Sir David Melville, CBE, FInstP (born 4 April 1944) is a British physicist, academic, academic administrator, and public servant. He was Vice-Chancellor...
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David Melville may refer to: David Melville (academic) (born 1944), British physicist and former vice-chancellor of the University of Kent David Melville...
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Stewart's Melville College (SMC) is a private day and boarding school in Edinburgh, Scotland. Classes are all boys in the 1st to 5th years and co-educational...
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musician and composer Melville S. Green (1922–1979), American physicist Melville Bell Grosvenor (1901–1982), American magazine editor Melville Guest (born 1943)...
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Albert Einstein (redirect from Einstein (physicist))
ˈʔaɪnʃtaɪn] ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held as one of the most influential scientists. Best known...
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Zephaniah Phillips, philosopher Bill Price, physicist David Williams, mathematician C. E. Wynn-Williams, physicist Olgierd Zienkiewicz, mathematician, engineer...
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Infinity is a 1996 American biographical film about the romantic life of physicist Richard Feynman. Feynman was played by Matthew Broderick, who also directed...
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Niels Bohr (redirect from Niels Henrik David Bohr)
Niels Henrik David Bohr (Danish: [ˈne̝ls ˈpoɐ̯ˀ]; 7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding...
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Edelstein, German-born American classical scholar and historian of medicine Melville Edelstein, sociologist Morris Michael Edelstein, American lawyer and politician...
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Louis Néel (category 20th-century French physicists)
Félix Néel ForMemRS (22 November 1904 – 17 November 2000) was a French physicist born in Lyon who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970 for his...
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Melvin is a masculine given name and surname, likely a variant of Melville and a descendant of the French surname de Maleuin and the later Melwin. It may...
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(EA 1947-55) Andrew Lang, Scottish poet and novelist (EA 1854-61) Alan Melville, (EA 1925-27) Sarah Pinborough, young adult fiction and adult thriller...
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Nevill Francis Mott (redirect from Mott (physicist))
Francis Mott CH FRS (30 September 1905 – 8 August 1996) was a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977 for his work on the electronic...
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"Trump sister sells oceanfront Westhampton Beach home for $3.8M". Newsday. Melville, New York City. Archived from the original on May 29, 2018. Retrieved May...
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under General Peter Wittgenstein. 1851 – Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA. 1889 – Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly...
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The following is a partial list of notable theoretical physicists. Arranged by century of birth, then century of death, then year of birth, then year of...
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Richard Feynman (category 20th-century American physicists)
(/ˈfaɪnmən/; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum...
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the U.S. discovered that Klaus Fuchs, a German refugee and theoretical physicist working for the British mission in the Manhattan Project, had given key...
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1858 – Willard Metcalf, American painter (d. 1925) 1858 – Velma Caldwell Melville, American editor and writer of prose and poetry (d. 1924) 1859 – DeLancey...
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Edward Teller (category 20th-century Hungarian physicists)
January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and chemical engineer who is known colloquially as "the father of the...
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Cloud Atlas (film) (section David Mitchell)
wrestling with the same things that Dickens and Hugo and David Mitchell and Herman Melville were wrestling with. We're wrestling with those same ideas...
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Joan Feynman (category Jewish American physicists)
(who became a Nobel Prize-winning physicist). Her parents were Lucille Feynman (née Phillips), a homemaker, and Melville Arthur Feynman, a businessman. Her...
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Alexander Graham Bell (category American physicists)
brothers: Melville James Bell (1845–1870) and Edward Charles Bell (1848–1867), both of whom died of tuberculosis. His father was Alexander Melville Bell,...
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Jim Al-Khalili (category English physicists)
صادق الخليلي; born 20 September 1962) is an Iraqi-British theoretical physicist and science populariser. He is professor of theoretical physics and chair...
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1877 – William David Ross, Scottish philosopher (d. 1971) 1878 – Robert Walser, Swiss author and playwright (d. 1956) 1879 – Melville Henry Cane, American...
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of the Scottish people". Particularly under John Knox and later Andrew Melville, the Church of Scotland had always claimed an inherent right to exercise...
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C. F. Powell (category 20th-century British physicists)
Cecil Frank Powell, FRS (5 December 1903 – 9 August 1969) was an English physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for heading the team that developed the...
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July 31 – Ernest Melville DuPorte (b. 1891), Black Canadian insect morphologist. September 8 – Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate...
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Wilson on 10 July 1958 in Cobh, County Cork, Ireland, the daughter of physicist Mary T. Wilson (née Flynn, born 1927) and ophthalmic surgeon Denis Joseph...
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Robert S. Mulliken (category 20th-century American physicists)
method. While at Chicago, he took a course under the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert A. Millikan, which exposed him to the old quantum theory. He also...
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