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William R. (Red) Alford was an American mathematician who worked in the field of number theory. Born in Canton, Mississippi, he was a United States Air Force veteran. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Physics from the Citadel (1959), his Ph.D in Mathematics from Tulane University (1963), and his J.D. from the University of Georgia School of Law (1976) in Athens, Georgia. After earning his J.D. he practiced law in Athens, … - Ron Paul
Ronald Ernest Paul (born August 20, 1935) is a 10th-term Congressman from Lake Jackson, Texas, a member of the Republican Party, a physician, and a candidate for the 2008 presidential election. He has represented Texas's 14th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1997 and represented Texas's 22nd district in 1976 and from 1979 to 1985. He earned the nickname "Dr. - Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, and a prolific author and lecturer. He is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to the field of linguistics made in the 20th century. - 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. - David Suzuki
David Takayoshi Suzuki, CC, OBC, Ph.D (born March 24 1936), is a Canadian science broadcaster and environmental activist. Since the mid 1970s, Suzuki has become known for his TV and radio series and books about nature and the environment. He is best known as host of the popular and long-running CBC Television science magazine, "The Nature of Things", seen in syndication in over 40 nations. - Norman Finkelstein
Norman G. Finkelstein (born December 8 1953) is an American professor of political science and author. A graduate of Binghamton University, he received his Ph.D in Political Science from Princeton University. He has held faculty positions at Brooklyn College, Rutgers University, Hunter College, New York University, and most recently, DePaul University, where he is an assistant professor since 2001. Finkelstein was denied tenure at DePaul in June 2007, … - David Williams
David Williams was a former journalist with The West Australian in Perth, Western Australia. Williams authored the 1989 account of the failed drug run and subsequent execution of Australian drug runners, Kevin Barlow and Geoffrey Chambers. Titled "This Little Piggy Stayed Home: Barlow, Chambers and the Mafia" the book was one of the more controversial publications of Panorama Books. The book was never printed again following its initial release, … - Jorge Cham
Jorge Cham (born May 1976) is a Chinese-Panamanian post-doc best known for his popular newspaper and web comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper (PhD Comics). He first started drawing PhD Comics as a grad student at Stanford University, and has since been syndicated in several university newspapers and in three published book collections. Jorge Cham received his Bachelor's degree from Georgia Tech, and earned a PhD in mechanical engineering from Stanford. - David Wilson
David Wilson is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Central England in Birmingham. Born in Glasgow in April 1960, he later studied at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and at the Cambridge Institute of Criminology, from where he graduated with a PhD in 1983. He then joined Her Majesty's Prison Service as a junior prison governor. At the age of 29, he became the youngest governor in the country. He worked at HMP Wormwood Scrubs, HMP Grendon, … - Steve Smith
Professor Steve Smith, MSc, PhD, AcSS, (born 1952-02-04), is a prominent international relations theorist and senior university manager. In 2002 he succeeded Geoffrey Holland as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Exeter, and since 2006 has been Chair of the Board of the 1994 Group. Steve Smith has a BSc in Politics and International Studies, an MSc in International Studies and a PhD in International Relations, all from the University of Southampton. - Peter Williams
Sir Peter Michael Williams, CBE, FRS (born 1945) is a British physicist. Williams completed his first degree and PhD at the University of Cambridge, and began an academic career at Selwyn College. He then moved to industry and worked first at VG Instruments and later Oxford Instruments. He was chairman of Oxford Instruments from 1991 until his retirement in 1999. Sir Peter is currently Chairman of the National Physical Laboratory. - Charles Taylor
Charles Alfred Taylor (1922-2002) was a British physicist well known for his work in crystallography and his efforts to promote science to young audiences. Charles Taylor was born in Hull in 1922. He began his degree in Queen Mary's College at the University of London, but the college was subsequently evacuated to Cambridge during the remainder of World War II. He graduated in 1943, and then worked for the Admiralty designing radar countermeasures, … - Walter Benjamin
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was also greatly inspired by the Marxism of Bertolt Brecht and Jewish mysticism as presented by Gershom Scholem. As a sociological and cultural critic, Benjamin combined ideas of historical materialism, German idealism, … - Steve Jones
Steve Jones (born March 24, 1944) is a professor of genetics at Galton laboratory of University College London. He is also a television presenter and a prize-winning author on the subject of biology, especially evolution. He is one of the best known contemporary popular writers on evolution. His popular writing shows a wry, sometimes rather dark, sense of humour. In 1996 his writing won him the Royal Society Michael Faraday prize ``for his numerous, … - Daniel Goleman
