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    John Hopkinson, FRS, (27 July 1849 – 27 August 1898) was a British physicist, electrical engineer, Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the IEE...
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  • Hopkinson is a surname of English and Welsh origin. Notable people with the surname include: Abdur Rahman Slade Hopkinson (1934–1993), West Indian writer...
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  • William John Hopkinson (November 25, 1887 – February 21, 1970) was a Canadian artist best known for his en plein air style landscapes. Born in London,...
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  • John Henry Hopkinson (died 22 October 1957) was Archdeacon of Westmorland from 1931 until 1944. The son of Sir Alfred Hopkinson, K.C.; nephew of John...
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  • John Hopkinson (1610 – 28 February 1680) was an English antiquarian. Hopkinson was the son of George Hopkinson of Lofthouse, near Leeds, by his second...
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    Francis Hopkinson (October 2, 1737 – May 9, 1791) was an American Founding Father, lawyer, jurist, author, and composer. He designed Continental paper...
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  • The Hopkinson and Imperial Chemical Industries Professorship of Applied Thermodynamics at the University of Cambridge was established on 10 February 1950...
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  • William Hopkinson may refer to: William Hopkinson (cricketer), English cricketer William C. Hopkinson, Indian police officer, later an immigration inspector...
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  • Christianity portal Barnabas John Hopkinson (born 1939) is an Anglican priest and a former member of the senior leadership team in the Diocese of Salisbury...
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    temperature. It was first observed by John Hopkinson in 1889 in a study on iron. In single domain particles, a large Hopkinson peak results from a transient superparamagnetic...
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    Nalo Hopkinson (born 20 December 1960) is a Jamaican-born Canadian speculative fiction writer and editor. Her novels – Brown Girl in the Ring (1998),...
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    appearing in the equation for the magnetic flux in a magnetic circuit, Hopkinson's law. It is the property of certain substances or phenomena that give...
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    permanent magnets, due to its high remanence and coercivity, as noted by John Hopkinson (1849–1898) as early as 1886. The magnetic properties of a metal or...
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  • Beverly Vehar, John Vehar, and Jeffrey Green. He is the only person to have been executed in Wyoming since the 1960s. Mark Hopkinson returned to his...
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  • Ian John Hopkinson (born 19 October 1950) is an English former footballer who played as a forward in the Football League for Barrow, Workington and Darlington...
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    politician. Hopkinson was the fourth son of John Hopkinson, an engineer who was mayor of Manchester in 1882/83. Hopkinson was educated at Owen's College, Manchester...
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    Charles Sydney Hopkinson (1869 – 1962) was an American portrait painter and landscape watercolorist. He maintained a studio in the Fenway Studios building...
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  • co-founder of what would become General Electric, president of AIEE John Hopkinson Inventor of three-phase electrical system Grace Hopper Computer programmer...
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  • the Vehar murders, Hopkinson ordered the torture-murder of one of his employees, Jeff Green, who was about to testify against Hopkinson in court. The man...
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    is virtually untouched since 1611. The house was possibly built by a John Hopkinson The house owes much of its existence to the wealth of one of its owners...
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  • Soldier Ronak Patani – Major Singh Ned Porteous – voice of Zogroth John Hopkinson – voice of Zreeg Anna Martine Freeman – Chief Technician Archie Backhouse...
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  • Simon Charles Hopkinson (born 5 June 1954) is an English food writer, critic and former chef. He published his first cookbook, Roast Chicken and Other...
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    law used in magnetic circuits. This law is often called Hopkinson's law, after John Hopkinson, but was actually formulated earlier by Henry Augustus Rowland...
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    invented by Galileo Ferraris, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Jonas Wenström, John Hopkinson, William Stanley Jr., and Nikola Tesla in the late 1880s. Three phase...
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    designer of the internal combustion engine. Hopkinson was born in Birmingham, in 1874, the son of John Hopkinson, an electrical engineer. He read law at Trinity...
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  • 1877: Ludwig Boltzmann: Statistical definition of entropy. 1880s: John Hopkinson develops three-phase electrical supplies, mathematically proves how...
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    current-carrying conductors. Charles Proteus Steinmetz Galileo Ferraris John Hopkinson Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky Nikola Tesla Polyphase system Three-phase...
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    son of John Hopkinson, a mechanical engineer, and among his brothers were John Hopkinson, a physicist and electrical engineer, and Edward Hopkinson, an electrical...
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  • Ferranti pioneered the first AC power generator and transformer in 1882. John Hopkinson, a British physicist, invented the three-wire (three-phase) system for...
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    Joseph Hopkinson (November 12, 1770 – January 15, 1842) was a United States representative from Pennsylvania and a United States district judge of the...
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