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Agency for Science, Technology and Research

The scientific leadership includes Tan Chorh Chuan, George Radda, Sydney Brenner, David Lane, Charles Zukoski and used to include Prof Low Teck Seng.

Bird's Point, Missouri

Union cavalry under David P. Jenkins guarded the region for the early part of the war, deterring Confederate attempts to regain control of the supply routes.

Cambodian genocide denial

The witnesses were Barron and three academics who specialized in Cambodia: David P. Chandler, who would become perhaps the most prominent American scholar of Cambodia, Peter Poole, and Gareth Porter.

David Chandler

David P. Chandler, American historian specializing in Cambodian history

David Dobkin

David P. Dobkin (born 1948), computer scientist and the Dean of the Faculty at Princeton University

David Gardner

David P. Gardner (born 1933), president of the University of California and also president of the University of Utah

David Goldman

David P. Goldman, writer and economist, and columnist under the pen name Spengler

David Landau

David P. Landau (born 1941), professor of physics at the University of Georgia

David Nash

David P. Nash (1947/8–1968), United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

David P. Anderson

In 2002 he created the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing project, which develops an open-source software platform for volunteer computing.

David P. Boder

David Pablo Boder (9 November 1886 Liepāja, Latvia – 18 December 1961), was a professor of psychology at Illinois Institute of Technology when, in 1946, he traveled to Europe to record the experiences of Holocaust survivors.

David P. Brewster

Elected as a Democrat, Brewster was United States Representative for the seventeenth district of New York during the Twenty-sixth as well as the Twenty-seventh Congresses and served from March 4, 1839 to March 3, 1843.

David P. Bushnell

Bushnell was a first cousin of David Bushnell of Saybrook, Connecticut, who designed and built the first submarine used in war, against the British in 1776, and a first cousin of the theologian Horace Bushnell, of Hartford, Connecticut.

David P. Calleo

Calleo owns an estate on the Italian island of Elba, where he spends his summers researching and hosting academics and other notables.

David P. Campbell

For this accomplishment, he was awarded the E.K. Strong, Jr Gold Medal for excellence in psychological testing research, an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Colorado in 1998, and the 2001 Distinguished Professional Contributions Award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

David P. Chandler

He has been a Senior Advisor at the Center for Khmer Studies in Siem Reap; a USAID consultant evaluating Cambodia's democracy and governance programs; an Asia Foundation consultant assessing Phnom Penh election activities.

David P. Cooley

At approximately 10 a.m. on the morning of March 25, 2009, an F-22A piloted by Cooley crashed at Harper Dry Lake, near Lockhart, California about 35 miles northeast of Edwards Air Force Base.

David P. Goldman

Goldman earned his BA in Columbia University in 1973, and completed his doctoral studies in economics at London School of Economics in 1976.

David P. Gushee

He has also received the Evangelical Press Association's Christian Journalism Award for 1991, 1992 and 1997.

David P. Jenkins

During the American Civil War, Jenkins served in Union Army under Generals Grant, Pope, Sherman and Burnside in the Western Theater.

David P. Landau

Not to be confused with Lev Landau.

David P. Mapes

Born in Coxsackie, New York, Mapes was in the lumber and steamboat transportation business.

David P. Penhallow

When his former professor, William S. Clark was asked by the Japanese government to assist in the founding of Sapporo Agricultural College (now Hokkaido University), Penhallow accompanied Clark and another MAC graduate, William Wheeler, to teach botany and chemistry.

Penhallow left Harvard in 1882 to become a botanist and chemist at the Houghton Farm Experiment Station which was located in Houghton, New York, however the station closed only one year later.

During his stay in Japan, Penhallow travelled across the archipelago and among other accomplishments became the first westerner to stay with the Ainu peoples.

David P. Robbins

Robbins constant, the average distance between two random points in a unit cube

David P. Schmitt

The ISDP is the largest-ever cross-cultural research study on sex and personality.

David P. Tyndall

Politicians such as Taoisigh (Irish Prime Ministers) Éamon de Valera, Liam Cosgrave, and Jack Lynch supported business initiatives by David P. Tyndall and his sons.

David P. Valcourt

He was previously the Commanding General of the Field Artillery Center and Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

David P. Watts

He directed the Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda founded by Dian Fossey for two years, and is doing research on chimpanzees in a long term study at Ngogo National Park in Uganda.

David P. Weikart

In the fall of 1956 he enrolled in a University of Michigan joint PhD program in Education and Psychology sponsored by the School of Education and Department of Psychology.

David Reynolds

David P. Reynolds (1915–2011), Chairman emeritus of Reynolds Metals Co.

Eric Buckson

Buckson is the son of former Governor of Delaware, David P. Buckson.

Gabriel Duvall

Whether Duvall is deserving of the title of "the most insignificant" Justice in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court has been the subject of much academic interest, most notably a debate between University of Chicago Law Professors David P. Currie and (now-Judge) Frank H. Easterbrook in 1983.

Grey Eminence

Political and economic commentator David P. Goldman called this book "the best book on the intelligence operations of the French state" during the Thirty Years' War.

InterBase

Although InterBase's implementation is much more similar to the system described by Reed in his MIT dissertation than any other database that existed at the time and Starkey knew Bernstein from his previous position at the Computer Corporation of America and later at DEC, Starkey has stated that he arrived at the idea of multiversion concurrency control independently.

Manuel Kauers

The second conjecture proven by Kauers, Koutschan and Zeilberger was the so-called q-TSPP conjecture, a product formula for the orbit generating function of totally symmetric plane partitions, which was formulated by George Andrews and David Robbins in the early 1980s.

National Commission on Excellence in Education

It was chaired by David P. Gardner and included prominent members such as Nobel prize-winning chemist Glenn T. Seaborg.

New York Communist

No sooner had the second edition of The New York Communist appeared when David P. Berenberg, a party regular affiliated with the Rand School of Social Science, launched a new factional document from the other side of the debate, mockingly entitled The New York Socialist.

New York state election, 1864

Ex-Prison Inspector David P. Forrest (in office 1860-1862) was nominated again after a large majority was felt halfway through an informal vote.

OpenQwaq

The main developers of this family of technologies include Alan Kay, David Smith, Andreas Raab and David Reed, whose 1978 doctoral thesis on naming and synchronizations in a decentralized computer system introduced many of the main concepts.

Oral history

In 1946, David P. Boder, a professor of psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, traveled to Europe to record long interviews with "displaced persons"—most of them Holocaust survivors.

Otto Christian Neuman

On May 27, 1903, Neuman married Fannie Mapes, daughter of David P. Mapes, a former member of the New York State Assembly and founder of Ripon College.

Shahine Robinson

In November 2011, Robinson filed a challenge to the costs order in the Supreme Court on the grounds that it was excessive; she particularly objected to the J$5 million paid to professor David P. Rowe for a legal opinion about her citizenship, arguing that the information could have been obtained at much lower cost from U.S. government sources.

Special Operations Command Pacific

David P. Fridovich commanded from 2005 to 2007, and then Salvatore F. Cambria.

The Myth of Monogamy

The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People is a 2001 book by psychologist David P. Barash and psychiatrist Judith Eve Lipton.


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