100 Notable alumni of
Illinois Institute of Technology
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Illinois Institute of Technology is 602nd in the world, 222nd in North America, and 205th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Illinois Institute of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Virgil Abloh
- Occupations
- civil engineerdesignercomposerrecord producerdisc jockey
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Virgil Abloh was an American fashion designer and entrepreneur. A trained architect, Abloh founded his own line of luxury streetwear clothing under the moniker Pyrex Vision in 2012, which he transformed into the Milan based fashion label Off-White in 2013. Abloh was appointed artistic director of Louis Vuitton's menswear collection beginning in 2018, and was given increased creative responsibilities across the LVMH brand in early 2021. Abloh worked in Chicago street fashion, before he entered the world of international fashion with an internship at Fendi in 2009, alongside American rapper Kanye West. Abloh assumed the role of creative director at Donda, West's creative agency in 2010.
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Martin Cooper
- Occupations
- entrepreneurelectrical engineerinventor
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Martin Cooper is an American engineer. He is a pioneer in the wireless communications industry, especially in radio spectrum management, with eleven patents in the field.
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Nandamuri Kalyan Ram
- Occupations
- actorfilm producer
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Nandamuri Kalyan Ram is an Indian actor and film producer who works in Telugu cinema. He is the son of actor-politician Nandamuri Harikrishna. Ram is best known for his roles in action films such as Athanokkade, Hare Ram and 118. Ram is the chairperson of the production company N. T. R. Arts, named after his paternal grandfather NTR.
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Roger Bruce Chaffee
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- aircraft pilotmilitary flight engineerastronautmilitary officer
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Roger Bruce Chaffee was an American naval officer, aviator and aeronautical engineer who was a NASA astronaut in the Apollo program.
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Rajeev Chandrasekhar
- Occupations
- computer scientistpolitician
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Rajeev Chandrasekhar is an Indian entrepreneur and politician. He is a former junior minister, Minister of State for the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, and Ministry of Jal Shakti. From 2006 to 2024, he was also a member of parliament in the Rajya Sabha representing Karnataka. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He lost his ministerial credentials after losing his elections in Thiruvananthapuram and was not offered a ministerial position in new coalition formed under National Democratic Alliance.
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Sam Pitroda
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- computer scientistbusinessperson
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Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda, also known as Sam Pitroda, is an Indian telecommunication engineer, and entrepreneur. He was born in Titlagarh in the eastern Indian state of Odisha to a Gujarati family. He has served as an advisor to two Prime Ministers of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh and Rajiv Gandhi, during their tenures, and also to the United Nations. He is the chairman of Indian Overseas Congress.
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Valdas Adamkus
- Occupations
- civil engineerpoliticiansprinterengineer
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Valdas Adamkus is a Lithuanian politician, diplomat and civil engineer who served as the fifth and seventh president of Lithuania from 1998 to 2003 and again from 2004 to 2009.
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James Young
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- guitaristmusiciansingersongwritersinger-songwriter
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James Vincent Young is an American musician who is best known as one of the guitarists in the American rock band Styx, having served as the only continuous original member of the band.
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John H. Cox
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- radio personalitypoliticianlawyerbusinessperson
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John Herman Cox is an American businessman, housing developer, and political activist. A Republican, he was the party's nominee for Governor of California in 2018, as well as one of the party's replacement candidates in the state's 2021 recall election.
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Mohsen Sazegara
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- journalistpolitician
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Mohsen Sazegara is an Iranian journalist and pro-democracy political activist. He was the founder of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps after the Iranian Revolution in 1979. He held several offices in the government of Mir Hossein Mousavi. He applied to become a candidate for President of Iran in the 2001 election but was declined.
