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Jacob Wallenberg (1892–1980)


chairman of the board of Bergvik & Ala AB. He was a board member of AB Iggesunds Bruk, Nordiska Kompaniet (NK), Skandia, Göta kanalbolag, Wikmanshytte Bruks AB, the Nobel Foundation (from 1952), the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and King Gustaf V's Jubilee Fund. Wallenberg was treasurer of the Cancer Society in Stockholm. In the late 1960s, Wallenberg became chairman of the board of the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Wallenberg was appointed by the Stockholm School of Economics Association as a member of
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and paleolimnology at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom, who will be visiting professor at CIRC these two years. In 2016 CIRC was granted 37 million SEK over five years by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation for the project "Climate change induced regime shifts in northern lake ecosystems", with Jan Karlsson as principal investigator. As of 2017 three young researchers at CIRC are also appointed Wallenberg Academy Fellows – a career programme, initiated by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation in close collaboration with five royal academies and sixteen universities in Sweden
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Peter Wallenberg Sr.


United States, Lauder Institute and the Swiss Bank Corporation Advisory Board in Switzerland. Until his death he also directed several of the Wallenberg family foundations, in particular the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation. The Peter Wallenberg, D.Econ, Foundation for Economics and Technology ("Ekon.dr Peter Wallenbergs Stiftelse för Ekonomi och Teknik") was founded in 1996 to honour him on his 70th birthday. Wallenberg was in his first marriage married 1954–1962 to Suzanne Grevillius (born 1933), the daughter of chief physician
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Knut Agathon Wallenberg


Knut Agathon Wallenberg (19 May 1853 – 1 June 1938) was a Swedish banker and politician, he was also a Knight of the Order of the Seraphim. He was son of banker and politician André Oscar Wallenberg and his first wife Catharina Wilhelmina Andersson, and a member of the prominent Wallenberg family. In 1878, he married Alice Nickelsen. Wallenberg was Minister for Foreign Affairs 1914–1917, and member of the Riksdag's first chamber (the Upper house) 1907–1919. Together with his wife, he created Knut and Alice Wallenberg
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Iggesunds Bruk, Kopparfors AB, AB Separator, August Stenman AB, Wikmanshytte Bruks AB, the Nobel Foundation and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Wallenberg was in the mid-1960s chairman of the board of Förvaltnings AB Providentia, AB Investor, AB International Harvester Co., Kemi-Intressen AB, Koppartrans olje AB, Orkla Grube AB, AB Separator, Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags AB, AB Svenska Kullagerfabriken, AB Svenska Ostasiatiska Kompaniet, Svenska Tändsticks AB, Wifstavarfs AB and AB Astra from 1957. In the late 1960s, Wallenberg was also
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Marcus Wallenberg Jr.


Research Institute of Industrial Economics from 1950 to 1975 (honorary chairman from 1975). He was chairman of the Council of European Industrial Federations (CEIF) from 1960 to 1963 and in the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD (BIAC) from 1962 to 1964. Wallenberg was a member of the Economic Planning Council ("Ekonomiska planeringsrådet") from 1962 to 1964 and chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce from 1965 to 1967. He was also a board member of Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the Nobel Foundation
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Association ("Svensk-franska forskningsföreningen") and the Swedish-British Society as well as the Royal Lawn Tennis Club ("Kungliga Lawn Tennis Klubben"). Wallenberg was also honorary chairman of the Swedish Tennis Association ("Svenska Tennisförbundet") and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. Wallenberg was in the early 1990s the chairman of the board of ASEA AB, Atlas Copco AB, Investor AB, STORA, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and co-chairman of ABB Asea Brown Boveri. He
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in 1980–1982. He subsequently worked for Deutsche Bank, followed by S. G. Warburg & Co., Citicorp and the SEB Group. Wallenberg served as the President and CEO of Investor from 1999 to 2005. He served as the Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce from 2006 to 2008. Wallenberg is the Vice Chairman of the Institute of International Finance. He serves on the board of directors of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, Electrolux, Ericsson, LKAB, AstraZeneca, Stora Enso, Saab, Temasek Holdings and Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.
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Peter Wallenberg Sr.


internationalised the firm and set in motion international mergers that created companies such as ABB, AstraZeneca and Stora Enso. Wallenberg was in the mid-1980s a board member of Atlas Copco AB, AB SKF, Investor AB, Förvaltnings AB Providentia, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, AB Papyrus, Nymölla AB, Fastighets AB Stockholm-Saltsjön, Enskilda Securities in England and the International Chamber of Commerce – Budget Commission and Finance Committee. He was first vice chairman of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, vice chairman of ASEA, Broströms Rederi AB, AB Electrolux
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Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede


that fold incorrectly and clump together. The research is basic science, but has links to diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and cancer. In 2010, Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede was one of ten researchers in Sweden who was appointed as a Wallenberg Scholar, with a five-year grant awarded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. In 2017 she was elected a member of the council of Biophysical Society (BPS). It was the second time ever for a Swedish scientist; the first one was Arne Engström 1960–1963
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Alexander Ljungqvist


, he was a senior consultant with OXERA Ltd where he advised corporate clients on questions of regulatory economics and corporate strategy. He has consulted for the European Central Bank, the World Bank, Catalano Gallardo & Petropoulos LLP, British Gas, Transco, British Telecom, United Utilities, Stagecoach, Severn Trent, Tradepoint plc, Australian Gas, Telstra, among others. In 2019, Dr. Ljungqvist was appointed a Wallenberg Scholar by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, only the second economist to be awarded this honor. In 2011,
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Sigtunaskolan Humanistiska Läroverket


at an exceptional level have also been enrolled to SSHL. As a non-profit private boarding school, management of the SSHL's financial and physical resources is jointly overseen by Sigtuna Skolstiftelse (Sigtuna School Foundation), the Sigtunastiftelsen (National Sigtuna Foundation) and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, all are trustees drawn from citizens of Sigtuna and the school alumni. Day-to-day operations are headed by a school director and a principal, who is appointed by the trustees. Many of SSHL's alumni go on to
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Quality of Government Institute


The Quality of Government (QoG)-institute is an independent research institute at the University of Gothenburg. The institute was founded by Professors Bo Rothstein and Sören Holmberg in 2004 and is partly financed by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond), the Swedish Science Council (Vetenskapsrådet), and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. The main objective the QoG institute´s research is to address the theoretical and empirical problem of how political institutions of high quality can be created and maintained. Another objective is to study the effects of Quality of
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Patrik Rorsman


