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  1. Kit Pedler

    Dr Christopher Magnus Howard Pedler (1927 - 27 May 1981) was a British medical scientist, science fiction author and writer on science in general. He normally wrote under the name of Kit Pedler. He was the head of the electron microscopy department at the University of London, where he published a number of papers. Pedler's first television contribution was for the BBC programme Horizon.

  2. Anthony Peratt

    Anthony Peratt is an electrical engineer with a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. He was a graduate student of Hannes Alfvén, a former Scientific Advisor to the United States Department of Energy, and a member of the Associate Laboratory Directorate of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Peratt developed a computer simulation of galaxy formation, based on research concerning Birkeland currents using (at the time) the fastest supercomputer available.

  3. Peter Greenaway

    Peter Greenaway, CBE (born 5 April 1942) is an English film director.

  4. Geoffrey Hoyle

    Geoffrey Hoyle (1942-) is an English science fiction writer, best known for the works which he co-authored with his father, the astronomer Fred Hoyle. About half of Fred Hoyle's science fiction works were co-authored with his son He was educated at Bryanston School in Dorset, and then entered Cambridge where he read economics. After 1964, Hoyle worked in London in the field of modern communications and the film/television industry. Unlike his father, he is not a scientist, …

  5. Magnus Hirschfeld

    Magnus Hirschfeld was a German physician, sexologist, and gay rights advocate. He was born in Kolberg (modern Kołobrzeg) in a Jewish family, the son of a well-beloved physician and 'Medizinalrat', Hermann Hirschfeld. In 1887-1888 he studied in Breslau Philosophy and Philology, then from 1888-1892 Medicine in Strasbourg, Munich, Heidelberg and Berlin. In 1892 he took his doctoral degree. After his study he traveled through the U.S.A. for eight months, …

  6. Heinz Haber

    Heinz Haber (May 15, 1913-February 13, 1990) was a German physicist and science writer who primarily became famous for his TV programs and books about physics and environmental subjects. His lucid style of explaining hard science has frequently been imitated by later popular science presenters in Germany like Joachim Bublath but rarely surpassed. After studying physics in Heidelberg and Berlin and obtaining his doctorate, …

  7. Solly Zuckerman Baron Zuckerman

    Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman OM KCB FRS (May 30, 1904 - April 1, 1993) was a UK public servant, zoologist, and scientific advisor. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa. Zuckerman began his career at the London Zoological Society in 1928, and worked as a research anatomist until 1932.

  8. Chris Phoenix

    Chris Phoenix (born January 25 1970) is the co-founder (with Mike Treder) and Director of Research of the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN), and has worked in the field of advanced nanotechnology for over 15 years. He obtained his BS in Symbolic Systems and MS in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1991. Since 2000, he has studied and written about molecular manufacturing.

  9. Boyd Haley

    Boyd Haley earned his doctorate in chemistry/biochemistry from Washington State University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale University Medical Center. He has been at the University of Kentucky with joint appointments in these disciplines since 1985, as well as at the College of Pharmacy. He has served as Chairman and professor of the Department of Chemistry since 1997. He is a permanent member of the National Institutes of Health Biomedical Science study section.

  10. Hans Eysenck

    Hans Jürgen Eysenck was a psychologist most remembered for his work on intelligence and personality, though he worked in a wide range of areas. At the time of his death, Eysenck was the living psychologist most frequently cited in science journals. Hans Eysenck was born in Germany, but moved to England as a young man in the 1930s because of his opposition to the Nazi party. Eysenck was the founding editor of the journal "Personality and Individual Differences", …

  11. Wernher Von Braun

    Rocket scientist. Humorous singer-songwriter-performer Tom Lehrer includes a song about von Braun (titled, not surprisingly, "Wernher Von Braun") on his album "That Was the Year that Was." Von Braun retired from NASA on June 10, 1972. He became involved in the private industrial sector and was active in establishing and promoting the National Space Institute. At the peak of his activities, von Braun learned he had cancer, which forced him to retire on December 31, 1976. In 1960, his...

  12. Walter Spiel

    Walter Spiel was elected President with Bernhard Shulman retiring after 12 years of service. President Spiel offered an initiative to the Council of appointing three (3) committees to pursue the work of the IAIP in the period between triennial congresses. The three committees were: the Scientific Committee, Committee on Education and Training, and a Committee on Organization.

  13. James Burke

    Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, vol. 136, pages 52-55. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005. Earned an MA from Jesus College, Oxford University.

  14. Timothy Hugh Clutton-Brock

    Cambridge University biologist who was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1993.

  15. Dr Bennett Leventhal
  16. Maxwell Smith
  17. Natalie Humphreys
  18. Gernot Eigler
  19. Lena Einhorn
  20. Ian Redmond
  21. Fritz Leist
  22. Jean-Yves Collet
  23. Mike Linley
  24. Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde
  25. Angela Shuetrim
  26. Seirian Sumner
  27. Viktor Fursov
  28. Dr Joanna Wright
  29. Dr Nikolai Grube
  30. Jack Hasenpusch
  31. Peter Jacklyn
  32. Michael Bisson
  33. Nikolaus Koeniger
  34. Ron Martin
  35. Malcolm J Smale
  36. Stephen Compton
  37. Prof Paul Gebhard
  38. Leonard J.V. Compagno
  39. Norman Myers
  40. Alison Jolly

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