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David B. A. Epstein

David Epstein was born in 1937 in Pretoria, South Africa to Ben Epstein and Pauline (or Polly) Alper, both Jewish of Lithuanian descent, though Polly was born in South Africa.


Alek D. Epstein

His M.A. and Ph.D. dissertations were supervised by Martin van Creveld and Baruch Kimmerling.

The speakers at the presentation included Victor Bondarenko, Marat Gelman, Roman Bagdasarov and others, while an extensive interview with the author was published on the website of the Radio Free Europe.

Benjamin P. Birdsall

In 1902, Birdsall was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth Congress, after the incumbent, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives David B. Henderson chose not to run for re-election.

Bermuda Flicker

Though most material is from Late Pleistocene deposits unearthed by Storrs L. Olson, David B. Wingate and others in the Admirals Cave, the Wilkinson Quarry, and in the Walsingham Sink Cave in Hamilton Parish in Bermuda in 1981 there is one bone, a tarsometatarsus from a juvenile, which is from a Holocene layer in the Spittal Pond.

Boston Confucians

(Philip J. Ivanhoe, Joel J. Kupperman and David B. Wong would fall into this latter category.) Consequently, "Boston Confucian" is a term more closely linked to geography than intellectual content.

David A. N. Epstein

Epstein was appointed Group Executive for Government and Corporate Affairs at Qantas Airways Limited in 2008, and served on the Qantas Executive Committee.

David B. Allison

Allison founded the Section of Statistical Genetics (SSG) in the Department of Biostatistics at UAB, he has authored over 475 scientific publications and edited five books.

David B. Culberson

Culberson attended the Democratic state convention in 1868 and served as a presidential elector in the Presidential Election of 1872 pledged to Horace Greeley (who died before Texas' electoral votes could be cast) but casting his ballot ultimately for Benjamin Gratz Brown.

David B. Dunn

From 2002 to 2005 he served as Principal Officer at the Consulate General in Johannesburg, South Africa.

David B. Harris

He is a former Senior Fellow for Terrorism and National Security at the now-defunct Canadian Coalition for Democracies.

David B. Jones Special

The David B. Jones Special was a one-time, passenger train operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway from Los Angeles, California to Chicago, Illinois at the request of David Benton Jones.

David B. Pakman

As a Partner in Venrock’s New York City office, David focuses on early stage venture investing in internet and digital media companies.

At Penn, Pakman's Senior Design Project advisor was David J. Farber.

David B. Samadi

Women go through more preventive screening; they give birth; they have mammograms and PAP smears; men do not like to go to the doctor.

David B. Weishampel

Weishampel's most well known published work is The Dinosauria University of California Press; 2nd edition (December 1, 2004).

David Epstein

David G. Epstein, professor at the University of Richmond School of Law and bankruptcy expert

David Hill

David B. Hill (1843–1910), Governor of the U.S. se of New York, 1885–1891, U.S. Senator from New York, 1892–1897

David Rivkin

David B. Rivkin (born 1956), American attorney and conservative commentator

David Sullivan

David B. Sullivan (born 1953), member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

David Woods

David B. Woods, USN Admiral, former commandant Guantanamo prison camp

Émile Bravo

In 1992, he became a member of the "Atelier Nawak" (later the Atelier des Vosges) and their publishing branch L'Association, working together with people like Joann Sfar, Lewis Trondheim, David B., and Christophe Blain.

Epstein–Barr virus

The Epstein–Barr virus is named after Michael Anthony Epstein, a professor emeritus at the University of Bristol, and Yvonne Barr (born 1932 in London), a 1966 Ph.D graduate from the University of London, who together discovered and documented the virus.

Fritz T. Epstein

He undertook his Habilitationschrift at the University of Hamburg, under Richard Salomon, from 1926 to 1931, and Frankfurt University from 1932 to 1933, on the International Relations of the Soviet Union and the Allied Intervention in the post-revolutionary period of civil war of 1917-1921.

