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3 unusual facts about Harold E. Johns


Cobalt therapy

In 1949, Dr. Harold E. Johns of the University of Saskatchewan sent a request to the National Research Council (NRC) asking them to produce Cobalt-60 isotopes for use in a cobalt therapy unit prototype.

Harold E. Johns

A meeting in August 1946 with William Valentine Mayneord, while Mayneord was at the Atomic Energy Project at Chalk River, Ontario, contributed to Johns's making a career in medical physics.

William Valentine Mayneord

It was during a meeting in 1946 with a young Harold Elford Johns, inventor of the cobalt-60 teletherapy unit, that Johns was prompted to go into medical physics.


Anerley

Arthur Bigsworth, aviator was born in Anerley in 1885, said to be the inspiration for W. E. Johns' fictional hero Biggles.

Arthur Bigsworth

It has been claimed that W. E. Johns based some aspects of his fictional hero Biggles (surname Bigglesworth) on the real-life Bigsworth, with whom he had worked at the Air Ministry.

Astereae

Guy L. Nesom and Harold E. Robinson have been two of the most important taxonomists involved in the recent work and are continuing to re-categorise the genera within the tribe worldwide.

Bartram Trail

Bartram Trail High School at St. Johns, Florida (just south of Jacksonville) is named for the scenic highway and Bartram's exploration route around the Northern St. Johns County area.

Being Nikki

The novel begins with us meeting Emerson Watts as she is on a model shoot in St. Johns, clinging onto a rock cliff over a group of nurse sharks, for a commercial for Stark Brand deodorant.

Benjamin Hinman

Although ravaged by sickness, his regiment was the nucleus of the army led to Canada by General Montgomery and was present at the battle of St. Johns, the reduction of Montreal, and siege of Quebec.

Centre for Appropriate Rural Development

The Centre for Appropriate Rural Development (CART) is a community based sustainable development project based in Sicambeini Village, near Port St. Johns, South Africa.

Charles A. Johns

On June 4, 1918, Johns was appointed to the Oregon Supreme Court to replace Wallace McCamant by Governor James Withycombe after McCamant resigned.

Chattanooga Times Free Press

Pulitzer Prize winner for national reporting, 1956, for articles leading to the resignation of Secretary of the Air Force Harold E. Talbott.

In 1956, Charles L. Bartlett of the Washington Bureau of The Chattanooga Times won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting, for articles leading to the resignation of the secretary of the Air Force, Harold E. Talbott.

Don Dubbins

Child actor Stephen Talbot delivers a compelling role as Ab Martin, Cantwell's prize pupil who at the end of the episode recites to his dying teacher part of Patrick Henry's 1775 address at St. Johns' Church.

Frank T. Johns

Johns was posthumously awarded a Carnegie Medal for Heroism, which paid his widowed wife (who died in 1933) and the couple's two daughters a stipend of $1,000 per year.

Fred Beir

Child actor Stephen Talbot of Leave It to Beaver delivers a compelling role as Ab Martin, Cantwell's prize pupil who at the end of the episode recites to his dying teacher part of Patrick Henry's famous address of 1775 at St. Johns' Church.

Front Page Woman

The plots of the 1937 release Back in Circulation, allegedly based on a story by Adela Rogers St. Johns, and the 1938 Torchy Blane film Blondes at Work are very similar to Front Page Woman.

George Edward MacKenzie Skues

Skues was born on 13 August 1858 in St. Johns, Newfoundland and was the eldest child of William MacKenzie Skues, at the time surgeon to the Newfoundland Companies.

Gesneriaceae

Botanists who have made significant contributions to the systematics of the family are George Bentham, Robert Brown, B.L. Burtt, C.B. Clarke, Olive Mary Hilliard, Joseph Dalton Hooker, William Jackson Hooker, Karl Fritsch, Elmer Drew Merrill, Harold E. Moore, Jr., John L. Clark, Conrad Vernon Morton, Henry Nicholas Ridley, Laurence Skog, W.T. Wang, Anton Weber, and Hans Wiehler.

