- Severo Ochoa
Severo Ochoa de Albornoz was a Spanish-American biochemist, and the recipient of the 1959 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Severo Ochoa was born in Luarca (Asturias), Spain. His father was Severo Manuel Ochoa, a lawyer and businessman, and his mother, Carmen de Albornoz. His father died when Ochoa was seven and he and his mother moved to Málaga, where he attended school through high school.
- Colm Kelleher
Colm Kelleher is a research scientist and author. He received his PhD at Trinity College, Dublin and has 21 yearsworth of experience in the biochemistry field. In addition he was an adminisrator for a Nevada aeropsace company, Space Sciences Inc., and was also Deputy Administrator of the NIDS, where he led the investigation at Skinwalker Ranch. He currently works in the biotechnology sector.
- Sani Abacha
General Sani Abacha (Kano, 20 September 1943 - Abuja, 8 June 1998) was a Nigerian military leader and politician. He was the "de facto" President of Nigeria from 1993 to 1998.
- Wolf Wolfensberger
Wolf Wolfensberger (born in Mannheim, Germany in 1934) is an American academic who influenced disability policy and practice in the United States and elsewhere through his development of Social Role Valorisation (SRV). SRV extended the work of Bengt Nirje in Europe on Normalisation. He later extended his approach in a radical anti-deathmaking direction. Wolfensberger emigrated to the USA in 1950 at 16 years of age.
- Philippe Bourgois
Philippe Bourgois (b. 1956) is Professor in the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He has recently accepted a position at the University of Pennsylvania which he will take up in the 2007-2008 academic year. He has conducted fieldwork in Central America on ethnicity and social unrest and is the author of "Ethnicity at Work: Divided Labor on a Central American Banana Plantation" (1989).
- Michael Fossel
Michael B. Fossel, M.D., Ph.D. (born 1950, Greenwich, Connecticut) is a professor of clinical medicine at Michigan State University best known for his views on telomerase therapy as a possible treatment for cellular senescence. Fossel has appeared on many major news programs to discuss aging and appears regularly on National Public Radio (NPR).
- Heinz Wolff
Professor Heinz Wolff (born 29 April 1928) is a German-British scientist, and television and radio presenter. He is best known for his television and radio work, including the TV series "The Great Egg Race". He was born in Berlin, and moved to Britain with his family at the age of ten, arriving on the day World War II broke out. After school, he worked at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford and at the Pneumoconiosis Research Unit near Cardiff, …
- Robert Ashley
Robert Ashley , a distinguished figure in American contemporary music, holds an international reputation for his work in new forms of opera and multi-disciplinary projects. His recorded works are acknowledged classics of language in a musical setting. He pioneered opera-for-television.The operatic works of Robert Ashley are distinctly original in style, and distinctly American in their subject matter and in their use of American language.
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
Charles Augustin de Coulomb was a French physicist. He is best known as the discoverer of Coulomb's law which defines the force of electrostatic attraction and repulsion. The SI unit of charge, the coulomb, was so named in his honor.
- Augustus Thomas
Augustus Thomas (1859-1934) was an American playwright, born in St. Louis, Missouri. The son of a doctor, he worked a number of jobs including a page in the 41st Congress, studying law and gaining some practical railway work experience before he turned to journalism and became editor of the Kansas City "Mirror" in 1889. Thomas had been writing since his teens when he wrote plays and even organized a small theatrical touring company.
- Louis-Pierre Anquetil
Louis-Pierre Anquetil was a French historian. He was born in Paris. He entered the community of Sainte-Geneviève, where he took holy orders and became professor of theology and literature. Later, he became rector of the seminary at Reims, where he wrote his "Histoire politique de Reims" (5 vols., 1756-1757), perhaps his best work. He was then director of the college of Senlis, …
- Chang Tung Sheng
Chang Tung Sheng (1908-1986) was a Chinese Muslim martial artist. He was one of the best-known Chinese wrestling (also known as Shuai Chiao) practitioners and teachers. Born in 1908 in Hebei, Chang was remarkably strong among his peers from his early life. Chang's family roasted chickens, and their business provided sufficient income to allow him private lessons with Zhang Fen Yen (also known as Chang Fong Yen), …
- Stephen Hadley
Stephen Hadley , 53, is Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States of America for National Security Affairs. He served as assistant secretary of defense for international security policy from 1989 to 1993 and was responsible for defense policy on NATO and Western Europe, nuclear weapons and ballistic missile defense, and arms control. He was also active in the negotiations that resulted in the START I and START II treaties.
- Claire M. Fraser
Claire M. Fraser , Ph.D., is President and Director of The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Rockville, Maryland, which has been at the forefront of the genomics revolution since it was founded in 1992. She has published more than 160 articles in scientific journals and books, and she led the research teams that deciphered the complete DNA sequences of numerous organisms, including the bacteria that cause anthrax, syphilis and Lyme disease.
- Heidi Silver-Pacuilla
Heidi Silver-Pacuilla hsilver-pacuilla@air.org Heidi Silver-Pacuilla , Ph.D., senior research analyst, is the deputy director of NCTI as well as a task leader for implementation support on the Center for Implementing Technology in Education (CITEd, www.citeducation.org ). Both NCTI and CITEd are funded by the Office of Special Education Programs.
- Aaron D. Lovaas
- Alexander Shulgin
Alexander studied Chemistry at Harvard University and Biochemistry and Medicine at the University of California at Berkeley. He has authored over 200 research papers published in peer reviewed scientific journals, been awarded some 20 patents, has published 20 book chapters, and written four books. Alexander has been studying the chemistry and effects of the psychedelics for over 30 years.
