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Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare FRS FREng (born 11 January 1934), commonly known as Tony Hoare or C. A. R. Hoare, is a British computer scientist. He developed the sorting algorithm quicksort in 1959/1960. He also developed Hoare logic for verifying
Károly Ereky (German: Karl Ereky; October 20, 1878 – June 17, 1952) was a Hungarian agricultural engineer. The term ‘biotechnology’ was coined by him in 1919. He is regarded by some as the “father” of biotechnology.
Truman Henry Safford (6 January 1836 – 13 June 1901) was an American calculating prodigy. In later life he was an observatory director.
Paulo S. L. M. Barreto (born 1965) is a Brazilian cryptographer and one of the designers of the Whirlpool hash function and the block ciphers Anubis and KHAZAD, together with Vincent Rijmen. He has also co-authored a number of research works on ellip
Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen (29 July 1841 – 12 February 1912) was a Norwegian physician, remembered for his identification of the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae in 1873 as the causative agent of leprosy.
Kim Eric Drexler (born April 25, 1955) is an American engineer best known for popularizing the potential of molecular nanotechnology (MNT), from the 1970s and 1980s. His 1991 doctoral thesis at Massachusetts Institute of Technology was revised and pu
Serge Haroche (born 11 September 1944) is a French physicist who was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics jointly with David J. Wineland for “ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum system
Amanda Sainsbury-Salis, PhD is an Australian medical researcher, educator and author. Her research interests are hypothalamic control of body weight, famine reaction, metabolism, body composition, anorexia, obesity, eating disorders.
Guo Yonghuai, or Yung-huai Kuo (Chinese: 郭永怀; April 4, 1909 – December 5, 1968) was an expert in aerodynamics of China.
Mary Frances Lyon FRS (15 May 1925 – 25 December 2014) was an English geneticist, who is best known for her discovery of X-chromosome inactivation, an important biological phenomenon.
Valentine Louis Telegdi (Hungarian: Telegdi Bálint, 11 January 1922 – April 8, 2006) was a Hungarian-born U.S. physicist.
Te-Pei Feng (aka T.P. Feng, Depei Feng, or De-Pei Feng; 1907–1995; Traditional Chinese: 馮德培; Simplified Chinese: 冯德培; Pinyin: Féng Dé-Péi) was a Chinese neuroscientist, physiologist, and educator. He is considered as one of founders