- Sarah Scaife Foundation
The Sarah Scaife Foundation is one of the American Scaife Foundations. It is controlled by Richard Mellon Scaife. The foundation does not award grants to individuals. It concentrates its efforts towards causes focused on public policy at a national and international level. From 1985 to 2003 the organization awarded over $235 million USD to other organizations. - Benton Foundation
The Benton Foundation is a nonprofit organization set up by former U.S. Senator, William Benton and his wife, Helen Hemingway Benton. Its present chairman and CEO is their son, Charles Benton. The Benton Foundation was the owner of the "Encyclopædia Britannica" from 1974 until 1996, when it was bought by Jacqui Safra. The formation of the Benton Foundation was announced at the bicentennial banquet for the "Britannica" in 1968. - Catherine T. MacArthur
Catherine T. MacArthur (1909-1981) was the wife of U.S. businessman and philanthropist John D. MacArthur. One of the largest philanthropic foundations on earth, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, is named after the couple. - Isaac Asimov
Dr. Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920- April 6, 1992, was a Russian-born American Jewish author and biochemist, a highly successful and exceptionally prolific writer best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series, which was part of one of his two major series, the Galactic Empire Series, later merged with his other famous story arc, the Robot series. - Chris Bosh
Christopher Wesson Bosh (born March 24 1984) is an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association who plays for the Toronto Raptors. Garnering an array of basketball accolades since his high school days, Bosh left college after one season to enter the 2003 NBA Draft. He was selected fourth overall by the Raptors in what proved to be a very competitive draft class. Since his NBA career began, Bosh, who plays the forward position, … - Greg Bear
Gregory Dale Bear (born August 20, 1951) is a science fiction author and more recently an author of mainstream novels. His work has covered themes of galactic conflict ("Forge of God" books), artificial universes ("Eon" series), consciousness and cultural practices ("Queen of Angels"), and accelerated evolution ("Blood Music", "Darwin's Radio", and "Darwin's Children"). - David H. Koch
David Hamilton Koch (born 1940) is one of the billionaire co-owners (with older brother Charles) and an executive vice president of Koch Industries, a conglomerate with major oil and gas holdings that is the largest privately held company in the United States. He lives in New York City and is that city's wealthiest resident. David Koch was the Libertarian Party's Vice-Presidential candidate in the 1980 U.S. presidential election, sharing the party ticket with Ed Clark. - Trisha Brown
Trisha Brown (25 November 1936, Aberdeen, Washington, U.S.) is a postmodernist American choreographer and dancer. Brown was born in Aberdeen, Washington, and received a B.A. degree in dance from Mills College in 1958. Brown later received a D.F.A. from Bates College in 2000. For several summers she studied with Louis Horst at the American Dance Festival, then held at Connecticut College. - Grand Puba
Grand Puba (born Maxwell Dixon March 4, 1966) is a rapper best known as a member of the group Brand Nubian. He debuted with the group Masters of Ceremony. Their album "Dynamite" (1988) was hailed by critics, but probably due to lack of sales the group soon disbanded, and Puba emerged as the lead rapper of Brand Nubian. - Shekhar Kapur
Shekhar Kapur, born 6 December, 1945 in British India (in an area which became part of Pakistan) is a renowned filmmaker from India. His basic schooling was done at the Modern School, New Delhi. His works include "Elizabeth" (1998),a historically inaccurate account of the early reign of Queen Elizabeth I; it was nominated for 8 Oscars. In 2000, he was awarded the Padma Shri. Films directed by Shekhar Kapur: * "Masoom" * "Mr. - Reconciliation Australia
Reconciliation Australia is the non-government, not-for-profit foundation established in January 2001 to provide a continuing national focus for reconciliation. It was established by the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation. The Council had been wound up as there was no political commitment to reconciliation from the government of John Howard. - David Pringle
David Pringle (born 1950) is a Scottish science fiction editor. Pringle served as the editor of "Foundation", an academic journal, from 1980 through 1986, during which time he became one of the prime movers of the collective which founded "Interzone" in 1982. By 1988, he was the sole publisher and editor of "Interzone", a position he retained until he sold the magazine to Andy Cox in 2004. - Jonathan Strahan
Jonathan Strahan (1964 in Belfast -) is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986. In 1990 he co-founded "Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy", and worked on it as co-editor and co-publisher until 1999. - Paul D. Boyer
Paul Delos Boyer (b. July 31, 1918) is an U.S. biochemist. He is one of the laureates for the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on the "enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of A.T.P." Boyer was born in Provo, Utah. He attended Provo High School, where he was active in student government and the debating team. He received a B.S. in chemistry from Brigham Young in 1939 and obtained a Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Scholarship for graduate studies. - John R. MacArthur
