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unusual facts about Mark A. Thomson



Alan Harre

On December 18, 2007, Valparaiso University announced Mark A. Heckler, provost and vice chancellor for academic and student affairs at University of Colorado Denver, as Alan Harre's successor.

Charles M. Thomson

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the 64th Congress in 1915.

He was elected as a Progressive to the 63rd Congress, where he served from March 4, 1913 to March 3, 1915.

Cihangirzade İbrahim Bey

On 13 April 1919, the capital of the republic, Kars, was occupied by the British troops under the command of General William M. Thomson and after a period of local resistance he was arrested by the British forces and sent, through Batum and İstanbul, to a one-year exile in Malta (see Malta exiles) together with 11 members of his cabinet.

Cleis Press

Over the years, Cleis Press has published nonfiction books by Susie Bright, Annie Sprinkle, Edmund White, Essex Hemphill, Gore Vidal, Christine Jorgensen, Matthue Roth, Patrick Califia, Violet Blue (author), Mark A. Michaels and Patricia Johnson and Tristan Taormino, among others.

Crookes tube

It was used by Crookes, Johann Hittorf, Julius Plücker, Eugen Goldstein, Heinrich Hertz, Philipp Lenard and others to discover the properties of cathode rays, culminating in J.J. Thomson's 1897 identification of cathode rays as negatively charged particles, which were later named electrons.

Dale C. Thomson

To do his thesis entitled "General Haushofer and his Ideas on Geopolitics," Thomson spent time in Germany, becoming fluent in the German language.

David J. Thomson

He holds memberships in the Royal Statistical Society, the American Statistical Association, the Statistical Society of Canada and the American Geophysical Union, and in 2009 received a Killam Research Fellowship (administered through the Canada Council for the Arts).

Eli Franklin Burton

From 1904 to 1906 he studied colloids with J. J. Thomson at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, writing an important monograph on the subject in 1938.

Fear Effect

The rights were later picked up by Mindfire Entertainment, with Stanley Tong in negotiation to direct and frequent Uwe Boll collaborator Mark A. Altman handling the script.

G. Thomson

Shortly after the contact with acid he noticed on the surface of the metal a strange never seen before figures: it was the later-called Widmanstätten pattern.

George C. Schatz

He authored over 350 scientific papers, and co-authored two books with his next-door colleague Mark A. Ratner: "Introduction to Quantum Mechanics in Chemistry" and "Quantum Mechanics in Chemistry" (recently reissued as a Dover paperback).

George C. Thomson

He attended grade school in Cadillac and high school in Saginaw, Michigan.

Giuseppe Mifsud Bonnici

Of a different nature is his 178-page book, co-authored with Mark A. Sammut, Il-Ligi, il-Morali u r-Raguni (Law, Morality and Reason), published in 2008 (Ius Melitæ).

Guillermo Aguilera Sanchez

Aguilera was married to Elena Pollack Casuso (1911–1966), the daughter of Mark A. Pollack, a tobacco exporter.

James C. Thomson, Jr.

In 1981, he wrote Sentimental Imperialists: The American Experience in East Asia, along with co-authors Peter W. Stanley and John Curtis Perry.

John J. Thomson

1999 Gemini Award for Best Overall Sound in a Dramatic Program or Series - Total Recall 2070 episode "Machine Dreams" Part 1 - Won (Shared with Allen Ormerod, Steve Baine, Scott Shepherd)

Mark A. Carleton

For the next two years he taught natural history at Garfield University in Wichita.

For the next several years Carleton worked for a number of agro-businesses including the United States Grain Corporation and the United Fruit Company.

Mark Alfred Carleton (7 March 1866 – 25 April 1925) was an American botanist and plant pathologist, most notable for his introduction of hard red wheats and durum wheats from Russia into the American wheatbelt.

Mark A. Clifton

Clifton is a member of the National Defense Industrial Association, the Association of the United States Army, and the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association.

Mark A. Clifton is the vice president for products and services at SRI International, and is also the general manager (formerly CEO and president) of SRI's Sarnoff Corporation.

Since February 2008, Clifton has been SRI International's vice president of products and services; and from October 2009 until its absorption into SRI in January 2011, Clifton was the CEO and president of SRI's Sarnoff Corporation.

Mark A. Goldsmith

In March 2009, Goldsmith submitted an application to Michigan's judicial advisory committee, which was established by Michigan Sens. Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow.

Mark A. Hardy

He has received honoraria for lectures in the past from Upjohn, Sangstat, Hoffmann-La Roche, Novartis, Astellas, and Gore.

Mark A. Lutz

He is a proponent of Humanistic economics, strongly influenced by political economy of Jean Charles Leonard de Sismondi, the social economics of John Hobson, and various (heterodox) ideas of current thinkers, especially Herman Daly on environment, John Culbertson on trade, and David Ellerman on economic democracy.

Mark A. Matthews

Born in Calhoun, Georgia in a family beset by post Civil War poverty, Matthews grew up in the environment of Southern revivalism and, later, post-Reconstruction radical agrarian politics.

Mark A. Rayner

He's the author of four books: His first novel, The Amadeus Net, was published by ENC Press in New York in 2005 and his second novel, Marvellous Hairy, was published by Crossing Chaos Enigmatic Ink in 2009 (2e Monkeyjoy Press, 2010).

Mark A. Sammut

He has edited and co-authored Malta at the European Court of Human Rights 1987-2012, with Patrick Cuignet and David A. Borg, with contributions by Prof. Kevin Aquilina (Dean of the Faculty of Laws of the University of Malta), Judge Giovanni Bonello, and Dr. Therese Comodini Cachia.

Mark A.R. Kleiman

Kleiman is also a member of the Committee on Law and Justice of the United States National Research Council and editor of the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis.

Mark Carleton

Mark A. Carleton (1866–1925), American botanist and plant pathologist

Mark O'Neill

Mark A. O'Neill (born 1959), British entomologist and computer scientist

Marv Hagedorn

2006 Hagedorn challenged incumbent Republican Representative Mark A. Snodgrass in the May 23, 2006 primary and lost, getting just over 40%.

Multitaper

In signal processing, the multitaper method is a technique developed by David J. Thomson to estimate the power spectrum SX of a stationary ergodic finite-variance random process X, given a finite contiguous realization of X as data.

R. H. Thomson

Thomson has portrayed a number of historical figures including Charlie Grant, Samuel Lount, Edsel Ford, Dr. Frederick Banting, Duncan Campbell Scott, Mitchell Sharp, and James Cross.

Ragnhild Hatton

Working with G. J. Renier and Mark A. Thomson, she completed her Ph.D. degree in 1947 with her thesis on "Diplomatic relations between Great Britain and the Dutch Republic, 1714-1721."

Robert W. Thomson

Thomson has translated into English several Old Armenian, Syriac and Greek texts as well as having written two textbooks on the Armenian language.

Sugarscape

Sugarscape.sourceforge.net is a complex and developed implementation of the original Sugarscape model, originally written in Object Pascal and later in Java by Mark A. O'Neill.

Sverdrup Gold Medal Award

1992 Mark A. Cane for the insight provided in his many theoretical studies of large-scale air–sea interaction.

Teratornithidae

Some cryptozoologists such as Ken Gerhard, and Mark A. Hall have expressed interest in Teratorns as a possible explanation of anecdotal sightings of very large birds in Texas and Illinois and popularly known as Thunderbirds.


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