) in Diabetes at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, before being reappointed a Professor at the University of Oxford in 2011. Rorsman's research investigates exocytosis, ion channels and diabetes mellitus type 2. His research been funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC), the Royal Society, the Wolfson Foundation, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, the Wellcome Trust and the Government of Canada. Rorsman was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014. His nomination reads: Rorsman was elected a Fellow of
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Emmanuelle Charpentier


the Kempe Foundations and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has given her the opportunity to offer more young researchers positions within research groups of the MIMS Laboratory. Charpentier is best known for her role in deciphering the molecular mechanisms of the bacterial CRISPR/Cas9 immune system and repurposing it into a tool for genome editing. In particular, she uncovered a novel mechanism for the maturation of a non-coding RNA which is pivotal in the function of CRISPR/Cas9. In collaboration with Jennifer Doudna's laboratory, Charpentier's laboratory showed that
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Hans von Euler-Chelpin


. In 1929, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the International Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation established in Stockholm the Vitamin Institute and Institute of Biochemistry, and Euler-Chelpin was appointed as its director. In 1941 he retired from teaching, but continued his researches. Hans von Euler-Chelpin married twice. His first wife was Astrid Cleve, who was the first Swedish woman to obtain a doctoral degree of science. In 1913 he married again to his second wife, Elisabeth Baroness af Ugglas (1887-1973)
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Swedish History Museum


by a donation from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Designed by architect Leif Blomberg, it resembles a mystic cult place with a representation of Mímir's Well in the middle of the exhibition room. The floor and pillars in the room are made of limestone and diabase, and the décor is made from wrought iron. It is accessed through an underground passage from the entrance hall. The room contains about 3000 objects made from a total of gold and more than silver. It was only with the heightened security the vault provided
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Hans Pettersson


Commission. In 1914 he began lecturing in Oceanography at Gothenburg University. He later brought this knowledge to the field of oceanography, and with the help of radium he could determine the age of sediment samples from the bottom of the sea. Pettersson became the first full professor of oceanography in Sweden and in 1938 founded the Institute of Oceanography in Gothenburg, thanks to funding from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Pettersson was its head until 1956. He also was the head of the Bornö Hydrographic Field Station on Stora Bornö. In
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Human Protein Atlas


to analyze more than 2.5 petabytes of underlying publicly available data from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) to generate more than 900,000 survival plots describing the consequence of RNA and protein levels on clinical survival. The Pathology Atlas also contains 5 million pathology-based images generated by the Human Protein Atlas consortium. The Human Protein Atlas program was started in 2003 and funded by the non-profit organization Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW). The main site of the project is the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), School
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Bo Rothstein


Seattle. In 2006 he served as Visiting Professor at Harvard University. In 2004, he was awarded a six years research grant for "long term support to leading scholars" from the Swedish Research Council. In 2009 he received a similar five year grant from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, the largest private research fund in Sweden. Together with Professor Sören Holmberg, he is in charge of the Quality of Government Institute at University of Gothenburg. His current research interests are comparative quality of government institutions, social capital, and
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Human Protein Atlas


) selected by the organization ELIXIR as a European core resource due to its fundamental importance for a wider life science community. The HPA consortium is funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. The Human Protein Atlas consists of three sub-atlases: The Tissue Atlas: contains information regarding the expression profiles of human genes both on the mRNA and protein level. The protein expression data is derived from antibody-based protein profiling using immunohistochemistry. Altogether 76 different cell types, corresponding to 44 normal human tissue types, have been analyzed
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Wallenberg family


basis. Investor was formed as an investment part of Stockholms Enskilda Bank. Knut Agathon Wallenberg's younger brother Marcus Wallenberg (senior) carried on the tradition and took over as the bank's CEO in 1911, replacing his older brother who was appointed Stockholms Enskilda Bank chairman of the board. Jacob Wallenberg, eldest son of Marcus Wallenberg (senior), became the bank's CEO after Joseph Nachmanson died in 1927, joined by younger brother Marcus Wallenberg (junior) as the bank's deputy CEO. In 1938, Knut Agathon
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Oscar Wallenberg who, in 1856, founded Stockholms Enskilda Bank, the predecessor of today's Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken. André Oscar Wallenberg's son Knut Agathon Wallenberg took over as CEO of Stockholms Enskilda Bank in 1886. Like many other Wallenberg relatives, Knut Agathon Wallenberg was also involved in Swedish politics and diplomacy becoming Minister for Foreign Affairs 1914–1917, and member of the Riksdags first chamber (Parliament of Sweden) 1907–1919. In 1916, new legislation made it more difficult for banks to own shares in industrial companies on a long-term
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Alicia Dickenstein


Matemática Argentina". She is also a corresponding editor for the SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry. In 2009-2010, Dickenstein was an Eisenbud professor at MSRI, and in 2012-2013, she was a Simons professor at MSRI. In 2016, Dickenstein was a Knut and Alice Wallenbergs Professor at KTH. Her research focuses on using Algebraic geometry and combinatorics to predict behaviours of Biological systems without knowing precise parameters. She in conjunction with Mercedes Perez Milian has created a system called The MESSI System (named after the
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Peder Wallenberg


Peder Gustav Edvard Clarence Sager Wallenberg, né Sager (born 2 July 1935), is a Swedish businessman, architect, and co-founder of the foundation Carpe Vitam. Born out of wedlock, he is the only son of Jacob Wallenberg. He was adopted by his biological father at a late age, sparking a controversy regarding the legitimacy of his claim to his fathers fortunes following Jacob Wallenberg's passing. Peder Wallenberg has furthered his wealth exponentially through a series of business ventures including hotel resort ownership and management, creation of
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Marcus Wallenberg Sr.


