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4 unusual facts about Frank B. McDonald


Frank B. McDonald

From 1982 to 1987, as NASA Chief Scientist, McDonald was a principal adviser to the NASA administrator and other senior officials.

In 1959, McDonald became one of the first scientists to join NASA's new Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

He was a key force behind several initiatives and programs of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, for which he served as chief scientist.

Frank McDonald

Frank B. McDonald (1925–2012), astrophysicist and creator of the Voyager probe


Andrew J. McDonald

McDonald opposed a Three Strikes Law favored by Governor Jodi Rell to mandate life terms to career violent criminals; that measure failed to pass.

Archie McLeod

Helen (died in 2007) was married to retired Church of Scotland minister and former Moderator Alexander "Sandy" McDonald and they had three children, the youngest of whom is actor David Tennant.

Arthur B. McDonald

Theoretical models of the Sun predict that neutrinos should be made in staggering numbers.

McDonald and Yoji Totsuka were awarded the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics "for discovering that the three known types of elementary particles called neutrinos change into one another when traveling over sufficiently long distances, and that neutrinos have mass".

Charles McDonald

Charles C. McDonald (born 1933), general in the United States Air Force

Cooper School

Frank B. Cooper School, Seattle, Washington, listed on the NRHP as Frank B. Cooper Elementary School

Craig Unger

According to Newsweek, George W. Bush couldn't have been involved with the Carlyle Group, which owned BDM, when the $1.18 billion deal was made, because "former president Bush didn't join the Carlyle advisory board until April, 1998—five months after Carlyle had already sold BDM to another defense firm."

Craig, Nebraska

Ira J. McDonald, Los Angeles City Council member, 1941–43, born in Craig

David J. McDonald, Jr.

He is married to Maura McDonald and has two sons: Sean McDonald and Charles McDonald.

Domino's Pizza, Inc. v. McDonald

, 107 Fed. Appx. 18 (9th Cir. 2004).

Donald Blackburn

Following his retirement from military service, Blackburn took a position with Braddock Dunn & McDonald, where he served as vice president, special projects until he retired in 1979.

Edward F. McDonald

McDonald was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1891, until his death in Harrison on November 5, 1892 just a few days before the Congressional election.

Eugene F. McDonald

Moving to Chicago in 1904, he became an automobile salesman with the Franklin Auto Company and, as a publicity stunt, once drove a car up the steps of the General Logan Monument in Grant Park—with a photographer present and a policeman there to arrest him.

Frank B. Archer

He was president pro tem of the Ohio State Senate 1902-1904.

Frank B. Davison

His great-grandson, Kenneth Davison McClintock, following in his political footsteps, serves as the current Secretary of State and lieutenant governor of Puerto Rico.

Frank B. Jewett

He graduated from the Throop Institute of Technology (later the California Institute of Technology) in 1898, and received the doctoral degree in physics in 1902 from the University of Chicago (IL).

Frank B. Kellogg

Kellogg was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate from Minnesota in 1916 and served from March 4, 1917 to March 4, 1923 in the 65th, 66th, and 67th Congresses.

Frank B. Livingstone

Livingstone was born in Winchester, Massachusetts to Guy P. Livingstone and Margery Brown Livingstone.

Frank B. Morse

After the death of Edith Nourse Rogers in September 1960, he was selected by the Republican Party to take her place on the ballot and was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh Congress in November 1960.

Frank B. Salisbury

A member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salisbury argues that there is evidence of God having created life.

Frank B. Willis

Willis's official papers were donated to and are open for research at the Ohio Historical Society.

During his Senate tenure, Willis served as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Territories and Insular Possessions, which had jurisdiction over territories including Alaska, Hawaii, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico, from 1923 to 1928.

Frank B. Wynn

Dr. Goddard became world famous for his introduction of IQ testing in America, and he had correspondence with Dr. Albert Einstein.

Frank Davison

Frank B. Davison, 1855–1935, considered one of the founding fathers of Texas City, Texas

Frank Holman

Frank B. Holman (1930–2005), American Republican Party politician from New Jersey

Helen L. Gilson

After, she moved back to Chelsea, Massachusetts where she worked as a governess for her cousins, children of her uncle Frank B. Fay, the mayor of Chelsea.

Hot Coffee

Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants, a 1994 product liability lawsuit involving spilt hot coffee

Ira J. McDonald

McDonald was born May 1, 1895, in Craig, Nebraska, the son of John S. McDonald and Amanda B. Hildreth, both of Jamestown, Tennessee.

J.M. McDonald

After about six months in Kemmerer, McDonald went to Spokane, Washington, to assists his brothers in a department store venture there.

In April 1905, McDonald moved to Kemmerer, Wyoming to assist James Cash Penney, a former neighbor of his in Hamilton, in operating his first store.

Joseph McDonald

Joseph A. McDonald (1866–1930), American businessman influential in the steel industry

Joseph E. McDonald (1819–1891), U.S. Representative and Senator from Indiana

Klepper

Frank B. Klepper (1864, St. Missouri - 1933), an U.S. Representative from Missouri

Levelland, Texas

However, several prominent UFO researchers, among them Dr. James E. McDonald, a physicist at the University of Arizona, and Dr. J. Allen Hynek, an astronomer at Northwestern University, disputed this explanation.

Matthew Riddle

Riddle faced Che Mills on February 16, 2013 at UFC on Fuel TV: Barao vs. McDonald.

Northern Wedding

Vice Admiral Wesley L. McDonald, Commander, Second Fleet, gave a news conference to a group of U.S. and international journalists in the carrier’s ‘War Room’ on the 9th, describing in some detail the significance of the exercise – normally held every four years – in preparing the allies to resist a Soviet-led attack against the West.

Robert A. McDonald

In 1989 he transferred to Toronto to lead P&G's Canadian Laundry business, and moved to the Philippines as General Manager in 1991.

Sexual abuse scandal in Bridgeport diocese

Bishop William E. Lori has opposed legislation by State Representative Michael P. Lawlor and State Senator Andrew J. McDonald that would remove control of the diocese from the bishop and place it into the hands of laymen.

Trans-Oceanic

Zenith's founder, Commander Eugene F. McDonald, was a great admirer of advanced technological development and believed that his company's products should include the latest, most practical advances in a well-built product that continued to enhance the company's reputation.

Umkhonto we Sizwe

University of California Irvine (UCI) professor Frank B. Wilderson III wrote about his experience working with MK in the 1990s in his 2008 memoir Incognegro.

William E. Lori

Lori has opposed legislation in Connecticut proposed by State Rep. Michael P. Lawlor and Sen. Andrew McDonald that would remove control of the diocese from the bishop and place it in the control of the laity.

Willis–Campbell Act

The Willis–Campbell Act of 1921, sponsored by Sen. Frank B. Willis (R) of Ohio and Rep. Philip P. Campbell (R) of Kansas, prohibited doctors from prescribing beer or liquor as a “drug” to treat ailments.


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