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Robert B. Darnell

His laboratory cloned and characterized the neuron-specific splicing factors Nova1 and Nova2, and developed the HITS-CLIP technique that is used to map the sites of regulatory interactions between RNA binding proteins and their target RNA sequences.


43rd Sustainment Brigade

Operation Restore Hope was declared a success in May 1993 and President Clinton celebrated on the White House lawn with Marine Corps Lieutenant General Robert B. Johnston and other Somalia veterans.

Bayless W. Hanna

He lost to fellow Wabash alum and Crawfordsville lawyer Robert B. F. Peirce having only earned 43% of the vote to Peirce's 49%.

Caroline Miskel-Hoyt

She later portrayed Marguerite in Charles Osborne’s The Face in the Moonlight opposite Robert B. Mantell and the following season as Ruth Hardman, in Charles H. Hoyt's satiric comedy A Temperance Town, that opened on the 17th of September, 1893 at Hoyt’s Madison Square Theatre and ran for 125 performances.

Darfur Peace Agreement

The accord was orchestrated by the chief negotiator Salim Ahmed Salim (working on behalf of the African Union), U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert B. Zoellick, AU representatives, and other foreign officials operating in Abuja, Nigeria.

George F. Kugler, Jr.

He was survived by his wife, the former Gloria Hicks, and their four sons: George F. Kugler III; Robert B. Kugler, judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey; Jeffrey R. Kugler; and Pete Kugler.

Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia

John E. Buchanan, Jr., Director, The Marilyn H. and Dr. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. Collection.

Jacob Beser

There he met or worked with various illuminaries in the Manhattan Project, such as Robert B. Brode, Norman Ramsey, Niels Bohr, Enrico Fermi, Edward Doll, and General Leslie Groves.

Outward Bound

Some of the more notable Outward Bound teachers include James Kielsmeier, Stan Hugill, Tom Kennerley, Paul Petzoldt, Robert B. Rheault, Karl Rohnke, and Willi Unsoeld.

Pete Kugler

His brother Robert B. Kugler is a judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Portland Art Museum

The museum is currently under the leadership of Brian Ferriso, The Marilyn H. and Dr. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. Director since 2006.

Pragmatic theory of truth

Recent Peirceans, Cheryl Misak, and Robert B. Talisse have attempted to formulate Peirce's theory of truth in a way that improves on Habermas and provides an epistemological conception of deliberative democracy.

Ralph Leighton

He is the son of the late Caltech physicist Robert B. Leighton, who was also a close personal friend of Feynman.

Robert B. Ammons

Ammons was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of several divisions of the American Psychological Association.

Robert B. Chiperfield

Chiperfield was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1963).

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress.

Robert B. Crosby

Governor Crosby, who was known as "The Boy Governor from North Platte," was particularly proud that he was a great-grandson of John Holbrook Powers.

Robert B. Downs

While Downs looked to heroes Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson for guidance when challenges were encumbered, it was the influences of this his distant cousin, Mr. Louis Round Wilson, that formed Downs’ librarian leadership foundation.

Robert B. Doyle

Mr. Justice Doyle has appeared before various administrative tribunals, including the Canada Industrial Relations Board.

Robert B. Duncan

In the 1966 U.S. Senate election, Duncan was the Democratic candidate for the Senate seat vacated by retiring Senator Maurine B. Neuberger.

Robert B. F. Peirce

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress.

Robert B. Glenn High School

Robert B. Glenn High School is located in the town of Kernersville in Forsyth County, North Carolina.

Robert B. Hawkins, Jr.

Hawkins was chairman of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations from 1982-1993.

Robert B. Ingebretsen

Ingebretsen worked with Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull in 1972 to produce one of the first digital films, a 20-second portrait of a human hand.

Robert B. Laughlin

Between 2004 and 2006 he served as the president of KAIST in Daejeon, South Korea.