Harold E. Kleinert

Born near Sunburst, Montana, Kleinert graduated from Temple University Medical School in 1946 and received its Distinguished Alumni Scientific Achievement Award in Surgery in 1987.

Harold E. Lambert

His subsequent postings were as District Commissioner in Kiambu, Lamu, Embu, Kenya, Voi, and other places, where he gained an "outstanding" reputation as an administrator known for his "profound" knowledge of indigenous law and culture (especially Kikuyu).

Harold E. Lurier

Crusaders as Conquerors: The Chronicle of Morea, Columbia University Press (1964), ISBN 978-0-231-02298-9, This book is an annotated translation from the original Greekvverse version of Chronicle of the Morea (Greek: Το χρονικόν του Μορέως), a famous historical account of the Frankish principality of Morea in southern Greece, written in the 14th century.

Harold E. Palmer

In 1902, he went to Belgium and started teaching English at Berlitz school.

Harold E. Varmus

That same year, he entered the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and later worked at a missionary hospital in Bareilly, India and the Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital.

Varmus is an avid bicyclist and an Advisory Committee member of Transportation Alternatives the New York City-based advocacy group for pedestrians and cyclists.

Harold Froehlich

Harold E. Froehlich (1923–2007), American engineer who designed deep-diving exploratory submarine

Harold Jones

Harold E. Jones Child Study Center, a research center affiliated with the University of California at Berkeley

Harold Thompson

Harold E. Thompson (1921-2003), American helicopter aviation pioneer

Ingo Swann

Both Geller and Swann were tested by two experimenters, Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff, who concluded that they did indeed have unique skills.

John Battersby Crompton Lamburn

During his time in Iceland Lamburn, the putative original for “William” of the Richmal Crompton books, came into contact with Air Commander Cecil George Wigglesworth, speculated to be the original for “Biggles” of the stories by W. E. Johns.

Lorgnette

The lorgnette was employed as a prop and affectation by early 20th century trial lawyer Earl Rogers, and one is featured on the front cover dust jacket of his biography, Final Verdict, by his daughter Adela Rogers St. Johns.

Lutterworth Press

The children's list, which built on the strength of the Boy's Own Paper and Girl's Own Paper, has included well-known authors such as Enid Blyton, W.E. Johns, and Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Mark C. Johns

His first foray into politics was a run against congresswoman Louise Slaughter for New York's 28th congressional district in 2000.

Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 1958

In the race for Lieutenant Governor, Democrat Robert F. Murphy, defeated Republican Elmer C. Nelson, Prohibition candidate Harold E. Bassett, and Socialist Labor candidate Francis A. Votano.

Particularly dangerous situation

The first PDS tornado watch was issued by Robert H. Johns for the April 2, 1982 tornado outbreak across the southern and central Great Plains.

Raymond E. Johns, Jr.

# June 1996 - August 1998, Commander, 60th Operations Group, Travis AFB, Calif. (October 1996 - January 1997, Director of Mobility Forces, Operation Joint Endeavor, Bosnia)

Return to Mars

:There is also a 1955 juvenile science fiction novel of this name by W. E. Johns.

Robert H. Johns

Now retired, he is working on a project reanalyzing the Tri-State Tornado.

St. Johns, Michigan

Leo Burnett - Advertising Executive, Founder of Chicago-based Advertising Company Leo Burnett Worldwide

U.S. Route 180

Shortly after following South Navajo Boulevard, however, US 180 follows a South-Southeast route, running by the Petrified Forest National Park and continuing South-Southeast to and through a small branch of the Zuni Indian Reservation, to St. Johns, Apache County, Arizona where it meets U.S. Route 191.

Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball

Starting with the 1934–35 season, former UW basketball player Bud Foster began coaching the Wisconsin Badgers.


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