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Flannery O’Connor
An important voice in American literature, O’Connor wrote two novels and
31 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. She
was a Southern writer in the vein of William Faulkner, often writing in
a Southern Gothic style and relying heavily on regional settings and –
it is regularly said – grotesque characters. Learn more about her life
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Ruth Patrick
Villanova Mendel Medal Winner
A 2002 Mendel Medal recipient,
Dr. Patrick's pioneering research, begun in the 1940s and dubbed The
Patrick Principle, became the fundamental principle on which all
environmental science and management is based. Dr. Patrick proved that
biological diversity holds the key to the environmental problems
affecting an ecosystem. Learn more about her life and work
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Peter Raven
Villanova Mendel Medal Winner
A 1997 Mendel Medal recipient, Peter H. Raven is a botanist and environmentalist, notable as the
longtime director of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Learn more about him
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American political leader who used her
influence as an active First Lady from 1933 to 1945 to promote the New
Deal policies of her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as well
as taking a prominent role as an advocate for civil rights. After her
husband’s death in 1945, she continued to be an internationally
prominent author and speaker for the New Deal coalition. Learn more
about her
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Janet D. Rowley
Villanova Mendel Medal Winner
In the 1970s, Dr. Janet Rowley identified a specific genetic
“translocation” in leukemia, heralding a new understanding of the role
of some translocations in specific cancers. Dr. Rowley was a 2003 Mendel
Medal recipient. Learn more about her life
and pioneering work
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Ibn Sina
Ibn Sina is one of the foremost philosophers of the golden age of
Islamic tradition. Learn more
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Charles H. Townes
Villanova Mendel Medal Winner
A 1999 Mendel Medal recipient,
Charles H. Townes won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964. Learn more
about his life and work
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Andres de Urdaneta, O.S.A.
A navigator, mathematician, astronomer, and an Augustinian friar, Andrew de Urdaneta is known for discovering and plotting a path across the Pacific
from the Philippines to Acapulco, Mexico (New Spain), which came to be
known as “Urdaneta’s route.” Learn more
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Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of
the foremost modernist literary figures of the 20th century. Learn more
about her life and works
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