The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) is an American non-profit parapsychological research institute. It was co-founded in 1973 by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the Moon, along with investor Paul N. Temple, and others interested in purported paranormal phenomena, in order to encourage and conduct research on noetic theory and human potentials.
Bradley M. Kuhn is a free software activist from the United States.
Barry Owen Jones,, is an Australian polymath, writer, teacher, lawyer, social activist, quiz champion and former politician. He campaigned against the death penalty throughout the 1960s, particularly against the execution of Ronald Ryan. He is on the National Trust's list of Australian Living Treasures.
Brenda Howard was an American bisexual rights activist, sex-positive feminist, and polyamorist. Howard was an important figure in the modern LGBT rights movement.
The Philippine Science High School System is a research-oriented and specialized public high school system in the Philippines that operates as an attached agency of the Philippine Department of Science and Technology. PSHS is considered as the top science high school in the Philippines and is viewed to be among the best in the ASEAN region by 2016.
Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University is a selective, audition based music school located in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, and is part of Griffith University.
Newtown is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It is part of the greater Danbury metropolitan area as well as the New York metropolitan area. Newtown was founded in 1705, and later incorporated in 1711. As of the 2010 census, its population was 27,560. The western half of Newtown is one of the most affluent areas in Connecticut.
Frank Christopher Hawthorne is a Canadian mineralogist and crystallographer.
Noel Philip Yeo Liat Kok, DUNU , is the Chairman of Economic Development Innovations Singapore, Advanced MedTech Holdings and Accuron Technologies. From April 2007 to March 2018, Yeo was Chairman of Standards Productivity and Innovation for Growth, a government development agency with the mission to grow small and medium enterprises and startups.
The Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal is awarded by the Genetics Society of America (GSA) for lifetime contributions to the field of genetics.
The British Association for Jewish Studies (BAJS) is an organization in the United Kingdom that promotes scholarly study of Jewish culture.
Annie Antón is a Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, within its College of Computing. Antón served as chair of the School of Interactive Computing from 2012 to 2017. From 1998 to 2012, Antón served as a professor of software engineering at North Carolina State University. She is the founder and director of ThePrivacyPlace.org, a research center devoted to issues of privacy protection in information systems. She is known for her research, and for her service in several significant advisory positions in industry and government.
The Moran Medal in Statistical Sciences is awarded every two years by the Australian Academy of Science to recognise outstanding research by Australian scientists under 40 years of age in the fields of applied probability, biometrics, mathematical genetics, psychometrics, and statistics.
The Pawsey Medal is awarded annually by the Australian Academy of Science to recognize outstanding research in the field of physics by an Australian scientist under 40 years of age.
Chen Wen-tsuen is an ethnic Taiwanese computer scientist, a distinguished research fellow at the Academia Sinica and a lifelong national chair of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan. From 2006 to 2010, he was the president of the National Tsing Hua University, a premier research university in Taiwan.
Edgar S. Woolard Jr. is an American businessman. He was chairman and chief executive officer of DuPont from 1989 to 1995.
Laurence Marvin Sandler (1929–1987) was a "leading Drosophila geneticist", active during the mid-20th century. Sandler is best known for his work establishing and elucidating the phenomenon of meiotic drive.
Thomas Flynn Edgar is an American chemical engineer. He is member of the National Academy of Engineering and the George T. and Gladys H. Abell Chair in Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.
Amitabh Joshi is an Indian evolutionary biologist, geneticist and a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR). He heads the Evolutionary Biology Laboratory at JNCASR and is known for his studies on Genetics and Population ecology. An elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, India, and Indian National Science Academy, he is also a J. C. Bose National Fellow of the Department of Science and Technology. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2009, for his contributions to biological sciences.
