced Knuth's arrival. Steve bounced out of his chair, bounded over to the door and extended a welcoming hand. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Professor Knuth," Steve said. "I've read all of your books." "You're full of shit," Knuth responded. ---- This story is not true. ;)
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AMU - Donald E. Knuth's Dub Dream (Bass Mix)
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- Published: 30 Aug 2012
- Updated: 30 Aug 2012
I'll start by mentioning that you can count the number of Chinese electro artist worth knowing about on one hand, and with AMU, it's definitely your right thumb you should be raising. The album name Diamond fits without a doubt, as this truly is a rare gem. AMU has shown surprising maturity for a Chinese kid, so far away from all the western hype, and he is already leading the 8-bit music craze in the Middle Kingdom. Heavy beats, insane melodies, smart programming and unusual bleeps ... AMU's ability to provide strong dance floor tracks straight out his Gameboy comes from his experience touring and smashing Beijing and Shanghai's clubs with his unexpected DJ sets. Do not miss the chance to listen to Diamond - this jewel of an EP will surely end as your favourite new 8-carat ear piece! -- TNEM 8bitpeoples ----------------- Official Website: www.8bitpeoples.com SoundWave Trax ------------------------- Facebook: www.facebook.com Google+: plus.google.com Twitter: twitter.com
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The Electronic Coach
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- Published: 02 Sep 2010
- Updated: 02 Oct 2012
[Recorded: circa 1959] "The Electronic Coach" is a short film made by IBM describing the use of computers in the management of a university basketball team. The film features computer science legend Don Knuth, then a junior at Case Institute of Technology. For all four of his undergraduate years at Case (1956-60), Knuth was manager of the basketball team and sought ways to improve his team's play by analyzing a series of special statistics he captured during games. The scoring method was unusual in the weightings it gave to activities not necessarily associated with traditional coaching but Knuth's insights into basketball, combined with his computerization of the reams of data he collected, helped Case's coaching staff make their basketball team a winner. The computer used is an IBM 650.
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Donald Knuth Quotes
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- Published: 18 Mar 2012
- Updated: 17 Jul 2012
What was your favorite Donald Knuth quote? 'Like' and leave a comment below, then jump over to quotetank.com and make a list of your favorites, so you'll never forget! We update our Twitter and Facebook with new quotes every few minutes, don't miss out! twitter.com | www.facebook.com If you enjoyed these quotes, please LIKE, SHARE and SUBSCRIBE! Who is Donald Knuth? A computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University.
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Knuth - TeX For Beginners - Session 1
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- Duration: 62:00
- Published: 19 Apr 2012
- Updated: 07 Sep 2012
Original lecture date: February 23, 1981 Copyright: Stanford University 2004 Source: scpd.stanford.edu
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Donald Knuth @ Greenwich
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- Published: 03 Jun 2009
- Updated: 11 Mar 2012
Donald was speaking about the difference between the history of Computer Science and the history of Mathematics. He didn't hear me offering him the pen, however everybody else seemed to appreciate it. My apologies for the auto focus mechanism of my camera. More details soon.
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An Earthshaking Announcement
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- Duration: 33:44
- Published: 18 Jul 2011
- Updated: 04 Oct 2012
Don Knuth Stanford University More videos from the TUG 2010 conference are available here: river-valley.tv
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Computer pioneers talk with the press
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- Duration: 10:56
- Published: 13 Jan 2011
- Updated: 06 Sep 2012
Today the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, opens a new "Revolutions" exhibit and to celebrate the opening several computer pioneers sat down for a QA with the press. From LEFT, Len Shustek is chairman of the board of trustees of the Computer History Museum John Hollar, CEO of Computer History Museum. Max Mathews, computer music pioneer.. Donald Knuth, software pioneer. Steve Wozniak, co-founded Apple. Al Alcorn, invented Pong Steve Russell, inventor of first computer game. Frances Allen, pioneered several computer languages.
