- Alice Eastwood
Alice Eastwood (1859 in Toronto, Canada - October 30 1953 in San Francisco, California) is considered an American botanist, since her life after age 14 was in the USA. From age twenty to thirty, she was a teacher in Denver, Colorado and taught herself botany. In 1890 she assumed a post in the herbarium at the California Academy of Sciences. Eastwood was given a position as joint Curator of the Academy with Katherine Brandegee in 1892. - Sylvia Earle
Sylvia Alice Earle (born August 30, 1935 in Gibbstown, New Jersey) is an American oceanographer. She was chief scientist for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from 1990-1992. She is a "National Geographic" Explorer-in-Residence, sometimes called "Her Deepness" or "The Sturgeon General". Earle received a B.S. degree from Florida State University (1955), M.S. (1956) and PhD. from Duke University (1966). - Jill Tarter
Jill Cornell Tarter (born 1944) is an American astronomer and the current director of the Center for SETI Research. She holds the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI at the SETI Institute. Tarter received her undergraduate education at Cornell University and her PhD from the University of California. Tarter has worked on a number of major scientific projects, most relating to the search for extraterrestrial life. - Michael Ghiselin
Michael T. Ghiselin is an American biologist, philosopher/historian of biology currently at the California Academy of Sciences. B.A., University of Utah (1960); Ph.D., Stanford University (1965); Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University (1964-65); Postdoctoral Fellow, Marine Biological Laboratory (1965-67); Assistant Professor of Zoology, University of California, Berkeley (1967-74); Associate Professor (1974-78); Guggenheim Fellow (1978-79); Research Professor of Biology, … - Peter H. Raven
Peter Hamilton Raven (b. June 13, 1936) is a botanist and environmentalist, notable as the longtime director of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Raven was born in China to American parents. An uncle of his father's was, for a time, one of the wealthiest Americans in China, but was later jailed in a banking scandal. That incident and Japanese aggression in China led the Raven family to return to San Francisco in the late 1930s. - William Hammond Hall
William Hammond Hall (1846 in Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America - 1934) was a civil engineer who was the first State Engineer of California, and designed Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, CA. After serving with the U.S. army engineers in the Civil War, Hall was assigned in the latter part of the 1860s to surveying the Western regions of the United States and preparing topographical maps. - Francis P. Farquhar
Francis Peloubet Farquhar (31 December 1887, Newton, Massachusetts - 21 November 1974 in Berkeley, California) graduated from Harvard and came to San Francisco to set up in practice as a Certified Public Accountant. Francis Farquhar was an active Sierra Club leader and served as its president 1933-1935 and 1948-1949, "Sierra Club Bulletin" editor from 1926 to 1946, and in other club offices as director from 1924 to 1951. - Elizabeth McClintock
Elizabeth McClintock (born 1912, died 2004 was a botanist who was born in Los Angeles and grew up in near the San Jacinto Mountain. BA and MA from UCLA, PhD in botany from University of Michigan. Specialized in taxonomy and distribution of flowering plants, and focused on California natives. She documented invasive plants in California, and compiled information on toxicity of poisonous plants cultivated in the state. - John van Denburgh
John Van Denburgh (August 23, 1872 - 1924) was a U.S. herpetologist from California. He was born in San Francisco and enrolled at Stanford University in 1891. As of 1895, he organized the herpetology departement of the California Academy of Sciences. In 1897 he got a Ph.D. from Stanford University. Additionally, he got a M.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1902 and subsequently practiced medicine in San Francisco, … - H. W. Harkness
Harvey Willson Harkness was an American mycologist and natural historian best known for his early descriptions of California fungal species. Born and raised in Massachusetts and trained as a physician, Harkness came to California during the Gold Rush in 1849. He rose to prominence as physician, educator, real estate developer, and newspaper editor in Sacramento, becoming part of the social circle of early California notables such as Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, … - James Graham Cooper
