100 Notable alumni of
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
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Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is 532nd in the world, 199th in North America, and 184th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Thomas Edison
- Enrolled in Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
- 1875-1879 studied chemistry
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- screenwriterfilm directorbusinesspersoninventorphysicist
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Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrialized world. He was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of organized science and teamwork to the process of invention, working with many researchers and employees. He established the first industrial research laboratory.
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Patty Jenkins
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- film directorfilm producerscreenwriterdirectortelevision director
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Patricia Lea Jenkins is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. She has directed the feature films Monster (2003), Wonder Woman (2017), and Wonder Woman 1984 (2020).
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Bob Kane
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- pencillerdraftspersonscreenwritercomics artistwriter
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Robert Kane was an American comic book writer, animator and artist who, along with writer Bill Finger, created Batman and many early related characters for DC Comics. He was inducted into the comic book industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1993 and into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1996.
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Daniel Libeskind
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- architect
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Daniel Libeskind is a Polish–American architect, artist, professor and set designer. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect.
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Alice Wetterlund
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- film actortelevision actoractorcomedian
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Alice Wetterlund is an American stand-up comedian, actress, and podcast host. She played Carla Walton on the HBO sitcom Silicon Valley, and currently plays D'arcy Bloom on the SyFy TV series Resident Alien.
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Lee Krasner
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- painterartistprintmakerillustrator
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Lenore "Lee" Krasner was an American painter and visual artist active primarily in New York whose work has been associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement. She received her early academic training at the Women's Art School of Cooper Union, and the National Academy of Design from 1928 to 1932. Krasner's exposure to Post-Impressionism at the newly opened Museum of Modern Art in 1929 led to a sustained interest in modern art. In 1937, she enrolled in classes taught by Hans Hofmann, which led her to integrate influences of Cubism into her paintings. During the Great Depression, Krasner joined the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project, transitioning to war propaganda artworks during the War Services era.
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Shigeru Ban
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- restorerarchitect
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Shigeru Ban is a Japanese architect, known for his innovative work with paper, particularly recycled cardboard tubes used to quickly and efficiently house disaster victims. Many of his notable designs are structures which are temporary, prefabricated, or incorporate inexpensive and unconventional materials in innovative ways. He was profiled by Time magazine in their projection of 21st-century innovators in the field of architecture and design.
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Emile Berliner
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- electrical engineerinventorindustrialistentrepreneur
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Emile Berliner originally Emil Berliner, was a German-American inventor. He is best known for inventing the lateral-cut flat disc record (called a "gramophone record" in British and American English) used with a gramophone. He founded the United States Gramophone Company in 1894.
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Milton Glaser
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- graphic artistdesignertypographergraphic designerillustrator
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Milton Glaser was an American graphic designer, recognized for his designs, including the I Love New York logo; a 1966 poster for Bob Dylan; the logos for DC Comics, Stony Brook University, Brooklyn Brewery; and his graphic work on the introduction of the iconic 1969 Olivetti Valentine typewriter.
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Calvin Lockhart
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- actorfilm actorstage actorfilm directortelevision actor
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Calvin Lockhart was a Bahamian–American stage and film actor. Lockhart was perhaps best known for his roles as Reverend Deke O'Malley in the 1970 film Cotton Comes to Harlem and Biggie Smalls in the 1975 Warner Bros. film Let's Do It Again.
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Evan Hunter
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- screenwriterprose writerwriternovelistchildren's writer
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Evan Hunter was an American author of crime and mystery fiction. He is best known as the author of 87th Precinct novels, published under the pen name Ed McBain, which are considered staples of police procedural genre.
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Joel-Peter Witkin
- Enrolled in Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
- In 1974 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in art of sculpture
- Occupations
- photographer
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Joel-Peter Witkin is an American photographer who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work often deals with themes such as death, corpses (and sometimes dismembered portions thereof), often featuring ornately decorated photographic models, including people with dwarfism, transgender and intersex persons, as well as people living with a range of physical features. Witkin is often praised for presenting these figures in poses which celebrate and honor their physiques in an elevated, artistic manner. Witkin's complex tableaux vivants often recall religious episodes or classical paintings.
