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>Kevin C. France
Born: February 07, 1978, Dearborn, MI
BA: Boston University, 2000
PhD Johns Hopkins University, 2005
Thesis: Far-Ultraviolet Molecular Hydrogen Fluorescence in Photodissociation Regions
Thesis Advisor: Paul D. Feldman
Other Info: Interests in far-ultraviolet spectroscopy and instrumentation were also strongly influenced
by my research advisor, Stephan McCandliss, as well as my
undergraduate advisors, Tim Cook and
Supriya Chakrabarti. I also moonlight
as an amateur teen idol with the titans of astronomical rock, IGwAD.
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>Robert Novick
PhD: Columbia University, 1953
Thesis: The Fine Structure of Singly Ionized Helium
Thesis Advisor: Willis Lamb
Other Info: Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physics at Columbia University.
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>Robert Oppenheimer
Born: April 12, 1904, New York, NY
Died: February 17, 1967
BA: (Chemisrty) Harvard University, 1924 (?)
PhD: University of Göttingen, 1926
Thesis: Zur Quantentheorie kontinuierlicher Spektren
Thesis Advisor: Max Born
Other Info: Known as the "Father of the Atomic Bomb", Oppenheimer worked on Manhattan Project
at Los Alamos. He was considered to be a founder of the American school of theoretical physics at UC Berkeley,
and later held Albert Einstein's former position of Senior Professor of Theoretical Physics
at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University.
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>Max Born
Born: Becember 11, 1882, Breslau, Germany
Died: January 5, 1970, Göttingen, Germany
PhD: University of Göttingen, 1907
Thesis: Untersuchungen über die Stabilität der elastischen Linie in
Ebene und Raum unter verschiedenen Grenzbedingungen
Thesis Advisor: Carl Runge
Other Info: Proposed the probability density interpretation of (psi psi*) in the Schrödinger formalism of
quantum mechanics, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954. Grandfather of Olivia Newton-John.
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>Carle David Tolmé Runge
Born: August 30, 1856, Havana, Cuba
Died: January 3, 1927
PhD: (Mathematics) University of Berlin, 1880
Thesis: ?, possibly related to differential geometry
Academic Advisor: Karl Weierstrass
Other Info: Namesake of the lunar feature, Runge Crater.
Runge made several important contribution to numerical analysis, including the Runge-Kutta Method for approximating the
solutions to ordinary differential equations.
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>Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass
Born: October 31, 1815, Ostenfelde, Westphalia (now Germany)
Died: February 19, 1897, Berlin, Germany
Education: (Mathematics) University of Münster. Honoray degree, Universität Königsberg, 1854
Field of Study: elliptic functions
Academic Advisor: Christoph Gudermann (?)
Other Info: Known as the "Father of Modern Analysis", he defined limits and derivatives in
calculus as understood today. Also an accomplished gymnist.
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>Christoph Gudermann
Born: March 25, 1798 , Vienenburg, Germany
Died: September 25, 1852, Münster, Germany
PhD: University of Göttingen, 1841
Field of Study: spherical geometry and special functions
Academic Advisor: Karl Friedrich Gauss
Other Info: Namesake of the Gudermann Function,
or hyperbolic amplitude.
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>Karl Friedrich Gauss
Born: April 30, 1777, Brunswick, Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Died: February 23, 1855, Göttingen, Hanover
Education: University of Göttingen, 1798
Field of Study: all things math
Academic Advisor: ?
Other Info: Numerous contributions to mathematics and physical science.
Like Runge, Gauss also has a lunar crater named after him. His brain was preserved and was studied by Robert
Wagner who found its weight to be 1,492 grams and the cerebral area equal to 219,588 square centimetres.
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