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Kwame Raoul
- Occupations
- politician
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Kwame Raoul is an American lawyer and politician who has been the 42nd Attorney General of Illinois since 2019. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
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Jack Steinberger
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- physicistuniversity teacher
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Jack Steinberger was a German-born American physicist noted for his work with neutrinos, the subatomic particles considered to be elementary constituents of matter. He was a recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Leon M. Lederman and Melvin Schwartz, for the discovery of the muon neutrino. Through his career as an experimental particle physicist, he held positions at the University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University (1950–68), and the CERN (1968–86). He was also a recipient of the United States National Medal of Science in 1988, and the Matteucci Medal from the Italian Academy of Sciences in 1990.
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Hans Hollein
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- university teacherdraftspersondesignerarchitect
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Hans Hollein was an Austrian architect and designer and key figure of postmodern architecture. Some of his most notable works are the Haas House and the Albertina extension in the inner city of Vienna.
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Peter Roskam
- Enrolled in Illinois Institute of Technology
- In 1989 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- politicianbusinesspersonlawyerteacher
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Peter James Roskam /ˈrɒskəm/ is an American politician and lobbyist who is the former U.S. representative for Illinois's 6th congressional district, serving six terms from 2007 to 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party and served as the chief deputy majority whip from 2011 to 2014, ranking fourth among House Republican leaders. Previously, he served in the Illinois Senate and the Illinois House of Representatives. He served as chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Tax Policy for the 115th Congress. Roskam was defeated by Democrat Sean Casten in the 2018 election. In 2023, he was named federal policy head of the lobbying practice at Washington, DC–based law firm BakerHostetler.
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Kevin Roche
- Occupations
- engineerarchitect
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Eamonn Kevin Roche FAIA was an Irish-born American Pritzker Prize-winning architect. Kevin Roche was the archetypal modernist and "member of an elite group of third generation modernist architects — James Stirling, Jorn Utzon, and Robert Venturi — and is considered to be the most logical and systematic designer of the group. He and his partner John Dinkeloo of the firm KRJDA produced over a half-century of matchless creativity."
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Otis Boykin
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- inventorscientist
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Otis Frank Boykin was an American inventor and engineer. His inventions include electrical resistors used in computing, missile guidance, and pacemakers.
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Anita Alvarez
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- lawyerpolitician
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Anita M. Alvarez is the former State's Attorney for Cook County, Illinois, United States. Alvarez was the first Hispanic woman elected to this position, after being the first Latina to win the Democratic nomination for state's attorney of Cook County.
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Jack Dongarra
- Occupations
- university teachermathematiciancomputer scientistengineer
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Jack Joseph Dongarra FRS is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is a University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee. He holds the position of a Distinguished Research Staff member in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Turing Fellowship in the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester, and is an adjunct professor and teacher in the Computer Science Department at Rice University. He served as a faculty fellow at the Texas A&M University Institute for Advanced Study (2014–2018). Dongarra is the founding director of the Innovative Computing Laboratory at the University of Tennessee. He was the recipient of the Turing Award in 2021.
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Randy Hultgren
- Enrolled in Illinois Institute of Technology
- In 1993 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
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Randall Mark Hultgren is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Illinois's 14th congressional district from 2011 to 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party.
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Sidney Coleman
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- physicistuniversity teachertheoretical physicist
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Sidney Richard Coleman was an American theoretical physicist noted for his research in high-energy physics.
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Tamar Simon Hoffs
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- screenwriterfilm directortheatrical director
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Tamar Simon Hoffs is an American filmmaker, best known for directing the indie films Red Roses and Petrol (2003) and Pound of Flesh (2009), both starring Malcolm McDowell. She is the mother of Susanna Hoffs of The Bangles.
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Jamshyd Godrej
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Jamshyd Naoroji Godrej is an Indian industrialist and member of the Godrej family, currently serving as managing director and chairman of Godrej & Boyce, the holding company of the Godrej group. Godrej & Boyce is a diversified business with a presence across 10 industry sectors.
