List of Popular American University Professors
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Ben Shneiderman
Ben Shneiderman is an American computer scientist, a Distinguished University professor in the Department of Computer Science, which is part of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the founding director of the University of Maryland HumanComputer Interaction Lab. He conducted fundamental research in the field of humancomputer interaction, developing new ideas, methods, and tools such as the direct ma....
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Paula Vogel
Paula Vogel is an American playwright and university professor. She received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play How I Learned to Drive. Vogel was Chair of the playwriting department at the Yale School of Drama.....
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Barry Mazur
Barry Charles Mazur is an American mathematician and a Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University.....
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George Akerlof
George Arthur Akerlof is an American economist and University Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. He won the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences . Previously he was Koshland Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.....
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Bhanu Pratap Jena
Bhanu Pratap Jena is an American cell biologist and the George E. Palade University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Physiology at the Wayne State University School of Medicine, who in the mid 90s discovered the porosome, demonstrated to be the universal secretory machinery at the plasma membrane in cells ....
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Paul Fussell
Paul Fussell, Jr. was an American cultural and literary historian, author and university professor. His writings cover a variety of topics, from scholarly works on eighteenthcentury English literature to commentary on Americas class system. Fussell served in the 103rd Infantry Division during World War II and was wounded in fighting in France. Returning to the US, Fussell wrote extensively and held several faculty positions, most prominently at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, ....
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Phil Snyder
Philip Charles Snyder is an American actor, voice actor, university professor, bible teacher, writer, producer and comedian. He was born the sixth child in a family of ten children. He began to demonstrate his love for, and natural skills in entertainment, especially impressions, at an early age. Snyder moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1974 to pursue a career in show business. After a few false starts, he became a regular paid performer at The Comedy Store. He began pursuing a career in voi....
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James M Farr
James Marion Farr was an American university professor and academic administrator. Farr was a native of South Carolina, and earned bachelors, masters and doctorate degrees before beginning his career as a professor of English language and literature. He was the interim president of the University of Florida from 1927 until 1928, and also served as the universitys first vice president from 1905 to 1934.....
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J Howard Marshall
James Howard Marshall II was an American business magnate, university professor, attorney, and federal government official. His life spanned nine decades and almost the entire history of the oil industry, from the early years when uncontrolled production depleted valuable fields and natural gas was burned at the well head, to the decades of energy shortages and the Arab Oil Embargo. Marshall was married to Anna Nicole Smith during the last 14 months of his life. His estate became the subject of....
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Irwin I Shapiro
Irwin Ira Shapiro is an American astrophysicist and Timken University Professor at Harvard University. He has been a professor at Harvard since 1982. He was the director of the HarvardSmithsonian Center for Astrophysics from 1982 to 2004.....
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J Kim Vandiver
J. Kim Vandiver is an American university professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Vandiver is the dean of undergraduate research and a professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering. He is one of the foremost authorities on the dynamics of offshore structures and flowinduced vibration and is a member of the faculty of the MITWHOI joint program in OceanographyApplied Ocean Science and Engineering.....
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J W Pender
Joseph William Dad Pender was an American football coach and university professor. He served as head coach at North Texas State Normal College, now the University of North Texas, from 1913 to 1914, compiling a 34 record. Pender joined the North Texas faculty in 1912, and served for many years in a wide range of posts such as athletics and government. He died in 1969 from a stroke.....
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Eleanor Owen
Eleanor Owen , also known as Eleanor DeVito, is an American journalist, playwright, university professor, costume designer, theatre actress, and mental health professional. She has received statewide and national honors and awards for her advocacy work on behalf of families and individuals with mental illness. Serving as an advocate in Olympia, Washington, Owen has participated in the introduction and successful passage of health and human services legislation.....
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