James Graham Cooper (June 19, 1830, New York- July 19, 1902) was an American surgeon and naturalist. Cooper worked for the California Geological Survey (1860-1874) with Josiah Dwight Whitney, William Henry Brewer and Henry Nicholas Bolander. He was primarily a zoologist, but he also made significant botanical collections from San Diego to Fort Mohave, Arizona in 1861. Cooper was active in the California Academy of Sciences, eventually becoming Director of the Museum. - Joseph Bruno Slowinski
"Joseph Bruno "Joe" Slowinski", Ph.D (November 15, 1962-September 12, 2001) was an American herpetologist who worked extensively with elapid snakes. He was born on November 15, 1962 in New York City, New York. He attained his bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Kansas in 1984 and went on to receive his Ph.D at the University of Miami in 1991, studying under renowned herpetologist Dr. Jay M. Savage. - Leo George Hertlein
Leo George Hertlein (1898 - 1972) was an American paleontologist and malacologist who studied the fossil mollusks of the eastern Pacific Ocean. Hertlein was born on a farm in Pratt County, Kansas. After graduating high school in Wichita, Kansas, he moved to the West Coast and entered the University of Oregon as a geology major. After graduating with a B.A., Hertlein enrolled as a graduate student at Stanford University. He received his doctorate in 1929. - William Randolph Hearst III
William R. Hearst III joined KPCB in January, 1995, and currently serves on the boards of Akimbo, Applied Minds, Juniper Networks, Oblix, OnFiber, and RGB Networks. In addition to his portfolio company boards, he is also a director of the Hearst Corporation and Hearst-Argyle Television. - Francis Walker
Francis Walker (July 31, 1809 - October 5, 1874) was an English entomologist. Walker was employed by the British Museum between 1844 and 1873. He described a great number of new insects, but unfortunately he was, sometimes, a careless taxonomist, often describing the same species more than once under different specific names. In this respect, however, he was no worse than many continental entomologists. He was born in Southgate, England on 1 July 1809 and died at Wanstead, … - Evelyn Handler
Evelyn Erika Handler served from 1980 to 1983 as the University of New Hampshire's fourteenth and first female president. In 1983, Handler was inaugurated as President of Brandeis University, where she was also the first woman to hold that position. Notable achievements during her tenure include the initiation of the Volen Center for Complex Systems, the strengthening of life sciences at Brandeis, admission to the Association of American Universities, … - Bill Dan
Bill Dan is a sculptor and performance artist specializing in rock balancing. He creates seemingly impossible, temporary balanced sculptures from un-worked rock and stone in public spaces near his home in San Francisco. Dan was born in Indonesia, and worked as a warehouseman before discovering the artistic possibilities of rock along the San Francisco Bay shoreline and his emergent skill in manipulating them. - Jesse Root Grant
Jesse Root Grant (February 6, 1858-June 8, 1934), the youngest son of President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant and Julia Boggs Dent, was a miner and entrepreneur. He dropped out of Cornell University at age 19 to join his parents on their world tour. He returned to the United States and spent one year at the Law School of Columbia University. He dropped out of school and went West. He settled for a while in San Diego, … - William Orville Ayres
William Orville Ayres (September 11, 1817 - April 30, 1887) was an American physician and ichthyologist. Born in Connecticut, he studied to become a doctor at Yale University School of Medicine. Ayres was also interested in natural science, however, particularly in ornithology. He became friends with famed ornithologist and painter John James Audubon, who named a woodpecker (now called the Northern Flicker) after him, … - Kirk Lombard
Kirk Lombard is the current record-holder of the largest monkeyface prickleback eel ever caught on hook and line. The eel was caught on February 7, 2006 on the waters off Moss Beach, California and submitted to the California Academy of Sciences on the same day. The California Department of Fish and Game officially recorded the eel as weighing 6 pounds 1 ounce. - John McCosker
Dr. McCosker has been senior scientist and the first occupant of the Research Chair of Aquatic Biology at the California Academy of Sciences since 1994. Prior to that, he was director of the Academy's Steinhart Aquarium for 21 years. Dr. McCosker's research concerning attacks upon humans by great white sharks has influenced public safety plans, and his work was featured on BBC and NOVA television programs. He is the author of more than 175 popular and scientific articles. - Hamid R. Moghadam
Hamid R. Moghadam - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer - Grace Voorhis