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Gloria Ray Karlmark
- Occupations
- technical writercomputer scientisteditor-in-chief
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Gloria Cecelia Ray Karlmark is a member of the Little Rock Nine, the nine African-American students who desegregated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. One of the three children of Harvey C. and Julia Miller Ray, she was 15 when she attempted to enter Little Rock Central High School where she was barred from entering by the Arkansas National Guard, under the order of Governor Orval Faubus who opposed integration. They returned to the school weeks later protected by federal troops.
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Susan Solomon
- Occupations
- researcheratmospheric chemist
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Susan Solomon is an American atmospheric chemist, working for most of her career at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In 2011, Solomon joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she serves as the Ellen Swallow Richards Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry & Climate Science. Solomon, with her colleagues, was the first to propose the chlorofluorocarbon free radical reaction mechanism that is the cause of the Antarctic ozone hole. Her most recent book, Solvable: how we healed the earth, and how we can do it again (2024) focuses on solutions to current problems, as do books by data scientist Hannah Ritchie, marine biologist, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe.
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Ajit Singh
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chaudhary Ajit Singh was an Indian farmer leader and politician. He was the founder and chief of the Rashtriya Lok Dal, a political party recognised in the state of Uttar Pradesh. He was son of the former Prime Minister of India Chaudhary Charan Singh. He tested positive for COVID-19 and was subsequently admitted to a hospital in Gurugram. He died on 6 May 2021 after his condition deteriorated.
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Rajinder Singh
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- scientist
- Biography
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Rajinder Singh is the head of the international, non-profit organization Science of Spirituality (SOS), also known in India as the Sawan Kirpal Ruhani Mission. To his disciples he is known as Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj. Singh is known for his work toward promoting inner and outer peace through spirituality and meditation on the inner Light and Sound.
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Grote Reber
- Occupations
- astronomeramateur radio operatorengineerphysicist
- Biography
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Grote Reber was an American pioneer of radio astronomy, which combined his interests in amateur radio and amateur astronomy. He was instrumental in investigating and extending Karl Jansky's pioneering work and conducted the first sky survey in the radio frequencies.
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Ameya Pawar
- Occupations
- alderman
- Biography
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Ameya Pawar is an American politician who previously served on the Chicago City Council as the alderman for the 47th ward of the City of Chicago. He was first elected in the 2011 municipal elections, and was elected to a second term on February 24, 2015. Pawar's 2015 re-election was secured with over 82% of the vote, the largest margin in the election cycle. Pawar is the first Indian American and Asian American in Chicago City Council history.
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Joel Daly
- Enrolled in Illinois Institute of Technology
- In 1988 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- news presenter
- Biography
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Joel Daly was an American news anchor, most known for serving as an anchor for WLS-TV (an ABC-affiliate) in Chicago, Illinois, for 38 years from 1967 to 2005. Daly served as co-anchor on the 4 pm news broadcast alongside Linda Yu from January 1985 until his retirement in May 2005. Daly was inducted into the Silver Circle, a group of elite Chicago broadcasters, in 2003. Following his retirement from news broadcasting in 2005, from March 2007 until October 2013, Daly served as spokesperson for Chicago's Cook County federal courthouse.
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Richard B. Ogilvie
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- politician
- Biography
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Richard Buell Ogilvie was an American attorney and law enforcement officer who served as the 35th governor of Illinois from 1969 to 1973. A wounded combat veteran of World War II, he became known as the mafia-fighting sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, in the 1960s before becoming governor.
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William Levi Dawson
- Enrolled in Illinois Institute of Technology
- Graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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William Levi Dawson was an American politician and lawyer who represented a Chicago, Illinois district for more than 27 years in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1943 to his death in office in 1970. In 1949, he became the first African American to chair a congressional committee.
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Rex Beach
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- screenwriterpoet lawyerwriterplaywrightnovelist
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Rex Ellingwood Beach was an American novelist, playwright, and Olympic water polo player.
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William Emmett Dever
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- judgepoliticianlawyertanner
- Biography
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William Emmett Dever was an American politician. He was the mayor of Chicago from 1923 to 1927. He had previously served as a judge and before that an alderman. As an alderman and judge he would work to become the Democratic candidate for mayor for over two decades.
