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Dan David Prize, the Glossary

The Dan David Prize is an international group of awards that recognize and support outstanding contributions to the study of history and other disciplines that shed light on the human past.^[1]

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2002 establishments in Israel
Israeli awards

A. B. Yehoshua

Avraham Gabriel "Boolie" Yehoshua (אברהם גבריאל "בולי" יהושע; December 9, 1936 – June 14, 2022) was an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright.

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Adam Michnik

Adam Michnik (born 17 October 1946) is a Polish historian, essayist, former dissident, public intellectual, as well as co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Polish newspaper,.

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Ageing

Ageing (or aging in American English) is the process of becoming older.

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Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician, businessman, and environmentalist who served as the 45th vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton.

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Alessandro Portelli

Alessandro Portelli (born July 8, 1942) is an Italian scholar of American literature and culture, oral historian, writer for the daily newspaper il manifesto, and musicologist.

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Alfred Sommer

Alfred (Al) Sommer (born October 2, 1942) is an American ophthalmologist and epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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Alison Bashford

Alison Caroline Bashford, (born 1963) is a historian specialising in global history and the history of science.

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Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh (born 11 July 1956), Encyclopædia Britannica is an Indian writer.

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Amnon Shashua

Amnon Shashua (born May 26, 1960) is an Israeli computer scientist, businessman and philanthropist.

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Amos Oz

Amos Oz (עמוס עוז; born Amos Klausner; 4 May 1939 – 28 December 2018) was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual.

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Andrew E. Lange

Andrew E. Lange (July 23, 1957 – January 22, 2010)Janette Williams, Pasadena Star-News.

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Andrzej Udalski

Andrzej Jarosław Udalski (born 22 January 1957 in Łódź, Poland) is a Polish astronomer and astrophysicist, and director of the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw.

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Antebellum South

The Antebellum South era (from before the war) was a period in the history of the Southern United States that extended from the conclusion of the War of 1812 to the start of the American Civil War in 1861.

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Anthony Fauci

Anthony Stephen Fauci (born December 24, 1940) is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2022, and the chief medical advisor to the president from 2021 to 2022.

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Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Arlette Farge

Arlette Farge (born 14 September 1941) is a French historian who specialises in the study of the 18th century, a director of research at the CNRS, attached to the centre for historical research at the EHESS.

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Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.

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Astronomy

Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos.

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Astrophysics

Astrophysics is a science that employs the methods and principles of physics and chemistry in the study of astronomical objects and phenomena.

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Atom Egoyan

Atom Egoyan (Ատոմ Եղոյեան; born July 19, 1960) is a Canadian filmmaker.

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Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (born September 30, 1942, in Toronto, Ontario) is a scholar of Performance and Jewish Studies and a museum professional.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Bert Vogelstein

Bert Vogelstein (born 1949) is director of the Ludwig Center, Clayton Professor of Oncology and Pathology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at The Johns Hopkins Medical School and Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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Bioarchaeology

Bioarchaeology (osteoarchaeology, osteology or palaeo-osteology) in Europe describes the study of biological remains from archaeological sites.

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Biography

A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life.

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Biological anthropology

Biological anthropology, also known as physical anthropology, is a scientific discipline concerned with the biological and behavioral aspects of human beings, their extinct hominin ancestors, and related non-human primates, particularly from an evolutionary perspective.

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Bob Waterston

Robert Hugh "Bob" Waterston, (born September 17, 1943) is an American biologist.

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Brenda Milner

Brenda Milner (née Langford; born 15 July 1918) is a British-Canadian neuropsychologist who has contributed extensively to the research literature on various topics in the field of clinical neuropsychology.

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C. N. R. Rao

Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao, (born 30 June 1934), is an Indian chemist who has worked mainly in solid-state and structural chemistry.

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Carl H. June

Carl H. June (born 1953) is an American immunologist and oncologist. He is currently the Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. He is most well known for his research on T cell therapies for the treatment of several forms of cancers.

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Carlo M. Croce

Carlo Maria Croce (born December 17, 1944) is an Italian-American professor of medicine at Ohio State University, specializing in oncology and the molecular mechanisms underlying cancer.

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Catherine Hall

Catherine Hall (born 1946) is a British academic.

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Cécile Fromont

Cécile Alice Fromont is a French-born American art historian and educator.

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Chad Mirkin

Chad Alexander Mirkin (born November 23, 1963) is an American chemist.

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Chao Tayiana Maina

Chao Tayiana Maina is a Kenyan historian and digital heritage specialist.

