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Ben Barres 

Ben Barres’s research focused on the interaction between neurons and glial cells in the nervous system. In 2008, he became the chair of the Neurobiology Department at Stanford University School

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Vivienne Ming

Vivienne Ming is an American theoretical neuroscientist and artificial intelligence expert. She is also a trans woman. In 2017, Ming was named one of the BBC’s Top 100 Women and

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Lynn Ann Conway 

Lynn Conway is a famed pioneer of microelectronics chip design. Her innovations during the 1970s at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) have impacted chip design worldwide. Her work

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Allan V Cox

Allan V. Cox

Cox significantly contributed to the theory of plate tectonics. Cox won many awards, including the prestigious Vetlesen Prize, and was the president of the American Geophysical Union

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Peter Thiel

Thiel is a co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund and the first outside investor in Facebook. He is gay and married his long-time partner, Matt Danzeisen, in October

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Sally Ride

Sally was the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space and was also the youngest American astronaut to have flown in space, at the age of

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Chris Hughes

Hughes co-founded Facebook in 2002, while a Harvard student, with business partners Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Andrew McCollum.

In 2016, Hughes co-founded the Economic Security Project (ESP),

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Alan Turing

Turing’s inventions were instrumental in defeating the Nazis during WWII. He devised techniques for speeding the breaking of German ciphers, including improvements to the pre-war Polish bomba method, an electromechanical

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