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(1951-2012) (1912-1954) (1908-1953) b. 1949 b, 1944
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Earned a PhD in physics
from Stanford University Considered by many to be Completed his PhD Completed a PhD in Earned a PhD in
in 1977. the Father of Computer in Mathematics at the Mathematics at the Mathematics from Harvard
Science. University of California, University of London in University in 1970.
In 1983, after replying Berkeley, in 1936. 1975.
to a NASA newspaper Studied mathematics at Has made significant
ad seeking astronaut Kings College, University Researched game His work on the contributions to topology,
candidates, became first of Cambridge, and earned theory at the RAND applications of Twistor and with his research and
American woman in space. his PhD from Princeton Corporation and eventually theory emphasizing life partner Mark Goresky,
University in 1938. taught philosophy at causal relationships is credited with inventing
Combined with her second Stanford University between events in intersection homology.
shuttle mission in 1984, During WWII, designed while researching the space-time builds on
spent a total of 343 hours the bombe, a cryptanalytic foundations of physics. the work of his doctoral Became a fellow of the
in space. machine to decipher advisor, Roger Penrose. American Mathematical
German Enigma code Served as a Consulting Society in 2012.
Co-authored 6 childrens messages. Editor of the Journal of Wrote an influential
science books with Symbolic Logic. biography on the life and
her partner, Tam Other contributions to work of Alan Turing, The
OShaughnessy. modern computing include Enigma.
the Turing test of artificial
intelligence.
BRUCE VOELLER FRANK KAMENY MARK GORESKY JAY KEASLING
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GNTER ZIEGLER
(1934-1994) b. 1963 (1925-2011) b. 1950 b. 1964
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Earned a PhD in Biology Served in the US Army, Earned a PhD in Chemical
from Rockefeller University Earned a PhD in and later earned a PhD in Earned a PhD in Engineering from the
in 1961. Mathematics from MIT in Astronomy from Harvard Mathematics from Brown University of Michigan in
1987. University in 1956. University in 1976. 1991.
In 1973, helped establish
the National Gay Task Won the Leibniz Prize After being barred from With his research and In 2006, was named
Force. and Chauvenet Prize for federal employment due life partner Robert Discover Magazines
his work with discrete to his sexual orientation, MacPherson, is credited Scientist of the Year.
Helped organize the first geometry, polytopes, and devoted his life to activism. with inventing intersection
ever White House meeting combinatorics the study homology. His current research
with gay and lesbian of non-continuous sets Co-founded the DC focuses on metabolic
leaders in 1977. of geometric objects and Mattachine Society, Became a fellow of the engineering and synthetic
the relationships between an early gay rights American Mathematical biology, with notable
Established the Mariposa them across multiple organization, and lobbied Society in 2012. applications in renewable
Foundation for human dimensions. to remove homosexuality biofuels and malaria
sexuality research, and from the APAs list of treatments.
coined the term Acquired Became a fellow of the mental disorders.
Immune Deficiency American Mathematical
Syndrome (AIDS). Society in 2012. To celebrate his
contributions, a minor
planet was named in his
honor in 2012.
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b, 1978 b. 1938 (1930-2009) Erds number = 2 b. 1955
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Earned a Masters degree Received a PhD in Earned an MD from
Studied economics at in Electrical Engineering Graduated from Clare Computer Science from Tel Dartmouth Medical
the University of Chicago from Columbia University College, University of Aviv University in 2002. School in 1979, and a PhD
and the London School of in 1963. Cambridge, where he in Neurobiology from
Economics. studied mathematics. In 2006, published a new, Harvard University in 1990.
After graduation, worked significantly simpler proof
Developed Player on an IBM team designing Demonstrated that of the Probabilistically Among other
Empirical Comparison advanced supercomputers. programs could Checkable Proof (PCP) accomplishments, his lab
and Optimization Test be translated into theorem. at Stanford discovered that
Algorithm (PECOTA) to In the early 1980s, made mathematical functions electrical activity is needed
predict the performance significant contributions to (lambda calculus), allowing In 2012, awarded the Anna for the normal survival and
of major league baseball DARPA research programs them to be run on other and Lajos Erds Prize in growth of neurons.
players. on intelligent weapons. types of computers. Mathematics for her work
with probabilistically In 2013, was elected to
Currently Editor-in-Chief Organized demonstrations checkable proofs and the National Academy of
of the FiveThirtyEight blog, with the Gay Liberation their consequences for Sciences, becoming its
which conducts statistical Front and engaged in approximability and its first openly transgender
analyses of elections and radical AIDS activism. limitations. member.
other current events.
HARVEY MILK ROBERT ANDERSON JAMES POLLACK MARTIN LO ALFRED KINSEY
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(1930-1978) b. 1951 (1938-1994) b. 1953 (1894-1956)
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Graduated from SUNY Earned a PhD in Primarily known for his
Albany with a degree in Earned a PhD in Astronomy from Harvard Completed a PhD in work in measuring and
Mathematics in 1951. Mathematics from Yale University in 1965, where Mathematics at Cornell categorizing human
University in 1977. he was a student of Carl University in 1981. sexuality, his initial focus
Taught math at George W. Sagan. was in entomology.
Hewlett High School on His primary research has Currently conducts
Long Island. been within the fields of At NASAs Ames Research spacecraft trajectory Earned a doctoral
mathematical economics Center, worked in the research at NASAs Jet degree in Biology from
Became Californias first and general equilibrium area of atmospheric Propulsion Laboratory, Harvard University in 1919,
openly gay or lesbian theory. science, investigating including investigation into conducting his thesis
candidate elected to dinosaur extinction and an interplanetary transport research on the gall wasp.
political office (the seventh Currently a professor terraformation of Mars. network.
in the United States). of economics and After leading a course
mathematics at UC In 1995, a crater on Mars on marriage and family,
Berkeley and Director of was named in his honor. shifted his research
the interdisciplinary Center focus to measuring and
for Risk Management categorizing sexual
Research. orientation, developing the
Kinsey Scale.