GABOR, Professor Dennis (1900-1979) 1911-1985

Ernst, Morris L. (Morris Leopold), 1888-1976

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Morris Ernst (August 23, 1888 – May 21, 1976) was an American lawyer and prominent attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). In public life, he defended and asserted the rights of Americans to privacy and freedom from censorship, playing a significant role in challenging and overcoming the banning of certain works of literature (including James Joyce's Ulysses and Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness) and in asserting the right of media employees to organise labor unions. He als...

Halsbury, John Anthony Hardinge Giffard, Earl of, 1908-2000

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Warren Sir Henry William Hugh 1891-1961

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Goldmark Peter Carl 1906

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Gabor, Dennis, 1900-1979

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Gabor (1900-1979) held over 100 patents and won the 1971 Nobel prize for physics for his invention of holography. He also corresponded with numerous persons who shared his interest in futurism. From the description of Correspondence, 1961-1969. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record id: 31179190 Born, 1900, Hungary; studied mechanical engineering at Joseph Technical High School, Budapest, 1918-1921, and Electrical Engineering Department, Technisch...

Priestley, J.B. (John Boynton), 1894-1984

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J. B. Priestley, playwright. From the description of An inspector calls: typescript, 1994. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122608422 J.B. Priestley, playwright; David Mamet, adapter, not credited here. From the description of Dangerous corner : typescript, 1996, January 4. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122626156 English author J.B. Priestley had a long and prolific career writing in numerous genres, and achieved critical a...

Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., 1966

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Polanyi, Michael, 1891-1976

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British chemist and philosopher. Born, Budapest, Hungary, 1891. M.D., University of Budapest, 1913; Ph. D., 1917. Worked at Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Fibre Chemistry, Berlin, 1920-23, and the Institute of Physical and Electro-Chemistry, Berlin, 1923-33. Chair, physical chemistry, 1933-48, and professor of social studies, 1948-58, University of Manchester. Senior research fellow, Merton College, Oxford, 1958-76. Died, 1976. From the description of Papers, 1900-1975 (inclusive). (Uni...

Hartley, Harold, 1878-1972

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Blackett, P. M. S. (Patrick Maynard Stuart), Baron Blackett, 1897-1974

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M. A. (Cantab.) Fellow of King's College Cambridge. University lecturer in physics, Cambridge. Served with the Royal Navy, 1914-1919. Professor of Physics, Birkbeck College, University of London. Professor of Physics, University of Manchester. F. R. S. 1933. Langworthy Professor of Physics at Manchester University (1937). Air Defense Committee (1936) Head of the Physics Department at Imperial College, London (1953-1965); Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Fellow, 1965-1974. He was awarded th...

Popper, Karl R. (Karl Raimund), 1902-1994

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Karl Raimund Popper, 1902-1994, was born in Vienna, Austria, and gained a PhD from the University of Vienna in 1926. From 1930 to 1935, he worked as a schoolteacher in Vienna, and from 1937 to 1945, he was senior lecturer in Philosophy at Canterbury University College, University of New Zealand, Christchurch. In 1945, he became Reader in Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics, and in 1949, he became Professor of Logic and Scientific Method, a post that he held until 1969 w...

Burch, Cecil Reginald, 1901-1983

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Darwin, Charles Galton, Sir, 1887-1962

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Physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Correspondence with Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, 1923-1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122505991 Physicist (wave theory, quantum theory, x-ray diffraction) and administrator. On the physics faculty at Manchester University (1910-1914); on the mathematics faculty at University of Cambridge (1914-1922, 1936-1938); on the natural philosophy faculty at University of Edinburgh (1923-1936); director of the Na...

Nobel Foundation

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Peierls Rudolf E. (Rudolf Ernst), 1907-1995

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Theoretical physics (quantum theory of solids of electro-magnetic fields and of the solid nucleus; World War II work on atomic energy). Affiliations include: 1925, Berlin University as student of physics; 1926 transferred to University of Munich, Department of Theoretical Physics (A. Sommerfeld); 1928 transferred to Leipzig University, Department of Theoretical Physics (W. Heisenberg); and in 1929 to the Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (W. Pauli). 1929, Ph.D., Leipzig. Fall 1929 to Fall ...

Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

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Milner Samuel Roslington 1875-1958

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Born, Max, 1882-1970

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Physicist (solid state physics, quantum mechanics, lattice dynamics, wave functions, molecules). On the physics faculty at Universität Göttingen (1908-1914, 1921-1933); Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin (1914-1919); and University of Edinburgh (1936-1956). From the description of Lecture notebooks, 1905-1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79287462 From the description of Papers, ca. 1945-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77749891 From the description of P...

Great Britain. Foreign Office

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This section not yet complete. From the guide to the Great Britain Foreign Office Records Related to Brazil N/A., 1862-1913, (Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin) ...

Jackson, Willis, Sir, 1904-1970

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Willis "Gator Tail" Jackson, composer, arranger and saxophonist, was born in 1932 in Miami, Florida. He began studying the piano at age ten, then added the clarinet, and made his professional debut at age fourteen on the tenor saxophone with local bands. Jackson studied theory and harmony at Florida A & M University, and later worked and toured with Cootie Williams, Dinah Washington and Jackie Wilson, among others. He formed various groups including the Willis Jackson Organ Quartet and the W...

Koestler, Arthur, 1905-1983

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