- James Birren
Dr. James E. Birren, Ph.D., (born in 1918) is one of the founders of the field of gerontology since the 1940s. He is a past president of The Gerontological Society of America, and author of over 250 publications.
- Randall L. Vanderveen
Dr. Vanderveen has also served as a consultant to the Oregon Medical Assistance Program, the Michigan Department of Mental Health, Providence Medical Center, The Veterans Administration Hospital, and the Oregon Health Sciences Hospital in Portland, Oregon. Dr. Vanderveen was honored as a "Fellow" in both the American Pharmacists Association and the American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists.
- Alan Leshner
Alan I. Leshner , Ph.D. CEO, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Former Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse
- Darrell M. Daley
- Robert C. Green
Dr. Green’s research interests are in early and preclinical detection, treatment and prevention of Alzheimer's disease.
- Lindsay Farrer
Lindsay Farrer , PhD Professor of Medicine, Neurology, Genetics & Genomics, Epidemiology, & Biostatistics Chief, Genetics Program
- David O. Meltzer
David O. Meltzer , M.D., Ph.D. David O. Meltzer is an associate professor in the Department of Medicine and an associated faculty member of the Harris School and the Department of Economics. David O. Meltzer is an associate professor in the Department of Medicine and an associated faculty member in the Harris School and the Department of Economics.
- Craig S. Burkhardt
Craig S. Burkhardt Craig S. Burkhardt serves as Chief Counsel for Technology, and leads attorneys and support staff in providing legal counsel the National Institute for Standards and Technology, National Technical Information Service, and Office of Technology policy. The 3,300 employees that work in these units develop and encourage technological and commercial innovation, and adoption and use of voluntary consensus standards.
- Elaine Plybon
Elaine Plybon is the Science Instructional Specialist at The Academy of Irving ISD in Irving, Texas, and has taught GMO (Geology, Meteorology, Oceanography), Biology, Chemistry, and Science TAKS Bridge. Elaine was introduced to the Discovery Educator Network as a beginning teacher, and believes it has been the most relevant and beneficial experience of her career. Elaine attended the DEN Regional Institute last summer in Allen, Texas, and became a STAR Discovery Educator.
- Bruce Broman
Bruce Broman Bruce Broman, Director, PMA Educational Foundation, has managed numerous high-profile projects dealing with industrial skill standards, employee selection and advancement systems, certification and credentialing programs, and curriculum/training design and development. Bruce has over 16 years of experience and has directed projects for Merck, the U.S. Dept.
- Lawrence Ingvarson
Dr Lawrence Ingvarson Principal Research Fellow BSc DipEd UWA, DipEd MA London, PhD Monash FACE Dr Lawrence Ingvarson is a Principal Research Fellow at ACER in the Teaching and Leadership Program. Prior to taking up his present part-time position he was Research Director of the Teaching and Leadership Program at ACER from 2001 to 2006.
- Jeffrey B. Kopp
Dr. Kopp graduated from Harvard College (1975), University of Pennsylvania Medical School (1980) and completed training in Internal Medicine and Nephrology at the University of Washington (1987). He came to the NIH in 1987, working in the National Institute for Dental Research until 1995 and the National Institute for Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease since that time..
- Don Fraser
Don Fraser Don is the Vice President of LDF Publishing Inc., internationally known for the retention strategy bestseller, Making your Mark, which has sold over 600,000 copies and is used in over 1,000 educational institutions.
- Mark H. Rapaport
Mark H. Rapaport , M.D. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences University of California, San Diego Mark H. Rapaport , M.D. is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry in Residence at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and a staff psychiatrist in the San Diego Veterans Affairs Health Care System.
- James B. Bertero
- Kyle Betit
- Ann Baltz
Ann Baltz , founder of Opera Works
- Phyllis Moen
Phyllis Moen holds the McKnight presidential chair in sociology at The University of Minnesota. For many years prior to that, she held the Ferris Family Professorship in life course studies at Cornell University, serving also as founding director of the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center, co-director of Cornell Gerontology Research Institute, and director of the Cornell Careers Institute.
- Brian Gratton
Dr. Gratton has served as a member of review panels for the NIH and for the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as for the Canadian equivalent, the Canada Foundation for Innovation . He has been co-editor of H-Ethnic and member of the European Planning Committee for H-NET, and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences , and Historical Methods . He is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America
- Naomi Hupert
Naomi Hupert is a senior researcher at the Education Development Center's Center for Children and Technology. Her current work has focused on literacy: addressing the needs of students who struggle to meet grade-level benchmarks; and, supporting teachers and to provide high quality instruction to their students.
- Ralph L. Piedmont
Dr. Piedmont received his Ph.D. in Personality Psychology from Boston University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Aging, where he was trained in taxonomic models of personality and their relevance for understanding mental and physical health outcomes. His current research interests focus on the measurement of Spiritual Transcendence, a construct that represents a broad, nondenominational, motivational measure of spirituality.
- Mahendra Rao
Dr. Rao is a world leader in glial stem cell biology and serves as Chief Scientific Consultant. Dr. Rao received his M.D. from Bombay University in India, his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology, and did his postdoctoral studies at Case Western Reserve University. From 1994 to May 2001, he was a professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine, where his research focused on stem cells of the central nervous system.
- Paul Koegel
Paul Koegel , Ph.D. Dr. Koegel is an Associate Director of RAND Health. A nationally-recognized leader in the field, his research focuses on mental health, substance abuse, poverty and homelessness. Dr. Koegel received his Doctorate in Anthropology from UCLA.