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David Baltimore is an American biologist, university administrator, and Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. He served as president of the... California Institute of Technology from 1997 to 2006, and is currently the Robert A. Millikan Professor of Biology at Caltech. He also served as president of Rockefeller University from 1990 to 1991, and was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2007. Baltimore was born to Gertrude Lipschitz and Richard Baltimore in New York City. He graduated from Great Neck High School in 1956, and credits his interest in biology to a high-school summer spent at the Jackson Laboratory's Summer Student Program in Bar Harbor, Maine. He earned a BA at Swarthmore College in 1960, and received his Ph.D. at Rockefeller University in 1964. After postdoctoral fellowships at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a non-faculty research position at the Salk Institute, he joined the MIT faculty in 1968. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1974.
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John Cromwell Mather is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer... Satellite with George Smoot. COBE was the first experiment to measure " the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation." This work helped cement the big-bang theory of the universe. According to the Nobel Prize committee, "the COBE-project can also be regarded as the starting point for cosmology as a precision science." Mather is a senior astrophysicist at the U.S. space agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and adjunct professor of physics at the University of Maryland, College Park. In 2007, Mather was listed among Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World. Mather is also the project scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope, a space telescope to be launched to L2 no earlier than 2013.
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David Baltimore is an American biologist, university administrator, and Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. He served as president of the... California Institute of Technology from 1997 to 2006, and is currently the Robert A. Millikan Professor of Biology at Caltech. He also served as president of Rockefeller University from 1990 to 1991, and was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2007. Baltimore was born to Gertrude Lipschitz and Richard Baltimore in New York City. He graduated from Great Neck High School in 1956, and credits his interest in biology to a high-school summer spent at the Jackson Laboratory's Summer Student Program in Bar Harbor, Maine. He earned a BA at Swarthmore College in 1960, and received his Ph.D. at Rockefeller University in 1964. After postdoctoral fellowships at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a non-faculty research position at the Salk Institute, he joined the MIT faculty in 1968. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1974.
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Victor Saul Navasky is an journalist, editor, publisher, author and professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He was... editor of The Nation from 1978 until 1995, and its publisher and editorial director 1995 to 2005. In November 2005 he became the publisher emeritus. Navasky's book Naming Names is considered a definitive take on the Hollywood blacklist. Navasky was born in New York City. In 1946, when he was in the eighth grade, he helped to raise money for the Irgun Zvai Leumi — by passing a contribution basket at performances of Ben Hecht ’s play, A Flag is Born. He is a graduate of Swarthmore College , where he was Phi Beta Kappa with high honors in the social sciences, and Yale Law School . While at Yale, he co-founded and edited the political satire magazine Monocle. Before joining The Nation, Navasky was an editor at The New York Times Magazine. He also wrote a monthly column about the publishing business for the Times Book Review. Navasky was named the editor of The Nation in 1978.
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Pieter M. Judson is Professor of History at Swarthmore College. He researches and teaches courses in modern European History, looking at nationalist... conflict, revolutionary and counter revolutionary social movements, and the history of sexuality. He is a 2010 recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship. In Spring 2011, Pieter Judson is the recipient of Nina Maria Gorrissen Berlin Prize in History at the American Academy in Berlin. He is the author of the following books: Exclusive Revolutionaries: Liberal Politics, Social Experience, and National Identity in the Austrian Empire 1848-1914 Wien Brennt.
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