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unusual facts about Richard V. Andree


Andree

Richard V. Andree (1919–1987), American mathematician and computer scientist.


Jonathan Kwitny

His book jacket biographies record that his reporting forced J. Lynn Helms, chief of the Federal Aviation Administration, to resign, and dogged President Ronald Reagan's National Security Advisor Richard V. Allen for conflicts of interest.

Latent image

A famous instance of latent-image stability are the pictures taken by Nils Strindberg, the photographer in S. A. Andrée's ill-fated arctic balloon expedition of 1897.

Leslie Fox

Some of this work was published after the end of the Second World War jointly with his supervisor Richard Southwell.

Nanoq

The museum hosts an exhibition about famous polar expeditions and displays many items, e.g. the balloon gondola from S.A. Andrée's fateful expedition and material from the John Phipps expedition to Svalbard around 1770, as well as several documents that refer to the Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen and Roald Amundsen.

Nordvest-Spitsbergen National Park

In addition there are remains of several Arctic expeditions, for instance in Virgohamna, Danskøya, the launching point for Swedish engineer S. A. Andrée's failed 1897 attempt to reach the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon.

Richard Southwell

Sir Richard V. Southwell (1888–1970), English mathematician and engineering science academic

Richard Thomas

Richard V. Thomas (1932–2010), former justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court

Richard V. Allen

Richard Allen is also a fellow of St Margaret's College, Otago, one of New Zealand's most prestigious residential colleges.

Richard V. Gotti

On June 5, 2002, Richard was indicted on racketeering and extortion charges, mainly involving Gambino crimes at an International Longshoremen's Association local and the attempted extortion of actor Steven Seagal.

Richard had a strange fascination with grass and would later work as a groundskeeper at Yankee Stadium.

Richard V. Thomas

Thomas was active in civic and community affairs, including the Masonic lodge, the Cheyenne Kiwanis International, and the United Way of Laramie County.

Richard Van Allen

Richard V. Allen (born 1936), American National Security Advisor under President Ronald Reagan

The 1975 Annual World's Best SF

For the hardcover edition the original cover art of Jack Gaughan was replaced by a new cover painting by Richard V. Corben.


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