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Ethel Percy Andrus
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- educator
- Biography
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Ethel Percy Andrus was a long-time educator and the first female high school principal in California. She was also an elder rights activist and the founder of AARP in 1958.
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Yasuhiro Ishimoto
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- photographercamera operatorcinematographerarchitectural photographer
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Yasuhiro Ishimoto was a Japanese-American photographer. His decades-long career explored expressions of modernist design in traditional architecture, the quiet anxieties of urban life in Tokyo and Chicago, and the camera's capacity to bring out the abstract in the everyday and seemingly concrete fixtures of the world around him.
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Taleb Rifai
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- architect
- Biography
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Taleb Rifai is a Jordanian businessman and politician, who was the Secretary-General of the United Nations' World Tourism Organization between 2010 and 2017. He was the first Jordanian to hold a UN agency Secretary General position.
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Stanley Tigerman
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Stanley Tigerman was an American architect, theorist and designer.
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Adolph J. Sabath
- Enrolled in Illinois Institute of Technology
- In 1891 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Adolph Joachim Sabath was an American politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Chicago, Illinois, from 1907 until his death in 1952. From 1934 onward, he served as the Dean of the United States House of Representatives. At the time of his death, he had the longest uninterrupted service in the history of the House, a distinction he retained until John Dingell surpassed him on August 9, 2013.
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Lenore Tawney
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- artistdesignertextile artist
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Lenore Tawney was an American artist working in fiber art, collage, assemblage, and drawing. She is considered to be a groundbreaking artist for the elevation of craft processes to fine art status, two communities which were previously mutually exclusive. Tawney was born and raised in an Irish-American family in Lorain, Ohio near Cleveland and later moved to Chicago to start her career. In the 1940s and 50s, she studied art at several different institutions and perfected her craft as a weaver. In 1957, she moved to New York where she maintained a highly successful career into the 1960's. In the 1970s Tawney focused increasingly on her spirituality, but continued to make work until her death.
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Henry Horner
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- judgepoliticianjurist
- Biography
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Henry Horner was an American politician. Horner served as the 28th Governor of Illinois, serving from January 1933 until his death in October 1940. Horner was noted as the first Jewish governor of Illinois.
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Arthur Krock
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- journalist
- Biography
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Arthur Bernard Krock was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist. He became known as the "Dean of Washington newsmen" in a career that spanned the tenure of 11 United States presidents.
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Frank J. Corr
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Frank J. Corr was an American politician. Corr served as the 45th mayor of Chicago, Illinois. Corr's term was as acting mayor from March 15, 1933, following the assassination of Anton Cermak until April 8, 1933. Corr was a member of the Democratic Party.
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Victor Skrebneski
- Occupations
- photographerfashion photographer
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Victor Paul Skrebneski was an American photographer born in Chicago to parents of Polish and Russian heritage. He was educated at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1943 and attended the Illinois Institute of Technology from 1947 to 1949. He set up his own studio in Chicago in 1952. The Art Institute of Chicago had an exhibit of his work in 1969.
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Amr Talaat
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 64)
- Enrolled in Illinois Institute of Technology
- Graduated with master's degree in computer science
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Amr Ahmed Samih Talaat is an Egyptian engineer, academic, and government official serving as the Minister of Communications and Information Technology of Egypt since June 14, 2018. Before his appointment as minister, he had a long career in the private sector, including a tenure at IBM Egypt where he served as Country general manager. Talaat holds degrees in engineering and business administration and has also been active in academia as an adjunct professor at Cairo University. In his role as minister, he has been instrumental in advancing Egypt's digital infrastructure and implementing the country's digital transformation strategy.
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Peter Schutz
- Occupations
- motivational speakerbusiness executiveindustrialistentrepreneur
- Biography
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Peter Werner Schutz was the president and CEO of Porsche between 1981 and 1987, a time in which the company greatly expanded sales, primarily in the United States. He was a motivational speaker and co-founder of Harris and Schutz Inc., with his wife Sheila Harris-Schutz.