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Christiana Figueres

Karen Christiana Figueres Olsen (born 7 August 1956) is a Costa Rican diplomat who has led national, international and multilateral policy negotiations.

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City

A city is a human settlement of a notable size.

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Classics

Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity.

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Coen brothers

Joel Daniel Coen (born November 29, 1954) and Ethan Jesse Coen (born September 21, 1957),State of Minnesota.

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Computer

A computer is a machine that can be programmed to automatically carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation).

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Contemporary music

Contemporary music is whatever music is produced at the current time.

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Contemporary philosophy

Contemporary philosophy is the present period in the history of Western philosophy beginning at the early 20th century with the increasing professionalization of the discipline and the rise of analytic and continental philosophy.

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Craig Venter

John Craig Venter (born October 14, 1946) is an American biotechnologist and businessman.

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Curator

A curator (from cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer.

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Cynthia Kenyon

Cynthia Jane Kenyon (born February 21, 1954) is an American molecular biologist and biogerontologist known for her genetic dissection of aging in a widely used model organism, the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans.

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Cyrus Chothia

Cyrus Homi Chothia (19 February 1942 – 26 November 2019) was an English biochemist who was an emeritus scientist at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) at the University of Cambridge and emeritus fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge.

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Dan David (businessman)

Dan David (דן דוד; &lrm;23 May 1929 – 6 September 2011) was a Romanian-born Israeli businessman and philanthropist.

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Danny Hillis

William Daniel Hillis (born September 25, 1956) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and computer scientist, who pioneered parallel computers and their use in artificial intelligence.

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David Botstein

David Botstein (born September 8, 1942) is an American biologist who is the chief scientific officer of Calico.

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David Haussler

David Haussler (born 1953) is an American bioinformatician known for his work leading the team that assembled the first human genome sequence in the race to complete the Human Genome Project and subsequently for comparative genome analysis that deepens understanding the molecular function and evolution of the genome.

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David Reich (geneticist)

David Emil Reich (born July 14, 1974) is an American geneticist known for his research into the population genetics of ancient humans, including their migrations and the mixing of populations, discovered by analysis of genome-wide patterns of mutations.

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Debora Diniz

Debora Diniz Rodrigues (known as Debora Diniz), is an anthropologist and law professor at the University of Brasília, and a co-founder and researcher at Anis: Institute for Bioethics.

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Demis Hassabis

Sir Demis Hassabis (born 27 July 1976) is a British computer scientist, artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur.

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Democracy

Democracy (from dēmokratía, dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') is a system of government in which state power is vested in the people or the general population of a state.

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Digital humanities

Digital humanities (DH) is an area of scholarly activity at the intersection of computing or digital technologies and the disciplines of the humanities.

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Documentary film

A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record".

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Earth science

Earth science or geoscience includes all fields of natural science related to the planet Earth.

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Electronic media are media that use electronics or electromechanical means for the audience to access the content.

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Ellen Mosley-Thompson

Ellen Mosley-Thompson is a glaciologist and climatologist.

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Energy development

Energy development is the field of activities focused on obtaining sources of energy from natural resources.

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Environmental history

Environmental history is the study of human interaction with the natural world over time, emphasising the active role nature plays in influencing human affairs and vice versa.

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Eric Lander

Eric Steven Lander (born February 3, 1957) is an American mathematician and geneticist who is a professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a professor of systems biology at Harvard Medical School.

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Esther Duflo

Esther Duflo, FBA (born 25 October 1972) is a French–American economist currently serving as the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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Ethiopia

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa.

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Evelyn Fox Keller

Evelyn Fox Keller (March 20, 1936 – September 22, 2023) was an American physicist, author, and feminist.

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Evolution

Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.

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Evolutionary biology

Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes (natural selection, common descent, speciation) that produced the diversity of life on Earth.

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Ezekiel Emanuel

Ezekiel Jonathan "Zeke" Emanuel (born September 6, 1957) is an American oncologist, bioethicist and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.

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Filmmaking

Filmmaking or film production is the process by which a motion picture is produced.

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François Bourguignon

François Bourguignon (born May 22, 1945) is a former Chief Economist (2003–2007) of the World Bank.

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Frederick Wiseman

Frederick Wiseman (born January 1, 1930) is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and theater director.

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G. E. R. Lloyd

Sir Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd (born 25 January 1933), usually cited as G. E. R. Lloyd, is a historian of ancient science and medicine at the University of Cambridge.

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Gary Ruvkun

Gary Bruce Ruvkun (born March 1952, Berkeley, California) is an American molecular biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

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Genome Research

Genome Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.

