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Donald A. Mackay

His illustrations appeared in Time, LIFE, The New Times, Newsweek, National Geographic, and other publications.


Cloud chamber

The bubble chamber was invented by Donald A. Glaser of the United States in 1952, and for this, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1960.

Coggan

Donald A. Coggan, American engineer and consultant in the field of value engineering

Colin Mackay

Colin B. Mackay (1920–2003), president of the University of New Brunswick, 1953–1969

Donald A. Coleman

Coleman is the founder, chairman and CEO of GlobalHue, the largest multicultural advertising agency in the United States, working with blue chip brands and organizations to communicate with African-American, Asian and Hispanic consumers.

He combined the companies into GlobalHue, specializing in a culture based approach to marketing.

Donald A. Crosby

2008- Chet Raymo - When God Is Gone, Everything Is Holy: Making of a Religious Naturalist, Sorin Books (September 2008), ISBN 1-933495-13-8

Donald A. Hall

He worked for the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, Elias & Brothers, and L.W.F. Engineering before moving to Santa Monica, California in 1924 to work for Douglas Aircraft.

He attended the Manual Training High School in Brooklyn, and graduated from the Pratt Institute with a certificate in mechanical engineering in 1917.

He returned to Douglas Aircraft, and began working part time for Ryan Airlines in San Diego.

Lindbergh later stated in his Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Spirit of St. Louis, that the decision to go with Ryan Airlines would depend primarily on his estimate of the chief engineer, Donald Hall.

Hall left Ryan Airlines in 1929 after the company became Mahoney-Ryan Airlines and later relocated to St. Louis.

Donald A. Martin

Among Martin's most notable work are the proofs of analytic determinacy (from the existence of a measurable cardinal), Borel determinacy (from ZFC alone), the proof (with John R. Steel) of projective determinacy (from suitable large cardinal axioms), and his work on Martin's axiom.

Donald A. Quarles

Donald Aubrey Quarles (July 30, 1894 - May 8, 1959) was a communications engineer, senior level executive with Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric, and a top official in the United States Department of Defense during the Eisenhower Administration.

Donald A. Swan

During the raid on Swan's apartment in Queens, New York, the police found Nazi memorabilia, weapons and ammunition.

Donald A. Thomas

Graduated from Cleveland Heights High School, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, in 1973; received a bachelor of science degree in Physics from Case Western Reserve University in 1977, and a master of science degree and a doctorate in Materials Science from Cornell University in 1980 and 1982, respectively.

Initially assigned to the ISS Expedition 6 crew, his flight assignment withdrawal resulted from a medical issue affecting long duration space flight qualifications.

Frank Miele

While an undergraduate, he became a regular contributor to Mankind Quarterly and collaborated with Donald A. Swan and A. James Gregor.

George Mandler

In 1965 he became the founding chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of California at San Diego and the founding Director of the Center for Human Information Processing (CHIP) the home of scientists such as Geoffrey Hinton, Donald A. Norman and David E. Rumelhart.

Hannah Milhous Nixon

Francis Donald Nixon (November 23, 1914 – June 27, 1987), married to Clara Jane Lemke and had three children, including Donald A. Nixon

John A. Mackay

Mackay joined the Y.M.C.A. as an evangelist and religious teacher moving his family to Montevideo, Uruguay, where the Y.M.C.A. operated a leadership institute.

When he was graduated in 1915, he won a fellowship in didactic and polemic theology, which he used toward studies in Spanish culture at Madrid, Spain, to prepare for missionary work in Latin America.

Mimic 2

Mimic 2 is a 2001 science fiction horror film, directed by Jean de Segonzac, with a script inspired by a short story of the same name by Donald A. Wollheim.

Mr. Mackay

MacKay went on to be a drill sergeant in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and he brings the same manner and expectations of discipline to his job at HMP Slade.

Postage stamps and postal history of Japan

Mackay, James. A. The World Encyclopedia of Stamps and Stamp Collecting.

Robert V. Bruce

In April 1998, Bruce accused Scottish historian James A. Mackay of plagiarizing his book Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and The Conquest of Solitude, even as Mackay acknowledged Bruce on page 12 of his book.

St Francis Xavier Parish, Mackay

Father Dolan studied for the priesthood at the great missionary college of All Hallows College, Dublin, Ireland, and was ordained in 1925.

St Patrick's College, Mackay

Wendell Sailor – dual-code international Rugby League and Rugby Union player and TV personality

Graeme Connors – Country music singer, songwriter, and performer

Strathcona, Alberta

On May 29, 1899, Strathcona was incorporated as a town named after Lord Strathcona, Donald A. Smith.

The Brunswickan

Among its notable alumni are Colin B. Mackay, Bliss Carman, Charles G. D. Roberts, Dalton Camp, Fredrik Eaton, Nathan White, Sean Patrick Sullivan, Chris Wilson-Smith, Ben Conoley, Donald Pringle and Kwame Dawes.

Trixolan

Trixolan was linked in headlines to American fugitive Robert Lee Vesco and to Donald A. Nixon, President Richard Nixon's nephew.

University of New Brunswick

This prompted Lord Beaverbrook, as Chancellor, and UNB President Colin B. Mackay, to permanently move the Saint John Law School to the UNB Fredericton campus, despite the Dean's objections.

Yerxa

Donald A. Yerxa, author co-director of The Historical Society (THS) at Boston University (BU)


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