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James G. Roche
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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James Gerard Roche is an American politician. He served as the 20th Secretary of the Air Force, serving from January 20, 2001 to January 20, 2005. Prior to serving as secretary, Roche served in the United States Navy for 23 years, and as an executive with Northrop Grumman.
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Grete Prytz Kittelsen
- Occupations
- goldsmithdesigner
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Grete Prytz Kittelsen, was a Norwegian goldsmith, enamel artist, and designer. She is one of the most well-known Norwegians in the Scandinavian Design movement, and has been referred to as the "Queen of Scandinavian Design". Through her work she contributed to internationalisation, innovation and scientific research. She was one of the few Norwegian practitioners who shaped the Scandinavian design style in the post-war era and is the periods’ most renowned Norwegian practitioner. Kittelsen's aim was to make beautiful and user-friendly everyday objects available for everyone. She had a vast and varied production. With her enamelled objects and jewellery she has been a pioneer in design in the post-war era and a model for the next generation of designers. Today her pieces constitute design icons and are sought-after collectables.
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Martin C. Jischke
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Martin Charles Jischke is an American higher-education administrator and advocate who was the tenth president of Purdue University.
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Aiham Alsammarae
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Aiham Alsammarae is a nationalistic, Sunni Muslim, Iraqi politician who served as Minister of Electricity from August 2003 until May 2005. He has been an active member of the Iraqi National List (headed by Iyad Allawi) and has fought hard for political reconciliation among Iraq's political parties as well as against the policy of de-Ba'athification, since his resignation as Minister of Electricity. Previously, he was a prominent member of the Iraqi Opposition and lived in exile in the United States for over 30 years.
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Wally Feurzeig
- Occupations
- computer scientistartificial intelligence researcher
- Biography
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Wallace "Wally" Feurzeig was an American computer scientist who was co-inventor, with Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon, of the programming language Logo, and a well-known researcher in artificial intelligence (AI).
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David Edwards
- Occupations
- biomedical engineerchemist
- Biography
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David A. Edwards is an American biomedical engineer, and the founder of Sensory Cloud. He was the Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering at Harvard University.
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Charles L. Bolte
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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General Charles Lawrence Bolte was a senior United States Army officer who fought in both World War I and World War II. In World War II he distinguished himself as commander of the 34th Infantry Division during the Italian Campaign, for which he was twice awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal. Later promoted to four-star general officer rank, his final post was Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
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Scott Waguespack
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Scott Waguespack is a member of the Chicago City Council, representing the 32nd ward since May 2007. The current 32nd ward includes parts of the neighborhoods of Bucktown, Goose Island, Hamlin Park, Lakeview, Lincoln Park, and Roscoe Village.
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Diego E. Hernández
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Vice Admiral Diego E. Hernandez was a United States Navy officer who was the first Hispanic American to be named Vice Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
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Judith Joy Ross
- Enrolled in Illinois Institute of Technology
- In 1970 graduated with Master of Science in photography
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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Judith Joy Ross is an American portrait photographer. Her books include Contemporaries (1995), Portraits (1996), Portraits of the Hazleton Public Schools (2006) and Protest the War (2007), "exploring such themes as the innocence of youth, the faces of political power, and the emotional toll of war".
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Weymouth Kirkland
- Years
- 1877-1965 (aged 88)
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Weymouth Kirkland was a Chicago lawyer and one of the name partners of the Chicago law firm of Kirkland & Ellis.
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Jacob Matijevic
- Occupations
- mathematicianengineer
- Biography
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Jacob Matijevic, also known as "Jake" Matijevic, (3 November 1947 – 20 August 2012) was an American NASA engineer of Croatian origin who worked on Mars Exploration Rovers. Dr. Matijevic was involved in developing the "Sojourner", "Spirit", "Opportunity" and "Curiosity" rovers. For his contributions to the rover projects, NASA named several landmarks on the planet Mars (including "Matijevic Hill" and "Jake Matijevic" rock) after him.