Robert B. McNeill

In 1954, the southern branch of the Presbyterian Church, was considering rejoining the northern, and ending the split existing since the Civil War.

While working at the church, McNeill began to study the issue of segregation, beginning with Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma, and other books.

Robert B. Meyner

At the 1960 Democratic National Convention Meyner received 43 votes for president, finishing fifth behind John F. Kennedy (806 votes), Lyndon Johnson (409 votes), Stuart Symington (86 votes) and Adlai Stevenson (79.5 votes) and just ahead of Hubert Humphrey who received 41 votes.

Robert B. Pinter

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and visiting fellow of the center for visual sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Robert B. Pirie

While serving as Deputy Chief of Navy Operation (Air) 1958-1962 and was credited with maintaining the Navy’s air traffic controller program, following the enactment of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958.

Robert B. Pirie, Jr.

After leaving government service, Pirie held a variety of positions in the private sector, including that of president of Essex Corporation and vice president of the Center for Naval Analyses and vice president of the Institute for Defense Analyses.

Robert B. Sanderson

He was born in Slaidburn, West Riding of Yorkshire, England in 1825, and moved to the United States at the age of 23, arriving in New York City but moving on to Buffalo, New York, where he went into the slaughtering business for a couple of years.

Robert B. Semple

With Walter Colton, he published the Monterey-based Californian, the first newspaper ever published in California.

Robert B. Stepto

Robert B. Stepto is a literary theorist and professor of African American studies, English and American Studies at Yale University.

Robert B. Weide

In 1978, while taking film production courses at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California, he announced his intention to produce a documentary film on the Marx Brothers.

Robert Bates

Robert B. Bates (1789–1841), attorney and politician who served as Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives

Robert Fiske

Robert B. Fiske (born 1930), American lawyer and Whitewater special prosecutor

Robert Pamplin

Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. (born 1941), American businessman and philanthropist, current CEO of R.B. Pamplin Corporation

Robert B. Pamplin (1911–2009), American businessman and philanthropist, founder of R.B. Pamplin Corporation

Robert Pirie

Robert B. Pirie (1905–1990), Vice Admiral in the United States Navy

Robert Semple

Robert B. Semple (1806–1854), California newspaperman & politician, who helped found Benicia, California

Sadr City

Task Force Lancer consisted primarily of the 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment from the 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division under the command of Colonel Robert B. Abrams.

South Carolina gubernatorial election, 1876

A group of prominent South Carolina Republicans, notably Senator John J. Patterson and Robert B. Elliott, organized an opposition to Governor Chamberlain prior to the state convention.

Springvale, Columbia County, Wisconsin

Robert B. Sanderson, state assemblyman and senator; former chair of Springvale town board

Stuart Schreiber

He joined the research group of Robert B. Woodward and after Woodward's death continued his studies under the supervision of Yoshito Kishi.

The Writer

The Writer's current editorial board consists of James Applewhite, Andre Becker, T. Alan Broughton, Eve Bunting, Mary Higgins Clark, Roy Peter Clark, Barnaby Conrad, Lewis Burke Frumkes, James Cross Giblin, Gail Godwin, Eileen Goudge, Rachel Hadas, Shelby Hearon, John Jakes, John Koethe, Lois Lowry, Peter Meinke, Robert B. Parker, Katherine Patterson, Elizabeth Peters, Arthur Plotnik, and William G. Tapply.

United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1872

Incumbent Republican Congressman Robert B. Elliott of the 3rd congressional district, in office since 1871, defeated two Democratic candidates in the general election.

United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1874

Incumbent Republican Congressman Robert B. Elliott of the 3rd congressional district, in office since 1871, resigned in 1874 so that he could return to South Carolina and stem the massive corruption on the part of the state Republican Party.

World Development Report

“A dynamic ‘agriculture for development’ agenda can benefit the estimated 900 million rural people in the Developing world who live on less than $1 a day, most of whom are engaged in agriculture,” said Robert B. Zoellick, World Bank Group President.


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