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unusual facts about Philip A. Vernon


Philip Vernon

Philip A. Vernon (born 1950), psychologist and intelligence researcher, son of Philip E. Vernon


Energy in Ohio

Rolls-Royce North America's Energy Systems Inc., a subsidiary of United Kingdom-based Rolls-Royce plc, is headquartered in Mt. Vernon, specializing in gas compression, power generation, and pipeline technologies.

Harvard International Review

Notable Harvard alumni to have been staff members of the Harvard International Review include Philip A. Brimmer, Bernard Hebda, Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty, Simpsons writer Jeff Martin, Robert McCord, Marc Rotenberg, Phillip Steck, John Weston, M. Edward Whelan III, Stephen A. Higginson, and David Laibson.

Lexan

It is manufactured at several SABIC plants, the largest being in Mt. Vernon, Indiana and Burkville, Alabama.

Munz

Philip A. Munz (1892-1974), American botanist, taxonomist and educator

Music of the Bahamas

E. Clement Bethel's master's thesis on traditional Bahamian music was adapted for the stage by his daughter, Nicolette Bethel and Philip A. Burrows.

Phil Kaufman

Philip A. Kaufman (died 1992), American engineer, the namesake of the Phil Kaufman Award

Philip A. Brimmer

On July 10, 2008, Brimmer was nominated by President George W. Bush to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Colorado vacated by Lewis T. Babcock.

Philip A. Hart Plaza

The monument stands close to where Martin Luther King, Jr. first gave his “I Have a Dream” speech on June 20, 1963, a speech that was repeated later that year at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

The plaza opened in 1975 and in 1976 was dedicated to Philip Hart, a United States Senator from 1959 to 1976.

Philip A. Kuhn

Among the most prominent are: Prasenjit Duara, formerly at University of Chicago, now the National University of Singapore; Timothy Brook, the Principal of St. John's College at University of British Columbia; William C. Kirby, the former Dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; and Hans van de Ven, head of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge.

Philip A. Payton, Jr.

Dr. Joseph Charles Price, founder of Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina, was a personal friend of Payton's father, and Payton attended the institution, but left after one year due to an injury sustained while playing football.

The buildings were renamed after prominent blacks in America: Crispus Attucks, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Phyllis Wheatley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Frederick Douglass, and Booker T. Washington.

Philip E. Vernon

In 1968, at the age of 63, he abandoned a secure academic career in England to start a second career at the University of Calgary.

He concluded that individual differences in intelligence are approximately 60% attributable to genetic factors, and that there is some evidence implicating genes in racial group differences in average levels of mental ability.

Philip Vernon

Philip E. Vernon (1905–1987), British psychologist and intelligence researcher

Register of the Treasury

Four of the five African Americans whose signatures have appeared on U.S. currency were Registrars of the Treasury (Blanche K. Bruce, Judson W. Lyons, William T. Vernon and James C. Napier).

Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York

Haigh, Philip From Wakefield to Towton Pen and Sword Books 2002 ISBN 0-85052-825-9

Taiping Rebellion

Philip A. Kuhn, Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China; Militarization and Social Structure, 1796–1864 (Cambridge, Mass.,: Harvard University Press, 1970).


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