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...1930s Alan Turing first described the computer--a machine that could perform logical functions based on whatever instructions were fed to it--and then proceeded to help build one in the early 1940s that cracked the German wartime codes. His concepts were refined by other computer pioneers: John von Neumann, John Atanasoff, J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly...
...Fidel Castro b) John F. Kennedy c) Theodore Roosevelt d) Mikhail Gorbachev...
Over the years, enthusiasm for string theory has waxed and waned. It enjoyed a brief vogue in the early 1970s, but then most physicists stopped working on it. Theorist John Schwarz of Caltech and his colleague Joel Scherk of the Ecole Normale Superieure, however, persevered, and in 1974 their patience was rewarded. For some time they had noticed that some of the vibrating strings spilling out of their equations didn't correspond to the particles they had expected. At first they viewed these mathematical apparitions as nuisances. Then they looked at them more closely; the ghosts that haunted their equations...
...John D. Rockefeller b) Henry R. Luce c) Michael Jordan d) Oprah Winfrey...
Queen Elizabeth II ( ) Martin Luther King Jr. ( ) Mohandas Gandhi ( ) Corazon Aquino ( ) Andrew Grove ( ) Joseph Stalin ( ) Charles de Gaulle ( ) Owen D. Young ( ) Ayatullah Khomeini ( ) Harry S Truman ( ) Winston Churchill ( ) Haile Selassie ( ) Wallis Simpson ( ) Richard Nixon ( ) Mikhail Gorbachev ( ) Pope John Paul...