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Dennis Gabor Award (disambiguation). The Dennis Gabor Award, named after  Hungarian-British electrical engineer and physicist Dennis Gabor, can refer to:
 the Gabor Medal of the Royal Society
 the Dennis Gabor Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics
 the Dennis Gabor Award in Diffractive Optics of the SPIE
 the International Dennis Gabor Award of the NOVOFER Foundation of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Theodore H. Berlin. Theodore H. Berlin (8 May 1917, New York City – 16 November 1962, Baltimore) was an American theoretical physicist.

Education and career 
Berlin graduated in 1939 with a B.S. in chemical engineering from Cooper Union. He graduated in 1940 with M.S. and in 1944 with Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. His thesis advisor was Kazimierz Fajans.

He was a research physicist from 1944 to 1946 at the University of Michigan, a lecturer from 1946 to 1947 at Johns Hopkins University, and an associate professor from 1948 to 1949 at Northwestern University. At Johns Hopkins University he was from 1949 to 1954 an associate professor and from 1955 to 1961 a full professor. As a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1952–1953, he was at the Institute for Advanced Study on leave of absence from Johns Hopkins. From 1961 until his death from a heart attack in 1962, he was a full professor at the Rockefeller University.

Berlin was a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He was an associate editor for the Journal of Chemical Physics, Physical Review, and Physical Review Letters. He was appointed to the editorial board of The Physics of Fluids, starting on 1 January 1962. His doctoral students include Louis Witten.

Scientific output 
At the beginning of his career, Berlin did research on physical chemistry (quantum theory of molecules). He is known for his work with Kac on the spherical model, a generalization of the Ising model of statistical mechanics, which was developed as a mathematical model for ferromagnetism. In contrast to the Ising model, the spherical model's spin variable on the lattice can assume continuous values (with the restriction that the sum of the squares of the spins is equal to the number of lattice positions). The spherical model can be solved exactly in the presence of an external field and shares that property of exact solvability with very few models of ferromagnetism.

Personal life 
In 1944 Berlin married Patricia May Cleary. They had sons Geoffrey N., Dennis A., Michael K., and Alexander L. A daughter died in infancy.

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Renfe Class 250. The Renfe Class 250 is a class of electric locomotives operated by Renfe in Spain, built by Krauss Maffei and CAF.

Variants
The fleet consists of 35 Class 250 locomotives, numbered 250 001–035, and five Class 250.6 locomotives, numbered 250 601–605, which are equipped with chopper control.

Technical specifications
The locomotives have a C-C wheel arrangement, and are equipped with monomotor bogies, which have switchable gear ratios. Their maximum axle load is 22 tonnes.

History
The locomotives were introduced in 1982. A total of 40 locomotives have been built. They are mainly used on freight services by Renfe's Cargas freight and Transporte Combinado intermodal divisions.

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Electric locomotives of Spain
Railway locomotives introduced in 1982
Weidely Motors Company. Weidely Motors Company was an early motor company based in Indianapolis, IN. Weidely started in 1915. It made engines for Premier, Chalmers, Cletrac crawlers  and Owen Magnetic cars. They also made a V-12 engine for the 1917 Pathfinder and 1920 Heine-Velox, as well as the 1916-1918 Austin, Hal and Kissel cars.

George Weidely and H.O. Smith, started the Premier Motor Manufacturing Company on December 24, 1902. Weidely was an innovative engine designer and created an early overhead valve V-12. Premier went into receivership in 1914 so they took the rights and development of the Premier engine and formed the Weidely Engine Company in partnership with R.M. Owen who was president of the Entz Motor Corporation. Research has not revealed when the company closed but it made engines for Cletrac up to 1932. 

When comparing later OHC Chalmers power plants to the T head or L head engines of the pre-World War I period, their specifications cannot be ignored. The Chalmers' two-roller-bearing-crankshaft F-head engine of 1910 had been a surprising performer, with a streamlined intake manifold feeding the cylinders via extremely large intake valves located in the head. The exhaust side valves were in a pocket, leaving a lot of room in the cylinder head for the inlets. 

In 1915, Chalmers made a great step forward with the incorporation of a full-overhead-camshaft Weidley engine, which pioneered the idea of driving the overhead-camshaft from the middle of the crankshaft instead of from the front or the rear. The model 6-40 had a bore and stroke of 3.125 and 5 inches, respectively, and camshaft rigidity was obtained by using a 2.25-inch diameter. The location of the camshaft drive in the center made it necessary to have four main bearings instead of the usual three. Tubular connecting rods were also used, which was a very advanced idea for its day.