Marcus Laurentius Wallenberg, Sr. (5 March 1864 in Stockholm – 22 July 1943 on Malmvik in Lovö) was a Swedish banker. Marcus Wallenberg left his position as NCO in the Swedish Navy at the age of 18 to pursue a Candidate of Law degree at Uppsala University; he received the title of Circuit Judge 1892. In the same year, Marcus’s older brother, Knut Agaton Wallenberg, served as CEO of Stockholms Enskilda Bank and induced Marcus to come work for him as vice president of the bank; an offer
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Saltsjöbaden


Saltsjöbaden is a locality in Nacka Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 9,491 inhabitants in 2010. It lies on the Baltic Sea coast. Saltsjöbaden (literally "the Salt Sea baths") was developed as a resort by Knut Agathon Wallenberg, a member of the wealthy and influential Wallenberg family, from farmland which he bought in 1891 through a newly created railway company. Saltsjöbaden was an independent municipality from 1909 to 1970. In 1971 it was reintegrated into Nacka Municipality. The local railway (Saltsjöbanan), built by Wallenberg and
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Stockholm School of Economics


industrialization and a growing need for well educated businessmen and company managers and has maintained close ties with the business community ever since. The foundation followed a substantial donation in 1903 by Knut Agathon Wallenberg. The name "handelshögskola" (roughly "college of commerce") was a parallel to the German term "Handelshochschule", used by a number of German institutions started in the years before, commencing with Handelshochschule Leipzig in 1898. The term "högskola" was at this time also established for specialised higher educational institutions outside the universities
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Marcus Wallenberg Sr.


Marcus accepted. His older brother retired as CEO in the year of 1911 and Marcus replaced him as CEO. He served as CEO until the year of 1920. Marcus laid the very foundation of the bank for decades with his emphatic defense of his own banking policy and constant emphasis on the importance of family traditions. Marcus’s father, André Oscar Wallenberg, was the founder of Stockholms Enskilda Bank. His mother was Anna Wallenberg. Marcus’s married Gertrud Amalia Hagdahl on 19 August 1890. The couple had two sons and one
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Jacob Wallenberg (1892–1980)


a couple of board positions in his father's companies, when Jacob was alive, but remained outside the direction of the Wallenberg sphere, especially after he received his inheritance. Wallenberg donated a major part of his fortune to two foundations: the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Memorial Fund Foundation ("Stiftelsen Marcus och Amalia Wallenbergs Minnesfond"), which he named to honor his parents, as well as the Jacob Wallenberg Foundation, the Special Fund ("Jacob Wallenbergs Stiftelse, Särskilda Fonden"). After the death of his parents
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List of honours dedicated to Raoul Wallenberg


and Raoul Wallenberg Blvd in Charleston, South Carolina. Since 2005, the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation has campaigned to establish 5 October as Raoul Wallenberg Day throughout the United States, as this was the day Wallenberg was awarded Honorary U.S. Citizenship. By 2010, Raoul Wallenberg Day was being observed by the states of Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, West Virginia, and Wyoming. Wallenberg was posthumously awarded the Train Foundation's Civil Courage Prize,
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Hjalmar Hammarskjöld


: Hungerskjöld) was coined, because his intractability impeded efforts to get necessary food exports into Sweden. He was seen as too friendly towards Germany when he rejected the proposal for a common trade agreement with Great Britain that Marcus Wallenberg, brother of the foreign minister Knut Wallenberg, had brought home from London in 1917. The split between the PM and the Foreign Minister became apparent and the leaders of the right-wing in the parliament revoked their support for the prime minister, who was forced to submit his resignation. Hammarskjöld had
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the start of the conflict she would retain the freedom to take other action later. The assurances given by King Gustaf and Knut Wallenberg led the German secretary of the foreign ministry, Gottlieb von Jagow, to believe that Germany would be supported by Sweden in the upcoming conflict. Talks even took place between the military and naval staffs of Sweden and Germany on cooperation, and preliminary arrangements were made for Germany to use bases and anchorages on the east coast of Sweden and on the island of Gotland. Wallenberg also warned the Germans that
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Raoul Wallenberg


also appears in the Spanish television series "El ángel de Budapest" and is played by Iván Fenyő. In 2006, the film "Raoul Wallenberg-l'ange de Budapest" (translated by Nigel Spencer as "Raoul Wallenberg: the Angel of Budapest"), featuring relatives and the Winnipeg lawyer still piloting inquiries into his case, was released in Canada and broadcast on the Bravo! network. He is featured prominently in the work of painter and Holocaust survivor Alice Lok Cahana. Her father was saved by Wallenberg. Irish musician
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Peter Wallenberg Sr.


Åke Grevillius and Sylvia (née Stenhammar). Together they had three children: Jacob Wallenberg (born 1956), Andrea Gandet (born 1957) and Peter Wallenberg, Jr. (born 1959). In his second marriage he was married 1966-1969 to Alice Pearce Rosier (1944–1970) and the third marriage 1971-1980 to the judge Anna-Maria Eek (born 1927). Wallenberg died in his residence in Värmdö on 19 January 2015 at the age of 88. The funeral was held in Katarina Church in Stockholm
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St Vincent Whitshed Erskine


of Captain Charles Joseph Harford, 12th Lancers. St Vincent Erskine married in 1870 to Alice Lindley Buchanan 5th daughter of David Dale Buchanan (born 1819, died 4 Sep 1874 in Cape Town), the founder of the "Natal Witness" (The Witness (South African newspaper)) and his wife Mary Amm. St Vincent Erskine and Alice Buchanan had six children: St Vincent Erskine was a friend of Thomas Baines the well known artist of African Exploration, who had accompanied David Livingstone along the Zambezi in 1858. St
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Baruch Tenembaum


Wallenberg was the Swedish diplomat who disappeared in the Soviet Gulag after saving the lives of thousands of Jews and other persecuted by the Nazis during World War II. The foundation honors Wallenberg's memory, and continues to hunt for him or his remains. The Wallenberg Foundation also honors other righteous gentiles who saved Jews during The Holocaust or shoah. The most outstanding cases of saviors of the Holocaust brought up by the foundation are: Uruguayan Dr. Alejandro Pou, Polish saviour Irena Sendler, Luiz Martins de Sousa Dantas (whose story was investigated
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Sweden–America Foundation


established in June 1919 by initiative of a number of scientists, businessmen, politicians and other prominent Swedes at the time. The Foundation is under the patronage of the King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf. The founders and first Board members included the Nobel laureates and Professors of Chemistry Svante Arrhenius and The Svedberg, the Swedish Arch Bishop and Professor of Theology Nathan Söderblom, the Managing Director of ASEA, J. Sigfrid Edström, the industrialist and banker Jacob Wallenberg, the chairman of the Social Democratic Party Hjalmar Branting, the author and
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Nina Lagergren


