- Krishna Bharat
Krishna Bharat is a Principal Scientist at Google who is famous for creating Google News (http://news.google.com/). This service can automatically index about 4500 news websites around the world and provide a summary of the News resources. Officially his title is "Principal Research Scientist". Krishna Bharat created Google News in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks to keep him abreast of the developments.
- Mizuko Ito
Mizuko Ito is a cultural anthropologist at the University of Southern California and Keio University, specializing in studies of media technology use. Currently, her work focuses on Japanese technoculture, including children's media mixes and youth mobile phone use. She is co-editing a book on Japanese mobile phone use entitled "Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life."
- Eric Paulos
Eric Paulos is an American computer scientist, artist, and inventor, best known for his early work on internet robotic teleoperation and is considered a founder of the field of Urban Computing. He is a senior research scientist at Intel Research in Berkeley, CA, where he joined the staff in 2002. His published work is primarily in the areas of Robotics, Urban Computing, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer supported cooperative work, and Ubiquitous computing.
- Gerhard Herzberg
Gerhard Herzberg , PC , CC , FRSC , FRS ( December 25 , 1904 a March 3 , 1999 ) was a pioneering physicist and physical chemist , and Nobel Laureate in chemistry . Born in Germany , he fled to Canada in 1935, where he continued his distinguished scientific career. Herzberg's main work concerned atomic and molecular spectroscopy .
- Watts Humphrey
Watts S. Humphrey is a key thinker in the discipline of the management of software development, often called the father of software quality. His contribution to the software engineering processes resides in the creation of the Software Process Program, which includes the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), the Personal Software Process (PSP) and the Team Software Process (TSP), …
- Lise Meitner
I n 1945, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Otto Hahn for the discovery of nuclear fission, overlooking the physicist Lise Meitner , who collaborated with him in the discovery and gave the first theoretical explanation of the fission process. While Meitner was celebrated after World War II as "the mother of the atomic bomb," she had no role in it, and her true scientific contribution became, if anything, more obscure in subsequent years.
- Harold Brown
Harold Brown was born on September 19, 1927, in New York City. He received three degrees, among them a Ph.D. (1949) in physics from Columbia University. Brown was a research scientist at the University of California Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, then at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Livermore, CA; he became director of the Lawrence lab in 1960. Brown was senior adviser at the Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Tests (1958-1959).
- Janet Murray
Janet H. Murray , Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, School of Literature, Communication and Culture, Ivan Allen College
- P. Roy Vagelos
Dr. Vagelos served as Chief Executive Officer of Merck & Co., Inc. for nine years, from July 1985 to June 1994. He was first elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 and served as its Chairman from April 1986 to November 1994. He was previously Executive Vice President of the worldwide health products company and, before that, President of its Research Division, which he joined in 1975.
- Stuart Card
Stuart K. Card is a Senior Research Fellow at Xerox PARC. He has been at PARC since 1974, and is now the Area Manager of the User Interface Research, or UIR, section of PARC. He has been one of the pioneers of applying human factors in human computer interaction. In 1983 the book he wrote along with Thomas P. Moran and Allen Newell "The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction" was published. It became a very influential book in the field, …
- Kirsten Sanford
Dr. Kirsten Sanford is a research scientist in neurophysiology at the University of California, Davis and is a specialist in learning and memory. She holds a B.S. in Conservation Biology and a Ph.D. in Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology from UC Davis. Kirsten is also the founder and host of the popular This Week in Science radio show/podcast, a weekly program broadcast from University of California, …
- Ernst Zinner
Ernst Zinner (2 February 1886 - 30 August 1970) was a German astronomer and noted historian of astronomy. He rediscovered the Comet Giacobini-Zinner, which had been previously discovered by Michel Giacobini in 1900. Zinner crater on the moon is named after him.
- Elaine Murray
Dr. Elaine Murray (born 22 December 1954, Hitchin) is a Labour politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Dumfries constituency since 1999. At the 1999, 2003 and 2007 elections, Dr Murray has continually increased her percentage share of the vote. A research scientist prior to her election, she was appointed Deputy Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport upon Jack McConnell becoming First Minister in 2001.