Grace Voorhis is a former Partner at Morgan Stanley Venture Partners (MSVP), a venture capital firm with $1.2 billion under management. She was responsible for health care and medical device investing and, in that capacity, sat on the Board of several small for-profit companies. Prior to MSVP, Grace was an Analyst with Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. in New York. Grace left her job in 2002 to spend more time with her husband and two young boys. - Ming Pan
My life can be summed up like this: victory and routine punctuated by sheer moments of drama. I strive to be stronger everyday and grow with every disappointment. A genius of hard work and innovative tactics. Totally into good stories of humor or valor in almost any form. I have uncanny timing for everything in my life resulting in either a total success or an amazingly fun time. Always up for a great time with old friends, adventures with new ones, and drinks with everyone! - Marc S. Mangel
Marc Mangel holds an undergraduate degree in physics, masters in biopysics, and doctors in applied mathematics and statistics. He worked for the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA the research and development center for the US Navy) from 1977-1980 before joining UC. While working at CNA, he became interested in the solving of unstructured problems. - Jessica Nelson
- Justin
Like just 8% of the population you are a Mastermind. You can be silent and withdrawn, but behind your reserved exterior lies an active mind that allows you to analyze situations and come up with creative, unexpected solutions. Normal people call this "scheming." Anyway, your sense of style and originality are your strengths, and people will respect your judgment once they get to know you. Although you're slightly shy (admit it!), you love control. - Alicia Goode
I collect junk. - Bill
warm and friendly. young at heart. appreciation of the great outdoors and living things, adventurous, exploring, travel, sports, scuba diving, current events, all good acoustic music, formula one racing, dogs, very serious addictions to sailing (cruising not racing), italy and "droste" dark chococlate. - Liz Karr-Pola
LIZ KARR-POLA Partner Liz Karr-Pola is a Partner in the executive search practice of KarrScheffel, LLC. With over fifteen years of executive search and recruiting experience, Liz has successfully completed more than 100 searches for CFOs and other related senior financial positions in the software, e-commerce, communications, optical components, semiconductor, not-for-profit and technology industries. - Franz Boeni
I love meat. I feel that a meal without meat is incomplete. I also like red swingline staplers, giving dutch ovens, chicks with accents, and theorizing about complex algorithmic equations while breakdancing in the shower. I love going to the gym and then throwing myself on the couch in front of the tube with a pint of something frozen. Rock! - Stephanie Pau
Everything I know I learned from. - Sam Cohen
Hello, all, and welcome. Be with me now. I am now here with you present. This is importantly. However, some news has come to pass. Firstforehandfootedly, Buddy, a fake dog, has fake emphesema. Let's just hope he gives it back. May our prayers be with him, but really, only time heals all wounds. Time and reality. Unfortunately, our time together is drawing to a close. Can I invite you in for coffee or tea or dog biscuits? - Kristin
let's see... how to sum up who i am in a paragraph so that you think i'm awesome... hmmmm. you should just believe me, i am awesome. - Samuel H. Armacost
Samuel H. Armacost Chairman of the Board, SRI International A member of SRI International 's board of directors since 1981, Samuel H. Armacost was named Chairman of the Board in 1998. For more than 22 years, Armacost worked with Bank of America and BankAmerica Corporation where he served as the President and Chief Executive Officer from 1981 to 1986. - Rachael
Awesome Fact:. - Jordan
geek girl who loves horror, sci fi, anime, rpgs and comic books. i have aspirations to one day be a writer whose secret identity is that of a superhero. moved to sf 'bout a year ago and have been distracted ever since. - Robynn Swan
I want to be a Pussycat Doll! I would like to date/make-out with/marry/have a one night stand with the following people: Justin Timberlake, David Blaine, Orlando Bloom, Pierce Brosnan, JC Chasez... - Nai
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Just another attractive hapa kid who's also wickedly intelligent. Treat the life like a bowl of cereal... Some eat lucky charms, they focus on the marshmallows and end up with corn flakes. [yeah it's from a movie, sue me] I like granola... If you figure that one out, please tell me.
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