- Paul Krugman
Paul Robin Krugman (born February 28 , 1953 ) is an American economist . Krugman is currently a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University . He is also an author and a columnist for The New York Times , writing a twice-weekly op-ed for the newspaper since 2000. - Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult is the bestselling author of the following novels: Songs of the Humpback Whale (1992), Harvesting the Heart (1994), Picture Perfect (1995), Mercy (1996), The Pact (1998); Keeping Faith (1999), Plain Truth (2000), Salem Falls (2001), Perfect Match (2002), Second Glance (2003), My Sister's Keeper (2004), Vanishing Acts (2005), The Tenth Circle (2006), Nineteen Minutes (2007). In 2003 she was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for Fiction. - Michio Kaku
Dr. Michio Kaku is a Japanese American theoretical physicist, tenured professor, and co-founder of string field theory, a branch of superstring theory. He is a widely known popularizer of science, the host of two radio programs, and the author of numerous books. - Peter Atkins
Peter William Atkins (b. August 10, 1940) is a Fellow and professor of chemistry at Lincoln College in the University of Oxford, England. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including "Physical Chemistry", "Inorganic Chemistry" and "Molecular Quantum Mechanics", three of the world's most popular chemistry textbooks. Atkins' "Physical Chemistry" which he co wrote with Julio de Paula of Haverford College, … - David A. Patterson
David A. Patterson has been Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley since 1977, after receiving his A.B., M.S., and Ph.D. from UCLA. He is one of the pioneers of both RISC and RAID, both of which are widely used. Past chair of the Computer Science Department at U.C. Berkeley and the Computing Research Association, … - John L. Hennessy
John LeRoy Hennessy, the founder of MIPS Computer Systems Inc., is currently serving as the 10th President of Stanford University. He earned his Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Villanova University, and his Master's degree and Ph.D. in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Hennessy became a Stanford faculty member in 1977. In 1984, he used his sabbatical year to found MIPS Computer Systems Inc. - Raymond Chang
Raymond Chang is a professor at Williams College who has written several published textbooks, mostly in the field of chemistry. His most used text is titled "Chemistry" and is currently in its ninth edition of publication. He has also published a few children's books and juvenile reader books. In his free time, he takes care of his forest garden, practices the violin and plays tennis - Joy Hakim
and a Master's Degree and honorary doctorate from Goucher College. She was a schoolteacher (in Syracuse, NY, Omaha, Nebraska, and Virginia Beach, VA and an assistant editor of McGraw-Hill's World News (foreign news service), a reporter for the Ledger-Star in Norfolk, VA and, in 1978, an editorial writer for the "Virginian-Pilot" in Norfolk, Virginia. Her first published work was the well-received, eleven-volume, "A History of US", from Oxford University Press. - Erwin Kreyszig
Erwin Kreyszig (born January 6 1922) was a Professor of Mathematics at Ohio State University. He is a pioneer in the relatively new field of applied mathematics: non-wave replicating linear systems. He is also a distinguished author with the textbook "Advanced Engineering Mathematics", the leading textbook for mechanical, electrical and chemical undergraduate engineering mathematics. - Barton Zwiebach
Barton Zwiebach is a string theorist, a professor at MIT, born in Lima, Perú. His undergraduate work was done in Peru, where he obtained a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria in 1977. His graduate work was in Physics, at the California Institute of Technology. Zwiebach obtained his Ph.D. in 1983, working under the supervision of Murray Gell-Mann. He has held postdoctoral positions at the University of California, Berkeley, … - Euclid
Euclid (Greek: "'), also known as Euclid of Alexandria"', was a Greek mathematician of the Hellenistic period who flourished in Alexandria, Egypt, almost certainly during the reign of Ptolemy I (323 BC-283 BC). His "Elements" is the most successful textbook in the history of mathematics. In it, the principles of geometry are deduced from a small set of axioms. - Serge Lang
Serge Lang was a French-born American mathematician. He was known for his work in number theory and for his mathematics textbooks, including the influential "Algebra". He was a member of the Bourbaki group. He was born in Paris in 1927, and moved with his family to California as a teenager, where he graduated in 1943 from Beverly Hills High School. He subsequently graduated from Caltech in 1946, and received a doctorate from Princeton University in 1951. - Peter Gray
Peter Gray is an American psychologist. Currently he is a research professor at Boston College. He is the author of a widely-used introductory psychology textbook, "Psychology", currently in its fifth edition. Gray graduated from Cabot High School in Cabot, Vermont, where he was valedictorian. He majored in psychology at Columbia College in New York City and graduated "summa cum laude" and Phi Beta Kappa. - J. D. Jackson
John David Jackson (born 1925) is a Canadian-American physics professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and a senior staff physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and is well-known for his publication of the most widely used graduate textbook on electrodynamics. Jackson attended the University of Western Ontario, receiving a B.Sc. in physics in 1946. He went on to graduate study at MIT, … - Jesse Dukeminier
