Vashti Seth
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Muiredach Ua hÉnlainge
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Anthony Beavers
Anthony Beavers( born 8 May 1963) is an American philosopher.
he holds the positions of professor of philosophy, director of cognitive science, and director of The Digital Humanities Laboratory at the University of Evansville.
Beavers received his MA and BA from Trinity College, Hartford and his PhD from Marquette University.
He was the fourth president of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy( IACAP).
Throughout his career, Beavers has been interested in search- engine design.
In 1996, he and Hiten Sonpal built the first peer- reviewed search engine, called Argos.
Beavers is the creator and editor of the online journal" Noesis".
Hélène Grenier
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Knute Hill
Knute Hill( July 31, 1876 – December 3, 1963) was a U.S. Representative from the state of Washington.
Ray Michie
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She served as Member of Parliament( MP) for Argyll and Bute for 14 years, from 1987 to 2001, and then became a life peer in the House of Lords.
She was the first peer to pledge the oath of allegiance in the House of Lords in Gaelic.
Philippe Heilberg
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After leaving AIG, Heilberg created JARCH Capital, LLC.
Currently, he is the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Arbol Inc., the first peer- to- peer weather insurance platform.
In 2009 he invested in a major land deal in South Sudan.
Frances Lasker Brody
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Mrs. Brody, who died on November 12, 2009 at 93, was the wife of Sidney F. Brody, a real estate developer who died in 1983, and the stepdaughter of Mary Lasker, a philanthropist and champion of medical research who died in 1994.
The Brodys lived in a modernist house in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles that was designed by the architect A. Quincy Jones and the decorator William Haines to show off the couple ’s collection.
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Peer Portner
Peer Michael Portner( January 8, 1940 – February 9, 2009) was a heart researcher whose work led to the development of the ventricular assist device, an electrical pump that permits patients in heart failure to survive until a heart transplant could be performed.
Portner was born on January 8, 1940 in Mombasa, Kenya.
In 1968, he was awarded doctorate in experimental nuclear physics from McGill University in Montreal, which was followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in nuclear physics at the University of Oxford.
Portner was hired as a senior physicist at Andros Inc., a research and development firm headquartered in Berkeley, California, that was taken over by Novacor in the 1980s.
During the 1970s, first became involved in biomedical engineering while experimenting on a device that attached to the left ventricles of the hearts of laboratory cows in order to restore the heart's pumping ability while obviating the need to remove the heart's chambers.
By 1984, this had evolved into the left ventricular assist device( LVAD), which consisted of an electrical pump and bladder that was placed into the chest of the patient, connected by wires to a battery outside the patient's body.
The LVAD replaced earlier devices that had run on compressed air, requiring a larger opening in the thoracic cavity that was more prone to infection.
The first recipient, 51- year- old Robert St. Laurent, remained on the pump for eight days before his damaged heart was replaced in a transplant operation, and lived for 20 years in stable health before his death in 2004.
St. Laurent had had a heart attack and what turned out to be unsuccessful coronary artery bypass surgery, leading to the successful implantation of the LVAD for the first time in a human.
The heart St. Laurent received came from an 18- year- old college student who had been brain dead following a car accident.
He established the Novacor Medical Corporation in the 1980s to construct and distribute the device, serving as its president and chief executive before the company was acquired by Baxter Healthcare Corporation in 1988.
After the takeover, Portner served as chairman of Baxter's Novacor division, where he continued to improve the device, making it easier to transport and allowing patients to wash, walk and be outside the hospital for significant periods of time.
By the time of Portner's death, an estimated 1,800 Novacor devices had been implanted to allow for a transition to transplants and in other cases, with devices kept in patients for up to six years.
Available since 1993, the wearable version lets patients return to a largely normal lifestyle outside of the hospital.
By 1987, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had granted permission to use Novacor pumps on a case- by- case basis, with doctors at Presbyterian- University Hospital in Pittsburgh indicating that they would use the Novacor pump in lieu of Jarvik hearts until a human donor heart can be found.
Though the Novacor pump was ultimately not needed, Portner was on hand while President of Russia Boris Yeltsin was undergoing cardiac bypass surgery in 1996, ready to assist in case of emergency.
Portner served as president of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs.
O. H. Frazier, director of cardiovascular surgery research at The Texas Heart Institute in Houston and developer of Thoratec's HeartMate pump, stated that" Peer Portner was an original investigator of a lifesaving technology who contributed to the literature and first generation of these devices."
In 2008, Portner was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology and inducted into their College of Fellows.
Portner died at age 69 on February 9, 2009 at his home in Kensington, California due to cancer.
He was survived by his wife, two daughters; and three grandchildren.

Question: Who died first, Peer Portner or Knute Hill?
Answer: Knute Hill