John R. MacArthur is the son of J. Roderick MacArthur and Christiane L’Entendart. He has a sister and a brother. He was a reporter for "The Wall Street Journal" (1977), the "Washington Star" (1978), "The Bergen Record" (1978–1979), "Chicago Sun-Times" (1979–1982), and an assistant foreign editor at United Press International (1982). He is the grandson of billionaire John D. MacArthur, … - Stefan Persson
Stefan Persson was born October 4, 1947. He is the son of Erling Persson who founded the Swedish fashion company Hennes & Mauritz (H&M). Since 1982, Stefan has been the main owner of H&M. According to Forbes Magazine, Persson is worth $18.4 billion in 2007, making him the second richest man in Sweden and the 17th richest person in the world. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden. He is a supporter of Djurgårdens IF and is co-funding a foundation for the club. - Andrew M. Butler
Andrew M. Butler is a British academic who teaches film, media and cultural studies at Canterbury Christ Church University. He is a former editor of "Vector", the Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association and was membership secretary of the Science Fiction Foundation. He is a former Arthur C. Clarke Award judge and is now a member of the Serendip Foundation which administers the award. He has published widely on science fiction and, less often, … - Morris Tabaksblat
Morris Tabaksblat, Rotterdam 1937, is a Dutch 'Captain of industry'. He is mostly known as a former CEO of Unilever and chairman of the 'Tabaksblat' committee that drafted the 'Tabaksblat code'. Tabaksblat was educated at the gymnasium in The Hague and after that studied law at the Leiden University. He joined Unilever in 1964. During the first twenty years of his career at Unilever he had positions in marketing and sales in the Netherlands, Spain and Brazil. - William Myron Keck
William Myron Keck (1880-1964) was an American oil entrepreneur and philanthropist who is now best known for giving his name to the W. M. Keck Foundation, one of the largest philanthropic foundations in the United States. In 1921, Keck founded the Superior Oil Company in Coalinga, California. In 1954, he founded the W. M. Keck Foundation. The W. M. Keck Foundation is responsible for the construction of the giant Keck Telescopes through a $140 million grant - Joe Berardo
José Manuel Rodrigues Berardo, <small>GCIH</small>;, most commonly known as Joe Berardo, (born July 4, 1944, in Madeira, Portugal), is a Portuguese businessman, stock investor and speculator. As of 2007, he is among the top 10 wealthiest Portuguese, with financial assets of over 570 million euros. - Stephen Cohn
Stephen Cohn is an Emmy Award winning composer of concert and film music living in Los Angeles, California. His compositional style embraces an expanded tonality with a twenty first century perspective. His first string quartet, "Eye of Chaos" was premiered by the Arditti Quartet, who also recorded the work for release on an Albany Records CD entitled, "Arditti Quartet California Composers". - John S. Eastwood
John S. Eastwood (born 1857, Minnesota, died 1924, California) was an American engineer and built the world's first reinforced concrete multiple arch dam on bedrock foundation at Hume Lake, California, in 1908. Born to Dutch ancestry in 1857, Eastwood attended the University of Minnesota as a civil engineering student; prior to graduation in 1880 he headed west to work on railroad construction projects in the Pacific Northwest. - Eddie Hayes
Eddie Hayes (born 1947) is an American lawyer, journalist, and memoirist. He is known for his role in settling the estate of Andy Warhol and representing several organized crime figures. Hayes grew up in Queens, New York, and graduated from University of Virginia and then (supporting himself first as a bartender and later as a law clerk) Columbia Law School. He worked as an Assistant District Attorney in the Bronx. Tom Wolfe met him socially and they became close friends, … - Spencer Eccles
Spencer Fox Eccles (b. August 23, 1934, Ogden, Utah) is a prominent financier and philanthropist in Salt Lake City, Utah and chairman emeritus of the Intermountain Region of Wells Fargo Corporation. From 1982 to 2000 he was chairman and chief executive officer of First Security Corporation of Salt Lake City, which was, until its sale to Wells Fargo in 2000, the largest banking organization in the Mountain West measured by assets, deposits and market capitalization. - Michael Cosmopoulos
Cosmopoulos, Michael Basil (b. 1963). Professor of Archaeology and Chair of Greek Studies, University of Missouri-St. Louis. As of August 2001, Dr. Michael Cosmopoulos is the Hellenic Government-Karakas Foundation Endowed Professor of Greek Studies and Professor of Archaeology with the Department of Anthropology at University of Missouri-St. - Ellis Godard
Ellis Godard is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) and a founding member of the CSUN Center for Survey Research who teaches courses primarily in statistics and methods, law and crime, and Internet Studies. He also serves as a statistical and methodological consultant, providing data collection, management, and analysis services to a half dozen firms nationwide. - Leif Thorsson
Leif Thorsson, born July 4 1945 in Malmö, Sverige. A Swedish jurist specialized in corporate law. Judge in the Supreme Court of Sweden since September 9 1993. Education: law degree (Jur. kand.). Leif Thorsson is also the recipient of a honorary doctorate degree in law from Stockholm University. He is, in addition to his position at the Supreme Court, … - Dale A. Kunkel
Dale A. Kunkel is Director of Absolute Return and Hedge Fund Strategies for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. This $5 billion foundation was created by Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel Corporation, and concentrates on providing funding in areas such as science and environmental conservation. Kunkel is responsible for the operation of the foundation's hedge fund investment activities. - Eduardo Dougherty
