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unusual facts about Roger W.H. Sargent


Process engineering

A very large fraction of the faculty in the PSE area can be traced back to Professor Roger W.H. Sargent from Imperial College, one of the pioneers in the area.


D. W. Sargent

Daniel Wycliffe Sargent (b. July 22, 1850, Birmingham, England. Died October 12, 1902, in Nigeria) was an early explorer of Africa, Agent General of the British Government who signed treaties with many African chiefs which allowed the British to establish the Southern Nigeria Protectorate.

Epes W. Sargent

He was born in Nassau, Bahamas on August 21, 1872; he came to the United States in 1878 with his parents.

Frank P. Sargent

Sargent was first tapped for government service during the Republican administration of William McKinley, when he declined appointment to head the nation's currency-issuing authority, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

In his capacity as BLF chief Sargent played a role in the Burlington Railroad Strike of 1888 as well as the 1894 Great Northern Railroad strike conducted by the American Railway Union headed by Sargent's former BLF associate, Eugene V. Debs.

Hackett Publishing Company

For example, an image of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial adorns the Hackett edition of Virgil's Aeneid, while Robert F. Sargent's famous photograph of the Allies storming the beaches of Normandy during D-Day is used with Homer's Iliad.

Herbert M. Allison

Allison retired from TIAA-CREF in 2008, and was succeeded by Roger W. Ferguson, Jr..

John G. Sargent

Sargent died in Ludlow on March 5, 1939, and was buried at the Pleasant View Cemetery in Ludlow, Vermont.

John G. Sargent was born in Ludlow, Vermont on October 13, 1860, the son of John Henmon Sargent and Ann Eliza Hanley.

Robert S. Sargent

Sargent's literary subjects included his family, the American South, art, love, the Bible, and jazz.

Robert Sargent

Robert F. Sargent, Chief Photographer's Mate in the United States Coast Guard

Robert S. Sargent (1912–2006), electrical engineer, weapons specialist and poet

Roger W. Hulburd

Hulburd was active in the Vermont Bar Association and served for several years as Chairman of the state Board of Bar Examiners.

Theodore D. Chuang

On September 25, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Chuang to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, to the seat being vacated by Judge Roger W. Titus, who is taking senior status on January 17, 2014.

Thomas J. Sargent

His series of textbooks co-authored with Lars Ljungqvist are seminal in the contemporary graduate economics curriculum.

Wallace L. W. Sargent

Although he became a U.S. citizen, he was born in Elsham, England.

He supervised the theses of a number of students while at Caltech, including John Huchra, Edwin Turner, Charles C. Steidel, and Alex Filippenko.


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