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J. Herbert Burke
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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J. Herbert Burke was a Republican U.S. Representative from Florida who served from 1967 to 1979.
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John Henry Waddell
- Occupations
- paintersculptor
- Biography
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John Henry Waddell was an American sculptor, painter and educator. He had a long career in art education and has many sculptures on public display, but he may be best known for That Which Might Have Been—his memorial to the four girls killed in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Carl W. Buehner
- Occupations
- priest
- Biography
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Carl William Buehner was a German-American politician who was general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1952 to 1961 and was the Republican Party candidate for governor of Utah in the 1968 election.
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Francis G. Pease
- Occupations
- astronomer
- Biography
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Francis Gladheim Pease was an American astronomer.
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Georges C. Benjamin
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Georges C. Benjamin is an American public health official who has served as Executive Director of the American Public Health Association since 2002, and previously as Secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in the Cabinet of Governor Parris Glendening from 1999 to 2002. He is a member of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council and a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
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Mathai Varghese
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Mathai Varghese is a mathematician at the University of Adelaide. His first most influential contribution is the Mathai–Quillen formalism, which he formulated together with Daniel Quillen, and which has since found applications in index theory and topological quantum field theory. He was appointed a full professor in 2006. He was appointed Director of the Institute for Geometry and its Applications in 2009. In 2011, he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. In 2013, he was appointed the Elder Professor of Mathematics at the University of Adelaide, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Australia. In 2017, he was awarded an ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship. In 2021, he was awarded the prestigious Hannan Medal and Lecture from the Australian Academy of Science, recognizing an outstanding career in Mathematics. In 2021, he was also awarded the prestigious George Szekeres Medal which is the Australian Mathematical Society’s most prestigious medal, recognising research achievement and an outstanding record of promoting and supporting the discipline.
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Albert W. Hawkes
- Enrolled in Illinois Institute of Technology
- In 1900 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Albert Wahl Hawkes was a United States senator from New Jersey.
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Conrad Roland
- Occupations
- engineerarchitect
- Biography
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Conrad Roland was a German architect and pioneer of the construction of space nets (tensile structures), which primarily are to be found as rope climbing frames on playgrounds. In 1978 he designed and constructed the biggest spacenet of the world until today, the Super Four Mast Spacenet, for the Federal Horticultural Show (BUGA).
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Anthony Adducci
- Occupations
- entrepreneurinventor
- Biography
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Anthony J. Adducci was a pioneer of the medical device industry in Minnesota. He is best known for co-founding Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc., the company that manufactured the world's first lithium battery-powered artificial pacemaker. The lithium-iodide cell revolutionized the medical industry and is now the standard cell for pacemakers.
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Ronald G. Douglas
- Occupations
- university teachermathematicianacademic administrator
- Biography
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Ronald George Douglas was an American mathematician, best known for his work on operator theory and operator algebras.
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Robert McClory
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Robert McClory was an American politician and member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois.
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Rodneyse Bichotte
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn is an American politician who serves as the Assembly Member for the 42nd District of the New York State Assembly. She is a Democrat. The district includes portions of East Flatbush, Flatbush, Ditmas Park, and Midwood, in Brooklyn.
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Barratt O'Hara
- Enrolled in Illinois Institute of Technology
- Studied in 1912
- Occupations
- editorpoliticianreporterlawyer
- Biography
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Barratt O'Hara of Chicago was an American Democratic politician serving as a U.S. Congressman from Illinois and lieutenant governor of Illinois. He was the last Spanish–American War veteran to serve in Congress.
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Louis B. Anderson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Louis Bernard Anderson was an American politician who served as alderman of Chicago's 2nd ward from 1917 to 1933. A Republican, he served most of the Douglas community area, including much of the African-American neighborhood of Bronzeville. He was a prominent ally of mayor William Hale Thompson, and served as his floor leader throughout the 1920s.
