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George Burgess

George K. Burgess (1874–1932), American physicist, scientific writer and translator, expert on metallurgy


Alliance to Save Energy

Congressional vice chairs also include Representatives Brian Bilbray (R-CA), Michael Burgess (R–TX), Ralph Hall (R– TX), Steve Israel (D–NY), Edward J. Markey (D–MA), and Paul Tonko (D–NY).

Blorenge Buttress

The feature was geologically mapped by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition, 1976–77, led by Christopher J. Burgess who named it after The Blorenge, a mountain in Wales, Great Britain.

Dwarf lanternshark

American ichthyologists Stewart Springer and George H. Burgess described the dwarf lanternshark from specimens collected via trawling by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service research ship Oregon in 1964.

Edward M. Burgess

From 1956-1959 Burgess served as an officer aboard the US Navy destroyer, USS Stormes (DD-780), a ship assigned to both the U.S. Atlantic and Mediterranean fleets.

George Cockerill

Sir George K. Cockerill (1867–1957), British Army officer and Conservative Member of Parliament for Reigate 1918–1931

George Gay

George K. Gay (1810–1882), Oregon pioneer who participated in the Provisional Government

George H. Burgess

He is the director of the International Shark Attack File and author/coauthor of numerous books and papers on sharks and other fish.

George K. Anderson

He later graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School and Tulane University.

George K. Arthur

He won an Academy Award for Best Short Film in 1956 for the film The Bespoke Overcoat.

George K. Brady

He was the son of Jasper Ewing Brady, a lawyer who later served as a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, and whose uncles included noted Indian fighters Samuel Brady and Hugh Brady.

He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the 17th Infantry in March 1891 and commanded that regiment at Fort D. A. Russell.

George K. Cockerill

At the December 1910 general election he stood unsuccessfully as the Conservative candidate in the Thornbury division of Gloucestershire.

George K. Denton

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress.

George K. Hollister

Traveling to Ireland with Olcott's crew that included leading lady and principal screenwriter, Gene Gauntier, and actor Robert Vignola, George Hollister shot The Lad From Old Ireland plus a number of film shorts in Blarney Castle, Glengarriff and at the Lakes of Killarney.

George K. James

George Kepford 'Lefty' James (Lower Allen, Penn., Apr. 12, 1905 - Sarasota, Fla., Jan. 9, 1994) was an American football head coach at Cornell University from 1947 to 1960.

His former quarterback, Peter Dorset, was coaching small-fry football in Cortland, New York, when he spotted Gary Wood as a potential Cornell players.

George K. Sanderson

His father John P. Sanderson was already a lieutenant colonel of this regiment serving form from May 14, 1861 until July 4, 1863.

Captain Sanderson was transferred to 33rd U.S. Infantry 21 Sept 1866 and served as Acting Assistant Adjutant-General (AAAG), on the staff of Brevet Major General Pope commanding, Third Military District, at Headquarters (Atlanta, Georgia).

George Miley

George K. Miley, physicist, professor of astronomy at Leiden University, see Meanings of minor planet names: 6001–6500

International Shark Attack File

It is currently under the direction of members of the American Elasmobranch Society, including George H. Burgess.

John P. Burgess

He coauthored another book Computability and Logic with George Boolos and Richard Jeffrey.

Mars Hills

The name was proposed in 1977 by New Zealand geologist Christopher J. Burgess in association with the Viking Hills and because of the color resemblance to that of the planet Mars.

Primitive recursive function

George Boolos, John Burgess, Richard Jeffrey (2002), Computability and Logic: Fourth Edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

Switch statement

George Boolos, John Burgess, and Richard Jeffrey, 2002, Computability and Logic: Fourth Edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, ISBN 0-521-00758-5 paperback.

U.S. Lighting Energy Policy

This bill was introduced to the 112th Congress on February 16, 2011 by Rep. Michael C. Burgess of Texas.


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