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unusual facts about James R. Graham


Fomalhaut b

In May 2008, Paul Kalas and James Graham identified Fomalhaut b from Hubble/ACS images taken in 2004 and 2006 at visible wavelengths (i.e. 0.6 and 0.8 µm).


ACLU v. Clapper

The named defendants include Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper, NSA Director Keith B. Alexander, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Attorney General Eric H. Holder, and FBI director James B. Comey.

Charles Graham

Charles K. Graham (1824–1889), sailor in the antebellum United States Navy, attorney, and brigadier

Clapper

James R. Clapper, the current Director of National Intelligence of the United States

Dixonius siamensis

This is the type species of the genus Dixonius, named after James R. Dixon from Texas A&M University.

Doctoral Training Centre

The Cambridge Centre for Analysis (CCA) is a Centre for Doctoral Training which offers a PhD course in mathematical analysis at the University of Cambridge, directed by Professor James R. Norris and Professor Arieh Iserles.

Donald E. Graham

In 1994, Graham was responsible for “a heavy blow to the newspaper’s credibility” (WaPo ombudsman on October 9, 1994), when he successfully lobbied Senator John Danforth for a special provision, favoring Washington Post Co.'s cell phone holdings, in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) treaty.

Edward T. Hanley

Among the many notable individuals who Hanley counted among his friends were House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, and former Illinois governor James R. Thompson.

Edwin Kneedler

From 1974 until 1975, he clerked for Judge James R. Browning on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Emergent organization

Alternatively, James R. Taylor wrote in 2000 his seminal book, The Emergent Organization, where he suggests that all organizations emerge from communication, especially from the interplay of conversation and text.

Eric P. Schwartz

At the Council on Foreign Relations, he directed the Independent Task Force on Post-Conflict Iraq, working closely with co-chairs Thomas R. Pickering and James R. Schlesinger.

Farey sequence

Ronald L. Graham, Donald E. Knuth, and Oren Patashnik, Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science, 2nd Edition (Addison-Wesley, Boston, 1989); in particular, Sec. 4.5 (pp. 115–123), Bonus Problem 4.61 (pp. 150, 523–524), Sec. 4.9 (pp. 133–139), Sec. 9.3, Problem 9.3.6 (pp. 462–463).

Flowchart

Another 1944 graduate, Ben S. Graham, Director of Formcraft Engineering at Standard Register Industrial, adapted the flow process chart to information processing with his development of the multi-flow process chart to display multiple documents and their relationships.

Gerald S. Graham

Gerald Sandford Graham (born 27 April 1903 in Sudbury, Ontario - died 5 July 1988 St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex) was Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London from 1949 until his retirement in 1970.

Gordon Danby

Gordon T. Danby is an American physicist notable (together with Dr. James R. Powell) for his work on superconducting Maglev, for which he shared the Franklin Institute 'Medal 2000 for Engineering'.

Gray checkered whiptail

The epithet dixoni is in homage of renowned herpetologist James R. Dixon, which leads some sources to refer to it as Dixon's Whiptail.

James Barton

James R. Barton (1810?–1856), sheriff of Los Angeles County, California

James Goodman

James R. Goodman (born 1944), professor of computer science at the University of Auckland, New Zealand

James L. Graham

On August 15, 1986, Graham was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio vacated by Robert Morton Duncan.

James Lucas

James R. Lucas (born 1950), businessman and author, known as Jim

James R. Arnold

He was married to Louise Arnold for 60 years, and had three sons, Bob, Ted, and Ken.

James R. Barton

Barton was born in Howard County, Missouri, emigrated to Mexico in 1841 and moved to Los Angeles in 1843.

James R. Browning

Despite receiving a "Not Qualified" rating from the American Bar Association and publicized opposition from sitting Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, Browning was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 14, 1961, and received his commission on September 18, 1961.

James R. Domengeaux

In 1968 Domengeaux accepted an appointment from Louisiana Governor John J. McKeithen, his fellow Democrat, to preside over a new state-charted organization called the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana, commonly known by the acronym CODOFIL.

Domengeaux did not seek reelection to Congress in 1948; instead he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in a race ultimately won by Russell B. Long, son of the legendary Huey Pierce Long, Jr. He was succeeded in the House by the freshman State Senator Edwin Edward Willis of St. Martinville, the seat of St. Martin Parish.

