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3 unusual facts about Oscar W. Ritchie


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.


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.

Byron F. Ritchie

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress.

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.

David Ritchie

David "Tarzan" Ritchie (born 1945), Shinty player and winner of 12 Camanachd Cup medals

Joshua H. Ritchie

He is the founder and director of the Refuah Institute in Jerusalem, a non-profit orthodox-Jewish center which provides training in therapy techniques, life-coaching, marriage and youth counselling based within the Jewish halacha.

Mount Ritchie

Named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE), 1970-71, after A. Ritchie, curator of fossils at the Australian Museum, Sydney, a member of the VUWAE party that discovered important sites of fossil fish in this Skelton Neve area.

Newtonmore Camanachd Club

Two of the greatest names in shinty history, goalkeeper Hugh Chisholm and David "Tarzan" Ritchie jointly hold the Newtonmore club record of twelve Camanachd Cup winners medals each.

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. Gillespie

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

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. Swift

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


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