Thomas John Watson Jr. (January 14, 1914 – December 31, 1993) was an American businessman, diplomat, Army Air Forces pilot, and philanthropist. The son...
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he died in 1956. Thomas J. Watson was born in Campbell, New York, the fifth child and only son of Thomas and Jane Fulton White Watson. His four older siblings...
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policy." In 1981, with the support and guidance of 1937 Brown alumnus Thomas J. Watson Jr., former chairman of IBM and Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Brown...
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consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York. Thomas J. Watson (1914–1956) Thomas J. Watson, Jr. (1956–1971) T. Vincent Learson (1971–1973) Frank...
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Thomas J. Watson, was IBM's founder and oversaw that company's growth into an international force from the 1920s to the 1950s. His brother Thomas J....
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Chairman of Omnicom Group, Inc. Thomas J. Watson Jr. (1914–1993), second president of IBM and son of Thomas J. Watson Thomas Watson (engraver) (1750–1781), fine...
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headquarters of IBM's Research division, is named for both Thomas J. Watson, Sr. and Thomas Watson, Jr., who led IBM as president and CEO, respectively, from...
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James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he co-authored with Francis Crick the academic...
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longtime home of Bentonville, Arkansas. Samuel Moore Walton was born to Thomas Gibson Walton and Nancy Lee, in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. He lived there with...
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market. The 608 contained more than 3,000 germanium transistors. Thomas J. Watson Jr. ordered all future IBM products to use transistors in their design...
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Fred Brooks, responsible to Chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr. The commercial release was piloted by another of Watson's lieutenants, John R. Opel, who managed...
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from Massachusetts, 1962–2009. Edward M. Kennedy Jr.: Connecticut state Senator, 2015–2019. Patrick J. Kennedy: Rhode Island state Representative, 1989–1993;...
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of educator and philanthropist Charles E. Merrill Jr. (1920–2017), author and founder of the Thomas Jefferson School (St. Louis, Missouri), Commonwealth...
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the umbrella of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR). Thomas J. Watson (1874–1956) assumed the role of general manager within the company...
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Islands". KUT (radio station). Retrieved 29 September 2018. Cooke, James J. American girls, beer, and Glenn Miller: GI morale in World War II (University...
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Marlon Brando (redirect from Marlon Brando, Jr.)
Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor and activist. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential actors...
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The seven were Carrier, J. Irvine Lyle, Edward T. Murphy, L. Logan Lewis, Ernest T. Lyle, Frank Sanna, Alfred E. Stacey Jr., and Edmund P. Heckel. The...
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himself. Doubts on the suicide thesis have been also cast by John W. Dawson Jr. who, in his review of Hodges' book, recalls "Turing's vulnerable position...
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1946. IBM's CEO Thomas J. Watson was doubtful of the product, but commercialization was pushed for by his son Thomas J. Watson Jr. Only about 20 were...
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doi:10.1017/s0025727300040758. PMC 1139110. PMID 7047933. Curry, J. (1981). "Obituary: C. J. La Touche". Medical Mycology. 19 (2): 164. doi:10.1080/00362178185380261...
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politician. Peter Stringfellow, British nightclub owner [citation needed] Thomas J. Watson Jr., CEO of IBM Oprah Winfrey, talk-show host Geography portal Caribbean...
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Bruce Lee (redirect from Bruce J. Lee)
Christopher J. Berry; Mary Ann Farquhar (2006). China on Screen: Cinema and Nation. Columbia University Press. pp. 100–. ISBN 978-0-231-51030-1. Bruce Thomas (1994)...
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Griffith Edwards. Alcohol: The World's Favorite Drug. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2002. ISBN 0312283873. p. 109. Are we making the most of Alcoholics...
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People's Tycoon. A.A. Knopf. p. 378. ISBN 9780375407352. John Milton Cooper Jr, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography (2009) p. 521 Baldwin, Neil (2001). Henry Ford...
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a prostitution racket after years of investigation by District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey. He was sentenced to 30 to 50 years in prison, but during World...
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Gabler 2006, p. 41. Thomas 1994, pp. 55–56. Thomas 1994, p. 56; Barrier 2007, pp. 24–25. Barrier 2007, p. 25. Mosley 1990, p. 63. Thomas 1994, pp. 57–58....
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assisted by the staff at the D.T. Watson Home for Crippled Children, which is now the Education Center at the Watson Institute in Sewickley, Pennsylvania)...
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sky and the nickname of the first occupant, Big Blue. IBM's CEO Thomas J. Watson Jr. reportedly chose the site of Rochester in honor of his copilot during...
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John Maynard Keynes (redirect from J. M. Keynes)
Money. Second Edition. Thomas Nelson and Sons. p. 336. Crowther, Geoffrey (1948). An Outline of Money. Second Edition. Thomas Nelson and Sons. pp. 368–72...
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Bart Simpson (redirect from Bartholomew J. Simpson)
character 'Matt'. Bart's middle initial J is a "tribute" to animated characters such as Bullwinkle J. Moose and Rocket J. Squirrel from The Rocky and Bullwinkle...
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