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unusual facts about Oscar W. Gillespie


Oscar W. Gillespie

Born near Quitman, Mississippi, Gillespie attended private schools and was graduated from Mansfield College, Texas in 1885.


Alabama Supreme Court

The first of three African Americans to serve on the court was former Justice Oscar W. Adams, Jr., who in 1980 was initially appointed by then Governor Fob James to serve the remainder of an unexpired term.

Amitava Raychaudhuri

from the University of Maryland in Particle Physics under the supervision of Oscar W. Greenberg in 1977.

Archibald H. Gillespie

He joined the Fremont volunteers in the California Battalion as its second in command after it was formed under Commodore Robert F. Stockton on July 18, 1846.

Calling Dr. Gillespie

Emma Hope (Mary Nash), the head of the school, calls her old friend, Dr. Gillespie.

Colin J. Gillespie

Gillespie was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and raised in Evenley near Brackley in England and in Melbourne, Australia.

Color charge

Historically, shortly after the existence of quarks was first proposed in 1964, Oscar W. Greenberg introduced the notion of color charge to explain how quarks could coexist inside some hadrons in otherwise identical quantum states without violating the Pauli exclusion principle.

Dean M. Gillespie

Gillespie was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lawrence Lewis, reelected to the Seventy-ninth Congress, and served from March 7, 1944, to January 3, 1947.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress.

Martin Berkeley

His screenwriting credits, often shared, include So Dark the Night (1946), Gypsy Colt (1954), Tarantula (1955), Revenge of the Creature, The Big Caper (1957) and Dr. Gillespie's Prison Criminal Case.

Nikolay Bogolyubov

1965 Jointly with Boris Struminsky and Albert Tavkhelidze and independently of Moo-Young Han, Yoichiro Nambu and Oscar W. Greenberg suggested a triplet quark model and introduced a new quantum degree of freedom (later called as color charge) for quarks.

Oscar W. Greenberg

He is famous for positing the existence of a hidden, 3-valued charge, called color charge, of subatomic particles, ``quarks, in 1964, the same year that quarks were posited as constituents of hadrons by Murray Gell-Mann and, independently, by George Zweig.

Oscar W. Ritchie

He was also an active member of the Massillon Urban League and the Canton NAACP, which recognized his work as the leader of their local recruitment drive in the 1950s, that nearly doubled the size of their local membership.

In concert with some of his colleagues at Kent State he also co-founded the Portage County Family Planning, Counseling and Mental Health Center in Ravenna, Ohio with Dr. Dwight I. Arnold, a KSU Emeritus professor, and Dr. John Guidabaldi (Chairman, Associate Professor, Early Childhood Ed.), in 1962.

Somewhere along the line he found Sociology more to his liking and graduated in 1946, with a B.S. in Sociology, all the while working a full-time job at a steel mill in Massillon.

Oscar W. Swift

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress.

Thomas F. Gillespie

He was born near Mallow in County Cork, the son of John Gillespie and Eliza Sheehan, and was educated at Rathkeale.

Thomas Gillespie

Thomas F. Gillespie, Irish-born merchant and political figure in Canada


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