George (Gia) Maisashvili was born on November 24, 1962 and died on February 26, 2018. He was a Georgian economist and politician. Maisashvili was a presidential candidate in the Georgian presidential election of 2008. He was born in Tbilisi, Maisashvili graduated from the Tbilisi State University in 1985. Maisashvili was apart of the students’ pro-independence ..
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Peirce Fee Lewis was born on October 26, 1927 and died on February 18, 2018. He was an American geographer and professor at Pennsylvania State University. He has extensively written on the subjects of the American landscape and the cultural geography of America. He served as president of the Association of American Geographers in 1983–1984. ..
Sydney Cohen was born on September 18, 1921 and died on July 26, 2017. He was Professor of Chemical Pathology, Guy’s Hospital Medical School and an authority on malaria. Sydney Cohen was educated at King Edward VIIth School, Johannesburg and at Witwatersrand and London universities. Cohen son, Roger Cohen, is a columnist for The New ..
Yash Pal was born on November 26, 1926 and died on July 24, 2017. He was also referred as Yash Pal Singh. He was an Indian scientist, educator and educationist. Pal was known for his contributions to the study of cosmic rays, as well as for being an institution-builder. In his later years, Pal has ..
Udupi Ramachandra Rao was born on March 10, 1932 and died on July 24, 2017. He was popularly known as U. R. Rao. He was a space scientist and the former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation. Rao was the Chairman of the Governing Council of the Physical Research Laboratory at Ahmedabad and Nehru ..
Kostiantyn Merkuriyovych Sytnyk was born on June 3, 1926, in Luhansk, and died in 2017. He was a Ukrainian and Soviet scientist and academician, He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine During 1970-2003, Sytnyk was director of the Botanic Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He also ..
Ryke Geerd Hamer was born on May 17, 1935, in Mettmann, Germany and died on July 2, 2017. He was a German physician. He was the originator of Germanic New Medicine, also formerly known as German New Medicine and New Medicine, a system of pseudo-medicine that purports to be able to cure cancer. The Swiss ..
Stephen Tindale was born on March 29, 1963 and died on July 1, 2017. He was a British environmentalist. Tindale was the Executive Director of Greenpeace in the United Kingdom from 2000 to 2005. Stephen was Director of The Alvin Weinberg Foundation, co-founder of the organisation Climate Answers, Associate Fellow at the Centre for European ..
Anne Buttimer was born on October 31, 1938 and died July 15, 2017. She was an Irish geographer. Buttimer was emeritus professor of geography at University College, Dublin. Anne Buttimer remained in the order for 17 years. Buttimer chaired an EU-funded research network on sustainable development that had a significant influence on EU policy debates; ..
John A. Robertson was born on June 15, 1943 and died on July 5, 2017. He held the Vinson and Elkins Chair at The University of Texas School of Law. Robertson wrote and lectured widely on law and bioethical issues. He was the author of two books on bioethics, The Rights of the Critically Ill ..