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| x Howard Hughes |
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American aviator, engineer, industrialist, film producer, film director, philanthropist, and one of the wealthiest people in the world. He gained fame in the late 1920s as a...
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| x David J. Theroux | Independent Institute | ||
| x K. Eric Drexler |
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Foresight Institute |
Kim Eric Drexler (born April 25, 1955 in Almeda, California) is an American engineer best known for popularizing the potential of molecular nanotechnology (MNT), from the 1970s and 1980s. His 1991 doctoral thesis at MIT was revised and published as...
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| x Christine Peterson | Foresight Institute | ||
| x Eliezer Yudkowsky |
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Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence |
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (born September 11, 1979) is an American artificial intelligence researcher concerned with the Singularity, and an advocate of Friendly Artificial Intelligence.
Yudkowsky is a co-founder and research fellow of the Singularity...
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| x C. Fred Bergsten | Institute for International Economics |
C. Fred Bergsten (born 1941) is an American economist, author, and political adviser. He has served as Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department and has been director of the Peterson Institute for International...
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| x Paul P. Harris |
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Rotary International |
Paul Percy Harris (April 19, 1868 - January 27, 1947) was a Chicago attorney best known for founding Rotary International in 1905, a service organization with over one million members worldwide.
Harris was born in Racine, Wisconsin, but grew up in...
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| x Robert Greenstein | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities |
Robert Greenstein is founder and executive director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), a Washington, DC think tank that focuses on federal and state fiscal policy and public programs that affect low- and moderate-income families...
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| x Henry Smith Richardson Sr. | Smith Richardson Foundation | ||
| x Jim Balsillie |
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Centre for International Governance Innovation |
James Laurence "Jim" Balsillie (born February 3, 1961) is a Canadian businessman and co-CEO of the Canadian company Research In Motion. He was born in Seaforth, Ontario, and raised in Peterborough, Ontario, where his family relocated in 1966. He...
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| x Mike Lazaridis |
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Centre for International Governance Innovation |
Mihalis "Mike" Lazaridis, OC, O.Ont (born March 14, 1961) is the founder and co-CEO of Research In Motion (RIM), which created and manufactures the BlackBerry wireless handheld device. He is also a former chancellor of the University of Waterloo,...
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| x Nathaniel Branden | Nathaniel Branden Institute |
Nathaniel Branden, né Nathan Blumenthal (born 9 April 1930 in Brampton, Ontario, Canada), is a psychotherapist and writer best known today for his work in the psychology of self-esteem. A one-time associate of novelist Ayn Rand, Branden had a...
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| x Landon T. Clay | Clay Mathematics Institute | ||
| x Arthur Jaffe |
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Clay Mathematics Institute |
Arthur Jaffe is an American mathematical physicist and a professor at Harvard University. Born on December 22, 1937 he attended Princeton University as an undergraduate obtaining a degree in chemistry, and later Clare College, Cambridge, as a...
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| x Winston Churchill |
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European Movement |
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He served as Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and...
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| x Léon Blum |
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European Movement |
André Léon Blum (9 April 1872 – 30 March 1950) was a French politician, usually identified with the moderate left, and three times the Prime Minister of France.
Blum was born in the Paris Jewish community: he attended the Lycée Henri IV. There he...
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| x Alcide De Gasperi |
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European Movement |
Alcide De Gasperi (3 April 1881 – 19 August 1954) was an Italian statesman and politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party. From 1945 to 1953 he was the prime minister of eight successive coalition governments. His eight-year rule...
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| x Paul-Henri Spaak |
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European Movement |
Paul Henri Charles Spaak (25 January 1899 - 31 July 1972) was a Belgian Socialist politician and statesman.
He was born in Schaerbeek to Paul Spaak and Marie Janson. His mother - the daughter of Paul Janson and sister to Paul-Émile Janson, both...
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| x Alexandre Marc | Union of European Federalists | ||
| x Denis de Rougemont | Union of European Federalists |
Denis de Rougemont (September 8, 1906–December 6, 1985) was a Swiss writer, who wrote in French.
He studied at the University of Neuchâtel, and then moved to Paris in 1930. There he wrote for and edited various publications, associating with the...
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| x Henri Brugmans | Union of European Federalists | ||
| x Lawrence Lessig |
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Creative Commons |
Lawrence "Larry" Lessig (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic and political activist. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications....
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| x Richard Dawkins |
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Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science |
Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941) is a British biological theorist with a background in ethology. He is a popular science author focusing on evolution. He popularised the gene-centred view of evolution, and the meme.
Dawkins is...
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| x Nicholas Negroponte |
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One Laptop per Child |
Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek-American architect and computer scientist best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also known as the founder of The One Laptop...
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| x Larry Bohn |
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OASIS |
As a Managing Director of General Catalyst Partners, Larry invests in
both new and existing technology businesses. Areas of special interest
include: open source, information technology; systems; and software
on-demand business models. Larry...
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| x Samuel Eells |
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Alpha Delta Phi |
Samuel Eells (1810–1842) was a 19th-Century American philosopher, essayist and orator who founded the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity in 1832 at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York.
Eells was born in Westmoreland,_New_York in the rural western part of...
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| x Lorenzo Latham | Alpha Delta Phi |
Lorenzo Latham (died 1860 in New Orleans) was during his senior year at Hamilton College a founding member of Alpha Delta Phi (ΑΔΦ), now an international literary fraternity, with Samuel Eells and John Curtiss Underwood, who were also seniors, and...
