2011's Biggest Newsmakers In Science & Technology

PublishedDecember 15, 2011

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Dr. Lyn Evans: 2011 was another exciting year for the Large Hadron Collider project leader as he and his team continued to conduct tests on the Swiss taxpayers’ tolerance for billion-Euro expenditures in experimental physics.

Mark Zuckerberg: The young American entrepreneur made it through yet another year resisting the temptation to paste each person’s social security numbers to the top of their Facebook profiles.

Tim Cook: Following the passing of Apple’s beacon and former CEO Steve Jobs, Cook faced the tremendous challenge of helming a market-dominant technology leader that everyone likes.

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Siri: And so it begins.

Bill Gates: Former CEO of Microsoft and the last person on earth who still uses a Zune.

Jeff Bezos: The Amazon CEO announced the release of the company’s new Kindle Fire by chucking it into the audience and mumbling, “Here…”

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