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•  Arthur Jensen

  Arthur Robert Jensen (born August 24, 1923) is a Professor Emeritus of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Jensen is known for his work in psychometrics and differential psychology, which is concerned with how and why individuals differ behaviorally from one another.

  

  46.2%
  

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•  Chuck Yeager

  Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager (born February 13, 1923) is a retired major general in the United States Air Force and noted test pilot. He is widely considered to be the first pilot to travel faster than sound (1947). Originally retiring as a brigadier general, Yeager was promoted to major general on the Air Force's retired list 20 years later for his military achievements. His career began in World War II as a private in the United States Army Air Forces.

  

  21.4%
  

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•  Cyril M. Kornbluth

  Cyril M. Kornbluth (July 23, 1923 – March 21, 1958) was an American science fiction author and a notable member of the Futurians. He used a variety of pen-names, including Cecil Corwin, S. D. Gottesman, Edward J. Bellin, Kenneth Falconer, Walter C. Davies, Simon Eisner, and Jordan Park. (The "M" in Kornbluth's name is in tribute to his wife, Mary Byers; Frederik Pohl confirmed the lack of any actual middle name in at least one interview.)

  

  27.3%
  

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•  Dolores Fuller

  Dolores Fuller (born 1923) is an American actress and songwriter best known as the one-time girlfriend of the low-budget film director Edward D. Wood, Jr. She played the protagonist's girlfriend in Glen or Glenda, co-starred in Wood's Jail Bait, and had a minor role in Bride of the Monster. Later, Elvis Presley recorded a number of her songs written for his films.

  

  21.2%
  

  21.2%
  

  57.6%
  
•  Freeman Dyson

  Freeman John Dyson FRS (born December 15, 1923) is a British-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum field theory, solid-state physics, and nuclear engineering. Dyson is a member of the Board of Sponsors of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Dyson has lived in Princeton, New Jersey for over fifty years.

  

  32.6%
  

  30.2%
  

  37.2%
  
•  Freddy Heineken

  Alfred Henry (Freddy) Heineken (November 4, 1923, Amsterdam, Netherlands –January 3, 2002) was a Dutch major stock holder and president of Heineken International, the brewing company bought in 1864 by his grandfather Gerard Adriaan Heineken in Amsterdam. He entered the service of the company (which by then was no longer owned by the family) on 1 June 1941 and bought back stock several years later, to ensure the family controlled the company again.

  

  35.1%
  

  36.8%
  

  28.1%
  
•  Henry Kissinger

  Henry Alfred Kissinger (born May 27, 1923) pronounced /ˈkɪsɪndʒər/, is a German-born American political scientist, diplomat, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. After his term, his opinion was still sought out by many following presidents.

  

  44.7%
  

  14.9%
  

  40.4%
  
•  Italo Calvino

  Italo Calvino (15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). Lionised in Britain and America, he was the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death, and a noted contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

  

  38.8%
  

  38.8%
  

  22.4%
  
•  Joseph Weizenbaum

  Joseph Weizenbaum (Berlin, January 8, 1923 – March 5, 2008) was a German-American author and professor emeritus of computer science at MIT. Born in Berlin, Germany to Jewish parents, he escaped Nazi Germany in 1935, emigrating with his family to the United States. He started studying mathematics in 1941 in the US, but his studies were interrupted by the war, during which he served in the military.

  

  34.6%
  

  30.8%
  

  34.6%
  
•  Jacques Dupuis (priest)

  Jacques Dupuis was a Belgian Jesuit priest.

  

  34.8%
  

  21.7%
  

  43.5%
  

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•  Sturmey-Archer

  Sturmey-Archer is a manufacturing company originally from Nottingham, England. It primarily produces bicycle hub gears but has also produced motorcycle hubs. The company was founded in 1902 by Henry Sturmey and James Archer under the guidance of Frank Bowden, the primary owner of the Raleigh Bicycle Company. In 2000, the assets and trademarks of Sturmey-Archer were sold to SunRace Sturmey-Archer Inc. and operations were moved to Taiwan, with European operations in Amsterdam.

  

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•  Culhuacan

  Culhuacan or Colhuacan was one of the Nahuatl-speaking pre-Columbian city-states of the Valley of Mexico. According to tradition, Culhuacan was founded by the Toltecs under Mixcoatl and was the first Toltec city. The Nahuatl speakers agreed that Culhuacan was the first city to give its rulers the title of "speaker". Culhuacan survived the fall of Tollan and maintained its prestige until the mid-14th century.

  

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•  Polynomial roots

  In mathematics, a root (or a zero) of a real-, complex- or generally vector-valued function ƒ is a member x of the domain of ƒ such that ƒ(x) vanishes at, that is, In other words, a "root" of a function ƒ is a value for x that produces a result of zero ("0"). For example, consider the function ƒ defined by the formula ƒ has a root at 3 because If the function is mapping from real numbers to real numbers, its zeros are the points where its graph meets the x-axis.

  

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•  Defence of India act, 1915

  

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