Daniel Goleman , PhD: Dr. Goleman was a co-founder of the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning at the Yale University Child Studies Center (now at the University of Illinois at Chicago), with the mission to help schools introduce emotional literacy courses. One mark of the Collaborative—and book’s—impact is that thousands of schools around the world have begun to implement such programs. - Michael Scott
Professor Michael Scott is Principal and Chief Executive of the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education. Scott was educated at the University of Wales, Lampeter and Nottingham University and gained his PhD from De Montfort University. He went on to become Professor of English and Head of the School of Humanities at Sunderland Polytechnic, before becoming Pro Vice-Chancellor of De Montfort University in 1989. - John Hughes
Dr Edgar John Hughes (born 27 July 1947) is a British Diplomat who is currently British Ambassador to Argentina. Born in South Wales Hughes went to the London School of Economics. He went on to receive his masters degree from Pennsylvania and his PhD from Cambridge. Hughes was accepted to the foreign office after testing. His first foreign post was to Santiago, Chile. Before leaving Britain he married Lynne Evans. - John Davis
John Horsley Russell Davis (1938-) is a British anthropologist, Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, and Professor of Social Anthropology in the University of Oxford. John Davis was born in London on 9 September 1938. He was educated at University College, Oxford (BA Modern History 1961, MA) and the London School of Economics (PhD Social Anthropology 1968). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1988. - John Thompson
John Thompson was an influential Canadian poet. Born in Timperley, Cheshire, England, his father was killed in the Second World War. He was educated at Sheffield University, and received a Ph.D from Michigan State University in 1966. That same year he began teaching at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, where he lived in a farmhouse at Wood Point overlooking the Tantramar Marshes. - James Hillier
James Hillier OC, Ph.D, D.Sc (August 22, 1915 - January 15, 2007) was a Canadian-born scientist and inventor who designed and built, with Albert Prebus, the first successful high-resolution electron microscope in North America in 1938. Born in Brantford, Ontario, the son of James and Ethel (Cooke) Hillier, he received a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Physics (1937), Master of Arts (1938), and a Ph.D (1941) from the University of Toronto, … - John Quiggin
John Quiggin (born 29 March 1956 in Adelaide) is an Australian economist and professor at the University of Queensland. Quiggin studied at the Australian National University, there achieving bachelor's degrees in Arts and Economics in 1978 and 1980 respectively, and further completing a master's degree in Economics in 1984. Quiggin was awarded his PhD from the University of New England in 1988. - Pepper Schwartz
Dr. Schwartz has contributed to many magazines, journals and newspapers including the New York Times "Parent and Child" column, Sexual Health, Psychology Today and Contexts . Dr. Schwartz was a regular member of the KIRO-TV ( Seattle ) news staff for twelve years and appears regularly on national TV news, documentaries and other programs. - David Gregory
Dr. David Gregory is a news correspondent for BBC Midlands Today, the regional news programme broadcast in the Midlands of England. He is the Science and Environmental Correspondent. After graduating from university, Gregory worked on his Physics PhD in both Berlin and Milan, but largely just outside the city of Liverpool. Gregory went on to work on the now defunct Science Line, Science Information Telephone Service, … - Abdus Salam
Abdus Salam (January 29, 1926 at Santokdas, Sahiwal in Punjab - November 21, 1996 in Oxford, England) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 for his work in Electro-Weak Theory which is the mathematical and conceptual synthesis of the Electromagnetic and Weak interactions, the latest stage in the effort to provide a unified description of the four fundamental forces of nature. - Jeff Smith
Jeff Smith (born December 9, 1973) is an American politician and academic from Missouri. He is currently the Senator from Missouri's 4th District, representing the western portion of the City of St. Louis. Smith was raised in the St. Louis suburb of Olivette, Missouri and graduated from Ladue Horton Watkins High School. - Ted Strickland
Ted Strickland is the U.S. Representative for Ohio's Sixth Congressional District, and the Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio. Ted was born in Lucasville in 1941, the eighth of nine children. He didn't grow up in privilege-As a child, his home burned down, leaving him and his family to live in a chicken shack until his father could convert their barn into a new home. - John Baker