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DEK Don E Knuth re JMC
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- Published: 19 Apr 2012
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DEK Donald Edwin Knuth remembers John McCarthy JMC. at the Celebration of John McCarthy's Accomplishments at Stanford University on Sunday 25 March 2012.
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JMC2009-Awards. John McCarthy remarks.
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- Published: 07 May 2012
- Updated: 11 May 2012
John McCarthy's remarks at the Stanford AI Lab reunion held 22 November 2009 at Stanford for the John McCarthy Awards for Research Excellence. First, McCarthy reminisces on "Why SAIL" and not something else; followed by sever short clips: Q&A re Artificial Intelligence history, a remark on www. SAILDART .org and a comparison of Larry Tesler's PUB to Don Kunth's TeX. Brief reply from the floor by Don Kunth.
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AMU - Donald E. Knuth's Wet Dream
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Very crazy music album Artist: AMU Title: Donald E. Knuth's Wet Dream Album: Diamond www.8bitpeoples.com
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2011 Faraday Medallist - Professor Knuth
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- Published: 01 Dec 2011
- Updated: 21 Aug 2012
Professor Knuth talks to the IET about receiving Faraday Medal.
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Knuth - The Internal Details of TeX82 - Session 1
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- Duration: 66:49
- Published: 19 Apr 2012
- Updated: 04 Oct 2012
Original lecture date: July 28, 1982 Copyright: Stanford University 2004 Source: scpd.stanford.edu
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Knuth - The Internal Details of TeX82 - Session 11
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- Duration: 66:06
- Published: 19 Apr 2012
- Updated: 19 Apr 2012
Original lecture date: July 30, 1982 Copyright: Stanford University 2004 Source: scpd.stanford.edu
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Knuth - The Internal Details of TeX82 - Session 8
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- Duration: 64:43
- Published: 19 Apr 2012
- Updated: 19 Apr 2012
Original lecture date: July 29, 1982 Copyright: Stanford University 2004 Source: scpd.stanford.edu
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Knuth - The Internal Details of TeX82 - Session 4
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- Duration: 69:50
- Published: 19 Apr 2012
- Updated: 19 Apr 2012
Original lecture date: July 28, 1982 Copyright: Stanford University 2004 Source: scpd.stanford.edu
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| Donald Ervin Knuth | |
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 Donald Knuth at a reception for the Open Content Alliance, October 25, 2005 |
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| Born | (1938-01-10) January 10, 1938 (age 74) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Residence | U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Mathematics Computer science |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Alma mater | Case Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Marshall Hall, Jr. |
| Doctoral students | Leonidas J. Guibas Michael Fredman Scott Kim Vaughan Pratt Robert Sedgewick Jeffrey Vitter Andrei Broder |
| Known for | The Art of Computer Programming TeX, METAFONT Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm Knuth–Bendix completion algorithm MMIX |
| Notable awards | Turing Award (1974) John von Neumann Medal (1995) Harvey Prize (1995) Kyoto Prize (1996) |
Donald Ervin Knuth (
/kəˈnuːθ/[1] kə-NOOTH; born January 10, 1938) is a computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University.[2]
He is the author of the seminal multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming.[3] Knuth has been called the "father" of the analysis of algorithms. He contributed to the development of the rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms and systematized formal mathematical techniques for it. In the process he also popularized the asymptotic notation.
In addition to fundamental contributions in several branches of theoretical computer science, Knuth is the creator of the TeX computer typesetting system, the related METAFONT font definition language and rendering system, and the Computer Modern family of typefaces.
As a writer and scholar,[4] Knuth created the WEB/CWEB computer programming systems designed to encourage and facilitate literate programming, and designed the MIX/MMIX instruction set architectures.