Weidely produced a three main bearing pushrod ohv six that powered the Auburn 6-63 models of 1923 and 1924. Unlike most pushrod designs of the day its valvetrain was fully enclosed.

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Max Hecker. Mordecai "Max" Hecker () was an Austrian-born Israeli President of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Biography
Hecker was born in Austria, and was a civil engineer. He was the President of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology from 1925 to 1927, succeeding Arthur Blok.

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1879 births
1964 deaths
Place of death missing
Ruwan Gopura. Ruwan Chandra Gopura is a professor attached to the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and a former Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Moratuwa (March 2017 – January 2020). He was the Founding Head, Department of Medical Technology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Moratuwa (February 2021 – January 2024). He is the former Director/Research of University of Moratuwa (February 2021 – January 2024). Prof. Gopura is currently the Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies at the same university. He was the chairperson of IEEE Sri Lanka Section in 2020. He was the chair of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Sri Lanka Section Chapter from February 2017 to February 2020. He was the secretary of the same Chapter from 2013 to 2017. Gopura was the secretary of IEEE Sri Lanka Section in 2015. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. Ruwan Gopura is a founding member of Sri Lanka Robotic Meetups. He is an editorial board member of reputed international journals. He won the IEEE Sri Lanka Section, "Most Outstanding Volunteer Award 2022 (Member category)" at the IEEE Sri Lanka section awards held on the 17th September, 2022.

Early life and education 
Gopura was born in Damunupola, Kegalle, Sri Lanka and grew up in Kegalle in a family of six including his parents and his three brothers. He attended Damunupola Kanishta Vidyalaya and Kegalu Vidyalaya for his primary education and then attended Pinnawala Central College for his secondary education.

Ruwan Gopura entered the University of Moratuwa for his university education in 2000. He graduated from University of Moratuwa with a BSc Engineering (honours) degree in 2004 and he obtained his Master of Engineering in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from the same university. He obtained his PhD degree in Robotics and Intelligent Systems from Saga University, Japan in 2009.

Career 
Prior to join University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka as Senior Lecturer in May 2010 Gopura worked as a research assistant at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka in March 2004 and then as a junior lecturer at the Department of Textile and Clothing Technology, University of Moratuwa. After completing the PhD in 2009 he worked as Post-doctoral Researcher, Saga University, Japan. Gopura carried out his doctoral and post doctoral research on Bionics and assistive robotics. He developed the first ever robotic prosthetic arm in Sri Lanka with his research team in 2016 and the first ever lower extremity exoskeleton robot in 2017. He has received award of excellence, Outstanding Research Performance of University of Moratuwa 11th consecutive occasions from 2012 to 2022. The assistive robotics research that he is carrying out has won several competitive research grants and several awards in the international levels.

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Living people
Senior members of the IEEE
Alumni of the University of Moratuwa
Year of birth missing (living people)
Wang Yaonan. Wang Yaonan (; born November 1957) is a Chinese scientist who is a professor at Hunan University and the current dean of its School of Robotics and College of Electrical and Information Engineering.

Biography
Wang was born in November 1957 in Longling County, Yunnan. During the Down to the Countryside Movement, he was a sent-down youth. After the resumption of National College Entrance Examination, he was accepted to East China University of Technology, where he graduated in 1981. He obtained his master's degree and doctor's degree from Hunan University in 1992 and 1995, respectively. After graduation, he taught at the university. He was a postdoctoral fellow at National University of Defense Technology between 1995 and 1997. He was a Humboldt scholar at the University of Bremen from 1998 to 2001.

Honours and awards
 November 22, 2019 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)

References

External links
Wang Yaonan on Hunan University  

1957 births
Living people
People from Longling County
Scientists from Yunnan
East China University of Technology alumni
Hunan University alumni
Academic staff of Hunan University
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Wei Yiyin. Wei Yiyin (; born September 1962) is a Chinese space scientist currently serving as deputy general manager of the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation. He is a member of the Chinese Society of Astronautics (CSA).

Biography
Wei was born in Tai'an County, Liaoning, in September 1962. He obtained his Doctor of Engineering degree from Harbin Institute of Technology.

