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unusual facts about Ronald L. Meek


Ronald L. Meek

In 1946 Meek moved to Cambridge, England with a Strathcona studentship to read for a Ph.D. under Piero Sraffa and Maurice Dobb.


Farey sequence

Ronald L. Graham, Donald E. Knuth, and Oren Patashnik, Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science, 2nd Edition (Addison-Wesley, Boston, 1989); in particular, Sec. 4.5 (pp. 115–123), Bonus Problem 4.61 (pp. 150, 523–524), Sec. 4.9 (pp. 133–139), Sec. 9.3, Problem 9.3.6 (pp. 462–463).

Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden

He graduated from Oberlin College in 1850 and from the Albany Medical College in 1853, where he attracted the notice of Professor James Hall, state geologist of New York, through whose influence he was induced to join in an exploration of Nebraska Territory, with Fielding B. Meek to study geology and collect fossils.

Howie Schneider

His best-known comic strip, Eek & Meek, ran from 1965 to 2000 in more than 400 newspapers through Newspaper Enterprise Association.

John Hinsdale

This enthusiasm led him to MIT where he majored in computer science and conducted research in cryptography under professor Ronald L. Rivest (the "R" of RSA), taking a bachelor's degree in computer science in 1986, and then on to Columbia University, taking a master's degree, also in computer science, in 1995.

Kathryn V. Marinello

Marinello was named President and CEO of Ceridian in 9 October 2006 succeeding Ronald L. Turner on 20 October 2006.

Michel A. J. Georges

Michel A. J. Georges was awarded the Wolf Prize in Agriculture in 2007 along with Ronald L. Phillips of the University of Liège "for groundbreaking discoveries in genetics and genomics, laying the foundations for improvements in crop and livestock breeding, and sparking important advances in plant and animal sciences".

Ron Turner

Ronald L. Turner, chairman and chief executive officer of Ceridian Corporation

Ronald L. Ellis

Berlinger had been forced to yield his outtakes for a film about Chevron operations in Ecuador because he had removed a scene at the request of his subjects.

On 10 September 2012 Judge Ellis refused to quash a subpoena from the United States government which demands the foreign media orgnaisation BBC hand over out takes and portions of documentary, entitled Arafat Investigated to United States Authorities.

Ronald L. Phillips

In 2006/7, he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Agriculture along with Michel A. J. Georges of the University of Liège "for groundbreaking discoveries in genetics and genomics, laying the foundations for improvements in crop and livestock breeding, and sparking important advances in plant and animal sciences".

Ronald L. Turner

Prior to joining Ceridian in 1993, Turner served as President and CEO of GEC-Marconi Electronic Systems, a defense electronics company, from 1987 to 1993.

S. P. Meek

He served as Chief, Small Arms Ammunition Research, in 1923-1926, and Chief Publications Officer, Ordnance Dept., in 1941-1945.

Thomas P. Meek

For a six-month period in 1999 during the height of the Kosovo crisis, Meek was dispatched by DIA to serve as Defense Attaché in Tirana, Albania.

Thomas Whitfield Davidson

On January 22, 1936, Davidson was nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas vacated by Edward R. Meek.


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