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unusual facts about Walter H. G. Lewin



1914 College Football All-America Team

Walter Trumbull, Harvard (WC–1; PHD; DD; DN; AW; PI; OUT)

Acquavella Galleries

His international clientele included top museums and collectors like Henry Ford II, Paul Mellon, and Walter H. Annenberg.

Alpha Rho Upsilon

Other distinguished ARU alumni include author & reporter Gordon Weil '54, Congressman Tom Andrews '75, noted economist Larry Lindsey '76, opera singer Kurt Ollmann '77, and science fiction writer Walter H. Hunt '81.

Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs

Previous Assistant Secretaries since the position's creation, by recency, are Jendayi E. Frazer, Constance Berry Newman, Walter H. Kansteiner, III, Susan E. Rice, George Moose, Herman Jay Cohen, Chester A. Crocker, Richard M. Moose, William E. Schaufele, Jr., Nathaniel Davis, Donald B. Easum, David D. Newsom, Joseph Palmer II, G. Mennen Williams, and Joseph C. Satterthwaite.

High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1

The A4 instrument was provided and managed by the University of California at San Diego, under the direction of Prof. Laurence E. Peterson, in collaboration with the X-ray group at MIT, where the initial A4 data reduction was performed under the direction of Prof. Walter H. G. Lewin.

North Carolina lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2012

The incumbent, Lt. Gov. Walter H. Dalton, announced on Jan. 26, 2012 that he would run for Governor.

Otto Julius Zobel

In modern terminology, this would include random (thermal and shot) noise but those concepts were relatively unknown and little understood at the time despite an early paper by Schottky in 1918 on shot noise.

Patrick Smathers

Smathers came in third in the May 6, 2008 primary, behind winner Walter H. Dalton and runner-up Hampton Dellinger.

Ralph A. Lewin

Ralph Lewin was an Esperantist, and was Ordinary professor (Ordaj profesoroj) at Akademio Internacia de la Sciencoj San Marino, the only university in the world where all courses are studied in esperanto.

He translated Winnie-the-Pooh into Esperanto with Ivy Kellerman Reed and was the author of Merde: excursions in scientific, cultural and socio-historical coprology.

Second Battle of Heligoland Bight

1st Light Cruiser Squadron: Commodore Walter H. Cowan CB, MVO, DSO

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly was established by Dorian Feigenbaum, Bertram D. Lewin, Frankwood Williams, and Gregory Zilboorg.

Tita in Thibet

Fred Leslie and W. H. Seymour, who would become the stage manager of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company for 20 years, also played in the piece, as did ex-D'Oyly Carte player Walter H. Fisher.

Tylopilus plumbeoviolaceus

The species was first named 1936 as Boletus felleus forma plumbeoviolaceus by American mycologist Walter H. Snell and one of his graduate students, Esther A. Dick, based on specimens found in the Black Rock Forest near Cornwall, New York.

VMI Keydets football

Taylor was the son of Walter H. Taylor, a Civil War lieutenant colonel and aide to Robert E. Lee.

Walter H. Albaugh

Albaugh was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Frank L. Kloeb, and only served from November 8, 1938, until January 3, 1939.

Walter H. Farquharson

After his ordination in 1960 he did a year of post-graduate study in Edinburgh, where he was also assistant minister at Morningside Parish Church.

He is a noted hymn-writer; three of his hymns were published in The Hymn Book (Anglican and United Churches of Canada, 1971); one of his best-known, "Men go to God when they are sorely placed," a translation of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Menschen gehen zu Gott in ihrer Nott, also appeared in The Australian Hymn Book (Anglican, Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregational and Roman Catholic).

Walter H. Fisher

He was soon playing other baritone roles, Captain Corcoran in H.M.S. Pinafore and Samuel in The Pirates of Penzance, on tour until June 1888.

Walter H. Stockmayer

Stockmayer is mentioned as a friend of the author in the novel Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, and is described as a distinguished pianist and a good skier.

Walter H. Taylor

He was the son of Walter H. Taylor Sr. and Cornelia Wickham Cowdery, and was a descendant of English colonist Adam Thoroughgood and his wife Sarah.

The project had been surveyed and laid out before the American Civil War by William Mahone, who also later served under General Lee.

Walter H. Thompson

In 2005 13-part television series, on UKTV History, with Dennis Waterman reciting excerpts from Thompson's journal (originally broadcast between November and December 2005).

Walter Haas

Walter H. Haas (born 1917), founder of Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers

Walter Price

Walter H. Price, one of the 'Four Founding Fathers' of Aston Villa Football Club

Walter Taylor

Walter H. Taylor (1838–1916), Virginia lawyer, businessman, and soldier, aide-de-camp to General Robert E. Lee

William Houlder Zachariasen

Zachariasen, with the support of the physics department faculty, brought Enrico Fermi, Edward Teller, Robert F. Christy, Walter H. Zinn, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Gregor Wentzel, and other distinguished physicists to the University of Chicago as professors of physics.


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