In 1962, he joined the faculty of Indiana University as professor and curator of the Slavic collections.

Gustav Haloun

Honey, David B., Incense at the Altar: Pioneering Sinologists and the Development of Classical Chinese Philology, 2001, pp. 152-66.

Hypselospinus

In May 2010 the fossils comprising Hypselospinus were by David Norman reclassified as a separate genus, among them the holotype BMNH R1635, consisting of a left ilium, a sacrum, tail vertebrae and teeth.

Jeffrey Colwell

In late 2011 newly appointed camp commander David B. Woods, the officer who controlled the captive's daily life, ordered new, highly restrictive rules on lawyers communicating with their clients.

Jonathan H. Adler

Before becoming an academic, Adler clerked for the Honorable David B. Sentelle on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Joshua M. Epstein

He is an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, and was recently appointed to the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Identifying and Prioritizing New Preventive Vaccines.

Kristen Silverberg

Prior to coming to work for the White House, Silverberg served as a law clerk, first to Appellate Court Judge David B. Sentelle, and later to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

Maureen Ohlhausen

Before coming to the FTC, Ohlhausen spent five years at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, serving as a law clerk for Judge David B. Sentelle and as a staff attorney.

Michael A. Epstein

Epstein was educated at St. Paul's School (London) in London, Trinity College, Cambridge and Middlesex Hospital Medical School.

Michael A. Stackpole

An outer main-belt asteroid discovered March 23, 2001 by David B. Healy was named 165612 Stackpole.

Michael Fritsch

Together with David B. Audretsch he developed the conceptual model of regional growth regimes whereby regions are classified in accordance to the level of the regional start-up rate and employment growth.

Nikolay Kavkazsky

The prominent sociologist, historian and a civil activist Alek D. Epstein published an article about Nikolay Kavkazsky and included his diary entries related to the events.

Old Deer

The village is the birthplace of David B. Henderson, one of only two foreign born Speakers of the United States House of Representatives.

Pacifica Forum

The former president of the UO, David B. Frohnmayer, criticized the Pacifica Forum and stated that its views do not represent those of the university.

Philip G. Epstein

He had written it in partnership with his twin brother, Julius, and Howard Koch as an adaptation of the unproduced play, Everybody Comes to Rick's, written by Murray Bennett and Joan Alison.

Polyominoid

Polyominoids appear to have been first proposed by Richard A. Epstein.

Probactrosaurus

In 2002 David Bruce Norman published a revision of the genus, in which he reported the holotype specimen of P. alshanicus, the back of a skull, had been lost after being dispatched from Moscow to Beijing.

Richard Lesley Voorhees

On July 31, 1987, Voorhees was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to a seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina vacated by David B. Sentelle.

Robert A. Maxwell

On December 28, 1885, he was appointed as Superintendent of Insurance by Governor David B. Hill to take office on January 1, 1886, and remained in this office until February 1891 when he was succeeded by James F. Pierce.

Steve Vaillancourt

Shawn Jasper, R-Hudson, Rep. David Hess, R-Hooksett, and Rep. David B. Campbell, D-Nashua) was formed in order to compel Vaillancourt to form an acceptable apology to the House; Vaillancourt offered two unaccepted apologies, one offering never to mention any German words on the floor, until his third apology was finally accepted by the House.

Sugarscape

John Conway's agent-based simulation "Game of Life" was enhanced and applied to Schelling's original idea by Joshua M. Epstein and Robert Axtell in their book Growing Artificial Societies.

Zalmoxes

In 2003 David Weishampel, Coralia-Maria Jianu, Zoltan Csiki and David Bruce Norman named a new genus for the finds: Zalmoxes, a spelling variant of Zalmoxis.

Zemel v. Rusk

Chief Justice Earl Warren, writing for the majority, held that the three-judge trial court was properly convened and that the Court therefore had jurisdiction over the appeal, citing Idlewild Liquor Corp. v. Epstein, 370 U. S. 713.


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