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Dorothy A. Brown
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dorothy Ann Rabb Brown Cook, also known as Dorothy Brown is an American lawyer and politician affiliated with the Democratic Party who served as the clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County from 2000 through 2020.
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Abdul Jerri
- Years
- 1932-.. (age 93)
- Occupations
- mathematiciantheoretical physicist
- Biography
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Abdul Jabbar Hassoon Jerri is an Iraqi American mathematician, most recognized for his contributions to Shannon Sampling Theory, Its Generalizations, Error Analysis, and Historical Reviews, and in particular his establishment in 2002 of the journal Sampling Theory in Signal and Image Processing (STSIP- ISSN 1530-6429) with over thirty top international experts as its editors, besides establishing its Sampling Publishing, also his contribution to the general understanding of the Gibbs Phenomenon, where he wrote the first book ever on the subject, published by Springer - Verlag, then he followed it by editing another book on Advances in Gibbs Phenomenon published by Sampling Publishing.
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Yosef Rom
- Occupations
- engineerpoliticianpedagogue
- Biography
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Yosef Rom was an Israeli engineer and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 1977 and 1984.
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George J. Eade
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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George James Eade was a four star general in the United States Air Force who served as Deputy Commander in Chief, United States European Command from 1973 to 1975.
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Chauncey William Reed
- Enrolled in Illinois Institute of Technology
- In 1915 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Chauncey William Reed was an American World War I veteran, lawyer, and politician who served eleven terms as a U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1935 until his death in 1956.
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Jeff Essmann
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jeff Essmann is an American politician and a Republican former member of the Montana Senate. Essmann was appointed to the Montana Senate in 2005 to represent Senate District 28. He was subsequently elected in 2006, and reelected in 2010. Essmann served as the president of the Montana Senate from 2013 to 2015.
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Charles Nelson Pray
- Enrolled in Illinois Institute of Technology
- In 1891 graduated with Bachelor of Laws
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Charles Nelson Pray was a United States representative from Montana and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Montana.
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Matthew Woll
- Occupations
- photographertrade unionist
- Biography
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Matthew Woll was president of the International Photo-Engravers Union of North America from 1906 to 1929, an American Federation of Labor (AFL) vice president from 1919 to 1955 and an AFL-CIO vice president from 1955 to 1956.
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Cheryl Hyman
- Born in
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United States - Biography
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Cheryl L. Hyman is the vice provost for academic alliances at Arizona State University and former Chancellor of City Colleges of Chicago. During her tenure at City Colleges of Chicago, she launched the Reinvention of City Colleges program in 2010, and the City Colleges' College to Careers program in 2011. She is also the author of Reinvention: The Promise and Challenge of Transforming a Community College System, and in 2023 was elected to the Illinois Institute of Technology Board of Trustees.
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Fred Ernst Busbey
- Occupations
- investorpolitician
- Biography
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Fred Ernst Busbey was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
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Melissa Conyears
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Melissa Conyears-Ervin is an American politician and the current Chicago City Treasurer. She was previously a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives, representing the 10th District since 2017. The 10th district includes all or parts of West Garfield Park, East Garfield Park, United Center, Ukrainian Village, River West, Goose Island, Wicker Park and Lincoln Park in Chicago.
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Xavier Vilalta
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Xavier Vilalta is a Spanish architect and professor. He studied architecture in Barcelona, London, and the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.
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Margaret Mann
- Occupations
- librarian
- Biography
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Margaret Mann was a noted librarian and teacher who influenced the field of cataloging for almost fifty years. The bulk of her career was spent as a professor at the University of Michigan. She was hired as one of the first three full-time faculty members in the department of library science at Michigan in 1926 and retired in 1938. In 1999, American Libraries named her one of the "100 Most Important Leaders We Had in the 20th Century".