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Early life[link]
Knuth was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where his father owned a small printing business and taught bookkeeping at Milwaukee Lutheran High School, where he enrolled, earning achievement awards. He applied his intelligence in unconventional ways, winning a contest when he was in eighth grade by finding over 4,500 words that could be formed from the letters in "Ziegler's Giant Bar." The judges had only about 2,500 words on their master list. This won him a television set for his school and a candy bar for everyone in his class.[5]
Education[link]
Knuth had a difficult time choosing physics over music as his major at Case Institute of Technology (now part of Case Western Reserve University). He also joined Beta Nu Chapter of the Theta Chi fraternity. While studying physics at the Case Institute of Technology, Knuth was introduced to the IBM 650, one of the early mainframes. After reading the computer's manual, Knuth decided to rewrite the assembly and compiler code for the machine used in his school, because he believed he could do it better.[6] In 1958, Knuth constructed a program based on the value of each player that could help his school basketball team win the league. This was so novel a proposition at the time that it got picked up and published by Newsweek and also covered by Walter Cronkite on the CBS Evening News.[6] Knuth was one of the founding editors of the Engineering and Science Review which won a national award as best technical magazine in 1959.[7] He then switched from physics to mathematics, and in 1960 he received his bachelor of science degree, simultaneously receiving his master of science degree by a special award of the faculty who considered his work outstanding.[6]
In 1963, he earned a Ph.D. in mathematics (advisor: Marshall Hall) from the California Institute of Technology,[8] and began to work there as associate professor and began work on The Art of Computer Programming. He had initially accepted a commission to write a book on compilers which would later become the multi-volume The Art of Computer Programming. This work was originally planned to be a single book, and then planned as a six- and then seven-volume series. In 1968, he published the first volume. That same year, he joined the faculty of Stanford University, having turned down a job offer from the National Security Agency (NSA).[citation needed]
Writings[link]
The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP)[link]
Main article: The Art of Computer Programming
Computer science was then taking its first, hesitant steps. “It was a totally new field”, Knuth recalls, “with no real identity. And the standard of available publications was not that high (…). A lot of the papers coming out were quite simply wrong. (…) So one of my motivations was to put straight a story that had been very badly told”.
After producing the third volume of his series in 1976, he expressed such frustration with the nascent state of the then newly developed electronic publishing tools (especially those that provided input to phototypesetters) that he took time out to work on typesetting and created the TeX and METAFONT tools.
As of 2012[update], the first three volumes and part 1 of volume four of his series have been published.[9]
Other works[link]
He is also the author of Surreal Numbers,[10] a mathematical novelette on John Conway's set theory construction of an alternate system of numbers. Instead of simply explaining the subject, the book seeks to show the development of the mathematics. Knuth wanted the book to prepare students for doing original, creative research.
Religious beliefs and work[link]
In addition to his writings on computer science, Knuth, a Lutheran,[11] is also the author of 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated,[12] in which he examines the Bible by a process of systematic sampling, namely an analysis of chapter 3, verse 16 of each book. Each verse is accompanied by a rendering in calligraphic art, contributed by a group of calligraphers under the leadership of Hermann Zapf.
Health concerns[link]
In 2006, Knuth was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He underwent surgery in December that year and started "a little bit of radiation therapy...as a precaution but the prognosis looks pretty good," as he reported in his video autobiography.[13]
Computer Musings[link]
Knuth gave informal lectures a few times a year at Stanford University, which he called Computer Musings. He was also a visiting professor at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory in the United Kingdom and an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College.[14]
Humor[link]
Knuth is known for his "professional humor".
