The Sidewise Awards for Alternate History were established in 1995 to recognize the best alternate history stories and novels of the year.
Stephen Smale is an American mathematician,known for his research in topology,dynamical systems and mathematical economics. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 and spent more than three decades on the mathematics faculty of the University of California,Berkeley,where he currently is Professor Emeritus,with research interests in algorithms,numerical analysis and global analysis.
Eric Emerson Schmidt is an American businessman and former computer engineer who was the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011 and the company's executive chairman from 2011 to 2015. He also was the executive chairman of parent company Alphabet Inc. from 2015 to 2017,and technical advisor at Alphabet from 2017 to 2020. In November 2024,he was 48th richest according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index with an estimated net worth of US$35.4 billion.
Raoul Bott was a Hungarian-American mathematician known for numerous foundational contributions to geometry in its broad sense. He is best known for his Bott periodicity theorem,the Morse–Bott functions which he used in this context,and the Borel–Bott–Weil theorem.
Michael Eric Dyson is an American academic,author,Baptist minister,and radio host. He is a professor in the College of Arts and Science and in the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University. Described by Michael A. Fletcher as "a Princeton Ph.D. and a child of the streets who takes pains never to separate the two",Dyson has authored or edited more than twenty books dealing with subjects such as race,religion and politics as well as biographies on Malcolm X,Martin Luther King Jr.,Marvin Gaye,Barack Obama,Bill Cosby,Tupac Shakur and Jay-Z.
Pieter Hendrik "Peter" Kooijmans was a Dutch politician,jurist,and diplomat. He was a member of the defunct Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP),which later merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party. From 1993 to 1994,he served as Foreign Minister of the Netherlands,succeeding Hans van den Broek. In 1995,he returned to his former position as Professor of Public International Law at the University of Leiden,serving until his appointment to the International Court of Justice. He was granted the honorary title of Minister of State on 13 July 2007.
Marius Job Cohen is a retired Dutch politician and jurist who served as Mayor of Amsterdam from 2001 to 2010 and Leader of the Labour Party (PvdA) from 2010 to 2012.
Alison Smale is a British journalist. From 2017 until 2019,she served as the Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications,United Nations Department of Public Information.
Thomas Smales is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s,and coached in the 1970s and 1980s. He played at club level for Wigan,Barrow and Featherstone Rovers as a loose forward,and coached at club level for Dewsbury,Featherstone Rovers,Bramley,Doncaster and Batley.
Ivo Samkalden was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) and jurist. He was granted the honorary title of Minister of State on 22 January 1985.
Manja Smits is a Dutch politician. She was an MP for the Socialist Party from 22 April 2008 until 15 April 2014,specializing in matters of primary and secondary education. From May 2013 onward,she was replaced by Eric Smaling. Since 2007 she has also been an SP's party executive.
Amie Wilkinson is an American mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago. Her research topics include smooth dynamical systems,ergodic theory,chaos theory,and semisimple Lie groups. Wilkinson,in collaboration with Christian Bonatti and Sylvain Crovisier,partially resolved the twelfth problem on Stephen Smale's list of mathematical problems for the 21st Century.
Abiodun Williams is an academic in conflict prevention,peacekeeping,and conflict management. Formerly he was a senior official at the United Nations,and former President of The Hague Institute for Global Justice in The Hague,Netherlands.
Eric Eleterius Coralie van Damme is a Dutch economist and Professor of Economics at the Tilburg University,known for his contributions to game theory.
Henk Leenders is a Dutch politician.
Willem Johannes Witteveen was a Dutch legal scholar,politician,and author. He was a law professor at Tilburg University (1990–2014) and a Member of the Senate for the Labour Party. He was also the author of several books about law and politics. Witteveen was killed on 17 July 2014 when the flight he was travelling on,Malaysia Airlines Flight 17,was shot down over eastern Ukraine.
Anne-Marie Mineur is a Dutch politician who was Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Netherlands between 2014 and 2019. She is a member of the Socialist Party,part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left in the European Parliament. Previously Mineur was municipal councillor in De Bilt (2006–2012) and member of the States of Utrecht (2011–2014).
Eric G. Swedin is an American author of science fiction and academic nonfiction works. He is a professor of history at Weber State University in Utah. Swedin is the 2010 long form winner of the Sidewise Award for his alternate history novel When Angels Wept:A What-If History of the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was a consultant for the Emmy Award-winning documentary,Clouds Over Cuba,which was created for the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
Sybe Schaap is a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy. He has been Senator since 12 July 2007 till 11 July 2019,doing water,agriculture,foreign affairs and European Union affairs. For example,he arranged a majority in favor of the Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement in the Dutch parliament.
Juan Felipe Cucker Farkas is an Uruguayan mathematician and theoretical computer scientist who has done research into the complexity theory of the Blum–Shub–Smale computational model and the complexity of numerical algorithms in linear programming and numerical algebraic geometry.