Nina Viveka Maria Lagergren ("née" von Dardel; 3 March 1921 – 5 April 2019) was a Swedish businesswoman and the half-sister of Raoul Wallenberg, and the leading force to find out what happened to him after his disappearance. She was the founder of the Raoul Wallenberg Academy. She also presented "Sommar i P1" in 2014 on Swedish Radio. She was the mother-in-law of Kofi Annan. Nina Lagergren was the founder of the Raoul Wallenberg Academy, which she ran along with her
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Joseph Dellapenna


subsequently was vacated, 736 F. Supp. 1 (D.D.C. 1990), the Soviet government then opened its records to the family regarding Wallenberg's fate, resulting in a report jointly released by the Swedish and Russian governments in 2000 confirming Wallenberg's murder in 1947. Dellapenna's work on this case was recognized with his award of the Wallenberg medal by the Raoul Wallenberg Foundation in 2008. His work was also featured prominently in a book about Wallenberg and the efforts to secure his release: "Alan Gersten, A Conspiracy of Indifference
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International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation


date in which Wallenberg became an Honorary American citizen, proclaimed as Raoul Wallenberg Day across the U.S. The purpose of the commemorative day is to promote peace and the values that come with humanitarianism, while remembering Wallenberg and his deeds. The day is recognized annually in the State of New York and the IRWF campaigns had led to Wallenberg Days proclamations in Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Wyoming
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Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights


to the RWCHR, Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish non-Jew who saved 100,000 Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust, represents how one man with the 'compassion to care and the courage to act' can save more lives than the entire international bystander community. Wallenberg can also be said, according to the RWCHR, to have foreshadowed the foundational principles of international human rights and humanitarian law. Further, Wallenberg serves to highlight the plight of political prisoners because once the Red Army arrived to liberate Hungary, Wallenberg, a liberator himself,
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International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation


The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation (IRWF) is a non-governmental organization which researches Holocaust rescuers and advocates for their recognition. The organization developed educational programs for school to promote peace and civil service. Founded by Baruch Tenembaum, it has offices in Buenos Aires, New York, Berlin, Rio de Janeiro and Jerusalem. The organization bears the name of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved Jews and other persecuted people in Hungary during the Holocaust. He was captured by the Soviet Union and his death has been the source
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International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation


Itzhak Buchovza. IRWF also campaigns for public sites to be named after Wallenberg. Parks, streets and schools across the globe bear his name in the United States, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Ecuador, Uruguay and others. IRWF has an art gallery in its New York City Headquarters, where it exhibits work done by Holocaust survivors or those who have been inspired by Rescuers of the Holocaust. The Foundation will often co-organize film screenings and theatre productions based on Wallenberg and other rescuers. In April, 2010, the
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International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation


by their local governments and organizations. In addition to Wallenberg, the IRWF has researched and honored numerous Rescuers of the Holocaust, such as: The organization has many humanitarian campaigns. Aimed to put pressure on the Russian government to release an official statement of what happened to Wallenberg, IRWF created two campaigns. The 'Bring Raoul Home' campaign asks dignitaries to address Wallenberg’s case in the correspondence and official meetings with the Russian Government; and the '100,000 Names for 100,000 Lives' campaign, which aims to get 100,000 people
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Jacob Wallenberg (1892–1980)


, Wallenberg inherited Malmviks Estate in Lovön, which became one of his permanent homes. In 1978 he donated Malmvik Estate to the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Memorial Fund Foundation. Jacob Wallenberg's biggest hobby was sailing. For over thirty years, from the mid-1920s, he came to dominate the sailing in the Nordic waters, with several victories in Round Gotland Race and its predecessor, the Visby Yacht Race. His boats, built at August Plym's boatyard in Neglinge, Saltsjöbaden, were named "Refanut". The favorite sailor,
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Appeal of Conscience Foundation


the Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard, at the 40th anniversary dinner of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation Sep 21, 2005 Jorma Ollila, Chairman and CEO, Nokia Acceptance of the Appeal of Conscience Award Jorma Ollila, Chairman and CEO, Nokia Appeal of Conscience Foundation 40th Annual Awards Dinner New York September 21, 2005 Sep 21, 2005 Peter G. Peterson, Chairman, Blackstone Group Honorable Peter G. Peterson, Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations, at the Appeal of Conscience Foundation 40th Anniversary Dinner September 21, 2005 Sep 20
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P. C. Wren


Crispin Shoveler and Lucy Maria Parker. Alice Lucille Wren died at Poona, India 26 Sep 1914 and was buried 27 Sep 1914. Their daughter Estelle Lenore Wren was born at Greenwich in early 1901 She died at Basford in 1910. Wren reportedly dedicated an early edition (no date known) of "The Snake and the Sword" to "my wife Alice Lucille Wren". Another of his early novels, "Driftwood Spars" published in 1915, contained a dedication: "To the memory of my beloved wife."
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Mignone Alice Kabera


Apostle Mignone Alice Kabera is a Rwandan woman who is one of the first Apostle women in Rwanda. She is the co-founder and leader of the Noble Family Church but she is mostly known as the founder of Women Foundation Ministries, an association that focuses on developing Rwandan women in the areas of spirituality and the issues they face in their daily lives, including in the home, at work and beyond. Apostle Alice Mignonne Kabera has received many rewards. Among them is the Sifa Reward for compassionate work, which is organised
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Agda Montelius


February 1915 organised by the Swedish women with support and participation also from the women of Denmark and Norway. However, on 18 February, Agda Montelius was called to meet with Queen Victoria of Baden, who demanded a stop of "The foolish presumption of women" to involve in politics. King Gustav V of Sweden interrupted and said that women were of course entitled to present demands to the government, but that the present situation made it difficult. The king referred the matter to Knut Wallenberg, Minister for Foreign Affairs, who
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Alexander Protopopov


the banks, and appointed Nikolay Gredeskul and Alexander Amfiteatrov as journalists. According to Joseph T. Fuhrmann Protopopov was hospitalized from the end of 1915 for six full months in the clinic of Peter Badmayev. In Spring 1916, at the request of Rodzianko, Protopopov led a delegation of Duma members (with Pavel Milyukov) to strengthen the ties with Russia's western allies in World War I: the (Entente powers). He met with the German industrialist and politician Hugo Stinnes and Knut Wallenberg, the Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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Appeal of Conscience Foundation


