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Hace 2 días · Daniel Kahneman (/ ˈ k ɑː n ə m ə n /; Hebrew: דניאל כהנמן; March 5, 1934 – March 27, 2024) was an Israeli-American cognitive scientist best-known for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making.He is also known for his work in behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences together with Vernon L. Smith.
Hace 1 día · India, officially the Republic of India (ISO: Bhārat Gaṇarājya), is a country in South Asia.It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country as of June 2023; and from the time of its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land ...
Hace 3 días · David Baltimore (born March 7, 1938) is an American biologist, university administrator, and 1975 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine.He is a professor of biology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he served as president from 1997 to 2006. He founded the Whitehead Institute and directed it from 1982 to 1990. In 2008, he served as president of the American ...
Hace 1 día · In 2018, Mercedes-Benz was the largest brand of premium vehicles in the world, having sold 2.31 million passenger cars. [8] The brand's origins lie in Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft 's 1901 Mercedes and Carl Benz 's 1886 Benz Patent-Motorwagen, which is widely regarded as the first internal combustion engine in a self-propelled automobile. The ...
Hace 1 día · Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American Marxist and feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, and author; she is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.Davis was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and a founding member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS).
Hace 5 días · Generations of Noah. This T and O map, from the first printed version of Isidore 's Etymologiae ( Augsburg 1472), identifies the three known continents ( Asia, Europe and Africa) as respectively populated by descendants of Sem ( Shem ), Iafeth ( Japheth) and Cham ( Ham ). The Generations of Noah, also called the Table of Nations or Origines ...
Hace 1 día · Benjamin Franklin Butler (November 5, 1818 – January 11, 1893) was an American major general of the Union Army, politician, lawyer, and businessman from Massachusetts.Born in New Hampshire and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts, Butler was a political major general of the Union Army during the American Civil War and had a leadership role in the impeachment of U.S. President Andrew Johnson.