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Alex Katz
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- artistgraphic artistpainterdesignersculptor
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Alex Katz is an American figurative artist known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints. Since 1951, Katz's work has been the subject of more than 200 solo exhibitions and nearly 500 group exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally. He is well known for his large paintings, whose bold simplicity and heightened colors are considered as precursors to Pop Art.
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens
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- sculptor
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens was an Irish and American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts generation who embodied the ideals of the American Renaissance. Saint-Gaudens was born in Dublin to an Irish-French family, and raised in New York City. He traveled to Europe for further training and artistic study. After he returned to New York City, he achieved major critical success for his monuments commemorating heroes of the American Civil War, many of which still stand. Saint-Gaudens created works such as the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial on Boston Common, Abraham Lincoln: The Man, and grand equestrian monuments to Civil War generals: General John Logan Memorial in Chicago's Grant Park and William Tecumseh Sherman at the corner of New York's Central Park. In addition, he created the popular historicist representation of The Puritan.
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Aline Kominsky-Crumb
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- comics creatorcaricaturistcomics artist
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Aline Kominsky-Crumb was an American underground comics artist. Kominsky-Crumb's work, which is almost exclusively autobiographical, is known for its unvarnished, confessional nature. In 2016, ComicsAlliance listed Kominsky-Crumb as one of twelve women cartoonists deserving of lifetime achievement recognition. She was married to cartoonist Robert Crumb, with whom she frequently collaborated. Their daughter, Sophie Crumb, is also a cartoonist.
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George Segal
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- photographergraphic artistsculptorpaintervisual artist
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George Segal was an American painter and sculptor associated with the pop art movement. He was presented with the United States National Medal of Arts in 1999.
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Augusta Savage
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- artistsculptorhuman rights activist
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Augusta Savage was an American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance. She was also a teacher whose studio was important to the careers of a generation of artists who would become nationally known. She worked for equal rights for African Americans in the arts.
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Angela Hill
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- kickboxermixed martial arts fighterThai boxer
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Angela Patrice Hill is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the women's Strawweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). She was formerly signed with the Invicta Fighting Championships, where she was the strawweight champion. She is also a former World Kickboxing Association champion. As of November 12, 2024, she is #13 in the UFC women's strawweight rankings.
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Victor Papanek
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- art theoristuniversity teacherteacherdesigneranthropologist
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Victor Josef Papanek was an Austrian-born American designer and educator, who became a strong advocate of the socially and ecologically responsible design of products, tools, and community infrastructures. His book Design for the Real World, originally published in 1971 and translated into more than 24 languages, had lasting international impact.
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Norman Bridwell
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- illustratorwriter
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Norman Ray Bridwell was an American author and cartoonist best known for creating the Clifford the Big Red Dog book series.
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Miriam Cooper
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- actorfilm actor
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Miriam Cooper, also credited Marion Cooper, was an American silent film actress who is best known for her work in early film including The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance for D. W. Griffith and The Honor System and Evangeline for her husband Raoul Walsh. She retired from acting in 1924 but was rediscovered by the film community in the 1960s, and toured colleges lecturing about silent films.
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John Hejduk
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- university teacherarchitectsculptorpedagogue
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John Quentin Hejduk was an American architect, artist and educator from New York City. Hejduk studied at the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture, the University of Cincinnati, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He worked in several offices in New York including that of I. M. Pei and the office of A.M. Kinney. He established his own practice in New York City in 1965.
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Russell Alan Hulse
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- astronomerastrophysicistresearcherphysicist
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Russell Alan Hulse is an American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with his thesis advisor Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation".