Conscience Foundation Public Service Award Sep 23, 2008 Remarks by Deputy Secretary John D. Negroponte Deputy Secretary highlights honorees at the 2008 ACF Annual Awards Dinner Sep 23, 2008 Address by Nicolas Sarkozy President of the French Republic is recipient of the 2008 Appeal of Conscience World Statesman Award Sep 23, 2008 Address by Henry A. Kissinger Henry Kissinger gives address on behalf of Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the French Republic, at the ACF 2008 Annual Awards Dinner Sep 21, 2005 Foreign Minister Alexander Downer Acceptance of the World Statesman Award on behalf of
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Parvez Sharma


CAA Foundation [Jan, 2007] Gill Foundation [Jan, 2007 and Feb, 2007] Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund [Jan, 2007] Lucius & Eva Eastman Fund [April, 2007] Arts PAC—Artists for Freedom Of Expression [June, 2007] The Zacks Family Foundation [Aug, 2007] The Ted Snowdon Foundation [Sep, 2007] Cinereach Foundation [Sep, 2007 and March, 2008] The Paul Rapoport Foundation [May, 2008] Lesbian Equity Fund (Astraea) [April,
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Cornelia Ramondt-Hirschmann


at war. The first two stops, Denmark and Norway, were uneventful, with the exception that the taxi driver, who could not believe that a group of women had an appointment to see the King Haakon, circled the palace numerous times before finally delivering the group. In Sweden, they spoke with the Foreign Minister Knut Wallenberg, who agreed that Sweden would be willing to host a peace mediation conference if the women’s delegation could get two warring nations to agree to participate. In war, most diplomats refused to make
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Sweden during World War I


in at least one important respect. Knut Wallenberg, without the knowledge of Hammarskjöld, allowed the Germans to use Swedish ciphers to communicate with their embassies overseas, and these communications were carried over the telegraph cables used by Sweden to communicate with their embassies. This allowed the Germans to communicate with their embassies via Stockholm without their communications being so easily censored and intercepted by the British. Despite claiming that they would end the practice in late 1915, a scandal erupted when it became known that a telegram from the German embassy to Berlin
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Berit Wallenberg


Berit Wallenberg (1902–1995) was a Swedish archaeologist, art historian, photographer and philanthropist. On 19 November 1955 she founded the Berit Wallenberg Foundation with a donation of 406,000 Swedish kronor. Her interest was old mural paintings in churches; she participated in many archaeological excavations in Sweden. She was also passionate with the study of cultural heritage, in Sweden and abroad. She was active in the local heritage association in Lovö (west of Stockholm) and she was involved in the restoration of her parish church at Lovö Island in 1935
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Peter Wallenberg Sr.


was first vice chairman of SEB, vice chairman of AB Electrolux, Incentive AB, AB SKF and Telefon AB LM Ericsson. Wallenberg was also board member of the Federation of Swedish Industries, Nobel Foundation, Scandinavian Airlines, Swedish Intercontinental Airlines, AB Aerotransport, the Swedish National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and Immediate Past President of the ICC in Paris. He was also board member of the Stockholm School of Economics Association, Dillon, Read & Co. in the United States, Per Jacobsson Foundation in the
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Baruch Tenembaum


to Zenit News Agency, he was asked about his nomination for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, to what he replied: "Who I am?...just a descendant of slaves". Tenembaum characterized his life as being dedicated "to thank those human beings who saved lives, who risked themselves. [...] At the Wallenberg Foundation we work intensively to discover, among others, the exceptional deeds of those heroic human beings." The Wallenberg Foundation aims to pay tribute to the "Saviors of the Holocaust", recognizing those
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Baruch Tenembaum


of Representatives to honor Tenembaum, and had a fuller tribute inserted into the Congressional Record Wallenberg apparently was instrumental in saving Lantos from the Nazis. Tenembaum also received the Royal Order of the Polar Star from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. Tenembaum has had an audience with the Pope. He frequently has letters to the editor published. On July 9, 2014, the United States Congress presented the Congressional Gold Medal to Raoul Wallenberg, following an initiative by the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation. The ceremony took place at the Capitol
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Lars Bern


maintain nuclear power, it would be necessary to produce it for other countries out of environmental reasons. In his book "Varför försvinner våra kronjuveler" Bern criticized Swedish corporates, specially the Wallenberg-family, for moving their industries to third world countries and taking away jobs from the Swedish market. Lars Bern has 35 years of experience in environmental studies and is the founder of foundation Det Naturliga Steget and was previously CEO of Ångpanneföreningen and IVL (Swedish Environmental Institute). In 2008, Bern published an article originally from News Mill
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British Bank of Northern Commerce


The British Bank of Northern Commerce was founded in February 1912 by Knut Agathon Wallenberg of the Stockholms Enskilda Bank and Emil Glückstadt of Landmandsbanken (Copenhagen), together with several other banks including Centralbanken for Norge (Christiania), Banque de Commerce de l`Azoff-Don (Petrograd), and Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas (Paris). The purpose of the bank was to facilitate trade between the United Kingdom and northern Europe. The bank financed Finland after the country achieved its independence from Russia in 1917-18. In
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Sweden during World War I


the state, as a parliamentary system meant the crown's exclusion from partisan politics. When King Gustaf refused to tone down his rhetoric on the subject of defence spending, Karl Staaff's government resigned and was replaced by the conservative government of Hjalmar Hammarskjöld. During the July Crisis, both King Gustaf and Knut Wallenberg, the Swedish foreign minister, gave assurances to the Central Powers that in a war between Germany and Russia, Sweden would never stand on Russia's side, and that although Sweden would issue a declaration of neutrality at
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Sweden during World War I


angering the Germans and being seen as favouring the Allies. Hammarskjöld therefore rejected an agreement to reduce exports to Germany in return for more food negotiated by Marcus Wallenberg (brother of Knut). Angered by Hammarskjöld's rejection of this agreement, Hammarskjöld's allies in the Swedish parliament rebelled against him. Hammarskjöld was forced to resign and was replaced by Carl Swartz in March 1917. Swartz served as Swedish prime minister for only seven months before being forced from power after the Swedish elections of 1917 and replaced by the liberal government of Nils
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Pope John XXIII and Judaism


