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Pierre Schlumberger (1914 – February 18, 1986) was an American businessman. He was the chief executive of Schlumberger , the world's largest oilfield services company. Early life
Schlumberger brothers. Conrad Schlumberger (2 October 1878 in Gebweiler (Alsace-Lorraine) – 9 May 1936 in Stockholm) and Emile Henry Marcel Schlumberger (21 June 1884 in Gebweiler – 9 May 1953 in Val-Richer) were brothers from the region of Alsace-Lorraine, France, then a part of the German Empire. Their inventions in the area of geophysics ...
Timothy Ray Brown (March 11, 1966 [1] – September 29, 2020) was an American considered to be the first person cured of HIV/AIDS. [2][3] Brown was called "The Berlin Patient" at the 2008 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, where his cure was first announced, in order to preserve his anonymity. He chose to come forward in 2010.
The deal was the biggest acquisition in Schlumberger history until their acquisition of Cameron International. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] The merger was completed on August 27, 2010. [ 29 ] Also announced in 2010 were Schlumberger plans to acquire Geoservices, a French-based company specializing in energy services, in a deal valued at $1.1 billion ...
Jean Riboud. Jean Riboud (15 November 1919 – 20 October 1985) was a French socialist, corporate executive, and the chairman of Schlumberger, [1] the largest oilfield services company in the world. [2] He was a member of the French Resistance during World War II and suffered incarceration in Buchenwald concentration camp of the Nazis. [3]
Alleged first known AIDS death in the United States. Robert Lee Rayford[1] (February 3, 1953 – May 15, 1969), [2] sometimes identified as Robert R. due to his age, was an American teenager from Missouri who has been suggested to represent the earliest confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America. This is based on evidence published in 1988 in ...
Featured in And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic and portrayed in Milk. [ 78 ] Cass Mann. (1948–2009) AIDS activist/dissident and founder of the holistic AIDS charity Positively Healthy. One of the first people diagnosed HIV positive in 1985. [ 79 ] Eliana Martinez.
History of HIV/AIDS. False-color scanning electron micrograph of HIV-1, in green, budding from cultured lymphocyte. AIDS is caused by a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which originated in non-human primates in Central and West Africa. While various sub-groups of the virus acquired human infectivity at different times, the present pandemic ...