- Alan Lamb
Alan Lamb is an Australian artist, composer, and sound sculptor. He is best known for installations of large scale Aeolian harps, such as his album "Primal Image", which consists of contact microphone recordings of kilometre long spans of telegraph wire on twelve acres in rural Baldivis south of Perth purchased for that purpose.
- William Swann
William Swann is a professor of social and personality psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is primarily known for his work on identity, self and self-esteem, but has also done research on relationships, social cognition, group processes, accuracy in person perception, interpersonal expectancy effects, blirtatiousness, personality and attitudes. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and undergraduate degree from Gettysburg College.
- Philip Rubin
Philip E. Rubin , Ph.D., director of the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences at the National Science Foundation, received a Commendable Performance award in September from the Human Subjects Research Subcommittee on Science of the National Science and Technology Council for his superior leadership of all federal government departments and agencies involved in the protection of human subjects.
- Mohamed Hashish
Mohamed Ahmed Hashish (born May 22, 1947), best known as Mohamed Hashish, is an Egyptian-born research scientist who is widely considered as one of the greatest mechanical engineering minds of his time. He is best known as the father of the abrasive waterjet cutter.
- Marcos Espinal
Marcos Espinal , Executive Secretary, Stop TB Partnership Secretariat Marcos Espinal is the Executive Secretary of the Global Partnership to Stop TB. He joined WHO in 1997 to lead the WHO/IUATLD Global Project on Drug Resistance Surveillance and the building of a strategy to manage MDR-TB in resource-limited countries. From 2000 he managed the DOTS-Plus initiative for the management of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, including the Green Light Committee.
- Rod Roddy
Robert Ray "Rod" Roddy (September 28, 1937 - October 27, 2003) was an American radio and television announcer, best known as the announcer for the popular game show "The Price is Right" from 1986 until his death.
- David Gavaghan
Professor David Gavaghan, B.Sc. (Dunelm), MA, M.Sc., D.Phil. (Oxon) (born 10 February 1966) is the director of the Life Sciences Interface Doctoral Training Centre, Principal Investigator of the Integrative Biology project at the University of Oxford, and Research Fellow in Mathematics at New College, Oxford, England
- John Hammond Frs
Sir John Hammond CBE FRS PhD (23 February 1889 - 25 August 1964), was a physiologist, agricultural research scientist, veterinarian and Fellow of the Royal Society.
- Randy Sweeney
William Randolph 'Randy' Sweeney (born Janurary 7th, 1956) is an American research scientist. He is a Senior Research Engineer and director for R&D at Philip Morris USA. <br> Sweeney was born in Richmond, Virginia and educated at the Virginia Tech. He graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering in 1978. Sweeney joined Philip Morris in 1978 directly after graduating, he began work in advanced digital process control, became a leader in human-machine interface, …
- Alan J. Charig
Alan Jack Charig (July 1 1927 - July 15 1997) was an English palaeontologist and writer who popularised his subject on television and in books at the start of the wave of interest in dinosaurs in the 1970s. Charig was, though, first and foremost a research scientist in the Department of Palaeontology at the Natural History Museum, London. There he worked on dinosaurs and their immediate Triassic ancestors, …
- Alan Lightman
Alan Lightman was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and educated at Princeton and at the California Institute of Technology, where he received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics. An active research scientist in astronomy and physics for two decades, he has also taught both subjects on the faculties of Harvard and MIT. international best seller; Good Benito ; The Diagnosis , which was a finalist for the National Book Award; and Reunion .
- Robert C. Dynes
Robert C. Dynes came to UCSD in 1992 after a 22-year career at AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he served as department head of semiconductor and material physics research and director of chemical physics research. He subsequently became Chairman of the Department of Physics and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. He became Chancellor in July 1996. Dynes is also active in the national scientific arena and in San Diego civic organizations. source
- Gwyneth Boodoo
Gwyneth M. Boodoo is an American psychologist and expert on educational measurement. Boodoo received her doctorate in educational measurement from the University of Toronto in 1978. She has taught at Texas A&M University, where she was an associate professor in the department of educational psychology.
