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unusual facts about Alfred l. Wilds


Alfred l. Wilds

70+ years later, synthesis of such complex targets as HIV protease inhibitors are as a result of the Equilenin synthesis by Al Wilds.


A Wizard of Earthsea

Further inspiration came from the work of her parents, anthropologists Alfred L. Kroeber and Theodora Kroeber, with Ishi.

Alfred L. Jenkins

Alfred L. Jenkins was an American diplomat, lecturer and author, born September 14, 1916 in Manchester, Georgia.

Alfred L. Rives

Later he accepted a position in Washington under Captain Montgomery Meigs, of the United States Engineering Corps where he served for one year as assistant engineer of the United States Capitol and Post Office buildings.

Being proficient in engineering, he determined to adopt that as a profession, and in 1848 entered the University of Virginia, where he remained one session, then accompanied his father to France.

He married Sadie MacMurdo; they had children: Amelia, the well known author, who became the wife of Prince Trubetskoy; Gertrude, who became the wife of Allen Potts, Esq.

Alfred Pearson

Alfred L. Pearson (1838–1903), lawyer and Union Army general in the American Civil War

Alfred Wilson

Alfred L. Wilson (1919–1944), United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II

Biorheology

The term was first proposed by Alfred L. Copley, a German-American medical scientist, at the first International Congress on Rheology in 1948.

Alfred L. Copley, a German-American medical scientist who first proposed the term "biorheology".

Borden Mace

During the post World War II period he worked on numerous projects with his mentor, producer Louis de Rochemont, notably on Alfred L. Werker's quasi-biographical Lost Boundaries, which was one of the first U.S. films to feature black actors in professional positions, and which was banned in Atlanta and Memphis.

Fort Magruder

Soldiers and impressed slaves constructed the line to the east of Williamsburg as recommended by Captain Alfred L. Rives, an 1848 civil engineering graduate of Virginia Military Institute (VMI) who was acting chief of the Engineer Bureau at Confederate headquarters in Richmond.

Hemorheology

Alfred L. Copley, the scientist who introduced the term hemorheology.

Ica stones

Excavations in Ica Province were carried on in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by scholars such as Max Uhle, Julio C. Tello, Alfred L. Kroeber, William Duncan Strong and John Howland Rowe.

Ishi Wilderness

Ishi is the name given by anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber to the last surviving Native American from the Yahi Yana tribe.

Ishi: The Last of His Tribe

Ishi: The Last of His Tribe (1978) is a made-for-television biopic based on a book by Theodora Kroeber which relates the experiences of her husband Alfred L. Kroeber who made friends with Ishi, thought to be the last of his people, the Yahi tribe.

Karuk traditional narratives

The published record of Karuk oral literature is an unusually rich one, thanks to the efforts of Alfred L. Kroeber, John Peabody Harrington, William Bright, and others.

Leslie White

Thus, contrary to Alfred L. Kroeber, Kluckhohn, and Edward Sapir, White saw the delineation of the object of study not as a cognitive accomplishment of the anthropologist, but as a recognition of the actually existing and delineated phenomena which comprise the world.

Organizational patterns

Kroeber speaks of universal patterns that describe some overall scheme common to all human culture; of systemic patterns are broad but normative forms relating to beliefs, behaviors, signs, and economics; and total culture patterns that are local.

Organizational patterns also have roots in Kroeber's classic anthropological texts on the patterns that underlie culture and society.

The pattern aspect of Kroeber's view fits very well the systems-thinking pattern view of Christopher Alexander in the field of architecture.

Pacatnamu

Kroeber made some sketches of the main architectural features of the site but only of one portion of the site.

Victor Vaughn Morris

According to Peruvian researcher Guillermo Toro-Lira, among the notable individuals who attended Morris' Bar were Elmer Faucett (founder of the Faucett Perú airline), José Lindley (founder of the Corporación José R. Lindley S.A. and Inca Kola), Alfred L. Kroeber (the cultural anthropologist), and Richard Halliburton (an adventurer and cultural ambassador to Peru).

William Cabell Rives

His son, Alfred Landon Rives, was a prominent engineer, and his granddaughter Amélie Rives was a novelist, best known for The Quick or the Dead? (1888).

Woodrow W. Jones

Jones was elected in 1950 as a Democrat to the 81st Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative Alfred L. Bulwinkle.


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