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Mitch Epstein
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- artistphotographerphotojournalistcinematographerjournalist
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Mitchell Epstein is an American photographer. His books include Vietnam: A Book of Changes (1997); Family Business (2003), which won the 2004 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award; Recreation: American Photographs 1973–1988 (2005); Mitch Epstein: Work (2006); American Power (2009); Berlin (2011); New York Arbor (2013); Rocks and Clouds (2018); Sunshine Hotel (2019); In India (2021); and Property Rights (2021).
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Joshua Lionel Cowen
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- inventor
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Joshua Lionel Cowen, born Joshua Lionel Cohen, was an American inventor and cofounder of Lionel Corporation, a manufacturer of model railroads and toy trains who gained prominence in the market before and after World War II.
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Seymour Chwast
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- graphic artistdesignerpaintergraphic designerillustrator
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Seymour Chwast is an American graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer.
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Samuel R. Scottron
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- patent inventor
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Samuel Raymond Scottron was a prominent African American inventor from Brooklyn, New York who began his career as a barber. Born in Philadelphia in 1841. He received his engineering degree from Cooper Union in 1878.
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P. Buckley Moss
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- painter
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Patricia Buckley Moss was an American artist, known especially for her paintings of rural Virginia, and for her support of children with learning disabilities.
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Prabda Yoon
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- translatorscreenwriterwriter
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Prabda Yoon is a Thai writer, novelist, filmmaker, artist, graphic designer, magazine editor, screenwriter, translator and media personality. His literary debut, Muang Moom Shak (City of Right Angles), a collection of five related stories about New York City, and the follow-up story collection, Kwam Na Ja Pen (Probability), both published in 2000, immediately turned him into "...the talk of the town..." In 2002, Kwam Na Ja Pen won the S.E.A. Write Award, an award presented to accomplished Southeast Asian writers and poets.
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Elizabeth Diller
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- lecturerarchitect
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Elizabeth Diller, also known as Liz Diller, is an American architect and partner in Diller Scofidio + Renfro, which she co-founded in 1981. She is also an architecture professor at Princeton University.
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William Wallace Denslow
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- writerchildren's writercomics artistillustrator
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William Wallace Denslow was an American illustrator and caricaturist remembered for his work in collaboration with author L. Frank Baum, especially his illustrations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Denslow was an editorial cartoonist with a strong interest in politics, which has fueled political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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Victor David Brenner
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- medalistsculptor
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Victor David Brenner was a Lithuanian sculptor, engraver and medalist known primarily as the designer of the United States Lincoln cent.
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Ashley Bryan
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- writerpainterchildren's writerillustrator
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Ashley Frederick Bryan was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. Most of his subjects are from the African-American experience. He was a U.S. nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2006 and he won the Children's Literature Legacy Award for his contribution to American children's literature in 2009. His picture book Freedom Over Me was short-listed for the 2016 Kirkus Prize and received a Newbery Honor.
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George Frederick Kunz
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- researchercuratormineralogist
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George Frederick Kunz was an American mineralogist and mineral collector.
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Jennie Augusta Brownscombe
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- painterartist
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Jennie Augusta Brownscombe was an American painter, designer, etcher, commercial artist, and illustrator. Brownscombe studied art for years in the United States and in Paris. She was a founding member, student and teacher at the Art Students League of New York. She made genre paintings, including revolutionary and colonial American history, most notably The First Thanksgiving held at Pilgrim Hall in Plymouth, Massachusetts. She sold the reproduction rights to more than 100 paintings, and images of her work have appeared on prints, calendars and greeting cards. Her works are in many public collections and museums. In 1899 she was described by New York World as "one of America's best artists."
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Ellen Lupton
- Enrolled in Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
- 1981-1985 graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts
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- curatormuseum professionalwritergraphic designer
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Ellen Lupton is a graphic designer, curator, writer, critic, and educator. Known for her love of typography, Lupton is the Betty Cooke and William O. Steinmetz Design Chair at Maryland Institute College of Art. Previously she was the Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City and was named Curator Emerita after 30 years of service. She is the founding director of the Graphic Design M.F.A. degree program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), where she also serves as director of the Center for Design Thinking. She has written numerous books on graphic design for a variety of audiences. She has contributed to several publications, including Print, Eye, I.D., Metropolis, and The New York Times.