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| x John Curtiss Underwood |
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Alpha Delta Phi |
John Curtiss Underwood (March 14, 1809 - December 7, 1873) was a lawyer, Abolitionist politician, and federal judge.
Underwood graduated from Hamilton College in 1832 and was a founding member of the Alpha Delta Phi society. He practiced law from...
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| x Henry Lemuel Storrs | |||
| x Shirley Chisholm |
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Congressional Black Caucus |
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician, educator, and author. She was a Congresswoman, representing New York's 12th Congressional District for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. In 1968, she...
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| x Louis Stokes |
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Congressional Black Caucus |
Louis Stokes (born February 23, 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a Democratic politician from Ohio. He served in the United States House of Representatives.
Born in Cleveland, Stokes and his brother Carl B. Stokes lived in one of the first federally...
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| x William Lacy Clay, Jr. |
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Congressional Black Caucus |
William Lacy Clay, Jr., sometimes known as Lacy Clay and Wm. Lacy Clay (born July 27, 1956), is an American politician from the U.S. state of Missouri currently serving his fourth term in the U.S. House of Representatives. A Democrat, he represents...
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| x Richard Stallman |
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Free Software Foundation |
Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often abbreviated "rms", is an American software freedom activist, and computer programmer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, and has been the...
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| x Dennis Whittle |
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GlobalGiving | |
| x Mari Kuraishi |
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GlobalGiving | |
| x August Palm | Swedish Social Democratic Party | ||
| x Arne Johansson | Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna | ||
| x James Gustave Speth |
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World Resources Institute |
James Gustave (Gus) Speth (born March 4, 1942) is an American environmental lawyer and advocate.
He was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina in 1942. He graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1964, attended Oxford University as a Rhodes...
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| x Walter W. Naumburg | Walter W. Naumburg Foundation | ||
| x Albert Lasker | Lasker Foundation |
Albert Davis Lasker (May 1, 1880 - May 30, 1952) was an American businessman who is often considered to be the founder of modern advertising. He was born in Freiburg, Germany when his American parents Morris and Nettie Heidenheimer Davis Lasker were...
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| x Mary Lasker |
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Lasker Foundation |
Mary Woodard Lasker (November 30, 1900 – February 21, 1994) was a highly influential American health activist. She worked to raise funds for medical research, and founded the Lasker Foundation. Mary Lasker is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of...
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| x Columbia University |
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Association of American Universities |
Columbia University in the City of New York (commonly known as Columbia University) is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough of...
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| x Cornell University |
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Association of American Universities |
Cornell University (pronounced /kɔrˈnɛl/) is a private university located in Ithaca, New York, USA, that is a member of the Ivy League.
Cornell was founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White as a coeducational, non-sectarian...
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| x Harvard University |
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Association of American Universities |
Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the...
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| x Johns Hopkins University |
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Association of American Universities |
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Johns Hopkins also maintains full-time campuses elsewhere in Maryland,...
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| x Princeton University |
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Association of American Universities |
Princeton University is a private university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and is considered one of the Colonial Colleges.
Princeton University has traditionally...
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| x Stanford University |
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Association of American Universities |
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university located in Stanford, California, United States. The university was founded in 1885 by United States Senator and former...
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| x University of California, Berkeley |
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Association of American Universities |
The University of California, Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, California, Berkeley, and UC Berkeley) is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the...
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| x University of Chicago |
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Association of American Universities |
The University of Chicago (commonly referred to as UChicago, the U of C, or just Chicago) is a private, coeducational research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by oil magnate and benefactor John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in...
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| x University of Michigan |
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Association of American Universities |
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (U of M, U-M, UM, UMich, or simply Michigan) is a public research university located in the state of Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university, the flagship campus of the University of...
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| x University of Pennsylvania |
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Association of American Universities |
The University of Pennsylvania (commonly referred to as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and is one of several...
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| x University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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Association of American Universities |
The University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW–Madison, Madison, or Wisconsin) is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became...
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| x Yale University |
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Association of American Universities |
The Yale Bulldogs are the athletic teams of the Yale University. The school sponsors 35 varsity sports. The school has won two NCAA national championships in women's fencing, four in men's swimming and diving, and twenty one in men's golf.
The...
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| x The Catholic University of America |
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Association of American Universities |
The Catholic University of America (CUA), located in Northeast Washington, D.C., is the national university of the Roman Catholic Church and the only higher education institution founded by U.S. Roman Catholic bishops. Established in 1887 as a...
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| x Clark University |
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Association of American Universities |
Clark University is a private research university and liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Founded in 1887, it is the oldest institution founded as an all-graduate university. Clark now also educates undergraduates. It is one of only...
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| x Hubert Humphrey |
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Americans for Democratic Action |
Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) served under President Lyndon B. Johnson as the 38th Vice President of the United States. Humphrey twice served as a United States Senator from Minnesota, and served as Democratic...
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| x Reinhold Niebuhr | Americans for Democratic Action |
Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr (June 21, 1892 – June 1, 1971) was an American theologian. A Protestant, he is best known for his study of the task of relating the Christian faith to the realities of modern politics and diplomacy. He was an important...
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| x Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. |
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Americans for Democratic Action |
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr., born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger (October 15, 1917 – February 28, 2007), was a Pulitzer Prize recipient and American historian and social critic whose work explored the liberalism of American political leaders including...
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| x John Kenneth Galbraith |
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Americans for Democratic Action |
John Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith, OC (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006) was a Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism and progressivism. His books on economic...
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