William Gregor (25 December 1761 – 11 June 1817) was a British clergyman and mineralogist who discovered the elemental metal Titanium. He was born at the...
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William McGregor may refer to: William McGregor (football) (1846–1911), founder of the Football League William McGregor (judoka) (born 1949), Canadian...
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and chlorine. Titanium was discovered in Cornwall, Great Britain, by William Gregor in 1791 and was named by Martin Heinrich Klaproth after the Titans of...
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William MacGregor (1846–1919) was a Lieutenant-Governor of British New Guinea, Governor of Newfoundland and Governor of Queensland. William or Bill(y)...
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Bob Gregor (born 1957), American football player Francis Gregor (MP) (1760–1815), MP for the County of Cornwall, brother of William Joseph Gregor, (1888-1960)...
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Gregor Johann Mendel OSA (/ˈmɛndəl/; Czech: Řehoř Jan Mendel; 20 July 1822 – 6 January 1884) was an Austrian-Czech biologist, meteorologist, mathematician...
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Battle of Glen Fruin (category Clan Gregor)
between the Clan Gregor and its allies on one side, and the Clan Colquhoun and its allies on the other. The Clan Gregor (or MacGregor) and Clan Colquhoun...
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William Gregor MacKenzie ALS VMH (1904–1995) was a gardener and horticultural curator born in Scotland, where his father was head gardener at Ballimore...
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tradition, it is supported by the Scottish historian, William Skene. It is possible that the eponymous Gregor from whom the family derives may have been Griogair...
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a National Park. William Gregor, the discoverer of titanium, was born on the Trewarthenick Estate as was his brother Francis Gregor, MP for the County...
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Sir William MacGregor, GCMG, CB, AM, PC, FRSGS (20 October 1846 – 3 July 1919) was a Lieutenant-Governor of British New Guinea, Governor of Lagos Colony...
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General Gregor MacGregor (24 December 1786 – 4 December 1845) was a Scottish soldier, adventurer, and confidence trickster who attempted from 1821 to 1837...
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as Jöns Jacob Berzelius and Wilhelm Hisinger, in the winter of 1803. William Gregor of Cornwall was the first to identify the element titanium in 1791,...
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The Metamorphosis (redirect from Gregor Samsa)
Kafka's best-known works, The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into...
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William Gregor George (13 October 1903 – prior to 22 March 1933) was a rugby union player who represented Australia. George, a fly-half, was born in Sydney...
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Gregor the Overlander is a children's epic fantasy novel. The book was written by Suzanne Collins and was published in 2003 as the first book of The Underland...
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and director William Douglas Mackenzie (1859–1936), American theologian William Gregor MacKenzie (1904-1995), plantsman and gardener William Macdonald Mackenzie...
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The Murray, later MacGregor of MacGregor Baronetcy, of Lanrick in the County of Perth, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on...
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William Bernard McGregor is an Australian linguist. As of 2024[update] he is professor in linguistics at Aarhus University in Denmark. William Bernard...
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Callum William McGregor (born 14 June 1993) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Scottish Premiership club Celtic, whom...
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Robert Roy MacGregor (Scottish Gaelic: Raibeart Ruadh MacGriogair; 7 March 1671 – 28 December 1734) was a Jacobite Scottish outlaw, who later became a...
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William McGregor (13 April 1846 – 20 December 1911) was a Scottish association football administrator in the Victorian era who was the founder of the Football...
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under normal light Ilmenite and hematite under polarized light In 1791 William Gregor discovered a deposit of black sand in a stream that runs through the...
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Anthony James Gregor (April 2, 1929 – August 30, 2019) was an American political scientist and eugenicist and professor of political science at the University...
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Museum of Fine Arts Boston Paintings of his wife, Elizabeth Okie Paxton William McGregor Paxton (June 22, 1869 – 1941) was an American painter and instructor...
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Gregor Kiczales is an American computer scientist. He is currently a professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver,...
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Hudson Jacob van Huysum Lee and Kennedy John Lindley Carl Linnaeus William Gregor MacKenzie Georg Christian Oeder Anthony du Gard Pasley Robert Petre...
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drawn and quartered. Titanium was discovered here by the Reverend William Gregor in 1791. In 1869, John Pender formed the Falmouth Gibraltar and Malta...
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"the Golden Dawn was MacGregor Mathers." Mathers was born on 8 or 11 January 1854 in Hackney, London, England. His father, William M. Mathers, died while...
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potassium zirconium fluoride in an iron tube. Cornish mineralogist William Gregor first identified titanium in ilmenite sand beside a stream in Cornwall...
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