Fr. Edward ("Eduardo") John Dougherty, SJ is an American-Brazilian Jesuit priest, educator, communicator and religious leader of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal movement in Brazil. Father Dougherty was born on January 29, 1941 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. He was ordained in 1965 and first came to Brazil in 1966. He did his theological studies in Toronto, Canada. Before returning to Brazil, in 1969, he underwent his baptism of the Holy Spirit at Michigan, … - Richards Hays
Richard Hays is a physician and medical educator. He is Head of Keele University Medical School, and Professor of Medical Education at Keele University, Staffordshire, UK. He previously set up the medical school at James Cook University, Queensland, Australia, and was Chair of Medical Education, Professor of General Practice and Rural Medicine and Foundation Dean of Medicine there. He has published extesnively on primary care, rural medicine and medical education. - Uncas A. Whitaker
Uncas A. Whitaker (1900-1975) was born in Kansas and raised in Missouri. He was a prominent mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, lawyer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He received a mechanical engineering degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an electrical engineering degree from Carnegie Institute of Technology and a law degree from the Cleveland Law School. At the age of 41, he founded Aircraft-Marine Products, AMP Incorporated, in Harrisburg, … - Larry O'Malley
Larry 'Jersey' O'Malley (1883 - 1967) was an Australian rugby league player for the Eastern Suburbs club. He was the fifth Australian rugby league captain and the second from the Eastern Suburbs Club. O'Malley had a reputation as a tough 'no nonsense' forward. He made his representative debut for New South Wales in rugby league's inaugural interstate match in 1908. Later that year he was selected for Australia's first 'Kangaroo Tour'. - Gerald Deskin
Dr. Gerald Deskin, Ph.D. (January 10 1929 - March 9 2004) was a clinical child psychologist, marriage and family therapist. He was credited with the founding of The Learning Center Foundation, a non-profit foundation dedicated to research and the diffusion of knowledge for assisting those with learning disabilities, especially dyslexia, in children. The Learning Center was founded in 1967 and continues to run as non-profit foundation in Encino, California. - Kasey Kahne
Kasey Kenneth Kahne (born April 10, 1980 in Enumclaw, Washington) is a driver in NASCAR's NEXTEL Cup series. He currently drives the #9 Dodge Dealers / UAW Dodge Charger/Dodge Avenger for Evernham Motorsports with teammates Scott Riggs and Elliott Sadler. Off the track, Kasey is active in charitable work and is a member of the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation. Kahne resides in Mooresville, North Carolina with his younger brother Kale Kahne. - Jonas Berkeley
Jonas Berkeley is a saxophonist from the Southern Ontario region of Canada, and his work was nominated for a "Juno" (Best Alternative Album) with "The Constantines" on 2003's "Shine A Light" (see nomination listing for the following year). He has been playing for 17 years and is conversant on tenor and baritone sax, flute, clarinet and bass clarinet. He has worked on cruise ships, and in a variety of musical theatre productions, … - José Daporta Gozález
José Daporta González was a Professor of Hygiene and Microbiology as well as a prolific Fine arts Collector. Born in Habana (Cuba), the son of Galician emigrants, he returned to the land of his parents at an early age, where he started and finished his university studies, to become a Professor of the University of Santiago de Compostela at a young age. - Hamilton Fish V
Hamilton Fish V (also known as Hamilton Fish, Jr.; born ca. 1952) is an American publisher, politician, and philanthropist. He has been known under varying numerals because several of his antecedents went by the name "Hamilton Fish, Jr." for much of their lives, including his father and grandfather. Fish ran for Congress in 1994 to succeed his father Hamilton Fish IV but lost to Sue W. Kelly. He had previously run unsuccessfully in another district in 1988. - Jennifer Jennifer Ireland Foundation
Jennifer Claire Ireland was diagnosed with colon cancer in December of 2005 at the age of 26. As a wife and mother of two beautiful daughters, Emma (2 Years) and Peighton (9 months), there was no choice in her mind but to take the diagnosis and subsequent treatments in stride. Jennifer faced dozens of chemotherapy treatments, several major surgeries, and the numerous rigors cancer patients endure with dignity and grace. - Idit Harel Caperton
Idit Harel Caperton, Ph.D. (born September 18 1958 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an educational psychologist and epistemologist specializing in the study of the impact of computer-based new media technology on the social and academic development of children. Her research, along with that of Seymour Papert, has contributed to the development of constructionist learning theory, a hands-on approach to the use of technology as a tool in juvenile education and acculturation. - Steven Strogatz
Steven H. Strogatz (born August 13, 1959) is an American mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. He is known for his contributions to the study of synchronization in dynamical systems, and for his work in a variety of areas of applied mathematics, including mathematical biology and complex network theory. In particular, his 1998 Nature paper with Duncan Watts, entitled "Collective dynamics of small-world networks", …
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