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Palmer Hayden
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- painterdraftsperson
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Palmer C. Hayden was an American painter who depicted African-American life, landscapes, seascapes, and African influences. He sketched, painted in both oils and watercolors, and was a prolific artist of his era.
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Chuck Hoberman
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- architectengineerinventorbusinessperson
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Chuck Hoberman is an artist, engineer, architect, and inventor of folding toys and structures, most notably the Hoberman sphere.
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Nina Tandon
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United States - Occupations
- businesspersonscientistengineer
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Nina Marie Tandon is an American biomedical engineer. She is the CEO and co-founder of EpiBone. She is an adjunct professor of Electrical Engineering at Cooper Union and is a senior fellow at the Lab for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering at Columbia. She was a 2011 TED Fellow and a 2012 senior TED Fellow.
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Joan Semmel
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- artistprintmakerpainter
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Joan Semmel is an American feminist painter and professor emeritus in painting. She is best known for her large-scale naturalistic nude self portraits as seen from her perspective looking down.
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Shirley Jaffe
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- paintersculptor
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Shirley Jaffe was an American abstract painter. Her early work is of the gestural abstract expressionist style, however in the late 1960s she changed to a more geometric style. This change was initially received with caution by the art world, but later in her career she was praised for the "idiosyncratic" and individual nature of her work. She spent most of her life living and working in France.
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Conrad Marca-Relli
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- painterdesigner
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Conrad Marca-Relli was an American artist who belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including Paris. New York School Abstract Expressionism, represented by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, John Ferren, Marca-Relli and others became a leading art movement of the postwar era.
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Sagi Haviv
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- graphic designerdesigner
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Sagi Haviv is an Israeli-American graphic designer and a partner in the design firm Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv. Called a "logo prodigy" by The New Yorker, and a "wunderkind" by Out magazine, he is best known for having designed the trademarks and visual identities for brands and institutions such as Discovery, Inc.'s online streaming service Discovery+, the United States Olympic & Paralympic Museum, the US Open tennis tournament, Conservation International, Harvard University Press, and L.A. Reid's Hitco Entertainment, and tech and electric car company Togg.
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Jan Jakub Kotík
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- 1972-2007 (aged 35)
- Occupations
- visual artist
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Jan Jakub Kotík was a Czech artist and rock drummer.
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Paul Kirchner
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- writercomics artistillustrator
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Paul Kirchner is an American writer and illustrator who has worked in diverse areas, from comic strips and toy design to advertising and editorial art.
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Toshiko Mori
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- architect
- Biography
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Toshiko Mori is a Japanese architect and the founder and principal of New York–based Toshiko Mori Architect, PLLC and Vision Arc. She is also the Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. In 1995, she became the first female faculty member to receive tenure at the GSD.
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Thom Fitzgerald
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- screenwriterfilm directordirectorfilm producer
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Thomas "Thom" Fitzgerald is an American-Canadian film and theatre director, screenwriter, playwright and producer.
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A. Harry Moore
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- lawyerpolitician
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Arthur Harry Moore was an American attorney and politician of the Democratic Party who served three nonconsecutive three-year terms as governor of New Jersey (1926–1929, 1932–1935, and 1938–1941). He is the longest-served modern governor of New Jersey and the only one elected to three terms. He also served a partial term as United States Senator from 1935 to 1938, before stepping down to begin his third term as governor.
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Anthony de Francisci
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- medalistsculptor
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Anthony de Francisci ( Italian pronunciation: [de franˈtʃiʃʃi]; July 13, 1887 – August 20, 1964) was an Italian-American sculptor who designed a number of United States coins and medals. His most famous design was the Peace Dollar, which was first minted in 1921.
