Michael Petracca

Michael Petracca

male, 62 years old
Gaviota Buzzard Club troubadour, Zzyzx, Doctor Syntax, Captain Zzyzx, University of California, Santa Barbara, rhythm and blues…graduatestudent
Michael Petracca (born 1947) is an American novelist. He teaches general composition and creative nonfiction in the writing program at the...

Lauro Moscardini

male
Astronomer, graduatestudent, Cosmologist, Italian, Astrophysicist, Ph.D.
Lauro Moscardini is an Italian astrophysicist and cosmologist. He was a graduate student in astronomy at the University of Bologna, where he...
Ruth Harkin

Ruth Harkin

female (Alexandria, Virginia, United States)
hillary clinton, us department of agriculture, ConocoPhillips, Iowa lawyer, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, United Technologies…graduate of Catholic University Law School
Ruth R. Harkin Ruth R. Harkin , 62, senior vice president, international affairs and government relations, for United Technologies Corporation...
Julie Dash

Julie Dash

female, 57 years old
alpha kappa alpha, National Film Registry, Long Island City, Queen, University of California, Los Angeles alumni, From Queen, from New York City
Dash began her study of film in 1969 at the Studio Museum of Harlem. As an undergraduate, she studied psychology until she was accepted into the...

Brian A. Britt

male
American percussionist, From Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma faculty, The Pride of Oklahoma Marching Band, graduate education, undergraduate…graduatestudent
Brian A. Britt is Assistant Director of the School of Music, Assistant Professor of Music, and Director of The Pride of Oklahoma Marching Band at...
Walter Mauderli

Walter Mauderli

male, deceased (2005)
Board of Director, radiation, professor, graduatestudent, research, scientist
Walter Mauderli, DSc, (March 8, 1924 - March 27, 2005). Mauderli was a pioneer in the development of the field of medical physics. He earned his...
Alan Turing

Alan Turing

male, deceased (1954) (london)
computer scientist, computer pioneer, turing machine, British computer scientist, British cryptographer at Bletchley Park, scientist
This short on-line biography of Alan Turing is based on the entry I wrote for the British Dictionary of National Biography in 1995. The eight parts...
Education: …Graduate Student at Princeton University
Madeleine Korbel Albright

Madeleine Korbel Albright

female, 72 years old (Washington)
Wellesley College alumni, United States Secretary of State, politician, From Prague, Business Person, Madeleine Korbel Albright
Madeleine Albright (1937 - ) was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. As the Nazis invaded that country before World War II, Albright and her family...
Education: …Graduate Student  at Columbia
John Mearsheimer

John Mearsheimer

male, deceased (1947) (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
International relations scholar, Neorealism, neorealist, working paper, The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, University of Chicago faculty…West Point graduate
John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on...
Education: …Graduate Student at Cornell
Thorstein Veblen

Thorstein Veblen

male, deceased (1929)
the theory of the leisure class, Tosten Bunde Veblen, Political economy, University of Missouri–Columbia faculty, Johns Hopkins University alumni, Norwegian-American…student
Thorstein Bunde Veblen (born Tosten Bunde Veblen July 30, 1857 - August 3, 1929) was a Norwegian-American sociologist and economist and a founder,...