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Louis de Branges
Mathematician Louis de Branges was the first winner (in 1989) of the Ostrowski Prize for achievement in pure mathematics. De Branges won the prize for his 1984 proof of the Bieberbach conjecture, a…Daniel Berrigan
Poet, priest, teacher and war protester Daniel Berrigan was in the news for four months in 1970 while he eluded J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. He and his activist brother, Philip (who only disappeared for…Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall is the most famous chimpanzee expert in the world. A colleague of anthropologist Louis Leakey in Kenya in the late 1950s, she began studying the social organization of chimpanzees in…Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita was so controversial that it went unpublished in America for three years after it was first presented in France in 1955. Nabokov left his native Russia after the 1917…Burnet, Dana
Burnet, Dana[1888-1962](1)Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 3, 1888. Graduated at the Woodward High School of Cincinnati and took the degree of LL.B. at the Cornell University College of Law in…Coleridge: Prefatory Note
IntroductionPrefatory Note The text of the poems in this volume is that of J. Dykes Campbell in the Globe edition of Coleridge's poems. For the introduction I have depended also largely…Bill Maher
Bill Maher is a stand-up comedian and a self-made political savant on the TV shows Politically Incorrect and Real Time with Bill Maher. He grew up in New Jersey, graduated from Cornell University in…Mae C. Jemison
Dr. Mae Carol Jemison became the first American woman of color to travel into space on September 12, 1992. That was the day she rocketed into Earth orbit on an 8-day mission aboard the space shuttle…Jessie Fauset
Jessie Redmon Fauset was an African-American editor and novelist of the 1920s, called by poet Langston Hughes "the midwife of the Harlem Renaissance." From a prosperous family, Fauset attended high…Henry Heimlich
Dr. Henry Heimlich invented the so-called Heimlich Maneuver -- a squeeze-to-the-stomach technique for helping people choking on food. Henry Heimlich graduated from Cornell University in 1941, and…Trending
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