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Thomas Patrick Gerrity
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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General Thomas Patrick Gerrity was a United States Air Force general and was commander of the Air Force Logistics Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
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Richard Neapolitan
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Richard Eugene Neapolitan was an American scientist. Neapolitan is most well-known for his role in establishing the use of probability theory in artificial intelligence and in the development of the field Bayesian networks.
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Thomas Roszak
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Thomas Roszak, FAIA is an American architect, real estate developer, business executive, author, and academic.
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Carl Spetzler
- Occupations
- businesspersonchemical engineer
- Biography
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Carl Spetzler is an American businessman, author, and academic. He is known for his research, publications, and expertise in the fields of decision quality and decision theory.
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Carter Manny
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Carter Hugh Manny, Jr. studied architecture under Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe and spent his career as an architect and foundation administrator in Chicago. His work helped shape Chicago O'Hare International Airport, the FBI Building in Washington, D.C., the First National Bank of Chicago, and the addition to the Chicago Board of Trade.
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Harris W. Fawell
- Enrolled in Illinois Institute of Technology
- In 1952 graduated with Bachelor of Laws
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Harris Walter Fawell was an American lawyer and politician from Illinois who served seven terms as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1985 to 1999.
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Mary Eileen Ahern
- Occupations
- librarian
- Biography
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Mary Eileen Ahern was an American librarian, a leader of the modern library movement, and an early organizer of libraries in the United States. Throughout her career as a state librarian, journal editor, public speaker, and organizer, Ahern crusaded for the value of public libraries in educating the public. Ahern was inducted in the Library Hall of Fame in 1951, and named in American Libraries in 1999 as one of the "100 of the Most Important Leaders We Had in the 20th Century."
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Jan Lorenc
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- designer
- Biography
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Jan Lorenc is a Polish-American designer and author. Born in Jaśliska, Poland in 1954, he immigrated to the United States at the age of 8. He formed Lorenc Design in 1978 in Chicago, and later moved it to Atlanta in 1981.
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Alice S. Tyler
- Occupations
- librarian
- Biography
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Alice Sarah Tyler was an American librarian and advocate.
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Carl R. Chindblom
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Carl Richard Chindblom was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
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John M. Carmody
- Years
- 1881-1963 (aged 82)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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John Michael Carmody was an American administrator, noted as editor of Factory and Industrial Management, and as administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration and the Federal Works Agency in the 1930s.
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Howard Paul Savage
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Howard Paul Savage was an American businessman who served as the National Commander of The American Legion from 1926 to 1927.
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David A. Lucht
- Years
- 1943-.. (age 82)
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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David Allen Lucht is an American engineer and fire safety expert. His career was devoted to public service in government, academia and the nonprofit sector. He served as the Ohio State Fire Marshal; the first presidential appointee to serve in the United States Fire Administration and the inaugural head of the graduate degree fire protection engineering program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he served for 25 years
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Bernard S. Baker
- Years
- 1936-2004 (aged 68)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Bernard S. Baker is an American electrochemist who was a pioneer in the field of electrochemistry. He was a founder and served as president, chief executive officer and chairman of Energy Research Corporation (now called FuelCell Energy, Inc., in Danbury, Connecticut), developer and manufacturer of direct fuel cells (MCFC) used to generate electric power. Power plants based on his concepts are providing electricity in distributed generation locations throughout the world.
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Harvey S. Leff
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Harvey S. Leff was an American physicist and physics teacher who is known primarily for his research and expository articles in physics, focusing on energy, entropy, Maxwell's demon, and the foundations of thermodynamics. He introduced the 'energy spreading' metaphor for entropy change. Leff died on December 30, 2023, at the age of 86.
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Leverett S. Lyon
- Years
- 1885-1959 (aged 74)
- Occupations
- university teachereconomistmanagerjurist
- Biography
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Leverett Samuel Lyon was an American economist, lawyer and business executive, known for his works on education, government, marketing, and economic life, and particularly on the National Recovery Administration.