Jesse Dukeminier (born in West Point, Mississippi, August 12, 1925 - April 20, 2003) was a professor of law for 40 years at the University of California, Los Angeles, and authored or co-authored a significant number of articles and textbooks in the areas of property law, wills, trusts, and estates. Dukeminier received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1948, … - Paul Heyne
Paul T. Heyne (1931-2000) was a lecturer in economics for nearly a quarter century at the University of Washington in Seattle, United States. Heyne received two divinity degrees from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, took his master's degree at Washington University and his Ph.D. in ethics and society at the University of Chicago. - James D. Foley
James D. Foley is a professor in the College of Computing and College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. He is perhaps best known as the co-author of several widely-used textbooks in the field of computer graphics, of which over 300,000 copies are in print. Foley presently does research with instructional technologies and distance education. - Don Clark
Don Clark is a writer, teacher, consultant and clinical psychologist who has specialized in group and individual work with gay people since 1968. His writing includes fiction, textbooks, and articles for both professional journals and popular magazines. He is the author of the best-selling, seminal book, "Loving Someone Gay", now in its fourth edition, as well as "Living Gay" and "As We Are". Dr. - Anthony Comstock
Anthony Comstock (March 7 1844 - September 21 1915) was a former United States Postal Inspector and politician dedicated to ideas of Victorian morality. He was born in New Canaan, Connecticut. As a young man, he enlisted and fought for the Union in the American Civil War from 1863 to 1865. He served without incident, but objected to the profanity used by his fellow soldiers.Afterward he became an active worker in the Young Men's Christian Association in New York City. - Jedidiah Morse
Rev. Jedidiah Morse was a U.S. clergyman and geographer. He was the father of Samuel Morse. Morse made an important impact on the educational system of the United States. He was the author of the first textbook on American geography, a praise to the progress of the country after the American Revolution. Morse also made significant contributions to Dobson's Encyclopædia, the first encyclopedia published in America after the Revolution. - Richard Musgrave
Richard Abel Musgrave was an American economist of German heritage. Born in Königstein im Taunus, Germany, he studied in Munich and Heidelberg. In 1937 he graduated from Harvard. After that he spent four years as a research economist at the Federal Reserve, taught at several American universities and served as an advisor to the US government, … - Lindley Murray
Lindley Murray (7 June, 1745 - 16 January, 1826), grammarian, was born in Swatara, Pennsylvania, and practised as a lawyer. He was the eldest son of Robert Murray, the Quaker merchant and Mary Lindleywhose home was on a hill in Manhattan on what today is Park Avenue. This was the center of an area known to this day as Murray Hill. Murray was forced into exile after the Revolution as a loyalist, settling in York, England, where a Quaker community existed. - Joan Ferrante
Joan Ferrante is a professor at Northern Kentucky University. She holds a PhD from the University of Cincinnati. She is best known as the author of several popular sociology textbook, among them the "Sociology: A Global Perspective". In her textbooks she concentrates on undergraduate students, and her goal is to convey an understanding of concepts and methods in the field of sociology. - Samuel Glasstone
Samuel Glasstone authored 40 popular textbooks on physical chemistry, rate reactions, nuclear weapons effects, nuclear reactor engineering, Mars, space sciences, the environmental effects of nuclear energy and nuclear testing. One reviewer describe Glasstone as "perhaps one of the best technical writers of the last century." Samuel Glasstone was born on May 3, 1897. He received two doctorates, in 1922 and 1926 (PhD and DSc), in chemistry at London University. - Alain Anderton
Alain G. Anderton is an author of business studies and economics textbooks for use in education. He has written GCSE and A-level Economics textbooks ("Economics for GCSE" and "Economics" respectively). His textbooks are commonly used in context with A-level courses as well as the International Baccalaureate. He has released multiple editions of his textbook "Economics", and has recently released his fourth edition. - Donald Grantham
Donald Grantham (1947-) is an American composer and music educator. Grantham was born in Duncan, Oklahoma. After receiving a Bachelor of Music from the University of Oklahoma, he went on to receive his MM and DMA from the University of Southern California. For a brief period he also studied under French composer Nadia Boulanger at the American Conservatory in France. His music has won many prestigious awards, including the Prix Lili Boulanger, the ASCAP Rudolf Nissim Prize, … - George Hoyt
For 34 years, George Hoyt was known as New England's foremost basketball referee, earning him the moniker "Mr. Basketball". A tireless worker, Hoyt's talents were not merely requested, but demanded. He would often officiate two games a day at both the high school and college level. A champion in developing a uniform set of rules and procedures, Hoyt penned The Theory and Practice of Basketball Officiating, a classic textbook that discussed many officiating distinctions, … - Shamus Culhane