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Geoffrey Eglinton

Geoffrey Eglinton, FRS (1 November 1927 – 11 March 2016) was a British chemist and emeritus professor and senior research fellow in earth sciences at the University of Bristol.

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George M. Whitesides

George McClelland Whitesides (born August 3, 1939) is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at Harvard University.

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Giorgio Napolitano

Giorgio Napolitano (29 June 1925 – 22 September 2023) was an Italian politician who served as the 11th president of Italy from 2006 to 2015, the first to be re-elected to the office.

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Gita Sen

Gita Sen is an Indian feminist scholar.

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Goenawan Mohamad

Goenawan Mohamad (born 29 July 1941) is an Indonesian poet, essayist, playwright and editor.

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Gordon Moore

Gordon Earle Moore (January 3, 1929 – March 24, 2023) was an American businessman, engineer, and the co-founder and emeritus chairman of Intel Corporation.

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Graeme Barker

Graeme William Walter Barker, (born 23 October 1946) is a British archaeologist, notable for his work on the Italian Bronze Age, the Roman occupation of Libya, and landscape archaeology.

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Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it.

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History

History (derived) is the systematic study and documentation of the human past.

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Inga Clendinnen

Inga Clendinnen, (17 August 1934 – 8 September 2016) was an Australian author, historian, anthropologist, and academic.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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Israel Finkelstein

Israel Finkelstein (ישראל פינקלשטיין; born March 29, 1949) is an Israeli archaeologist, professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University and the head of the School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures at the University of Haifa.

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Istanbul

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia.

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Jacques Le Goff

Jacques Le Goff (1 January 1924 – 1 April 2014) was a French historian and prolific author specializing in the Middle Ages, particularly the 12th and 13th centuries.

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Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid (born May 25, 1949) is an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer.

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James Hansen

James Edward Hansen (born March 29, 1941) is an American adjunct professor directing the Program on Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.

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James Heckman

James Joseph Heckman (born April 19, 1944) is an American economist and Nobel laureate who serves as the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, where he is also a professor at the College, a professor at the Harris School of Public Policy, Director of the Center for the Economics of Human Development (CEHD), and Co-Director of Human Capital and Economic Opportunity (HCEO) Global Working Group.

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James Nachtwey

James Nachtwey (born March 14, 1948) is an American photojournalist and war photographer.

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Jerusalem

Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.

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Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Donal Wales (born on August 7, 1966), also known as Jimbo Wales, is an Internet entrepreneur, webmaster, and former financial trader.

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John Hardy (geneticist)

Sir John Anthony Hardy (born 9 November 1954) is a human geneticist and molecular biologist at the Reta Lila Weston Institute of Neurological Studies at University College London with research interests in neurological diseases.

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John Mendelsohn (doctor)

John Mendelsohn (August 31, 1936 – January 7, 2019) was a president of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

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John N. Bahcall

John Norris Bahcall (December 30, 1934 – August 17, 2005) was an American astrophysicist and the Richard Black Professor for Astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Study.

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John Pendry

Sir John Brian Pendry, (born 4 July 1943) is an English theoretical physicist known for his research into refractive indices and creation of the first practical "Invisibility Cloak".

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John Sulston

Sir John Edward Sulston (27 March 1942 – 6 March 2018) was a British biologist and academic who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the cell lineage and genome of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans in 2002 with his colleagues Sydney Brenner and Robert Horvitz at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

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Jonathan Glover

Jonathan Glover (born 1941) is a British philosopher known for his books and studies on ethics.

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Joseph Schlessinger

Joseph Schlessinger (born Josip Schlessinger; 26 March 1945) is a Yugoslav-born Israeli-American biochemist and biophysician.

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Journalism

Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy.

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Katharine Park

Katharine Park is a Radcliffe Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University.

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Keisha N. Blain

Keisha N. Blain (born 1985) is an American writer and scholar of American and African-American history.

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Keith Wailoo

Keith A. Wailoo is an American historian.

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Kenneth Pomeranz

Kenneth Pomeranz, FBA (born November 4, 1958) is University Professor of History at the University of Chicago.

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Klaus Schwab

Klaus Martin Schwab (born 30 March 1938) is a German mechanical engineer, economist, and founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF).

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Krista Goff

Krista A. Goff is an American historian of Russia and the Soviet Union, who specializes in Soviet nationality politics and the history of the Caucasus in the 20th century.

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Krzysztof Czyżewski

Krzysztof Czyżewski (born 6 July 1958 in Warsaw) is a Polish author, one of the initiators of the Borderland Foundation in Sejny, Poland.

