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unusual facts about Peter R. Last


Irolita

Western round skate, Irolita westraliensis Last & Gledhill, 2008 This species occurs along the northwestern coast of Australia from Imperieuse Reef to Exmouth Gulf.


1972 Pulitzer Prize

Peter R. Kann of The Wall Street Journal, for his coverage of the Indo Pakistan War of 1971.

De Broglie–Bohm theory

Peter R. Holland has pointed out that, earlier in 1927, Einstein had actually submitted a preprint with a similar proposal but, not convinced, had withdrawn it before publication.

According to Peter R. Holland, in a wider Hamiltonian framework, theories can be formulated in which particles do act back on the wave function.

Peter R. Holland: The quantum theory of motion, Cambridge University Press, 1993 (re-printed 2000, transferred to digital printing 2004), ISBN 0-521-48543-6

Federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

The Congressional Budget Office director Peter R. Orszag announced on September 9, 2008 that the CBO intended to incorporate the assets and liabilities of the two companies into their federal budget planning, due to the degree of government control over the entities.

Frederick Bernard Lacey

The company complied with Lacey's recommendation to remove then CEO Peter R. Dolan.

Peter Bell

Peter R. Bell (born 1954), Australian rules footballer, played for St Kilda and Sandringham

Peter Hunt

Peter R. Hunt (1925–2002), film editor on many early James Bond films and director of On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Peter R. Harris

Although no documentation suggests any link between Compass Group or its subsidiary Eurest Support Services (ESS) (sometimes referred to as Eurest or Eurest Support Services, or even ESS Support Services Worldwide) to the Oil-for-Food Programme scandal, Fox News in particular alleged questionable conduct by Harris.

Peter R. Hofstätter

He wrote thirteen books and was a columnist for the newspaper Hamburger Abendblatt and the newspaper Die Zeit.

Peter R. Holland

The method achieves the same result as Richard Feynman's use of trajectories in the path integral formulation – the mapping of the initial wavefunction through time – however, instead of using Feynman's 'all possible paths' between two points, it employs at most one path.

Peter R. Hunt

Hunt then acted as second unit or action unit director until his directorial debut, the sixth James Bond film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Peter R. Orszag

He is also an invitee of the Bilderberg Group and attended the Swiss 2011 Bilderberg conference at the Suvretta House in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Rickey Medlocke

Skynyrd's First and... Last (1978) (contains early recordings from 1971 and 1972)

Skynyrd's First and... Last

Skynyrd's First and...Last was the original name of the posthumous album first released in 1978 by the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Steven Orszag

He and his wife Reba (née Karp) have three sons: Michael, Peter, and Jonathan.

The Population Bomb

Jonathan Last called it "one of the most spectacularly foolish books ever published".

VisiCorp

It was founded in 1976 by Dan Fylstra and Peter R. Jennings as Personal Software, and first published Jennings' Microchess program for the MOS Technology KIM-1 computer, and later Commodore PET and Apple II versions.


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