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Herbert Kroemer (August 25, 1928 – March 8, 2024) was a German-American physicist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000 for "developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics".  Kroemer was a professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Kroemer died on March 8, 2024 in Santa Barbara, California at the age of 95.
Jack St. Clair Kilby (November 8, 1923 – June 20, 2005) was an American electrical engineer. He helped discover the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1958.  He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on December 10, 2000. Kilby was also the co-inventor of the handheld calculator and the thermal printer.
Daniel Little McFadden (born July 29, 1937) is an American econometrician. He won the 2000 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with James Heckman. He won the prize "for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice".  He is the Presidential Professor of Health Economics at the University of Southern California and Professor of the Graduate School at University of California, Berkeley.
is a Japanese chemist and engineer. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Tsukuba and Zhejiang University. He is best known for his discovery of conductive polymers. He won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Alan MacDiarmid and Alan Heeger. Shirakawa was born in Tokyo. He studied at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is a critic of the Nobel Prize and its media coverage.
Alan Jay Heeger (born January 22, 1936) is an American physicist and academic. He won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He won the prize with Alan G. MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa "for their discovery and development of conductive polymers". Heeger was born in Sioux City, Iowa, to a Jewish family. He grew up in Akron, Iowa.
is an hack and slash video game for the PlayStation 2. Developed by Red Entertainment and published by Sega and Midas Interactive Entertainment , in Japan and Europe respectively. Overview. Player can play as Soji Okita and Hijikata Toshizo, where their mission began to getting breed bandits in Kyoto. Each time you played Okita, an arrow will be displayed insanity, while you face the ronin. And at the same time, you can make a gap attack you created, and your attack will level-up instantly. For example, if you choose Harada Sanosuke , the attack power will increased significanly, but the defense power will slow down decreases.
Wolfgang Ketterle (born 21 October 1957) is a German physicist. He is a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His works focused on experiments that trap and cool atoms to temperatures close to absolute zero.  He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001, together with Eric Allin Cornell and Carl Wieman.
Carl Edwin Wieman (born March 26, 1951) is an American physicist. He works at Stanford University.  In 1995, while at the University of Colorado Boulder, he and Eric Allin Cornell created the first true Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC). In 2001, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Sir Anthony James Leggett (born 26 March 1938) is a British theoretical physicist. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Leggett is known for his theory of low-temperature physics. He won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Elfriede Jelinek (; born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004. Jelinek was born in Mürzzuschlag, Styria, Austria. Her best known works are "The Piano Teacher", "Die Kinder der Toten", "Greed" and "Lust".
David Jonathan Gross (; born February 19, 1941) is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. He won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of asymptotic freedom. Gross is the Chancellor's Chair Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).  He is a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Philip III or Philip the Bold (1 May 1245 – 5 October 1285) was King of France from 1270 until 1285.
Frank Anthony Wilczek (; born May 15, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist and mathematician. He works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Wilczek, along with David Gross and H. David Politzer, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction."
Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch (born 30 October 1941) is a German physicist. He won one fourth of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for "contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique" sharing the prize with John L. Hall and Roy J. Glauber. He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2009.
John Voorhis "Tim" Bogert III (August 27, 1944 – January 13, 2021) was an American blues rock singer-songwriter and bassist. He was born in New York City. Bogert played with Carmine Appice and appeared with Vanilla Fudge, Cactus and the power trio Beck, Bogert &amp; Appice. Bogert died on January 13, 2021 at the age of 76.
Carmine Appice ( ) (born December 15, 1946) is an American drummer and percussionist. He played with Vanilla Fudge; Cactus; the power trio Beck, Bogert &amp; Appice; Rod Stewart; King Kobra; and Blue Murder.
Margaret Jean St. James (September 12, 1937 – January 11, 2021) was an American women's rights activist and sex worker. In 1973 she started the organization COYOTE and St. James Infirmary Clinic. COYOTE is a medical and social service organization helping sex workers in San Francisco. St. James was born in Bellingham, Washington.  St. James died on January 11, 2021 under hospice care in San Francisco, aged 83.
Karim is a masculine Arabic name which means "Dignified". It comes from the root "Karama (كرامة)" which means "Dignity"..
is a Japanese physicist. He is known for his work on CP-violation. He won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature."
was a Japanese theoretical physicist. He is known for his work on CP-violation. He won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature." Maskawa died on July 23, 2021 in Kyoto, Japan from jaw cancer at the age of 81.
