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2 unusual facts about Stephen C. Levinson


Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

It has six scientific directors, each of whom is responsible for one of the scientific disciplines: Anne Cutler (language comprehension), Wolfgang Klein (language acquisition), Peter Hagoort (language production), Stephen C. Levinson (language and cognition), Simon Fisher (language and genetics) and Antje Meyer (individual differences).

Politeness

Brown, P. and Levinson, S. (1987) Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage.


58534 Logos

Logos' companion was discovered on 17 November 2001 from Hubble Space Telescope observations by K. S. Noll, D. C. Stephens, W. M. Grundy, J. Spencer, R. L. Millis, M. W. Buie, D. Cruikshank, S. C. Tegler, and W. Romanishin and announced on 11 February 2002.

Alfred Aho

At Bell Labs Aho worked closely with Steve Johnson and Jeffrey Ullman to develop efficient algorithms for analyzing and translating programming languages.

Arthur D. Levinson

He subsequently moved to a postdoctoral position with Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus in the Department of Microbiology at the University of California, San Francisco, where he was spotted by Herb Boyer who hired him to work at Genentech.

Central Dauphin East High School

Stephen C. Sillett - a botanist and pioneer in the study of tall trees

Daniel R. Levinson

In the wider government accountability community, Levinson serves on the Executive Council of the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, where he chairs the Committee on Inspection and Evaluation.

David Klinghoffer

In May 2010, the Discovery Institute released a free 105 page eBook titled Signature of Controversy: Responses to Critics of Signature in the Cell edited by Klinghoffer with chapters by Discovery Institute fellows David Berlinski, Casey Luskin, Stephen C. Meyer, Paul Nelson, Jay Richards and Richard Sternberg.

David Levinson

David N. Levinson, American politician and former Insurance Commissioner of Delaware

David M. Levinson, American civil engineer and transportation analyst

David N. Levinson

Levinson currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in Anderson Creek, North Carolina where he is President of the Anderson Creek Club.

Leverett Saltonstall I

Elected as a Whig to the 25th United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Stephen C. Phillips, and then reelected to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses, serving from December 5, 1838, to March 3, 1843.

Mark E. Recktenwald

In February 2009 (confirmed in May 2009) he replaced retired Associate Justice Steven H. Levinson on the Supreme Court of Hawaii.

Reigart Bolivar Lowry

Early on May 24, 1861, as a force of federal troops from Washington D.C. approached by land and by gunboat, the captain of Pawnee, Stephen C. Rowan, acting without orders, dispatched Lieutenant Lowry to find the Confederate commander Colonel George H. Terrett and to demand his surrender.

Stephen C. Apostolof

It features the legendary oracle The Amazing Criswell (known from Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space) and burlesque queen Pat Barrington (later to star in Harry H. Novak's The Agony of Love).

Stephen C. Stearns

In 1992, Stearns wrote The Evolution of Life Histories, now regarded as one of the key works in Life history theory with over 7700 citations.

The Sentimentalists

Peggy Clark Schwartz (the widow of clarinetist Willie Schwartz of the Glenn Miller Orchestra), later recalled, in the Tommy Dorsey biography, authored by Peter J. Levinson, that she and her sisters may have been a little naive when they originally went to work for Dorsey: "In those days, you had to be young and stupid. You also had to be pretty needy ... it was almost comical when you look at it; it was part of the growing-up process!"

Whitworth University

Stephen C. Meyer (1980), executive officer and co-founder of the Discovery Institute, a Seattle based think tank promoting the inclusion of Intelligent Design in the biological sciences, and one-time philosophy professor at Whitworth.


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