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Leadership

Leadership, both as a research area and as a practical skill, encompasses the ability of an individual, group, or organization to "", influence, or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organizations.

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Legal history

Legal history or the history of law is the study of how law has evolved and why it has changed.

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Leon Wieseltier

Leon Wieseltier (born June 14, 1952) is an American critic and magazine editor.

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Leonard Kleinrock

Leonard Kleinrock (born June 13, 1934) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer.

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List of history awards

This list of history awards covers notable awards given to persons, a group of persons, or institutions, for their contribution to the study of history.

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List of life sciences

This list of life sciences comprises the branches of science that involve the scientific study of life – such as microorganisms, plants, and animals including human beings.

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Literature

Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, plays, and poems.

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Lonnie Bunch

Lonnie G. Bunch III (born November 18, 1952) is an American educator and historian.

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Lonnie Thompson

Lonnie Thompson (born July 1, 1948), is an American paleoclimatologist and university professor in the School of Earth Sciences at Ohio State University.

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Lorraine Daston

Lorraine Daston (born June 9, 1951) is an American historian of science.

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Magdi Allam

Magdi Cristiano Allam (مجدي علامMajdī ʿAllām; born 22 April 1952), is an Egyptian-Italian journalist and politician, noted for his criticism of Islam and his articles on the relations between Western culture and the Islamic world.

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Marcus Feldman

Marcus William Feldman (born 14 November 1942) is the Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor of Biological Sciences, director of the Morrison Institute for Population and Resource Studies, and co-director of the Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics (CEHG) at Stanford University.

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Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic.

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Martin Gilbert

Sir Martin John Gilbert (25 October 1936 – 3 February 2015) was a British historian and honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.

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Marvin Minsky

Marvin Lee Minsky (August 9, 1927 – January 24, 2016) was an American cognitive and computer scientist concerned largely with research of artificial intelligence (AI).

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Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock

Helen Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, (née Wilson; 14 April 1924 – 20 March 2019) was an English philosopher of morality, education, and mind, and a writer on existentialism.

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Mary-Claire King

Mary-Claire King (born February 27, 1946) is an American geneticist.

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Materials science

Materials science is an interdisciplinary field of researching and discovering materials.

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Mónica González (journalist)

Mónica González Mujica (born 24 October 1949) is a Chilean writer and journalist.

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Michael Ignatieff

Michael Grant Ignatieff (born May 12, 1947) is a Canadian author, academic and former politician who served as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition from 2008 until 2011.

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Michael O. Rabin

Michael Oser Rabin (מִיכָאֵל עוזר רַבִּין; born September 1, 1931) is an Israeli mathematician, computer scientist, and recipient of the Turing Award.

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Michael Waterman

Michael Spencer Waterman (born June 28, 1942) is a Professor of Biology, Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC), where he holds an Endowed Associates Chair in Biological Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science.

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Michel Brunet (paleontologist)

Michel Brunet (born April 6, 1940) is a French paleontologist and a professor at the Collège de France.

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Michel Serres

Michel Serres (1 September 1930 – 1 June 2019) was a French philosopher, theorist and writer.

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Mirjam Brusius

Mirjam Sarah Brusius is a cultural historian and historian of science.

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Music

Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content.

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Nana Oforiatta Ayim

Nana Oforiatta Ayim is a Ghanaian writer, art historian and filmmaker.

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Neil Gehrels

Cornelis A. "Neil" Gehrels (October 3, 1952 – February 6, 2017) was an American astrophysicist specializing in the field of gamma-ray astronomy.

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Neurology

Neurology (from νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the nervous system, which comprises the brain, the spinal cord and the peripheral nerves.

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Paleoanthropology

Paleoanthropology or paleo-anthropology is a branch of paleontology and anthropology which seeks to understand the early development of anatomically modern humans, a process known as hominization, through the reconstruction of evolutionary kinship lines within the family Hominidae, working from biological evidence (such as petrified skeletal remains, bone fragments, footprints) and cultural evidence (such as stone tools, artifacts, and settlement localities).

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Pascal Dusapin

Pascal Georges Dusapin (born 29 May 1955) is a French composer.

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Paul Alivisatos

Armand Paul Alivisatos (born November 12, 1959) is a Greek-American chemist and academic administrator who has served as the 14th president of the University of Chicago since September 2021.

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Performing arts

The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience.

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Peter Brook

Peter Stephen Paul Brook (21 March 1925 – 2 July 2022) was an English theatre and film director.