Sir Andre K. Geim (; born 21 October 1958) is a Russian-born Dutch-British physicist. He works at the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. Geim was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics with Konstantin Novoselov for his work on graphene.  He is Regius Professor of Physics and Royal Society Research Professor at the National Graphene Institute. He was born in Sochi, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
Sir Konstantin Sergeevich Novoselov (; born 1974) is a Russian-British physicist. He is a Professor at the Centre for Advanced 2D Materials, National University of Singapore.  His work on graphene with Andre Geim won them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010. He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2015.
Saul Perlmutter (born September 22, 1959) is an American astrophysicist. He worked at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts &amp; Sciences. Perlmutter won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Adam Guy Riess (born December 16, 1969) is an American astrophysicist. He works at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute. He is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes. Riess shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Brian P. Schmidt for "providing evidence that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating". This means that the expanding Universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate. In 2020, Riess was appointed a Fellow of the American Astronomical Society. Highly cited articles. These articles have each been cited over 1900 times.
Guan Moye (; born 17 February 1955), better known by the pen name Mo Yan (, ), is a Chinese novelist and short story writer.  He is best known to Western readers for his 1987 novel "Red Sorghum Clan". In 2012, Mo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work as a writer "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".
was a Japanese engineer and physicist. He was best known for inventing the bright gallium nitride (GaN) p-n junction blue LED in 1989. Akasaki was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology in 2009. He was also awarded the 2014 Nobel prize in Physics with Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources". Akasaki died on April 1, 2021 at his home in Nagoya, Japan from pneumonia, aged 92.
is a Japanese physicist, engineer and inventor. His work focused on semiconductor technology. He won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Isamu Akasaki and Shuji Nakamura for "the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources".
is a Japanese-born American electronic engineer. He is a professor at the Materials Department of the College of Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He is known as the inventor of the blue LED.  With Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, he is one of the three winners of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics.
The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet (Arabic: الرباعي التونسي للحوار الوطني, French: "Quartet du dialogue national") is a group of four civil society organizations. They focus on democracy and the constitutional settlement in Tunisia. The quartet was formed in the summer of 2013 after a political crisis.  On 9 October 2015, the quartet was awarded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize.
is a Japanese physicist. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics with Canadian physicist Arthur B. McDonald. On 1 October 2020, he became the president of the Science Council of Japan.
William Cecil Campbell (born 28 June 1930) is an Irish-born American biologist and parasitologist. He is known for his work in discovering a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworms. He won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He helped to discover a class of drugs called ivermectins.  Campbell worked at the Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research and is currently a research fellow emeritus at Drew University.
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons is a global civil society group working to support and promote the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. ICAN was launched in 2007 and counts 541 partner organizations in 103 countries as of 2019. The campaign received the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize "for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons."
Peter Brooke Cadogan Fenwick (25 May 1935 – 22 November 2024) was a British neuropsychiatrist and neurophysiologist. He was known for his studies of epilepsy and end-of-life phenomena. Fenwick was a senior lecturer at King's College, London. He worked as a consultant at the Institute of Psychiatry. Fenwick died on 22 November 2024 at his home in London at the age of 89.
Deathbed phenomena is many experiences seen by people who are dying. There are many examples of deathbed phenomena in both non-fiction and fictional literature. In scientific literature, they have been called as death-related sensory experiences (DRSE). Dying patients have reported to staff working in hospices they have experienced comforting visions. Modern scientists think that the deathbed phenomena and visions are hallucinations.
Chaudhary Devi Lal (born Devi Dayal; 25 September 1914 — 6 April 2001) was an Indian politician. He served as 6th Deputy Prime Minister of India from 1989 to 1991 under V. P. Singh and Chandra Shekhar. He is popularly known as Tau (uncle). Devi Lal came out as farmer leader from the state of Haryana. He served as the Chief Minister of Haryana first in 1977-79 and then in 1987-89. Personal life. Chaudhary Devi Lal was born in Teja Khera village of Sirsa district in present-day Haryana to Shunga Devi and Lekh Ram Sihag. Lekh Ram was a Jat of Chautala village. He owned 2750 bighas of land. Lal received education up to middle-school. His son, Om Prakash Chautala also served as Haryana's chief minister four times. In 1928 at the age of 16, Devi Lal participated in independence struggle event by Lala Lajpat Rai. He was a student of "Dev Samaj Public High School Moga" in Moga during his 10th class. He was arrested at Congress office in 1930. He quit studies and joined the freedom movement. He also took wrestling lesson at an Akhara in Badal village of Punjab. He was first elected in 1952. His older brother Sahib Ram Sihag was the first politician from the family. Sahib Ram Sihag became from Hisar in 1938 and 1947. Lal had four sons - Partap Singh, Om Prakash Chautala, Ranjit Singh and Jagdish Chander. His eldest son, Partap Singh, was an MLA from Indian National Lok Dal in the 1960s. Independence movement. Lal was a follower of Mahatma Gandhi. He was involved in the struggle for India's independence from the British Raj. Both he and his elder brother, Sahib Ram, left their studies unfinished to take part in the freedom movement. For this, he
Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan (12 March 1913 – 25 November 1984) was an Indian politician. He served as the Deputy Prime Minister of India from 1979 to 1980. He was a strong Congress leader. He is also co-operative leader, social activist and writer. He was popularly known as "Leader of Common People". Early life. Yashwantrao Chavan was born in a Maratha-Kunbifamily on 12 March 1913 in the village of Devrashtre in Satara District (now in Sangli District) of Maharashtra, India. He had three siblings. Chavan lost his father in his early childhood and was brought up by his uncle and mother.  Chavan was an active participant in the struggle for independence of India. As a schoolboy in Karad in 1930, he was fined for his participation in the Non-cooperation Movement led by Mahatma Gandhi. In 1932, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison for hoisting the Indian flag in Satara.  Death and legacy. Yashwantrao Chavan died of a heart attack on 25 November 1984 in Delhi. He was aged 71 years.
Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (; 6 May 1918 – 2 November 2004) was the ruler of Abu Dhabi for more than 30 years (6 August 1966 – 2 November 2004).  He was the main builder of the United Arab Emirates. He was the Union's first "Raʾīs" (President), a post which he held for almost 33 years (1971 until his death in 2004). He is known as the "Father of the Nation".  Retrieved 21 March 2018.
Storm petrel may mean one of two bird families, both in the order Procellariiformes, once treated as the same family. The two families are:
Continental philosophers are a group of philosophers mainly from continental Europe (especially France and Germany). Continental philosophy includes philosophical movements from the 19th century and after. The term became popular among researchers in England after World War II. It is often used to separate from analytic philosophy. Being a philosopher from continental Europe is not quite the same as being a continental philosopher. Some continental philosophers are from other parts of the world. There are many movements within continental philosophy, such as: critical theory, deconstruction, existentialism, German idealism, Hegelianism, Marxism, Nietzscheanism, phenomenology, postmodernism, and others.
An election happened to elect a Senator from the U.S. state of Georgia. There were two rounds on November 3, 2020; and January 5, 2021. The two people in last round of the election were Jon Ossoff (Democratic Party) and David Perdue (Republican Party).  Primary elections happened on June 9, 2020. The Republican Party primary only had one person, David Perdue, as he was Senator before the election. There were many people in the Democratic Party primary, and Jon Oscoff won. These went against Libertarian Party candidate Shane T. Hazel. Nobody got more than 50% of the vote, so the top two (Oscoff and Perdue) went to a second round in January. Ossoff won the second round and became Senator.
Mulyadi P. Tamsir (8 April 1981 – 9 January 2021) was an Indonesian student activist and politician. He was a member the People's Conscience Party. He was the chairman of the Muslim Students' Association from 2015 until 2018. Tamsir was born in Lampung, Indonesia.  Tamsir was killed in a plane crash on 9 January 2021 outside Jakarta near the Java Sea, aged 39.
Harold Nelson Bornstein (March 26, 1947 – January 8, 2021) was an American gastroenterologist. He was best known as Donald Trump's personal physician. He was his personal physician from 1980 until early 2018. He was born in New York City. In May 2018 Bornstein said that Trump had told him what to write on a letter about his health over the telephone, then sent a car to pick it up. Speaking to "The New York Times" in February 2017, Bornstein revealed that he was invited to and attended President Trump's inauguration with his wife Melissa. Bornstein told "The Times" that he enjoyed the attention from being known as the President's personal physician. Bornstein had hoped to be the Physician to the President, but the White House decided that Ronny Jackson would continue in that role. Bornstein died on January 8, 2021 at the age of 73.
Oscar Rizzato (28 February 1928 – 11 January 2021) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate. He became a priest in 1954. He was created titular bishop of "Virunum" from 1989 until his death. He was born in Veneto, Italy. Rizzato died on January 11, 2021 in Padua, Italy from problems caused by COVID-19, at the age of 91.
Mona Malm (born Mona Kristina Ericsson; 24 January 1935 – 12 January 2021) was a Swedish actress. Her career began in 1957. Malm was born in Stockholm. Malm was known for her roles in "Smiles of a Summer Night" (1955), "The Seventh Seal" (1957), "All These Women" (1964), "Heja Roland!" (1966), "Fanny and Alexander" (1982), "Nånting levande åt Lame-Kal" (1988), "The Best Intentions" (1992), "The Tattooed Widow" (1998) and "After the Wedding" (2006). Malm died at a Stockholm hospital on 12 January 2021, at the age of 85.