- He used to pay a finder’s fee of $2.56 for any typographical errors or mistakes discovered in his books, because "256 pennies is one hexadecimal dollar", and $0.32 for "valuable suggestions". According to an article in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Technology Review, these Knuth reward checks are "among computerdom's most prized trophies". Knuth had to stop sending real checks in 2008 due to bank fraud, and instead now gives each error finder a "certificate of deposit" from a publicly listed balance in his fictitious "Bank of San Serriffe".[15]
- He once warned a correspondent, "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."[16]
- The preface of Concrete Mathematics includes the following anecdote: "When Knuth taught Concrete Mathematics at Stanford for the first time, he explained the somewhat strange title by saying that it was his attempt to teach a math course that was hard instead of soft. He announced that, contrary to the expectations of some of his colleagues, he was not going to teach the Theory of Aggregates, nor Stone's Embedding Theorem, nor even the Stone–Čech compactification theorem. (Several students from the civil engineering department got up and quietly left the room.)"
- Knuth published his first "scientific" article in a school magazine in 1957 under the title "Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures." In it, he defined the fundamental unit of length as the thickness of Mad #26, and named the fundamental unit of force "whatmeworry." Mad published the article in issue #33 (June 1957).
- Knuth's article about the computational complexity of songs, "The Complexity of Songs", was reprinted twice in computer science journals.
- To demonstrate the concept, Knuth intentionally referred "Circular definition" and "Definition, circular" to each other in the index of The Art of Computer Programming Vol. 1.
- At the TUG 2010 Conference, Knuth announced an XML-based successor to TeX, titled "iTeX" (pronounced [iː˨˩˦tɛks˧˥], with a bell ringing), which would support features such as arbitrarily scaled irrational units, 3D printing, animation, and stereophonic sound.[17][18]
Awards[link]
In 1971, Knuth was the recipient of the first ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award. He has received various other awards including the Turing Award, the National Medal of Science, the John von Neumann Medal, and the Kyoto Prize.
In recognition of Knuth's contributions to the field of computer science, in 1990 he was awarded the one-of-a-kind academic title of Professor of The Art of Computer Programming, which has since been revised to Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming.
In 1992, he became an associate of the French Academy of Sciences. Also that year, he retired from regular research and teaching at Stanford University in order to finish The Art of Computer Programming. In 2003 he was elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society.
Knuth was elected as a Fellow (first class of Fellows) of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2009 for his outstanding contributions to mathematics.[19] He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[20]
Honors bestowed on Knuth include:
- First ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, 1971
- Turing Award, 1974
- National Medal of Science, 1979
- Franklin Medal, 1988
- John von Neumann Medal, 1995
- Harvey Prize from the Technion, 1995[21]
- Kyoto Prize, 1996
- Fellow of the Computer History Museum, 1998
- Katayanagi Prize, 2010[22]
- BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, 2010[23]
- Stanford University School of Engineering Hero Award, 2011[24]
Works[link]
A short list of his works:[25]
- Donald E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1–4, Addison-Wesley Professional
- Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms (3rd edition), 1997. Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN 0-201-89683-4
- Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms (3rd Edition), 1997. Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN 0-201-89684-2
- Volume 3: Sorting and Searching (2nd Edition), 1998. Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN 0-201-89685-0
- Volume 4A: Combinatorial Algorithms, Part 1, 2011. Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN 0-201-03804-8
- Volume 4: Combinatorial Algorithms (remainder), in preparation
- Donald E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, fascicles:
- Volume 1, Fascicle 1: MMIX—A RISC Computer for the New Millennium, 2005. ISBN 0-201-85392-2
- Volume 4, Fascicle 0: Introduction to Combinatorial Algorithms and Boolean Functions. 2008. ISBN 0-321-53496-4
- Volume 4, Fascicle 1: Bitwise Tricks & Techniques; Binary Decision Diagrams. 2009. ISBN 0-321-58050-8
- Volume 4, Fascicle 2: Generating All Tuples and Permutations, 2005. ISBN 0-201-85393-0
- Volume 4, Fascicle 3: Generating All Combinations and Partitions, 2005. ISBN 0-201-85394-9
- Volume 4, Fascicle 4: Generating All Trees—History of Combinatorial Generation, 2006. ISBN 0-321-33570-8
- Donald E. Knuth, Computers & Typesetting:[26]
- Volume A, The TeXbook (Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1984), x+483pp. ISBN 0-201-13447-0
- Volume B, TeX: The Program (Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1986), xviii+600pp. ISBN 0-201-13437-3
- Volume C, The METAFONTbook (Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1986), xii+361pp. ISBN 0-201-13445-4
- Volume D, METAFONT: The Program (Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1986), xviii+566pp. ISBN 0-201-13438-1
- Volume E, Computer Modern Typefaces (Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1986), xvi+588pp.
