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unusual facts about Donald A. Norman



Barilium

In 2010 it was reclassified as a separate genus by David Norman.

Canadian federal election, 1957

A final parliamentary conflict was sparked by the suicide of Canadian Ambassador to Egypt E.H. Norman in the midst of allegations made by a United States Senate subcommittee that Norman had communist links.

Charlie Hennigan

Then State Senator Harold Montgomery, State Representative, Parey Branton, Mayor Frank T. Norman, and other local officials presented Hennigan with a signed document of his accomplishments.

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

Dhammapada

The Word of the Doctrine, tr K. R. Norman, 1997, Pali Text Society, Bristol; the PTS's preferred translation

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. Mackay

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

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.

Fred B. Norman

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress.

Norman was elected in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress and served from January 3, 1947, until his death in Washington, D.C., on April 18, 1947.

Gartenlaube Waltz

Lloyd, Norman, The Golden Encyclopedia of Music, New York: Golden Press, a division of Western Publishing, Inc., 1968.

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

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.

M.E. Norman

On May 8, 1925, M.E. Norman was one of two ships used to provide a sightseeing tour for attendees and families of the Mid-South convention of the American Society of Civil Engineers in Memphis, Tennessee.

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.

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.

Strathcona, Alberta

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

Theragatha

Elders' Verses, volume I, tr K. R. Norman, 1969, Pali Text Society, Bristol; the PTS's preferred translation; also available in paperback as Poems of Early Buddhist Monks, without the translator's notes

Trixolan

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

Victor D. Norman

He is currently professor of economics at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) and Chairman of the Institute for Research in Economics and Business Administration.

Yerxa

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

Yolande of Dreux, Queen of Scotland

Macdougall, Norman, "L'Écosse à la fin du XIIIe sieclè: un royaume menacé" in James Laidlaw (ed.) The Auld Alliance: France and Scotland over 700 Years. Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, 1999.

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.


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