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unusual facts about Newcomb


William Newcomb

William Newcomb (died 1999), a professor and theoretical physicist at the University of California's Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, is best known as the creator of Newcomb's paradox, devised in 1960.


Bernard A. Newcomb

During the conversation, Porter convinced Newcomb to become partners and create a company that would enable an individual with a personal computer to trade stocks from home—to disintermediate stock buying.

BonNova

Newcomb named the lightweight spaceship he designed "Lauryad," after a spaceship in the novel Flight, by American novelist, poet and film actress Vanna Bonta, whom Newcomb credited with inspiring the endeavor.

Edward Baldwin Whitney

He married A. Josepha Newcomb, the daughter of astronomer and mathematician Simon Newcomb.

James Pearson Newcomb

Newcomb was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia and with his parents and a brother, in 1839 he emigrated to Victoria, Texas.

Josiah T. Newcomb

Josiah Turner Newcomb (June 19, 1868 in Owosso, Shiawassee County, Michigan – January 3, 1944 in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Ken Stubbs

He has played and recorded with Australian jazz and improvising musicians Simon Barker, Steve Newcomb, Brett Hirst, Matt McMahon, Scott Tinkler, John Morrison and John Hoffman.

Maistre Jhan

James Haar, Anthony Newcomb, Massimo Ossi, Glenn Watkins, Nigel Fortune, Joseph Kerman, Jerome Roche: "Madrigal", Grove Music Online, ed.

Pacific Park

In 1916 Charles I. D. Looff, who built Coney Island's first carousel, started construction on an adjacent pier known as the Pleasure Pier, also called Newcomb Pier, for use as an amusement park.


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