He entered the workforce in August 1984, and joined the Chinese Communist Party in December 1995. He a member of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Honors and awards
 2013 Fellow of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA)
 June 2018 Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award
 November 2018 Engineering Construction Technology Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation
 November 22, 2019 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)

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1962 births
Living people
People from Tai'an County
Scientists from Liaoning
Harbin Institute of Technology alumni
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
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Max Reis. Max Walter Reis (; 1927-2014) is a chemical engineer who was President of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology from 1986–1990.

Biography
Reis attended Imperial College London, where he obtained a PhD. in chemical engineering. Reis was President of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology from 1986–1990.

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Technion – Israel Institute of Technology presidents
Alumni of Imperial College London
Israeli chemical engineers
2014 deaths
1927 births
Wu Hanming. Wu Hanming (; born June 1952) is a Chinese microelectronics engineer and the current vice-president of the Technology R & D department of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation.

Biography
Wu was born in June 1952. During the Down to the Countryside Movement, he became a sent-down youth in his hometown and forced to work in the fields instead of going to middle school. After the resumption of National College Entrance Examination, he obtained a doctor's degree from the University of Science and Technology of China. After graduation, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and University of California, Berkeley. He was a senior R & D engineer at Novellus Systems and Intel before returning to China. In 1993 he was offered a position at the Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He joined a company in Alabama in 1995. In 1995 he was hired as a chief engineer at Intel. He returned to China in 2001 and became chief technology officer of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation.

Honours and awards
 2008 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)  
 2013 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)  
 November 22, 2019 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)

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1952 births
Living people
University of Science and Technology of China alumni
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Alexander Goldberg (chemical engineer). Alexander Goldberg  (1906-1985) () was an Israeli chemical engineer. In 1965–1973, he served as President of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Biography
Alexander Goldberg was born in Wilno, Russian Empire (now Vilnius, Lithuania), studied in London, and immigrated to Israel in 1948.

Goldberg was a chemical engineer, and was general director of the chemical firm Chemicals and Phosphates, at which he began to work in 1948. He also held the post of managing director of the Negev Phosphates Co., and was a member of the board of the Dead Sea Works.

Goldberg was President of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology from 1965 to 1973. He was preceded by Yaakov Dori, and followed by Amos Horev.

See also
Education in Israel

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Date of birth unknown
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Jules Verne climatic wind tunnel. The Jules Verne climatic wind tunnel is a research facility at the Scientific and Technical Centre for Building (CSTB) site in Nantes, France. It enables the study of building and construction components, vehicles and equipment under a range of climatic conditions, being able to simulate snow, hail, rain, fog, sandstorms, heatwaves and freezing conditions.

It is classified as a major research facility and was reopened on 29 March 2019 by Francois de Rugy, Minister of State following an €8.5 million upgrade programme funded by Nantes Métropole, the Pays de la Loire region and the European Regional Investment Fund (FEDER).

In 2018 the wind tunnel was used by UNICEF for their innovation programme to develop a new series of high performance tents.

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Buildings and structures in Nantes
Paul Mossay. Paul Alphonse Hubert Mossay (1877- 25 June 1963, Knutsford) was a Belgian electrical engineer involved in the development of electric vehicles. 

Mossay attended grammar school in Verviers and then went to University of Liège, where he gained a degree in Electrical Engineering. Mossay worked for British Thomson-Houston from 1902 until 1906. Then he worked for British Westinghouse before moving on to North German Automobile and Engine in Bremen in 1907. Here he was responsible for designing both the engines and the electric vehicles themselves. He then returned to Belgium, where he worked for Ateliers Germain in Monceau-sur-Sambre on petrol powered vehicles. However, he then went back to England and established Mossay and Co. as a consultancy company which worked with Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies in developing the Orwell Truck.

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1877 births
1963 deaths
University of Liège alumni
Marc P. Christensen. Marc P. Christensen is an American engineer and academic who served as the 17th president of Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York.

Early life, education, and career

Christensen earned his Bachelor of Science degree in engineering physics from Cornell University, and his Master of Science in electrical engineering and Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from George Mason University.

Early in his academic career, Christensen was identified by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as a "rising star in microsystems research." He began his professional career as a technical leader in BDM's Sensors and Photonics Group, now part of Northrop Grumman Mission Systems. His work ranged from developing optical signal processing and VCSEL-based optical interconnection architectures, to infrared sensor modeling, simulation, and analysis. In 1997, he co-founded Applied Photonics, an optical interconnection company that provided hardware demonstrations for multiple DARPA programs.