other times intervened. For his actions during the 1930s and 1940s, in 2011 the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation petitioned the Yad Vashem museum to recognize Roncalli as one of the "Righteous Among the Nations", an honor reserved for non-Jews who helped Jews during the Holocaust. According to the Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, Roncalli forwarded a request for the Vatican to inquire whether other neutral countries could grant asylum to Jews, to inform the German government that the Palestine Jewish Agency had 5,000 immigration certificates available and to ask Vatican Radio to
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International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation


of controversy and secrecy. IRWF is primarily a historical research organization, collecting information on different cases of rescuing during the Holocaust. As part of the research, the foundation gathers survivors saved by Wallenberg and others like him to interview them for the purposes of research and historic memory preservation. IRWF posts the transcripts online for others to read and use. It recently has pushed for researching more women saviors, dedicating a special section on their English language website for them. IRWF aims for its research subjects and honorees to gain official recognition
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Ken Jacobsen


Member; Northwest Dollars for Scholars Community Hero Award. Washington State Governor Christine Gregoire declared May 22, 2009 Ken Jacobsen day in the State of Washington. Board member of Scholarship America and Washington Dollars for Scholars; U.S. Foundation of the Universidad Del Valle de Guatemala; Friends of the University of Washington Library; Seattle Audubon Society; American Indian Endowment Committee; Ravenna & Thornton Creek Alliances'; Bring the Purple Martin Back to Seattle Committee; Education Advisory Committee Nordic Heritage Museum; Founder of the Annual Raoul Wallenberg Dinner. Lifelong member
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Baruch Tenembaum


Bernardo O´Higgins, Chile Cross "Komandorski" of Merit, Poland Tribute from the House of Representatives U.S. Congress, United States Distinguished Citizen of the Province of Santa Fe, Argentina Distinguished Citizen of the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina Tenembaum continued his work on humanitarian causes searching for gentiles who helped Jews during World War II. After eight years in self-imposed exile, and following the fall of the military dictatorship, he renewed his visits to Argentina. Tenembaum was one of the founders of the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation. Raoul
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Scaleup company


. Endeavor's research arm continues to focus on providing more insight into scaleups. SEP is a pan-European startup ecosystem established by the European Commission in January 2014 under the EU Startup Europe initiative during the World Economic Forum – Mind The Bridge Foundation (MTB) leads SEP. Its founding partners include BBVA, Telefonica, Orange, Cambridge, IE Business School, European Investment Bank Group, and the European Investment Fund, with support from UK innovation foundation Nesta (charity). SEP is testing accelerated scaleup methodologies, a term
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Parvez Sharma


[Sep, 2006] Jeff Lewy Trust [Sep, 2006] Horizons Foundation [September 2006, October 2006, March, 2007, July 2007 and March 2008] Rosenthal Rev. Trust [Oct, 2006] Global Fund for Women [Oct, 2006] Zeigler Family Trust [Nov, 2006] The Katahdin Foundation [Dec, 2006] The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation [Dec, 2006] and [Dec, 2007] Arcus Foundation [Jan, 2007 and Jan, 2008] Cinereach [Oct, 2005] The
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Knut M. Ore


of Cultural History. He is a member of the Board of the Friends of Akershus Castle, Oslo. From 2002, to 2013 he was chairman of the board of Kings Bay AS and AS Bjørnøen. He was the founders of the Ny-Ålesund Symposium at Svalbard in 2005 and served as Chairman of the Board of this international climate conference until 2014. He is Honorary Citizen of Ny-Ålesund. He has served on the board of the Olav Thon Foundation since 1991 and of FH-Norge since 2005. In 2011
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Randy Pausch


Mellon University. In 1998, he was a co-founder, along with Don Marinelli, of CMU's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC), and he started the Building Virtual Worlds course at CMU, which he taught for 10 years. He consulted with Google on user interface design and also consulted with PARC, Imagineering, and Media Metrix. Pausch is also the founder of the Alice software project. He received the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award and was a Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellow. Pausch was the author or
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Scaleup company


it coined while defining Marco Marinucci: founder & CEO – Mind The Bridge Foundation that leads Startup Europe Partnership (SEP). Marco Marinucci AngeList Sherry Coutu: Scaleup Advocate, Angel investor, Commander of the Order of the British Empire for entrepreneurship. "We really need to shift the focus from startups to scaleups". Commander Sherry Coutu Video on scaleups. In March 2014 Sherry was commissioned by BIS [department for Business, Innovation and Skills] through the Information Economy Council to produce 'The Scale Up Report on UK Economic
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Jan Staubo


Jan Staubo (28 September 1920 – 15 June 2003) was a Norwegian sportsman, politician and sports official. As a sportsman he competed internationally in tennis and nationally in other sports. He was a member of the city council of Norway's capital, and a member of the International Olympic Committee for 34 years. He was born in Kristiania as a son of ship-owner Helmer Staubo and Wanda Næss, and younger brother of ship-owner Knut Helmer Staubo. In Sep 1937 to Dec 1937 he attended Felsted school in
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Tore Hamsun


father, Knut Hamsun was of the founders and owners of the publishing company. During the Second World War, Hamsun helped Max Tau flee to Norway. At the end of the war, Hamsun was imprisoned for five months for membership in the Nasjonal Samling. In 1940, Hamsun published "Mein Vater Knut Hamsun" (My Father Knut Hamsun) and in 1956, he published a collection of his father's poems. Hamsun had inheritance rights to his father's farm Nørholm but gave it to his brother Arild Hamsun and settled
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Main Quad (Stanford University)


up the western walkway. Under the west gatehouse is a time capsule and plaque marking the centennial of the opening of the university, and the cornerstone (building 60) also has a time capsule. Wallenberg Hall (building 160) on east side of the front (History Corner) is named for the Wallenberg family who gave much of the money for renovating it in 1999. In the early days it housed the University library and was originally built in 1900 with funds from Thomas Welton Stanford, brother of university founder Leland Stanford
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Ragnvald Blakstad


Tyssefaldene") and became director general of the company. In 1913 he acquired the majority in Aura Hydroelectric Power Station ("Aura kraftverk"). In these endeavors, he had to raise capital for acquisitions from outside parties including members of the Wallenberg family of Sweden including Marcus Wallenberg, Sr., founder of Stockholms Enskilda Bank. After the end of World War I his operations were hit by the post-war depression. The markets failed and he had to sell off much of his investments. In 1917, he
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Appeal of Conscience Foundation


