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Roland Joffé Roland Joffé (born 17 November 1945) is an English-French film director who is known for the Oscar-winning movies "The Killing Fields" and "The Mission". He began his career in television. His early television credits included episodes of "Coronation Street" and an adaptation of "The Stars Look Down" for Granada. He gained a reputation for hard-hitting political stories with the series "Bill Brand" and factual dramas for "Play for Today".
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José Bohr José Bohr (3 September 1901 – 29 May 1994) was a Chilean film director, producer, actor and screenwriter. He directed 35 films between 1919 and 1969.
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Alfred Kleiner Alfred Kleiner (April 24, 1849 – July 3, 1916) was a Swiss physicist and Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Zurich. He was Albert Einstein's doctoral advisor or "Doktorvater." Initially Einstein's advisor was Heinrich F. Weber. However, they had a major falling out, and Einstein chose to switch to Kleiner.
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Frederic de Hoffmann Frederic de Hoffmann (b. Vienna, July 8, 1924 – d. La Jolla, October 4, 1989) was a nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project. He came to the United States of America in 1941 and graduated from Harvard in 1944. Upon graduating, de Hoffmann was sent to Los Alamos National Laboratory where he assisted Edward Teller in the development of the Hydrogen bomb. Frederic de Hoffmann was an advocate of peaceful atomic energy.
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Javier Solana Francisco Javier Solana de Madariaga, KOGF (] ; born 14 July 1942) is a Spanish physicist and Socialist politician. After serving in the Spanish government under Felipe González (1982–1995) and Secretary General of NATO (1995–1999), he was appointed the European Union's High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary General of the Council of the European Union and Secretary-General of the Western European Union and held these posts from October 1999 until December 2009.
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Roland Winter Roland Winter (b. 1954) is a biophysical chemist who studies the structure, dynamics, energetics, and phase behavior of biological membranes and proteins. He is dean of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Technical University of Dortmund, Germany.
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The Physicists The Physicists (German: "Die Physiker" ) is a satiric drama written in 1961 by Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Informed by the Second World War and the many recent advances in science and nuclear technology, the play deals with questions of scientific ethics and humanity's ability to handle its intellectual responsibilities. It is often recognized as his most impressive yet most easily understood work.
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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (] ; October 24, 1932 – May 18, 2007) was a French physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 1991.
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Joseph Beuys Joseph Beuys (] ; 12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German Fluxus, happening, and performance artist as well as a sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist, and pedagogue.
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Dieter Borst Dieter Borst, (born 12 May 1950) is a painter and sculptor of 20th-century art.
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Bo Becker Bo Becker (born 1971) is a Swedish economist, and Professor of Financial Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics, known for his work on rating, reputation and competition.
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John Jolliffe (librarian) John William Jolliffe (15 July 1929 – 30 March 1985) was a British librarian who was Bodley's Librarian (head of the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford) from 1982 until his death.
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Viktor K. Jirsa Viktor K. Jirsa (born 27 June 1968) is a German physicist and neuroscientist, Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Director of the
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Rudolf Jaffé Rudolf Jaffé (born 14 October 1885 in Berlin, died 13 March 1975 in Caracas) was a German physician and pathologist.
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Georges Pompidou Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou (] ; 5 July 19112 April 1974) was Prime Minister of France from 1962 to 1968—the longest tenure in the position's history—and later President of the French Republic from 1969 until his death in 1974. He had long been a top aide to president Charles de Gaulle. As president, he was a moderate conservative who repaired France's relationship with the United States, and maintained positive relations with the newly-independent former colonies in Africa.
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Victor Weisskopf Victor Frederick "Viki" Weisskopf (September 19, 1908 – April 22, 2002) was an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist. He did postdoctoral work with Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli and Niels Bohr. During World War II he was Group Leader of the Theoretical Division of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, and later campaigned against the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
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Roland (game character) Roland was a game character developed in 1984 by Alan Sugar, CEO of Amstrad, and Jose Luis Dominguez, a Spanish game designer. The character was named for Roland Perry, a computer engineer who worked for Amstrad. The idea was to have one recognizable character in a number of different computer games in a bid to have the Amstrad CPC compete with the ZX Spectrum and the Commodore 64.
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José Antonio Balseiro José Antonio Balseiro (March 29, 1919 in Córdoba – March 26, 1962 in Bariloche) was an Argentine physicist.
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H. Dieter Zeh Heinz-Dieter Zeh (] ; born 8 May 1932 in Braunschweig, Germany), usually referred to as H. Dieter Zeh, is a professor emeritus of the University of Heidelberg and theoretical physicist.
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Bertrand de Jouvenel Bertrand de Jouvenel des Ursins, usually known only as Bertrand de Jouvenel (31 October 1903 – 1 March 1987), was a French philosopher, political economist, and futurist.
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Copenhagen interpretation The Copenhagen interpretation is an expression of the meaning of quantum mechanics that was largely devised in the years 1925 to 1927 by Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. It remains one of the most commonly taught interpretations of quantum mechanics.
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Abraham Esau Robert Abraham Esau (7 June 1884 – 12 May 1955) was a German physicist.