In 2002, he joined Southern Methodist University where he rose through the ranks and served as the department chair of Electrical Engineering from 2007 to 2012 and Dean of the Lyle School of Engineering from 2012 to 2022.

In 2008, Christensen was recognized for outstanding research with the Gerald J. Ford Research Fellowship. In 2010, he was selected as the inaugural Bobby B. Lyle Professor of Engineering Innovation. In 2011, he was recognized for outstanding and innovative teaching as a recipient of the Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor Award.

Christensen is a leader in photonics research and technology development and holds 10 U.S. patents.

Clarkson University

The Clarkson University Board of Trustees appointed Christensen to serve as the 17th President of Clarkson University, effective July 1, 2022. Christensen and his wife, Seema Christensen, took up residence in Foster House on the Clarkson University campus in summer 2022. Christensen resigned from the position in July of 2024 for personal reasons.

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1971 births
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American optical engineers
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George Mason University alumni
Southern Methodist University faculty
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Living people
Air bladder effect. An air bladder effect, or simply a bladder effect, is a special effect created for motion pictures. The effect employs plastic or latex balloons—known as "bladders"—which are concealed beneath the surface of foam latex or similar prosthetics. Attached to the bladders is a system of tubing that allows them to be inflated. When the bladders are inflated underneath the prosthetics (often skin prosthetics), it results in the prosthetics appearing to shift, bubble, swell, or pulsate.

History
During the production of the 1973 film The Exorcist, make-up artist Dick Smith used trichloroethane, a liquid, to achieve the effect of welt-like letters being raised on a foam latex stomach. He went on to develop and refine air bladder effects for the 1980 film Altered States, which depicts lumps rippling beneath a character's skin. Smith continued to implement air bladder effects in other films, including Scanners (1981) and Spasms (1983).

Rick Baker, who worked as Smith's assistant on The Exorcist, made use of air bladder effects in combination with other mechanisms when creating a werewolf transformation sequence used in An American Werewolf in London (1981). Baker and his protégé, Rob Bottin, also incorporated air bladder effects for a werewolf transformation in The Howling, also released in 1981. Bottin again made use of air bladder effects for his work on The Thing (1982). Other films which employ bladder effects include The Beast Within (1982) and Uninvited (1987).

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Special effects
Prosthetics
Francisco José Vico Vela. Francisco José Vico Vela is a scientist and engineer who is a full professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Málaga. As a researcher, Vico is founder and head of the Biomimetics and EdTech research groups at the University of Málaga, and founder and CEO of the university spin-offs Melomics Media and Digitomica as an entrepreneur. His work is mostly known for using evolutionary computation in the field of automated computer composition and industrial design.

Education and career
Vico graduated from the University of Málaga with a BA in computer science in 1991 and was the recipient of a doctoral grant, receiving his PhD in 1995. After doing a postdoc in Buffalo, New York, Vico started working as a lecturer in computer science at the University of Malaga in 1996, and then became an assistant professor in 2000 and full professor in 2012.

Basic research
Vico developed research in computational neuroscience and computer vision from his doctoral thesis (contributing with models of neuron function) until 2005, where his interests turned to evolutionary computation and artificial life. He has advised or co-advised eight PhD theses, led more than 40 research projects as principal investigator, mostly with public funding, and has two patents.

Applied research
Despite his basic research in brain function and form evolution, Vico's interest has been mainly focused on the applicability of the results. His research projects with industry have ranged from day trading to knee replacement surgery.

Artificial creativity
An early research project with Alcatel in the field of automating industrial design resulted in his most cited paper. A decade later, Vico led the Melomics project, which was a milestone in the application of artificial intelligence to computer music. This research produced Iamus, a computer cluster for automated composition, which composed music that was recorded in the album Iamus, and a piece interpreted by the London Symphony Orchestra, described by New Scientist as "The first major work composed by a computer and performed by a full orchestra." For its disruptive novelty in the artistic and technological disciplines, Melomics was acknowledged as one of the scientific contributions of 2012 by Discover magazine. It also found applications in health, and was presented in the Seoul Digital Forum in 2015.

Educational technologies
Since 2015, Vico's activity has focused on educational technologies. ToolboX is a programming environment developed by Vico that adapts modern computer technology to coding education.

Games
Vico has also designed Selfo, a connection board game.

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Spanish computer scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)