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Sara Plummer Lemmon
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- scientific illustratornursebotanistexplorerbotanical collector
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Sara Allen Plummer Lemmon was an American botanist. Mount Lemmon in Arizona is named for her, as she was the first Euro-American woman to ascend it. She was responsible for the designation of the golden poppy (Eschscholzia californica) as the state flower of California, in 1903. A number of plants are also named in her honor, including the new genus Plummera (now placed as a subgenus within Hymenoxys), described by botanist Asa Gray in 1882.
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Philip Taaffe
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- illustratorpainter
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Philip Taaffe is an American artist, who has shown his works all around the world. His work sometimes blended motifs from multiple cultures.
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John Alcorn
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- graphic designerdesignerartistillustrator
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John Alcorn was an American commercial artist and designer, and an illustrator of children's books. In addition to his accomplishments in the areas of packaging, corporate and dimensional design, Alcorn designed the opening titles for several Federico Fellini films. During his career, Alcorn created numerous book jackets and paperback covers, and his work appeared in many major exhibits.
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Hugo Gellert
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- caricaturistpaintergraphic artistillustrator
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Hugo Gellert was a Hungarian-American illustrator and muralist. A committed radical and member of the Communist Party of America, Gellert created much work for political activism in the 1920s and 1930s. It was distinctive in style, considered by some art critics as among the best political work of the first half of the 20th century.
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Liana Finck
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- 1986-.. (age 39)
- Occupations
- cartoonist
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Liana Finck is an American cartoonist and author. She is the author of Passing for Human and is a regular contributor to The New Yorker.
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Nir Hod
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- paintersculptor
- Biography
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Nir Hod is an Israeli visual artist, based in New York. He works in the mediums of painting, sculpture, and video art.
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Emily Mason
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- painterartist
- Biography
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Emily Mason was an American abstract painter and printmaker. Mason developed her individual approach to the Abstract Expressionist and color field painting traditions with her veils of color and spontaneous gestural mark. Mason was born and raised in New York City, where she lived and worked until her death.
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William M. Calder
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- politician
- Biography
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William Musgrave Calder I was an American politician and architect who served as a member of both chambers of the United States Congress from New York.
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Firelei Báez
- Enrolled in Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
- Graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Occupations
- visual artist
- Biography
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Firelei Báez is a Dominican Republic-born, New York City-based artist known for intricate works on paper and canvas, as well as large scale sculpture. Her art focuses on untold stories and unheard voices, using portraiture, landscape, and design to explore the Western canon.
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Lou Dorfsman
- Occupations
- graphic designer
- Biography
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Louis Dorfsman was an American graphic designer who oversaw almost every aspect of the advertising and corporate identity for the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) in his 40 years with the network.
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C. B. J. Snyder
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- architect
- Biography
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Charles B. J. Snyder was an American architect, architectural engineer, and mechanical engineer in the field of urban school building design and construction. He is widely recognized for his leadership, innovation, and transformation of school building construction process, design, and quality during his tenure as Superintendent of School Buildings for the New York City Board of Education between 1891 and 1923.
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Louis Waldman
- Years
- 1892-1982 (aged 90)
- Enrolled in Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
- In 1916 studied civil engineering
- Occupations
- politiciantrade unionistlawyer
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Louis Waldman was a leading figure in the Socialist Party of America from the late 1910s and through the middle 1930s, a founding member of the Social Democratic Federation, and a prominent New York labor lawyer. He was expelled from the New York State Assembly in 1920 during the First Red Scare.
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Michel Mossessian
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- architect
- Biography
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Michel Mossessian is a French architect of Armenian origin, based in London, UK.
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Jerome Myers
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- painter
- Biography
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Jerome Myers was an American artist and writer associated with the Ashcan School, particularly known for his sympathetic depictions of the urban landscape and its people. He was one of the main organizers of the 1913 Armory Show, which introduced European modernism to America.
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Anthony Fiala
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- explorer
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Anthony Fiala was an American explorer, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and educated at Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design, New York City. In early life he was engaged in various employments—as lithographic designer, chemist, cartoonist, head of the art and engraving department of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1894–99), and correspondent for that paper while serving as a trooper in the Spanish–American War.