Sir John (Hamilton) Baker, LLB PhD London MA LLD Cambridge LLD honoris causa Chicago Barrister-at-Law Inner Temple and Gray’s Inn Honorary Bencher Inner Temple QC FBA FBS FRHistS, Downing Professor of the Laws of England from 1998, English legal historian. Baker was born 10 April 1944 in Sheffield, the son of Kenneth Lee Vincent Baker, and Marjorie Baker (nee Bagshaw). He was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford, and University College London. - Michel Chossudovsky
Michel Chossudovsky is a Canadian economist. He is a professor of economics at the University of Ottawa. Chossudovsky has taught as visiting professor at academic institutions in Western Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia, has acted as economic adviser to governments of developing countries and has worked as a consultant for international organizations including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the African Development Bank, … - David Price
I am a US House Representative for the state of NC. I am a Democrat. My religion is Baptist. I am Married. I received my BA from University of North Carolina. I received my BD from Yale University. I received my PhD from Yale University. I live in Chapel Hill. I was born in Erwin, TN. For issues within my power to resolve, write me at "5400 Trinity Rd., Ste. 205, Raleigh, NC 27607". - James Stewart
Professor James Stewart M.Sc, Ph.D is a Canadian professor emeritus of mathematics at McMaster University. Stewart received his M.S. at Stanford University and his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He worked for two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of London. Stewart's research focuses on harmonic analysis and functional analysis. Stewart is most well known for his series of textbooks sold at high school and university level mathematics. - George McGovern
George Stanley McGovern, Ph.D (born July 19, 1922) is a former United States Representative, Senator, and Democratic presidential nominee. McGovern lost the 1972 presidential election in a landslide to incumbent Richard Nixon. McGovern was most noted for his opposition to the Vietnam War. He is currently serving as the United Nations global ambassador on hunger. - Olivier Danvy
Olivier Danvy is a French computer scientist specializing in programming languages at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. He is notable for the number of scientific papers which acknowledge his help. Writing in Nature, editor Declan Butler reports on an analysis of acknowledgements on nearly one third of a million scientific papers and reports that Danvy is "the most thanked person in computer science". - Colin Blakemore
He studied Medical Sciences at Cambridge and completed a PhD at the University of California in Berkeley. After 11 years in the Department of Physiology at Cambridge, he became Waynflete Professor of Physiology at Oxford in 1979 and was Director of the MRC IRC for Cognitive Neuroscience for 8 years. His research is concerned with vision and the early development of the brain. - Peter Suber
Peter Suber Professor of Philosophy Earlham College - Cheng Yu
Cheng Yu (surname Cheng) is a musician of Chinese descent, originally from China, but now resides in London, UK. She is internationally renowned in pipa, the Chinese four-stringed pear-shaped lute, but also plays the guqin, the seven-stringed zither, and is a virtuoso, scholar and specialist of Chinese music. She gained a BMus in China and an MMus in Britain. - David Campbell
David Campbell is a British Professor and the Head of the Law Department at Durham University until 2008. His subject area is English contract law. He became Head of Department in 2005, a year after joining the faculty. Since then more than ten staff members have left Durham for other insitutions. They have been replaced with new academics. - Kent Hovind
Kent Hovind is an American evangelist and Young Earth creationist. He is most famous for creation science seminars, many of which have been taped and widely distributed. His seminars, which often make use of humor, aim to convince listeners to believe in creationism and to reject evolution. Hovind's views are criticized by the scientific community, … - John Fitzgerald
Dr John Fitzgerald is a British computer scientist and Chair of Formal Methods Europe. He holds a readership at Newcastle University, UK. His research interests are in the area of dependable computer systems and formal methods, with a background in the VDM. He holds BSc and PhD degrees from the University of Manchester. He is a committee member of BCS-FACS. - Martha Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum (born Martha Craven on May 6, 1947) is an American philosopher, with a particular interest in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, political philosophy and ethics. She was born in New York, the daughter of George Craven, a Philadelphia lawyer, and Betty Warren, an interior designer and homemaker. She studied theatre and classics at New York University, getting a Bachelor of Arts in 1969, and gradually moved to philosophy while at Harvard, … - Uffe Ravnskov
Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD, (born 1934) is a Danish independent researcher, a member of various international scientific organisations, and a former private medical practitioner in Sweden. In recent years he has gained international recognition for his research into numerous scientific studies, leading to the publication of a book which stated that the widely popularised Lipid Hypothesis is scientifically invalid.
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