Mimi Pond is an American cartoonist. She wrote the first episode of "The Simpsons" ("Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"). Producers did not allow her to write more episodes because she is a woman. She wrote two memoirs. She wrote "Over Easy" in 2014 and "The Customer is Always Wrong" in 2017. She is married to the artist Wayne White. They have two children, Woodrow and Lulu White.
I Am Cuba (; , "Ya Kuba") is a 1964 anthology drama movie directed by Mikhail Kalatozov. The movie was Soviet-Cuba and was not popular in both countries. It was thought to be a lost movie until being re-discovered in 1994.  The movie is shot in black and white.
John Thomas Ward (11 March 1937 – 12 January 2021) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played as a wicket-keeper in eight Test matches between 1964 and 1968. He was born in Timaru, New Zealand. He played for Canterbury from 1959 until 1971. He also played for the national team from 1964 to 1968.  Ward died in Timaru on 12 January 2021 after a short illness, aged 83.
Mario Cecchini (25 January 1933 – 13 January 2021) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop. He became a priest in 1958. He was bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola from 1986 until his resignation in 1998. He was born in Arcevia, Italy. Cecchini died on 13 January 2021 from COVID-19 in Arcevia, aged 87.
Moses Hamungole (1 May 1967 – 13 January 2021) was a Zambian Roman Catholic bishop. Hamungole was born in Lusaka, Zambia. He became a priest in 1994. He was bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Monze, Zambia from 2014 until his death in 2021. Hamungole died on 13 January 2021 in Lusaka from COVID-19, aged 53.
"Gimax", pseudonym of Carlo Franchi (1 January 1938 – 13 January 2021) was an Italian racing driver. He never raced under his real name. He was born in Milan. He entered one World Championship Formula One Grand Prix with Surtees, the 1978 Italian Grand Prix, but did not qualify. Gimax also participated in one non-Championship Formula One race, the 1979 Dino Ferrari Grand Prix. Gimax died on 13 January 2021 in Milan, aged 83.
The Right Reverend Vincent Paul Logan (30 June 1941 – 14 January 2021) was a Scottish Roman Catholic prelate. He was the ninth bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dunkeld from 1981 to 2012. He was born in Bathgate, Scotland. He became a priest in 1964. Logan died on 14 January 2021, aged 79.
Aleksandr Borisovich Nikitin (; 4 February 1961 – 14 January 2021) was a Russian professional football coach and player. He was born in Stalingrad, Russia. He was known for playing and managing Rotor Volgograd. His playing career lasted from 1978 to 1993. His managing career lasted from 1997 to 2009. Nikitin died on 14 January 2021 in Volgograd at the age of 59.
Leonidas Pelekanakis (2 November 1962 – 14 January 2021) was a Greek sailor. He competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics, the 2000 Summer Olympics, and the 2004 Summer Olympics. He was born in Athens, Greece. Pelekanakis died of COVID-19 on 14 January 2021 in Athens, aged 58.
Mohamed Safwat El Sherif () (19 December 1933 – 14 January 2021) was an Egyptian politician and businessman. He was Chairman of the State Information Service. He was the Minister of Information from 1981 to 2004. El Sherif died on 14 January 2021 in Cairo, Egypt from COVID-19 at the age of 88.
Kenneth Alexander Mitchell (25 November 1974 – 24 February 2024) was a Canadian actor. He was born in Toronto. His career began in 2000. He is known for playing many Klingon characters "". He also played Deke Slayton in ABC's "The Astronaut Wives Club" television drama series. In 2006, Mitchell married actress Susan May Pratt. They had two children. In February 2020, Mitchell revealed that he was diagnosed with ALS in 2019. Mitchell died on February 24, 2024, at the age of 49.
Susan May Pratt (born February 8, 1974) is an American actress. She played Mandella in "10 Things I Hate About You", Alicia in "Drive Me Crazy", and Maureen Cummings in "Center Stage". Pratt was born in Lansing, Michigan. Her career began in 1998. In 2006, Pratt married Kenneth Mitchell. They have two children.
Lansing is a village in Tompkins County, New York, United States. 3,648 people lived here in the 2020 census. The Village of Lansing is in the Town of Lansing. It is north of the City of Ithaca.
Robert Franklin Stroud (January 28, 1890 – November 21, 1963), known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz", was an American convicted murderer, federal prisoner and author. He was one of the most notorious criminals in the United States.  During his time at Leavenworth Penitentiary, he sold birds and became a respected ornithologist. He was transferred to Alcatraz, where he was incarcerated from 1942 to 1959.  Stroud was never released from the federal prison system; he was imprisoned from 1909 to his death in 1963.