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Marisa Lago
- Enrolled in Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in physics
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Marisa Lago is an American attorney who served as the Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade from 2021 to 2025. She previously served as director of the New York City Department of City Planning and chair of the City Planning Commission from 2017 to 2021. Before that, Lago served as assistant secretary for international markets and development in the United States Department of the Treasury from 2010 to 2017, and as president and chief executive officer of the Empire State Development Corporation from 2008 to 2009.
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Henry Scheffé
- Enrolled in Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
- Studied in 1924-1925
- Occupations
- university teacherstatistician
- Biography
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Henry Scheffé was an American statistician. He is known for the Lehmann–Scheffé theorem and Scheffé's method.
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William Dubilier
- Years
- 1888-1969 (aged 81)
- Occupations
- inventor
- Biography
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William Dubilier was an American inventor in the field of radio and electronics. He demonstrated radio communication at Seattle's Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition on June 21, 1909; ten years before the first commercial station operated. A graduate of Cooper Union, he was the first to use sheets of naturally occurring mica as the dielectric in a capacitor. Mica capacitors were widely used in early radio oscillator and tuning circuits because the temperature coefficient of expansion of mica was low, resulting in very stable capacitance – mica capacitors are still used where exceptional temperature stability is needed.
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Brad Friedmutter
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Brad Henry Friedmutter, A.I.A. is an architect and founder of Friedmutter Group, a design, architecture, master planning and interior design firm. Friedmutter Group has designed dozens of integrated resorts including The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, the fifth-most expensive building in the world. Friedmutter is a registered architect in 43 states. Friedmutter Group has offices in Las Vegas, Nevada, Newport Beach, California, and Macau, China.
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Morgan Foster Larson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Morgan Foster Larson was an American Republican politician who served as the 40th governor of New Jersey.
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Henry L. Myers
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- judgepoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Henry Lee Myers was a United States senator from Montana.
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Reynold Ruffins
- Occupations
- graphic designerpainter
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Reynold Dash Ruffins was an American painter, illustrator, and graphic designer. With Milton Glaser, Edward Sorel, and Seymour Chwast, Ruffins founded Push Pin Studios in 1954. An illustrator of more than twenty children's books, Ruffins is known for his "stylistic versatility, vibrant colors, and penchant for fanciful creatures." He has had many solo exhibitions and been part of group show exhibitions at Paris' Musée du Louvre, and in Milan, Bologna, and Tokyo.
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Kate Cory
- Occupations
- photographerpainter
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Kate Cory was an American photographer and artist. She studied art in New York, and then worked as commercial artist. She traveled to the southwestern United States in 1905 and lived among the Hopi for several years, recording their lives in about 600 photographs.
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Charles Rosen
- Years
- 1917-2002 (aged 85)
- Occupations
- computer scientistartificial intelligence researcher
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Charles Rosen was a pioneer in artificial intelligence and founder of SRI International's Artificial Intelligence Center. He led the project that led to the development of Shakey the Robot, "who" now resides in a glass case at the Computer History Museum, in Mountain View, California.
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Morris Michael Edelstein
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
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Morris Michael Edelstein was a Polish-born Congressional Representative and lawyer from the state of New York, serving from 1940 to 1941.
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Javaka Steptoe
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- art educatorlibrarian
- Biography
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Javaka Steptoe is an American author and illustrator. He won the 2017 Caldecott Medal as well as the Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature, and the Coretta Scott King Book Award from the American Library Association for his picture book Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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Leslie Hewitt
- Occupations
- photographerartistvideo artist
- Biography
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Leslie Hewitt is an American contemporary visual artist.