- Knuth, Donald E. Selected papers series[27]
- Donald E. Knuth, Literate Programming[28] (Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and Information — CSLI Lecture Notes, no. 27), 1992. ISBN 0-937073-80-6
- Donald E. Knuth, Selected Papers on Computer Science[29] (Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and Information — CSLI Lecture Notes, no. 59), 1996. ISBN 1-881526-91-7
- Donald E. Knuth, Digital Typography[30] (Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and Information — CSLI Lecture Notes, no. 78), 1999. ISBN 1-57586-010-4
- Donald E. Knuth, Selected Papers on Analysis of Algorithms[31] (Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and Information — CSLI Lecture Notes, no. 102), 2000. ISBN 1-57586-212-3
- Donald E. Knuth, Selected Papers on Computer Languages[32] (Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and Information — CSLI Lecture Notes, no. 139), 2003. ISBN 1-57586-381-2 (cloth), ISBN 1-57586-382-0 (paperback)
- Donald E. Knuth, Selected Papers on Discrete Mathematics[33] (Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and Information — CSLI Lecture Notes, no. 106), 2003. ISBN 1-57586-249-2 (cloth), ISBN 1-57586-248-4 (paperback)
- Donald E. Knuth, Selected Papers on Design of Algorithms[34] (Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and Information — CSLI Lecture Notes, no. 191), 2010. ISBN 1-57586-583-1 (cloth), ISBN 1-57586-582-3 (paperback)
- Donald E. Knuth, Selected Papers on Fun and Games[35] (Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and Information — CSLI Lecture Notes, no. 192), 2011. ISBN 978-1-57586-585-0 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57586-584-3 (paperback)
- Donald E. Knuth, Companion to the Papers of Donald Knuth[36] (Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and Information — CSLI Lecture Notes, no. 202), 2011. ISBN 978-1-57586-635-2 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57586-634-5 (paperback)
- Graham, Ronald L.; Knuth, Donald E.; Patashnik, Oren (1994). Concrete mathematics: A foundation for computer science (Second ed.). Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. pp. xiv+657. ISBN 0-201-55802-5. MR 1397498.
- Donald E. Knuth, Surreal Numbers: How Two Ex-Students Turned on to Pure Mathematics and Found Total Happiness. 1974, ISBN 0-201-03812-9. More information can be found at the book's official homepage
- Donald E. Knuth, The Stanford GraphBase: A Platform for Combinatorial Computing (New York, ACM Press) 1993. second paperback printing 2009. ISBN 0-321-60632-9
- Donald E. Knuth, 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated (Madison, Wisconsin: A-R Editions), 1990. ISBN 0-89579-252-4
- Donald E. Knuth, Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About (Center for the Study of Language and Information — CSLI Lecture Notes no 136), 2001. ISBN 1-57586-326-X
See also[link]
- Asymptotic notation
- Attribute grammar
- Dancing Links
- Knuth–Bendix completion algorithm
- Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm
- Knuth -yllion
- Knuth Prize
- Knuth shuffle
- Knuth's up-arrow notation
- Man or boy test
- Robinson–Schensted–Knuth correspondence
- The Complexity of Songs
- Trabb Pardo–Knuth algorithm
- List of science and religion scholars
References[link]
- ^ Knuth, Don. "Knuth: Frequently Asked Questions". Don Knuth's home page. Stanford University. http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/faq.html. Retrieved 2010-11-02. "How do you pronounce your last name? Ka-NOOTH."