Award Sep 22, 2009 Address by Muhtar Kent Muhtar Kent, Chairman & CEO, The Coca-Cola Company received the 2009 Appeal of Conscience Award Sep 22, 2009 Address by Bernard J. Arnault Bernard J. Arnault, Chairman & CEO, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton received the 2009 Appeal of Conscience Award Sep 23, 2008 Address by Jeffrey R. Immelt, President & CEO, GE Jeffrey Immelt received the 2008 Appeal of Conscience Award Sep 23, 2008 Address by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg Mayor Bloomberg delivers speech accepting the 2008 Appeal of
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Elliott Broidy


the Hillel Foundation, as well as the Center for Investment Studies at the Marshall School of Business at his alma mater, the University of Southern California. He served on the board of governors of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the board of trustees of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. He was the 2008 recipient of the Raoul Wallenberg Award by the Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United States for his Jewish philanthropy. In 2009, Broidy entered a guilty plea to a single felony count of attempting to provide excess gratuity to former New
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Tom Lantos


In his floor speeches as a congressman, he sometimes referred to himself as one of the few living members of Congress who had fought against fascism. In 1981, Lantos sponsored a bill making Wallenberg an Honorary Citizen of the United States and became a member of the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation. In January 2006, he traveled to Hungary and attended a ceremony commemorating the 61st anniversary of the liberation of the Budapest Ghetto. The event was held at the Great Synagogue in Budapest, (photo), today the largest synagogue in Europe
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William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration


14, the Harrah Hopitality revived the long-delayed project and began fundraising for Hospitality Hall—a 93,500 square feet academic facility with some 10 classroom spaces, a café, meeting and event space, and a 2,800 square-foot learning kitchen. Joining Caesar’s as Hospitality Hall “Founders” were Las Vegas Sands, Konami Gaming, MGM Resorts International, Boyd Gaming Corporation, Stations Casinos, J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation, and the Engelstad Family Foundation. Founders’ gifts, along with additional industry partner donations,
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Manuel L. Quezon


was buried in the Arlington National Cemetery until the end of World War II, when his remains were moved to Manila. His final resting place is the Quezon Memorial Circle. In 2015, the Board of the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation approved a posthumously bestowal of the Wallenberg Medal upon President Quezon and to the people of the Philippines for having reached out, between 1937 and 1941, to the victims of the Holocaust. President Benigno Aquino III, and then 94-year-old María Zeneida Quezon Avanceña, who is the daughter of the
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Peter Wallenberg Sr.


, Telefon AB LM Ericsson and Stora Kopparbers Bergslags AB. Wallenberg was also a board member of the Federation of Swedish Industries ("Sveriges Industriförbund"), the Swedish National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce, the Stockholm School of Economics Association (from 1988 to 2001), Dillon, Read & Co. in the United States, Per Jacobsson Foundation in the United States and the Swiss Bank Corporation Advisory Board in Switzerland. He was also chairman of the International Council of Swedish Industry (NIR), Swedish-French Research
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International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation


to sign the petition who then will be conveyed to the Russian President. As of August 12, 2010, IRWF has gotten 27,204 signatures for its '100,000 Names for 100,000 Lives' campaign. Dignitaries that have written letters on Wallenberg's behalf include Argentine Congressman Federico Pinedo, American Researcher on the German resistance to the Third Reich Greg McClelland, the Nobel Prize Winners in Chemistry Paul J. Crutzen, Yuan T. Lee and Herbert A. Hauptman, President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesic, and Mayor of Or Yehuda (Israel)
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Wallenberg family


National Product. Peter Wallenberg (senior) stepped down from leadership of Investor in 1997. In 2006, the fifth generation took over the Wallenberg sphere. Marcus Wallenberg, son of Marc Wallenberg, Jacob Wallenberg and Peter Wallenberg (junior) both sons of Peter Wallenberg (senior). The Wallenbergs have a very low-key public profile, eschewing conspicuous displays of wealth. The family motto is "Esse, non Videri" (Latin for "To be, not to be seen"). Marcus Wallenberg Sr. adopted
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International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation


IRWF commissioned an exhibit by painter Peter Bulow. The exhibit "Blessings May Break from Stone" featured statues of Raoul Wallenberg and Luiz Martins de Souza Dantas. Bulow's mother is a Holocaust survivor from Budapest, Hungary. IRWF has created many different educational programs for different student levels. For middle school to higher education, there are resources for both students and teachers that are free for public use and easily accessible online. The program emphasizes the values of courage and integrity. The organization has advocated for having October 5, the
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Seismic Unix


visit to SEP Einar introduced SY to Shuki Ronen, then a graduate student at Stanford. Ronen further developed SY from 1984 to 1986. Other students at SEP started to use it and contributed code and ideas. SY was inspired by much other software developed at SEP and benefited from the foundations laid by Claerbout and many of his students; Rob Clayton, Stew Levin, Dave Hale, Jeff Thorson, Chuck Sword, and others who pioneered seismic processing on Unix in the seventies and early eighties. In 1986, Shuki Ronen brought
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Marc Wallenberg


Marc "Boy-boy" Wallenberg (28 June 1924 – 19 November 1971) was a Swedish banker and business manager. A member of the prominent Wallenberg family, Marc Wallenberg was CEO of Stockholms Enskilda Bank until his death in 1971. Wallenberg was born in London, United Kingdom, the eldest son of Swedish banker Marcus Wallenberg (1899–1982) and Dorothy Mackay (1900–1984) from Scotland. He was the brother of Peter Wallenberg (1926–2015) and Ann-Mari Wallenberg (born 1929). Wallenberg passed "studentexamen"
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Peder Wallenberg


luxury living centers, stock market investments, and banking. Peder has had eight children with three wives. The oldest son was born in 1967 and the youngest in 1997. Their names in descending order of age are: Fredrik Wallenberg, Marie Wallenberg, Peder Wallenberg, Nicholas Wallenberg, Anna Wallenberg, Peder Wallenberg Jr, Christopher Wallenberg, and Alexander Wallenberg. Peder has been media-shy and has kept a low profile until recently, with a series of interviews and articles in Swedish news outlets such as "Dagens Industri"
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David Rubenstein


