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- He was chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo from 2001-2008 and is a past President of the Canadian.
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Memorial Tributes: Volume 12 (2008)
Beaver in 1975, the highest honor awarded by the Association of Alumni and Alumnae.
Beyond MIT, Robert Mann’s contributions to other organizations and communities are almost too numerous to mention. He was a member of the Advisory Committee of the National Braille Authority and a member of the National Research Council Committee on the Skeletal System and Prosthetics Research and Development and founder and chair of the Subcommittee on Sensory Aids. He was also director and president of the Carroll Center for the Blind, trustee and president of the National Braille Press, and a consultant on engineering science at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Robert Mann was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine—one of fewer than 10 people who are members of all three of the National Academies. He was also a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, IEEE, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and American I
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Professor R G Mann
Biography
Research interests
My research interests centre on clusters of galaxies and the properties of the galaxies they contain, notably Brightest Cluster Galaxies.
I direct the Wide-Field Astronomy Unit and have developed interests in a wide range of computational issues that relate to the management and publication of sky survey data.
Teaching
I currently teach the Level 10 Cosmology course and coordinate Senior Honours Projects.
I am a Personal Tutor, providing guidance to almost 30 undergraduates enrolled on a number of the School's degree programmes.
Recent news
Bob has featured in the following recent School news stories:
Publications
Recent publications
The XMM Cluster Survey: exploring scaling relations and completeness of the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 redMaPPer cluster catalogueDOI
XCS Team, (DES Collaboration), E. W. Upsdell, P. A. Giles, A. K. Romer, R. Wilkinson, D. J. Turner, M. Hilton, E. Rykoff, R. G. Mann et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 522, 4, p. 5267-5290
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Robert Wellesley Mann
American biomedical engineer
Robert Wellesley Mann (1924, Brooklyn, New York – 2006) was a pioneer in the field of medical prosthetics.
Mann was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,[1] where professor of mechanical engineering for almost 40 years and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]
Biography
Mann graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School before serving in the Pacific theater in the Army during WWII. He came to MIT in 1947 on the GI Bill and received the S.B. degree in 1950, the S.M. in 1951 and the Sc.D. in 1957.
Boston Arm
In September 1968, a team of physicians and designers, led by Mann, introduced the "Boston Digital Arm", the first prosthetic limb controlled by a brain–computer interface, wherein the wearer could control the movement of the arm by the electric signals sent by the brain to electronic instruments designed to interpret the signals.[2][3]
References
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