Ruth Benedict (1887–1948) was one of the twentieth century's foremost anthropologists and helped to shape the discipline in the United States and around the world. She was a student and colleague of Franz Boas at Columbia, where she taught from 1924. Her contributions to the field of cultural anthropology are cited today.

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Laura Benedict is the Edgar- and ITW Thriller Award- nominated author of seven novels of suspense, including the forthcoming The Stranger Inside. Her Bliss House gothic trilogy includes: The Abandoned Heart, Charlotte's Story, and Bliss House.

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Daphne Benedis-Grab is the author of the middle-grade thrillers I Know Your Secret, I Know You're Lying, and I Will Find You. She is a school librarian and gets to hang out with kids and books all day (she is a very lucky person!). Visit her at daphnebg.com.

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William Benemann is the author of A Year of Mud and Gold: San Francisco in Letters and Diaries, 1849–1850, Male–Male Intimacy in Early America: Beyond Romantic Friendships, and Men in Eden: William Drummond Stewart and Same–Sex Desire in the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade.

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Gregory Benford is a physicist, educator, and author. He received a BS from the University of Oklahoma and a PhD from the University of California, San Diego. Benford is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine, where he has been a faculty member since 1971.

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William Bengston, PhD, is a professor of sociology at St. Joseph's College in New York and author of The Energy Cure. Visit him at bengstonresearch.com.

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Ruha Benjamin is a professor of African American studies and the founder of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab at Princeton University. The author of the Stowe Prize–winning Viral Justice, as well as Race After Technology and People's Science, Benjamin lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Carol Lea Benjamin is the award-winning author of Dog Training for Kids, Dog Tricks (with Capt. Arthur J. Haggerty), Dog Problems, Second-Hand Dog, The Chosen Puppy, Surviving Your Dog's Adolescence, Dog Training in 10 Minutes, and the Rachael Alexander and Dash mysteries, This Dog for Hire and The Dog Who Knew Too Much.

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Melanie Benjamin is the New York Times bestselling author of the critically acclaimed historical novels Alice I Have Been, The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb, and The Aviator's Wife. She lives in the Chicago area.

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Medea Benjamin is a cofounder of CODEPINK and the fair-trade advocacy group Global Exchange. She is the author of Drone Warfare, Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.–Saudi Connection, and Inside Iran.

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Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, and faculty codirector of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

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Ted Benna is commonly referred to as the "father of 401(k)" because he created and gained IRS approval of the first 401(k) savings plan.

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