- 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).
- Stephanie Louise Kwolek
Stephanie Kwolek was born on July 31, 1923 in New Kensington, Pennsylvania to John and Nellie Zajdel Kwolek . Stephanie's father died when she was 10, and her mother obtained a job with the Aluminum Company of America to support Stephanie and her brother. Kwolek enrolled in the Carnegie Institute of Technology (the women's college of what is now Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh in 1942, graduating with a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1946.
- Franklin Chang-Diaz
Franklin Chang-Diaz is both an astronaut and the director of the Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory at NASA Johnson Space Center. Logging seven shuttle missions from 1986 to 2002, Chang-Diaz is tied with astronaut Jerry Lynn Ross for the honor of most missions flown by any astronaut in the world. Chang-Diaz has performed three space walks, visited two different space stations (Mir and the International Space Station), and helped deploy the Galileo spacecraft.
- Wesley T. Huntress Jr
Dr. Wesley T. Huntress holds the distinction of being chosen as the first President of The Planetary Society who was not one of the original three founding members. He succeeded Bruce Murray to the position in 2001, having served as the Society's vice-president from 2000-2001.
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- William Federspiel
- Dr Martha Bridge Denckla MD
Martha B. Denckla , M.D. Director, Development Cognitive Neurology The Kennedy Krieger Institute
- Robin Mason
Dr. Mason is a qualitative researcher interested in participatory action projects that address issues of violence and social justice. She is co-principal investigator on a study of perceptions of and responses to intimate partner violence in Toronto's Tamil community and is interested in extending this work to other newcomer communities in order to develop culturally appropriate violence prevention strategies.
- Stephen Halpern
Dr. Halpern studies pain control during and after labour. He is currently conducting a systematic review comparing low concentration versus high concentration epidural anaesthetic on the length of time required for a vaginal delivery. In conjunction with Dr. Pamela Angle , he is participating in a multi-site study aimed at preventing postdural puncture headaches by using a small pediatric epidural needle to avoid puncturing the dura.
- Mona Gupta
Dr. Mona Gupta studies ethical and philosophical issues in psychiatry. Her current work concerns the use of the evidence-based medicine paradigm in psychiatric practice, and the ethical issues that emerge from the use of this paradigm. She has studied other bioethics issues including involuntary hospitalization, treatment refusal, and coercive treatment. Much of her upcoming work at the Womens Mental Health Centre will explore women
- Pamela Angle
Dr Angle has a strong research interest in labour pain control. She is currently the principal investigator of a project designed to develop a Multi-Attribute Health Index to measure the quality of labour analgesia. A further research interest is the prevention and treatment of postdural puncture headaches. She has just completed a feasibility study of the use of small gauge epidural needles and catheters, a measure which may reduce severity of postdural puncture headache.
- Raj Acharya
Raj Acharya obtained his Ph.D. from the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine/University of Minnesota in 1984. Since then, he has worked as a research scientist at the Mayo Clinic and at GE (Thomson)-CGR in Paris, France. He has also been a Faculty Fellow at the Night Vision Laboratory in Fort Belvoir in Washington, D.C. and has been a NASA-ASEE Faculty Fellow at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX.
- Chow H. Lee
Chow H. Lee , PhD Dr. Chow Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Science and Management, at the University of Northern British Columbia. His RNA Cancer Research Group focuses on discovering and studying new mammalian enzymes that can destroy messenger RNAs and non-coding RNAs implicated in cancer.
- Judy Gould
Dr. Gould's research uses qualitative and participatory research approaches to understand the experiences of women with breast cancer. Much of her recent work has focused on the experiences of low-income women with breast cancer , young women with breast cancer , and the financial issues associated with breast cancer diagnosis and treatment.