James "Shamus" Culhane (1908 - 1996) was an American animator, film director, and film producer, often regarded as one of the greatest animators of all time. He worked for a number of American animation studios, including Fleischer Studios, the Ub Iwerks studio, Walt Disney Productions, and the Walter Lantz studio. While at the Disney studio, he was a lead animator on "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", … - George Jewsbury
George F. Jewsbury is an academic who has collaborated on several best-selling textbooks in the "Civilization: Past & Present" series. He has also written several books on history, including "Russian Annexation of Bessarabia, 1774-1828". He was a professor of history at Oklahoma State University. He is a specialist of Russia, including the USSR. He is the uncle of author Neal Stephenson, and collaborated with his nephew on two different books, … - William Marvin
William Marvin (April 14, 1808 - July 9, 1902) born at Fairfield, New York, was the seventh governor of Florida. Marvin was practicing law at Phelps, New York when United States President Andrew Johnson appointed him as U.S. district attorney at Key West. He was appointed governor on July 13, 1865 by President Andrew Johnson to reestablish the government of the state after the end of the American Civil War. - Lyle F. Schoenfeldt
Lyle F. Schoenfeldt is an American psychology professor best known for a standard textbook on human resources. Schoenfeldt earned his B.A. from Case Western Reserve University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Purdue University. He held a position at University of Georgia and was Director of Early Identification of Management Talent (EIMT) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute before joining Texas A&M University in 1981. He remained there until 1996. - Benny Lautrup
Benny Lautrup is a professor in theoretical physics at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen. Is known for his part in the Nakanishi-Lautrup formalism, a concept in quantum field theory. Has during his career worked at Nordic Institute of Theoretical Physics (Denmark), Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA), CERN (Switzerland), og Institut des hautes Etudes Scientifiques (France). - Shinichi Fujimura
Shinichi Fujimura was a Japanese amateur archaeologist who faked important discoveries for years before he was exposed in 2000. In 1972, Fujimura began to study archaeology and to look for prehistoric artifacts. At the time he was working for a manufacturing company. He established his reputation as a leading amateur archaeologist in Japan when he made a major discovery in 1981. By stratum, it was dated as much as 40,000 years old. - Edmund Ware Sinnott
Edmund Ware Sinnott (February 5, 1888 in Cambridge, Massachusetts - January 6, 1968 in New Haven, Connecticut) was an American botanist and prolific textbook author. He is best known for his work in plant morphology. - Giacomo Leoni
Giacomo Leoni (also known as James Leoni, 1686 - 1746) was an Italian architect. - Johann Tobias Mayer
Johann Tobias Mayer was a German physicist. He was mainly well known for his mathematics and natural science textbooks. "Anfangsgründe der Naturlehre zum Behuf der Vorlesungen über die Experimental-Physik", an 1801 physics text, was the most influential of its time in the German-speaking countries. Mayer's research in experimental physics and astronomy appeared in "Annalen der Physik". He is not to be confused with his famous father, … - Ferdinand-Jean Darier
Darier Jean Ferdinand was a French physician, pathologist and dermatologist. Darier was a brilliant clinician and outstanding pathologist, who studied with Louis-Antoine Ranvier (1835-1922) at the Collège de France. He was the unquestionable leader of the French dermatology. He described several diseases, the most important being Darier's disease, a peculiar figurate erythema which he identified in 1889 as "psorodermose folliculaire végétante". - Christoph Cellarius
Christoph Cellarius (1634 or 1638 - 1707) was a German classical scholar who held positions in Weimar and Halle. The term "Middle Ages" ("medium aevum") is attributed to him. Cellarius wrote in a textbook fashion. His writings finally organized Western history according to the new concept of three stages. His "Universal History Divided into an Ancient, Medieval, and New Period", absorbed the previous religious, Christian histories into general, … - Oswald Chettle Mazengarb
Oswald Chettle Mazengarb (1890-1963) was a New Zealand barrister. His other well-known public appointment was in 1954, by the National government of the time, to chair the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents, otherwise better known as the Mazengarb Report. Oswald Mazengarb also wrote a few legal textbooks. Aside from his legal and judicial careers, he was also a politician, standing for National in the 1935 and 1938 elections, … - Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt
Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt ; (May 5, 1833 - July 22, 1902) was a German internist who was a native of Speyer. He studied medicine at the University of Würzburg, earning his doctorate in 1856. Subsequently he was an assistant to Heinrich von Bamberger (1822-1888) and Franz von Rinecker (1811-1883) in Würzburg, and worked under Wilhelm Griesinger (1817-1868) in Tübingen. In 1885 he was successor to pathologist Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs (1819-1885) in Berlin, …
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