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Peter Brown (historian)

Peter Robert Lamont Brown (born 26 July 1935) is an Irish historian.

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Peter St George-Hyslop

Peter Henry St George-Hyslop, OC, FRS, FRSC, FRCPC, (born July 10, 1953) is a British and Canadian medical scientist, neurologist and molecular geneticist who is known for his research into neurodegenerative diseases.

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Physical cosmology

Physical cosmology is a branch of cosmology concerned with the study of cosmological models.

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Pierre Nora

Pierre Nora (born 17 November 1931) is a French historian elected to the Académie Française on 7 June 2001.

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Plastic arts

Plastic arts are art forms which involve physical manipulation of a plastic medium, such as clay, wax, paint or even plastic in the modern sense of the word (a ductile polymer) to create works of art.

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Preventive healthcare

Preventive healthcare, or prophylaxis, is the application of healthcare measures to prevent diseases.

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Public health

Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals".

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Public history

Public history is a broad range of activities undertaken by people with some training in the discipline of history who are generally working outside of specialized academic settings.

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Publishing

Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software, and other content available to the public for sale or for free.

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Reporters Without Borders

Reporters Without Borders (RWB; Reporters sans frontières; RSF) is an international non-profit and non-governmental organization focused on safeguarding the right to freedom of information.

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Robert Conquest

George Robert Acworth Conquest (15 July 1917 – 3 August 2015) was a British-American historian, poet, and novelist.

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Robert Gallo

Robert Charles Gallo (born March 23, 1937) is an American biomedical researcher.

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Robert S. Langer

Robert Samuel Langer Jr. FREng (born August 29, 1948) is an American biotechnologist, businessman, chemical engineer, chemist, and inventor.

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Robert Wurtz

Robert H. Wurtz is an American neuroscientist working as a NIH Distinguished Scientist and Chief of the Section on Visuomotor Integration at the National Eye Institute.

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Romani people

The Romani, also spelled Romany or Rromani and colloquially known as the Roma (Rom), are an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin who traditionally lived a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle.

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Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.

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Rome

Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.

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Saheed Aderinto

Saheed Aderinto (born January 22, 1979) is a Nigerian American Professor of History and African and African Diaspora Studies at Florida International University, an award-winning author, and a filmmaker.

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Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Sanjay Subrahmanyam (born 21 May 1961) is a historian of the early modern period.

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Sarah Kurtz

Sarah R. Kurtz is an American materials scientist known for her research on solar energy and photovoltaics, including the application of multi-junction solar cells in robotic spacecraft.

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Saul Friedländer

Saul Friedländer (born October 11, 1932) is a Czech-Jewish-born historian and a professor emeritus of history at UCLA.

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Shrinivas Kulkarni

Shrinivas Ramchandra Kulkarni (born 4 October 1956) is a US-based astronomer born and raised in India.

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Simon Schaffer

Simon J. Schaffer (born 1 January 1955) is a historian of science, previously a professor of the history and philosophy of science at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and was editor of The British Journal for the History of Science from 2004 to 2009.

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Social responsibility is an ethical concept in which a person works and cooperates with other people and organizations for the benefit of the community.

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Stephanie Jones-Rogers

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers is an American historian.

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Steven Rosenberg

Steven A. Rosenberg (born 2 August 1940) is an American cancer researcher and surgeon, chief of Surgery at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland and a Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences and the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

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Svante Pääbo

Svante Pääbo (born 20 April 1955) is a Swedish geneticist and Nobel Laureate who specialises in the field of evolutionary genetics.

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Sydney Brenner

Sydney Brenner (13 January 1927 – 5 April 2019) was a South African biologist.

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Technology

Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way.

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Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University (TAU; אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, Universitat Tel Aviv, جامعة تل أبيب, Jami’at Tel Abib) is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Telecommunications

Telecommunication, often used in its plural form or abbreviated as telecom, is the transmission of information with an immediacy comparable to face-to-face communication.

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The Hill (newspaper)

The Hill is an American newspaper and digital media company based in Washington, D.C., that was founded in 1994.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Times of Israel

The Times of Israel is an Israeli multi-language online newspaper that was launched in 2012.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard (born italic, 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter.

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Tony Atkinson

Sir Anthony Barnes Atkinson (4 September 1944 – 1 January 2017) was a British economist, Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, and senior research fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.

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Tony Blair

Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007.

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University College London

University College London (branded as UCL) is a public research university in London, England.

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Verena Krebs

Verena Krebs (born 1984 in Marburg) is a German historian who specialises in medieval European and African history.

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Video game

A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.

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References

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