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Dr. John. Malcolm John Rebennack Jr. (November 20, 1941 – June 6, 2019), better known by his stage name Dr. John, was an American singer and songwriter. His music combined New Orleans blues, jazz, funk, and R&B. [1] Active as a session musician from the late 1950s until his death, he gained a following in the late 1960s after the release of ...
The John E Mack Institute. John Edward Mack (October 4, 1929 – September 27, 2004) was an American psychiatrist, writer, and professor of psychiatry. He served as the head of the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School from 1977 to 2004. In 1977, Mack won the Pulitzer Prize for his book A Prince of Our Disorder on T.E. Lawrence.
John Cunningham Lilly (January 6, 1915 – September 30, 2001) [1] was an American physician, neuroscientist, psychoanalyst, psychonaut, philosopher, writer and inventor. He was a member of a group of counterculture thinkers that included Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, and Werner Erhard, all frequent visitors to the Lilly home. He often stirred controversy, especially among mainstream scientists.
John Henrik Clarke (born John Henry Clark; January 1, 1915 – July 16, 1998) [1] was an African-American historian, professor, prominent Afrocentrist, [2] and pioneer in the creation of Pan-African and Africana studies and professional institutions in academia starting in the late 1960s.
Christopher Daniel Duntsch (born April 3, 1971) [1] is a former American neurosurgeon who has been nicknamed Dr. D. and Dr. Death [2] for multiple incidents of gross malpractice while working at hospitals in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, resulting in the maiming of many patients and two deaths. [3] He was accused of injuring 33 out of 38 ...
John William Polidori (7 September 1795 – 24 August 1821) was a British writer and physician. He is known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction.
John Forbes Nash, Jr. (June 13, 1928 – May 23, 2015), known and published as John Nash, was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, real algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and partial differential equations. [1] [2] Nash and fellow game theorists John Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten were awarded the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. In 2015, he ...
John Gill Bartlett (February 12, 1937 – January 19, 2021) was an American physician and medical researcher, specializing in infectious diseases. He is known as a pioneer in HIV/AIDS research [1] [2] and for his work on vancomycin as a treatment for Clostridioides difficile infection.