career he wrote science fiction for many years using the names John Pierce, John R. Pierce, and J. J. Coupling. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, he earned his...
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USS John R. Pierce (DD-753), an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer, is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Lieutenant Commander John Reeves...
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John R. Pierce (1910–2002), American engineer, professor, and author John J. Pierce (born 1941), American science fiction editor, son of John R. Pierce John...
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Kees van Prooijen and John R. Pierce. Pierce, who, with Max Mathews and others, published his discovery in 1984, renamed the Pierce 3579b scale and its...
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range of digital steps. Alec Reeves, Claude Shannon, Barney Oliver and John R. Pierce are credited with its invention. Linear pulse-code modulation (LPCM)...
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Processing Advisory Committee) was a committee of seven scientists led by John R. Pierce, established in 1964 by the United States government in order to evaluate...
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Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804 – October 8, 1869) was the 14th president of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857. A northern Democrat who believed...
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DesDiv 21, while USS John R. Pierce was reassigned to DesDiv 22 on 1 January 1963. Soon thereafter, in March 1963, Barton, John R. Pierce, Soley, English,...
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John) Benjamin Tolkien (1752–1819) emigrated to London in the 1770s and became the ancestors of the English family; the younger brother was J. R. R....
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Pierce Brendan Brosnan (born 16 May 1953) is an Irish actor and film producer. He was the fifth actor to play the fictional secret agent James Bond in...
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page about Nyquist Nyquist criterion page with photo of Nyquist with John R. Pierce and Rudy Kompfner K.J.Astrom: Nyquist and his seminal papers, 2005 presentation...
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Translated by Alexander John Ellis (2nd ed.). Longmans, Green. p. 23. John R. Pierce (2001). "Consonance and Scales". In Perry R. Cook (ed.). Music, Cognition...
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List of M*A*S*H characters (redirect from Hawkeye Pierce)
center and author's alter ego, chiding Trapper John for calling Major Houlihan "Hot Lips", which Pierce never does. Although just one of an ensemble of...
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Mathews and John R. Pierce (1989). "The Bohlen–Pierce Scale", p.167. Current Directions in Computer Music Research, Max V. Mathews and John R. Pierce, eds....
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Samuel Riley Pierce Jr. (September 8, 1922 – October 31, 2000) was an American attorney and politician who served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development...
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an earlier ring network developed at Bell Labs based on a design by John R. Pierce. That network used T1 lines at bit rate of 1.544 MHz and accommodating...
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visiting friend and colleague John R. Pierce. At that time, a speech synthesis demonstration was being performed by physicist John Larry Kelly Jr., by using...
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traveling wave tube embodying a new principle of amplification. 1975 John R. Pierce For his pioneering concrete proposals and the realization of satellite...
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the knowledge of semiconductors. The term transistor was coined by John R. Pierce as a contraction of the term transresistance. According to Lillian Hoddeson...
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Alexanderson, Mihajlo Pupin, Arthur E. Kennelly, Vladimir K. Zworykin, John R. Pierce, Sidney Darlington, James L. Flanagan, Nick Holonyak, Robert H. Dennard...
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and John R. Pierce (1989). "The Bohlen-Pierce Scale", pp.165-66. Current Directions in Computer Music Research, Max V. Mathews and John R. Pierce, eds...
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Sound for the movie Thirteen Days, portraying both herself and USS John R. Pierce. USS Lionfish (SS-298), a Balao-class submarine, was the only ship of...
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1852 United States presidential election (category Presidency of Franklin Pierce)
held in the United States on November 2, 1852. Democratic nominee Franklin Pierce defeated Whig nominee General Winfield Scott. Incumbent Whig President Millard...
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include Roger Shepard, Karl H. Pribram, Michael Posner, Douglas Hintzman, John R. Pierce, and Stephen Palmer. He has been a visiting professor at the University...
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on communications satellites, Bell Telephone Laboratories engineer John R. Pierce put forth a presentation on passive satellite relay, describing how...
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first TWT in early 1943.: 3 The TWT was later refined by Kompfner, John R. Pierce, and Lester M. Winslow at Bell Labs. Note that Kompfner's US patent...
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(PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022. Retrieved 9 September 2024. John R. Pierce (1969). "Whither speech recognition?". Journal of the Acoustical Society...
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United States and was delivered by a United States Navy destroyer, USS John R. Pierce (DD-753). The statue was unveiled in 1956, and each year a parade and...
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Baker James B. Fisk Mervin Kelly John R. Pierce Richard Hamming Claude Shannon William Shockley Charles Townes John Tukey The Idea Factory, a 2012 book...
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Triode" and "Iotatron" were all considered, but "Transistor," coined by John R. Pierce, was the clear winner of an internal ballot (owing in part to the affinity...
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