Roland Fryer, Jr. is the director of the Harvard University's American Inequality Lab (http://www.americaninequalitylab.com), which is devoted to understanding the causes and consequences of inequality in American society. He is a professor of economics at Harvard University and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. In January 2008, he became the youngest African-American to receive tenure from Harvard.
CARL SAGAN was the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University. He played a leading role in the American space program since its inception. He was a consultant and adviser to NASA since the 1950's, briefed the Apollo astronauts before their flights to the Moon, and was an experimenter on the Mariner, Viking, Voyager, and Galileo expeditions to the planets. He helped solve the mysteries of the high temperatures of Venus (answer: massive greenhouse effect), the seasonal changes on Mars (answer: windblown dust), and the reddish haze of ...
A Hungarian physicist, Szilard was instrumental in the development of the Manhattan Project. He conceived the idea of sending a confidential letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, warning him about the possibility of an atomic bomb and encouraging the U.S. development of such a program, and obtained Albert Einstein's endorsement in August 1939.
He later worked with Enrico Fermi to construct the first nuclear reactor. He circulated petitions among the scientists demanding greater scientific input on the future use of atomic weapons. After the war, he continued to worked toward peaceful uses of atomic energy and international arms control.
Philip Masters found the Queen Anne's Revenge, BlackBeard's pirate ship. QAR originally a French slave ship until BlackBeard commandeered it in 1717.
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Dr. Thomas Rau, M.D. is the Chief Medical Director of the Paracelsus Klinik in Switzerland, and founder of Paracelsus Biological Medicine.
He is founder and President of the Swiss Homotoxicological and Regulative Therapy Society and is a Board member of the International Society of Milieu Therapy, Isopathy and Enderlein Medicine. He is considered a leading expert in Enderlein therapy, Darkfield Microscopy, and Biologic tumor treatments.
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass-energy equivalence, E = mc^2. Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect." His contributions to physics are many and he sought in vain, until the end of his life, to unify the forces of gravity and electromagnetism in a theory of everything.
Works by Albert Einstein include more than fifty scientific papers and non-scientific books. In 1999 Einstein was named Time magazine's "Person ...
Thomas Robert Malthus was born to Daniel and Henrietta Malthus, the sixth of seven children. Malthus was educated at home until his admission to Jesus College, Cambridge in 1784. He earned a masters degree in 1791 and was elected a fellow of Jesus College two years later. In 1797, he was ordained and became an Anglican country parson.
In 1805 he became Britain's first professor in political economy at the East India Company College at Hertford Heath, near Hertford in Hertfordshire, now known as Haileybury.
Malthus is famous for his work An Essay on the Principle of ...
A Nobel Laureate in Physics in 1965, Feynman was a remarkable American scientist. His work and his writing are fascinating and entertaining.
"Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman!" and "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" are excellent books.
From his tribute site: Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988), scientist, teacher, raconteur, and musician. He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb, expanded the understanding of quantum electrodynamics, translated Mayan hieroglyphics, and cut to the heart of the Challenger disaster. But beyond all of that, Richard Feynman was a unique and multi-faceted individual.
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