- ^ Donald Knuth's Homepage at Stanford.
- ^ The Art of Computer Programming (Stanford University).
- ^ Knuth's CV
- ^ Dennis Elliott Shasha; Cathy A. Lazere (1998). Out of their minds: the lives and discoveries of 15 great computer scientists. Springer. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-387-98269-4. http://books.google.com/?id=-0tDZX3z-8UC&pg=PA90.
- ^ a b c Thomas Koshy (2004). Discrete mathematics with applications. Academic Press. p. 244. ISBN 978-0-12-421180-3. http://books.google.com/books?id=90KApidK5NwC&pg=PA244. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
- ^ History of Beta Nu Chapter
- ^ Finite Semifields and Projective Planes – Donald Knuth's Ph.D. dissertation
- ^ Knuth, Donald E.. "The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP)". http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html. Retrieved 2012-05-20.
- ^ Knuth, Donald (1974). Surreal numbers : how two ex-students turned on to pure mathematics and found total happiness : a mathematical novelette. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-201-03812-5.
- ^ Love at First Byte. Stanford Magazine, May/June 2006.
- ^ Knuth, Donald (1991). 3:16 : Bible texts illuminated. A-R Eds.. ISBN 978-0-89579-252-5.
- ^ "Donald Knuth: 85 - Coping with cancer". Web of Stories. April 2006. http://www.webofstories.com/people/donald.knuth/85. Retrieved May 2, 2012.
- ^ "Professor Donald Knuth". Magdalen College. http://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/whos-here/fellows-and-lecturers/fellows/knuthd. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
- ^ "Rewriting the Bible in 0's and 1's" in the Technology Review of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- ^ Knuth, Don. "Knuth: Frequently Asked Questions". Don Knuth's home page. Stanford University. http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/faq.html. Retrieved 2010-11-02.
- ^ A video recording, uploaded with Knuth's permission is available at River Valley TV
- ^ Knuth, Donald (2010). "An Earthshaking Announcement". TUGboat 31 (2): 121–124. ISSN 0896-3207 http://tug.org/TUGboat/tb31-2/tb98knut.pdf
- ^ http://fellows.siam.org/index.php?sort=year&value=2009
- ^ "Gruppe 1: Matematiske fag" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. http://www.dnva.no/c26849/artikkel/vis.html?tid=40116. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
- ^ http://www.admin.technion.ac.il/harvey/1995-2.html
- ^ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~katayanagi/
- ^ http://www.fbbva.es/TLFU/tlfu/ing/microsites/premios/fronteras/galardonados/2010/informacion.jsp
- ^ Andrew Myers (June 1, 2001). "Stanford's Don Knuth, a pioneering hero of computer programming". Stanford Report. http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/june/knuth-engineering-hero-060111.html. Retrieved June 27, 2011.
- ^ A complete list is also available: "Books" at Stanford site
- ^ A complete list is also available: "Books" at Stanford site
- ^ "Selected Papers" at Stanford site
- ^ "Literate Programming"
- ^ "Selected Papers on Computer Science"
- ^ "Digital Typography"
- ^ "Selected Papers on Analysis of Algorithms"
- ^ "Selected Papers on Computer Languages"
- ^ "Selected Papers on Discrete Mathematics"
- ^ "Selected Papers on Design of Algorithms"
- ^ "Selected Papers on Fun and Games"
- ^ "Companion to the Papers of Donald Knuth"
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- Donald Knuth’s home page at Stanford University.
- Oral history interview with Donald E. Knuth at Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Knuth discusses software patenting, structured programming, collaboration and his development of TeX.
- “Love at First Byte,” Kara Platoni, with photography by Timothy Archibald, STANFORD Magazine, May/June 2006. A retrospective of Knuth’s life and work, with some rare, recent photos.
- Donald Knuth at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Donald Knuth", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Knuth.html .
- Works by or about Donald Knuth in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Donald Knuth's Stanford lectures archive
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