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2 unusual facts about Ruth D. Thorne


Ruth D. Thorne

Her paternal Great-Grandfather was the highly recognized historical figure A.A. ThorneA. A. Thorne.

Ruth Thorne's paternal Grandfather was Alfred P. Thorne Alfred P. Thorne a Guyanese-Bajan international economist who devoted his life's work to researching the mechanics of perpetuated poverty.


1905 Chicago Teamsters' strike

Montgomery Ward president Robert J. Thorne was the EA's first vice-president; grocery store president Frank H. Armstrong of Reid, Murdoch & Company the second vice-president; and William E. Clow, president of plumbing manufacturer J.B. Clow & Co. the secretary.

Alfred P. Thorne

He was fluent in English, Spanish, French, Latin and also proficient at reading and writing classical Greek and Latin to Oxford/Cambridge standards.

His career as an economist began in 1945 when he was recruited by Sir Winston Churchill’s cousin, Oscar A. Spencer, first economic adviser to the Governor of British Guiana, to assist with the country's first economic development plan.

During WWII, he completed his extramural studies and earned a B.Com (Honors) from the London School of Economics at the University of London in 1941.

Inhomogeneous electromagnetic wave equation

Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler, Gravitation, (1970) W.H. Freeman, New York; ISBN 0-7167-0344-0.

Membrane paradigm

In 1986, Kip S. Thorne, Richard H. Price and D. A. Macdonald published an anthology of papers by various authors that examined this idea: "Black Holes: The membrane paradigm".

This approach to the theory of black holes was created by Kip S. Thorne, R. H. Price and D. A. Macdonald.

William A. Thorne, Jr.

He served as a circuit court judge until 1994 when Governor Michael Leavitt appointed him as a Third Judicial District Court Judge.

William Thorne

William P. Thorne (1845–1928) Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky (1903–1907)

William A. Thorne, Jr., Judge of the Utah Court of Appeals (2000–present)

Wormhole

The debate on this matter is described by Kip S. Thorne in the book Black Holes and Time Warps, and a more technical discussion can be found in The quantum physics of chronology protection by Matt Visser.


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