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Bruce Pasternack
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Bruce Pasternack was the President and CEO of the Special Olympics International from 2005 to 2007. He served on the board of directors of Codexis (NASDAQ: CDXS), a biotechnology company based out of Redwood City California, Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL) a software company specializing in biotechnology, BEA Systems (NASDAQ: BEAS) a company specialized in enterprise infrastructure software products, Quantum Corporation (NYSE: QTM) a manufacturer of data storage devices and systems, and Symyx Technologies (NASDAQ: SMMX) a company that specialized in informatics and automation products. Prior to being a director for public companies, he was a Senior Vice President of Booz-Allen & Hamilton Inc. for over 20 years, and the Managing Partner of the firm's organization and strategic leadership center and its offices in California as well as leading the energy, chemicals and pharmaceuticals practice.
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Dimitri Hadzi
- Occupations
- printmakersculptor
- Biography
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Dimitri Hadzi was an American abstract sculptor who lived and worked in Rome, Italy for 25 years and later resided in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he also taught at Harvard University for over a decade.
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Amanda Brewster Sewell
- Occupations
- painterartist
- Biography
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Lydia Amanda Brewster Sewell was a 19th-century American painter of portraits and genre scenes. Lydia Amanda Brewster studied art in the United States and in Paris before marrying her husband, fellow artist Robert Van Vorst Sewell. She won a bronze medal for her mural Arcadia at The World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. She continued to win medals at expositions and was the first woman to win a major prize at the National Academy of Design, where she was made an Associate Academian in 1903. She was vice president of the Woman's Art Club of New York by 1906. Her works are in several public collections.
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Maria Yoon
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- artist
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Maria Yoon, a.k.a. Maria the Korean Bride, is a New York-based performance artist and filmmaker. She is best known for her extended performance art project and film where in the course of nine years, she gets married in all 50 of the United States, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia and the US Virgin Islands.
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Tomashi Jackson
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- visual artistpainter
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Tomashi Jackson is an American multimedia artist working across painting, video, textiles and sculpture. Jackson was born in Houston, Texas, raised in Los Angeles, and currently lives and works in New York, NY and Cambridge, MA. Jackson was named a 2019 Whitney Biennial participating artist. Jackson also serves on the faculty for sculpture at Rhode Island School of Design. Her work is included in the collection of MOCA Los Angeles. In 2004, a 20-foot-high by 80-foot-long mural by Jackson entitled Evolution of a Community was unveiled in the Los Angeles neighborhood of West Adams.
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Karen Bausman
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- architect
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Karen Bausman is an American architect. She has previously served as the Eliot Noyes Chair at the Harvard Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and the Eero Saarinen Chair at Yale School of Architecture at Yale University, the only American woman to hold both design chairs.
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Nicole Grobert
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- academicchemist
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Nicole Grobert FRSC FYAE is a German-British materials chemist. She is a professor of nanomaterials at the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford, fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and a Royal Society industry fellow at Williams Advanced Engineering. Grobert is the chair of the European Commission's Group of Chief Scientific Advisors.
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Catharine Carter Critcher
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- painterartist
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Catharine Carter Critcher (September 13, 1868 – June 11, 1964) was an American painter. A native of Westmoreland County, Virginia, she worked in Paris and Washington, D.C. before becoming, in 1924, a member of the Taos Society of Artists, the only woman ever elected to that body. She was a long time member of the Arts Club of Washington.
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Alice Cordelia Morse
- Years
- 1863-1961 (aged 98)
- Occupations
- teacher
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Alice Cordelia Morse was an American designer of book covers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her work was inspired by the Arts and Crafts Movement, and she is often placed as one of the top three book designers of her day.
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Willard F. Jones
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- marine architect
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Willard F. Jones I was an American naval architect, business executive, and philanthropist. He served as a general manager and Vice President of the Gulf Oil corporation during the late 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Jones was one of the instrumental figures in establishing effective transport of crude oil from Venezuela, the Persian Gulf and Kuwait to the United States in the first half of the 20th century.
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Pedro Lasch
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- artist
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Pedro Lasch is a visual artist born in Mexico City, and based in the U.S. since 1994. He produces works of conceptual art, institutional critique, social practice, and site-specific art, as well as paintings, photographs, prints, and works in traditional media.