the opportunity to meet Mark Zuckerberg before he dropped out of Harvard but decided against it. This is his single greatest investment regret. David Rubenstein lives in Bethesda, Maryland, and was married to Alice Rubenstein (née Alice Nicole Rogoff), founder of the Alaska House New York and the Alaska Native Arts Foundation and former owner of Alaska Dispatch News. They met while both were working for the Carter Administration and were married on May 21, 1983. They have three children, Alexandra, Gabrielle, and Andrew. The couple
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Bengt Hamilton


professional life with the Chicago Pediatric Society. Bengt was the son of the governor Hamilton Knut and Alice Abramson. He married in 1915 to Elise Neovius (1891-1988). Together they had four children, Donald Hamilton (1916-2006) (popular author of the Matt Helm mystery series); twin sisters Alice (born 1917), who married Professor Daniel Jones and Birgit (born 1917), who married Professor Victor Regener; and Margaret "Meg" (born 1920), who married Clarc Sergel (who
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Wallenberg family


at Stockholms Enskilda Bank in 1953, before taking over as CEO in 1958. After a power struggle between Jacob Wallenberg and his younger brother Marcus Wallenberg (junior), Jacob Wallenberg resigned from the board of directors in 1969. The resignation opened a seat on the bank's board of directors to Peter Wallenberg (senior), younger son of Marcus Wallenberg (junior). Marcus Wallenberg (junior) pushed through a merger agreement between Stockholms Enskilda Bank and rival Skandinaviska Banken in 1971. Soon after, tragedy struck when Marc Wallenberg
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List of honours dedicated to Raoul Wallenberg


found across Canada, including the Raoul Wallenberg Memorial in Queen Elizabeth Park in Vancouver, Raoul Wallenberg Corner in Calgary, Raoul Wallenberg Park in Saskatoon, Parc Raoul Wallenberg in Ottawa, Ontario, and a memorial behind Christ Church Cathedral in downtown Montreal, where a bust of Wallenberg and a caged metal box, styled as a barbed-wire gate, stand beside each other. The main entrance to Earl Bales Park in Toronto, Ontario is named Raoul Wallenberg Road. On 17 January 2013, which marked the 68th anniversary of Wallenberg
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List of honours dedicated to Raoul Wallenberg


were formerly used on the streets of the Budapest ghetto. There is also Wallenberg Forest in Riverdale, Bronx, established in 1990 and named Wallenberg Forest in 1996. Another memorial stands in front of the Art and Architecture building at the University of Michigan, where he received his architecture degree in 1935. Places named after Wallenberg include Raoul Wallenberg Traditional High School in San Francisco, the PS 194 Raoul Wallenberg School in Brooklyn, New York, Raoul Wallenberg Avenue in Trenton, New Jersey, Raoul Wallenberg Drive in Hauppauge, New York
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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art


Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is a museum of American art in Bentonville, Arkansas. The museum, founded by Alice Walton and designed by Moshe Safdie, officially opened on 11 November 2011. It offers free public admission. Alice Walton, the daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton, spearheaded the Walton Family Foundation's involvement in developing Crystal Bridges. The museum's glass-and-wood design by architect Moshe Safdie and engineer Buro Happold features a series of pavilions nestled around two creek-fed ponds and forest trails. The
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Raoul Wallenberg


have been dedicated to the memory of Wallenberg. A number of films have been made of Wallenberg's life, including the 1985 made-for-television movie "" (1985), starring Richard Chamberlain, the 1990 Swedish production "Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg", featuring Stellan Skarsgård, and various documentaries, such as "Raoul Wallenberg: Buried Alive" (1984), the AFI Award-winning "Raoul Wallenberg, Between The Lines" (1985) and "Searching for Wallenberg" (2003). He
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Wallenberg (opera)


". The other prisoners reacted with aggression to Wallenberg refusal to accept his role as savior. Intermezzo. Traces of Wallenberg are erased. 16. The struggle. From Nothing appears Wallenberg 2, a masterful bugbear of the acts complained of Wallenberg, "I'm your hero, you will not get rid of me." 17. Eichmann II Eichmann is preparing for the penalty. For the last time he taunted Wallenberg: While he was a "clean finish" would be granted, would fail a saving Wallenberg's death
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Wallenberg family


Wallenberg died. He had no children. Marcus Wallenberg (senior) was appointed Stockholms Enskilda Bank chairman of the board. During the War the Bank collaborated with the German government. The Secretary of the US Treasury, Henry Morgenthau Jr. considered Jacob Wallenberg strongly pro-German, and the US subjected the Bank to a blockade that was only lifted in 1947. The fourth generation of Wallenbergs joined the family business in 1953, including heir apparent Marc Wallenberg, eldest son of Marcus Wallenberg (junior), who became a deputy CEO
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Marcus Wallenberg (born 1956)


Marcus "Husky" Wallenberg (born September 2, 1956) is a Swedish banker and industrialist. Marcus Wallenberg was born on September 2, 1956 in Stockholm, Sweden. His father, Marc Wallenberg, was a banker. His mother is Olga Wehtje. He is a member of the prominent Wallenberg family. Wallenberg has a BSc degree from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He served as a lieutenant in the Royal Swedish Naval Academy in 1977. Wallenberg began his career in the New York City office of Citibank
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Fred A. Lennon


lived with his wife, Alice, and their two children in Hunting Valley, Ohio. Lennon was active in, and contributed much to, a variety of charitable and nonprofit organizations in Ohio. He was a founder and chairman of The Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University, and president of Gilmour Academy in Gates Mills. He created the Fred A. Lennon Foundation, which between its establishment in 1965 and its dissolution in 1995, donated millions to a variety of schools, nonprofit foundations and charities. Following his death in
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Marcus Wallenberg Jr.


. Wallenberg co-chaired the ICC-UN/GATT Economic Consultative Committee from 1969 to 1971. In 1969, he left the post of vice chairman of Stockholms Enskilda Bank and became chairman for two years until 1971 when the bank merged with Skandinaviska Banken and formed Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken. Wallenberg was chairman there from 1972 to 1976. He was the father of Marc Wallenberg (1924–1971; who in turn was the father of Marcus Wallenberg), Peter Wallenberg Sr. (1926–2015) and Ann-Mari Wallenberg (born 1929)
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