James R. Fannin

Fannin said that his former party had "moved too far left" for him to remain within the ranks, even as a Blue Dog Democrat.

James R. Heath

When Heath was a graduate student at Rice University, he ran the experimental apparatus that generated the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the three senior members of the collaboration: Robert F. Curl and Richard E. Smalley of Rice University and Harold Kroto of the University of Sussex.

James R. Houck

He also led development of Cornell's instrumentation for the Palomar Observatory Hale Telescope.

James R. Norris

He has made contributions to areas of mathematics connected to probability theory and mathematical analysis, including Malliavin calculus, heat kernel estimates, and mathematical models for coagulation and fragmentation.

James R. Reid

James R. Reid resigned for health reasons in 1904, and was succeeded as president by Dr. James M. Hamilton, an economist.

James R. Stewart

James Stewart G.S.A. Ph. (October 1, 1903 – April 30, 1964) was born in Morehead, MS, the son of a wealthy plantation owner; his uncle Professor William Stewart taught in Centreville, MS. He began school in Morehead and moved to Cleveland by 1915 where he studied art and commercial business.

James R. Von Ehr II

Von Ehr is the former chief executive of Zyvex corporation, the world first molecular nanotechnology company, which he founded in 1997, and which later split into four branches (Zyvex Technologies, Zyvex Instruments (acquired by DCG Systems, Inc.), Zyvex Labs, and Zyvex Asia), and current CEO of Zyvex Labs and chairman of Zyvex Technologies.

James R. Wait

Between 1948 and 1951, he worked for Newmont Exploration in Jerome, Arizona, where his research led to several patents in both IP and EM methods of geophysical prospecting.

James R. Winchester

Winchester currently resides in Chickasha, Oklahoma, with his wife, State Representative Susan Winchester and their son, Davis.

James R. Young

He was the Chairman of the United States House Committee on Expenditures in the War Department in the 57th United States Congress.

Lightweight Fighter program

To reflect this new, more serious intent to procure a new aircraft, along with its reorientation toward a fighter-bomber design, the LWF program was rolled into a new Air Combat Fighter (ACF) competition in an announcement by U.S. Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger in April 1974.

Lonely Are the Brave

The Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA gave the film a "Golden Reel Award" for "Best Sound Editing" (Waldon O. Watson, Frank H. Wilkinson, James R. Alexander, James Curtis, Arthur B. Smith), in a tie with Mutiny on the Bounty.

Magnetic levitation

1961 James R. Powell and BNL colleague Gordon Danby electrodynamic levitation using superconducting magnets

Matthew Francis

After his time spent in the computer industry, he went back to university to study the work of W. S. Graham.

MillsporT

Founded in 1975 by James R. Millman, a 25-year-old event marketing executive with Philip Morris, Inc., Millsport gained notoriety and national prominence with its involvement in Olympic sponsorship in the 1990s.

Nellie Fox

The group grew to as many as 600 members, including Richard M. Daley, James R. Thompson, George Will and several former MLB players.

Nonproliferation Policy Education Center

James R. Lilley – Director of Asian Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, former US Ambassador to China and South Korea, and former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs

Richard H. Graham

Richard H. Graham is the third and current bishop of the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Robert Kostelka

Newly-converted Republican State Representative James R. Fannin of Jonesboro, who is term-limited in the House, is considered a leading prospect to seek Kostelka's seat.

Rudolf Rahn

In the early 1970s Rahn sent a letter to Robert A. Graham, one of the editors of the Acts and Documents of the Holy See related to the Second World War, which was published in 1991 by the Italian magazine 30 Giorni, stating that a German plot to kidnap Pope Pius XII had existed, but that all documents relating to it had been destroyed or lost.

Susan L. Graham

Graham's chair was endowed by Pehong Chen, president, chief executive officer and chairman of Broadvision.

The Stolen White Elephant

"The Stolen White Elephant" is a short story written by Mark Twain and published in 1882 by James R. Osgood.

Tony Graffanino

In 2002, he coordinated and led baseball clinics for boys and girls from Mercy Home at U.S. Cellular Field and signed autographs at the James R. Thompson Center to promote the need for organ donors.

United States Attorney

It was organized by Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals judge James R. Browning, who also served as its first chief.

William J. Graham

Graham was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1917, to June 7, 1924, when he resigned.


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