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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 business magnate, investor, aviator, engineer, film producer, director, and philanthropist. He was one of the wealthiest people in the world. He gained prominence from the...
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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) 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...
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| x Christine Peterson | Foresight Institute | ||
| x Eliezer Yudkowsky |
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Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence |
Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsky (born September 11, 1979) is an American artificial intelligence researcher concerned with the singularity and an advocate of friendly artificial intelligence, living in Redwood City, California.
Yudkowsky did not attend...
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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, Illinois, attorney best known for founding Rotary International in 1905, a service organization that currently has well over one million members worldwide.
Harris was born in Racine,...
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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 former co-CEO of the Canadian company Research In Motion. He is a member of the Trilateral Commission, a private political organization. With an estimated net worth...
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| x Mike Lazaridis |
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Centre for International Governance Innovation |
Mihalis "Mike" Lazaridis (Greek: Μιχαήλ Λαζαρίδης), OC, O.Ont (born March 14, 1961, Istanbul, Turkey) is a Greek Canadian businessman, founder and Vice Chairman of Research In Motion (RIM), which created and manufactures the BlackBerry wireless...
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| x Nathaniel Branden | Nathaniel Branden Institute |
Nathaniel Branden (born 9 April 1930) is a Canadian psychotherapist and writer known for his work in the psychology of self-esteem. A former associate and one-time romantic partner of novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand, Branden also played a prominent...
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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, PC, DL, FRS, Hon. RA (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British Conservative politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Widely...
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| x Léon Blum |
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European Movement |
André Léon Blum (French pronunciation: [leɔ̃ blym]; 9 April 1872 – 30 March 1950) was a French politician, usually identified with the moderate left, and three times Prime Minister of France.
While in his youth an avid reader of the works of the...
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| x Alcide De Gasperi |
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European Movement |
Alcide De Gasperi (Italian pronunciation: [alˈtʃiːde de ˈɡasperi]; April 3, 1881 – August 19, 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...
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| x Paul-Henri Spaak | European Movement |
Paul Henri Charles Spaak (25 January 1899 – 31 July 1972) was a Belgian Socialist politician and statesman.
Paul-Henri Spaak was born on 25 January 1899 in Schaerbeek, Belgium, to a distinguished Belgian family. His grandfather, Paul Janson was an...
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| x Alexandre Marc | Union of European Federalists | ||
| x Denis de Rougemont |
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Union of European Federalists |
Denis de Rougemont (September 8, 1906, Couvet – December 6, 1985, Geneva) was a Swiss writer and European federalist, who wrote in French.
He studied at the University of Neuchâtel, and then moved to Paris in 1930. There he wrote for and edited...
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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), known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public...
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| x Nicholas Negroponte |
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One Laptop per Child |
Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is an American architect 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 per Child Association (OLPC)....
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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 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., usually known as Lacy Clay (born July 27, 1956) is the U.S. Representative for Missouri's 1st congressional district, serving since 2001. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
The district includes the northern two-thirds...
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| x Richard Stallman |
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Free Software Foundation |
Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often shortened to 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 he 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 | 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 |
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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 an American health activist and philanthropist. She worked to raise funds for medical research, and founded the Lasker Foundation.
Born in Watertown, Wisconsin, Lasker attended the...
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| x Columbia University | Association of American Universities |
Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is an American private Ivy League research university located in New York City, New York, United States. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning...
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| x Cornell University | Association of American Universities |
Cornell University ( /kɔrˈnɛl/ kor-NEL) is a private Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational...
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| x Harvard University | Association of American Universities |
Harvard University is an American private Ivy League research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United...
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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 based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Johns Hopkins maintains campuses in Maryland; Washington, D.C.; Italy; China...
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| x Princeton University | Association of American Universities |
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States.
It is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution. Princeton...
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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 an American private research university located in Stanford, California on an 8,180-acre (3,310 ha) campus near Palo Alto, California, United States....
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| x University of California, Berkeley | Association of American Universities |
The University of California, Berkeley (also referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, or simply Cal) is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. The university occupies 1,232 acres (499 ha) on the eastern...
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| x University of Chicago |
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Association of American Universities |
The University of Chicago (U of C, UC, UChicago, or simply Chicago) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D....
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| x University of Michigan |
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Association of American Universities |
The University of Michigan (commonly referred to as Michigan, U-M, UMich, or U of M) is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University...
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| x University of Pennsylvania | Association of American Universities |
The University of Pennsylvania (commonly referred to as Penn or UPenn) is a private, Ivy League university, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn considers itself the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United...
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| x University of Wisconsin-Madison | Association of American Universities |
The University of Wisconsin–Madison (Also known as University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, or regionally as UW–Madison, or Madison) is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded when Wisconsin achieved statehood...
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| x Yale University | Association of American Universities |
Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university located in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States....
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| x The Catholic University of America | Association of American Universities |
The Catholic University of America (CUA) is a private university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States. It is a pontifical university of the Catholic Church in the United States and the only institution of higher education founded by the...
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| x Clark University | 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 educational institution founded as an all-graduate university. Clark now also educates undergraduates. It is...
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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 (pronounced /ˈraɪnhoʊld ˈniːbʊər/; June 21, 1892 – June 1, 1971) was an American theologian and commentator on public affairs. Starting as a leftist minister in the 1920s indebted to theological liberalism, he shifted to...
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| x Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. |
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Americans for Democratic Action |
Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. (October 15, 1917 – February 28, 2007) was an American historian and social critic whose work explored the American liberalism of political leaders including Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy...
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| x John Kenneth Galbraith |
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Americans for Democratic Action |
John Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith (properly /ɡælˈbreɪθ/ gal-BRAYTH, but commonly /ˈɡælbreɪθ/ GAL-brayth; October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006), OC was a Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of 20th...
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