MacDonald's early skepticism regarding plate tectonics stemmed from his detailed study, with Walter Munk, of the rotation of the Earth.
Gordon J. F. MacDonald (1929–2002), geophysicist and environmental scientist
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Honorary club president Hugh John Macdonald, former Manitoba premier, and son of former Canadian Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald made a speech.
William A. Macdonald served as Leader of the Opposition in 1893.
It is named after the former premier of Nova Scotia, Angus L. Macdonald, who had died in 1954 and had been instrumental in having the bridge built.
After receiving a Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass., in 1992, he was transferred to Seoul, Korea, where he served as Chief, Operational Law Division, on the staffs of United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command, and United States Forces Korea.
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Carol Rosenberg, of the Miami Herald, reports that MacDonald had testified before the United States Congress on numerous occasions, defending the Guantanamo Military Commission system.
Bruce E. MacDonald (born 1955), formerly a senior lawyer with the US Navy
On October 1, 1943, then a major, joined the 475th Fighter Group at Dobodura, New Guinea as the group executive officer.
One of Brown's most important tasks during his time at Public Works was to convince the serving Prime Minister of Canada, Sir John A. Macdonald, that the future of Manitoba depended on the issuing of railway charters (disallowed by Ottawa).
He returned to his unit after a few weeks and was seriously wounded on December 21, 1944 during the Battle of Senio River.
Daniel C. MacDonald (1882–?), politician in Prince Edward Island, Canada
In 1976, President of the United States Gerald Ford nominated Macdonald as Under Secretary of the Navy and Macdonald held this office from September 14, 1976 to February 4, 1977.
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Macdonald practiced law at Baker & McKenzie until 1974, when he left the firm upon being appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (Enforcement, Operations, and Tariff Affairs).
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David Robert Macdonald (born 1930) was United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (Enforcement, Operations, and Tariff Affairs) from 1974 to 1976; as Under Secretary of the Navy from 1976 to 1977; and as Deputy U.S. Trade Representative from 1981 to 1983.
The school was named after two of the fathers of the Canadian Confederation, Sir John A. Macdonald (1815-1891) and Sir George-Étienne Cartier (1814-1873).
The feature was noted in U.S. satellite imagery of 1973, and in aerial photographs obtained subsequently, by William R. MacDonald of the United States Geological Survey, who originally described it to William A. Cassidy as "a possible nunatak having an outline similar to an elephant."
Inspired as much by the ideas of Marshall Mcluhan and Disney's Epcot Center as by other museums like the Smithsonian Institution, MacDonald's version of the museum included interactive displays, replicas, and an IMAX theatre.
Russell was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Reese C. De Graffenreid.
Gordon J. Russell (1859–1919), U.S. Representative from Texas and federal judge
Gordon J. Sullivan (born 1920), Canadian politician, 28th Canadian Parliament
The previous collapse after only three months of a coalition government formed by George-Étienne Cartier and Conservative John A. Macdonald (the sixth government in six years) had demonstrated that continued governance of Canada East and Canada West under the 1840 Act of Union had become untenable.
In 1957 he was the first recipient of the Thomas H. MacDonald Award for outstanding contributions to highway progress.
He was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1891 and assigned to Knox Presbyterian Church in St. Thomas.
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Macdonald continued his studied at Knox College, where he became editor of the Knox College Monthly.
Around the same time, he became influenced by the structuralist approaches of Claude Lévi-Strauss and, through the help of George F. MacDonald, began an intensive study of the Tsimshianic narratives collected by Marius Barbeau and William Beynon.
Julie A. MacDonald (born 1955), former U.S. Department of the Interior official
Planned and funded completely by William C. Macdonald, who also provided a $2 million operating endowment, it was designed by architects Alexander Cowper Hutchison and George W. Wood.
The series is set in a Canadian boarding school for boys called Macdonald Hall (named after John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada), located near the city of Toronto along Highway 48 and seven miles south of the fictitious town of Chutney.
At Halifax, July 4, 1859, he married Joanna Kenny, second daughter of Sir Edward Kenny, a cabinet minister in the Sir John A. Macdonald government.
The original name of the peak was Mount Carroll, but was renamed to honour the first Prime Minister of Canada, Sir John A. Macdonald.
Instead of running for a 6th term in the House of Representatives, he ran for the United States Senate in 1984 against Republican incumbent Gordon J. Humphrey and lost with 41%.
Since July 2000 he wrote a blog Electrolite until it was incorporated into his wife's blog Making Light in May 2005, where he now writes along with her, with Viable Paradise co-teacher, SF writer James D. Macdonald, and SF fans Avram Grumer and Abi Sutherland.
Paul A. MacDonald (1912–2006), American politician and lawyer from Maine
Peter learned landscape techniques from studying the work of Belmore Browne, Aldro T. Hibbard, Carl Rungius, and the Group of Seven painter J. E. H. MacDonald.
I.G. Macdonald, Symmetric Functions and Hall Polynomials, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999, ISBN 0-19-850450-0
MacDonald pulled a similar prank later during the 1960 presidential campaign when John F. Kennedy was the featured speaker at a rally at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
In fall 2011 he starred as the future first Canadian prime minister Sir John A. Macdonald in the CBC TV movie John A.: Birth of a Country.
The artwork by J. E. H. MacDonald, Frederick Varley, and Franklin Carmichael is religious iconography, something they are not generally known for.
For example, the utterance "The first Prime Minister of Canada" refers to a man who went by the name of Sir John A. Macdonald.
Up the Airy Mountain is the title of a short story by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald.
MacDonald, George F., and John J. Cove (eds.) (1987) Tsimshian Narratives. Collected by Marius Barbeau and William Beynon.
Happer, G. J. MacDonald, C. E. Max, and F. J. Dyson, "Atmospheric-turbulence compensation by resonant optical backscattering from the sodium layer in the upper atmosphere," J. Opt.
Although, in his words he did not take "any active interest in politics", he was a "true blue Conservative" and when he thought it necessary, he used his political connections and his personal friendship with Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir Charles Tupper to assist his clients.
William Johnson McDonald (1844–1926), American banker who endowed an astronomical observatory
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William John Macdonald (1832–1916), Canadian merchant and politician
Since the former convention is mainly used by Anglophones while the latter is often preferred by Francophones, it is customary to refer to these conventions respectively as the English notation and the French notation; for instance, in his book on symmetric functions, Macdonald advises readers preferring the French convention to "read this book upside down in a mirror" (Macdonald 1979, p.2).