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Linn Meyers
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- painter
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Linn Meyers, known professionally as linn meyers, is a visual artist based in Washington, DC and Los Angeles. She is known for dense, intricate drawings, paintings, installations and prints that range in scale from page-sized images to large pieces on Mylar and panel to monumental, site-specific wall works. Her art is rooted in a process of repetitive drawing—thousands of hand-drawn marks that come together to form rhythmic, patterned wholes and serve as records of their own making. While ostensibly abstract, her works are also widely suggestive of natural phenomena and fundamental aspects of the universe, from fingerprints to galaxies, and cellular patterns to tidal waves. Curator Anne Ellegood observed, "She is after a purity of making—a physical process that does not hide behind illusionism—a directness wherein the materiality of the work is evident and … all the mystery is removed so that it is what it is."
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Maximilian Toch
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- chemist
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Maximilian Toch was an American paint manufacturer and industrial chemist who developed a concrete filler method that was used in the construction of the Panama Canal. He was the co-owner of the New York firms Toch Brothers and the Standard Varnish Works, where he was head of research and production. Before and during World War I, he was a major contributor to the development of ship camouflage in the United States, as well as an early practitioner of the use of chemistry in the authentication of works of art.
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Grace Renzi
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- painter
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Grace Renzi, married name Grace Kantuser, was an American painter.
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Leonidas D. Marinelli
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- inventorradiologist
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Leonidas D. Marinelli was the American radiological physicist who is best known for founding the field of Human Radiobiology and developing the Marinelli Beaker.
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Anthony Jerome Griffin
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- lawyerpolitician
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Anthony Jerome Griffin was an American lawyer, war veteran, and politician from New York. He served ten terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1918 to 1935.
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Victor Gustav Bloede I
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- inventorchemist
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Victor Gustav Bloede I, (pronounced as Blerda) was a chemist and manufacturer of chemicals, president of the Victor G. Bloede Company, and businessman.
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Randolph Perkins
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- lawyerpolitician
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Randolph Perkins was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1921 to 1936.
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Niilo Koponen
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- businesspersonpoliticianteacher
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Niilo Emil Koponen was an American educator and politician.
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Kristin Lucas
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- artistvideo artisttelevision producer
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Kristin Lucas is a media artist who works in video, performance, installation and on the Internet. Her work explores the impacts of technology on humanity, blurring the boundary between the technological and corporeal. In her work she frequently casts herself as the protagonist in videos and performances where her interactions with technology lead to isolation, and physical and mental contamination.
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Victor D'Amico
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- educatorteaching artist
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Victor D'Amico was an American teaching artist and the founding Director of the Department of Education of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. D’Amico explored the essence of the art experience and the ability to communicate one's most profound ideas and emotions through aesthetic expression. He considered that the individual's personality had to be respected and developed by providing opportunities for creative experimentation. D'Amico's philosophy was based on the fundamental belief in the creative potential in every man, woman and child. He believed "that the arts are a humanizing force and their major function is to vitalize the living."
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Ella Ferris Pell
- Years
- 1846-1922 (aged 76)
- Occupations
- paintersculptor
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Ella Ferris Pell was an American painter, sculptor, and illustrator. She was the niece of William Ferris Pell, who bought the ruins of Fort Ticonderoga in 1820. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and trained as an artist with William Rimmer at Cooper Union School of Design for Women in New York City, graduating in 1870.
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Jacqueline Moss
- Years
- 1927-2005 (aged 78)
- Occupations
- journalistart historiancurator
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Jacqueline Moss was an American art historian, lecturer, writer and art critic. She was the curator of education at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (since renamed) and lectured widely on modern and 20th-century art. Her articles and seminars often had a focus on women artists. In the 1980s, she had a travel business touring art and architecture in Europe, Asia and South America.
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Oliver Ingraham Lay
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- painter
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Oliver Ingraham Lay, was an American portrait painter.
