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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Gottschalk (12 March 1918 - 3 June 1982) was a camera technician and founder of Panavision. His father specialized in building movie theatres, which left the family well-off financially and influenced Gottschalk's interest in film. After Gottschalk graduated with a degree in theater and arts from Carleton College in Minnesota, he moved to California to become a filmmaker. He bought an interest in a camera shop and later got to know a nearby outfit that made underwater filming equipment for Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Equipment restrictions at the time made wide-angle filming difficult, and Gottschalk began experimenting with anamorphic lens equipment patented by Henri Chretien. Данное...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sir Robert Lewis Fullarton Boyd (19 October 1922 – 5 February 2004) was a pioneer of British space science and founding director of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory (part of University College London). Robert Boyd was born in Saltcoats, Ayrshire - one of twin boys. He was a pupil at Whitgift School and studied at Imperial College (BSc(Eng) 1943) and University College London (PhD 1949; Fellow 1988). His scientific career started at the Admiralty Mining Establishment in 1943 where he worked with some notable scientists, including Harrie Massey who would later encourage Boyd to engage in atmospheric physics research at UCL. His thesis was on New Techniques for the Study of Ionised Gases....
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Gerwig (May 2, 1820 – December 6, 1885) was a German civil engineer. Gerwig attended the Grossherzogliches Polytechnikum (now known as Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) where he studied civil engineering, primarily road construction. In 1852 he began collecting clocks; his collection formed the basis for the German clock museum. In the 1860s, Gerwigs attention and professional skills turned toward rail transport. He was one of the principal designers of the Schwarzwaldbahn (Black Forest railway), which avoided steep grades through the use of numerous loops and curved tunnels. He applied the principle again for the Gotthardbahn at the double loop of Wassen. His last rail project was...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Robert (Bob) Propst (bef 1953 - 2000) was the inventor of the Action Office that evolved into the cubicle office furniture system. Robert Propst was from Colorado and worked for Herman Miller (Research) in Zeeland, Michigan, where he was hired in 1958 by Herman Miller Inc. president Hugh DePree to "find problems outside of the furniture industry and to conceive solutions for them." Propst's work has been exhibited at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Henry Ford Museum. "Father of the Cubicle" is a misnomer. When Propst designed the Action Office system, so-called "cubicle...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Brownlee Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Mountain Skies Astronomical Society (MSAS). It is located in Lake Arrowhead, California, USA. The observatory was named for Robert Gregg Brownlee, a biochemist. Lake Arrowhead is an unincorporated community in the San Bernardino Mountains of San Bernardino County, California, within the San Bernardino National Forest. It lies within a census-designated place (CDP) by the same name, adjacent to Lake Arrowhead Reservoir. The population of the CDP was 8,934 at the 2000 census. Lake Arrowhead Village is an unincorporated community, with the Lake Arrowhead Communities Chamber of Commerce the de facto governing body....
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert B.C. Noorduyn (April 6, 1893 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands - February 22, 1959 in South Burlington, Vermont) was an aircraft designer and manufacturer. After Noorduyn had received a technical training in the Netherlands and Germany, in 1913, he moved to England. There he trained to fly in a Caudron G II and worked as a technical draughtsmen for the Sopwith company. In 1917, Noorduyn was recruited to become the chief draughtsman for the British Aerial Transport company. (Chief designer of the company was another Dutchman: along with Frits Koolhoven) British Aerial Transport or BAT however was short-lived. A victim of the changing tides following the end of World War I, it folded in 1919....
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Madge is an entrepreneur and technologist. In the 1980s, he founded Madge Networks, a pioneer of high speed networking technology. He is currently the President of IDTrack, a European Association for identification and traceability of goods based on technologies such as RFID. He is also the founder of Olzet, a provider of services associated with the implementation of RFID solutions in the food industry. Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is a technology that uses communication via electromagnetic waves to exchange data between a terminal and an object such as a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification and tracking. Some tags can be read from several meters away...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert B. Ingebretsen (30 March 1948 – 2 March 2003) was a pioneer in the development of digital sound. As a teenager in the 1960s, Ingebretsen built robots and primitive computers that could talk. As a University of Utah graduate student in the early 1970s, Ingebretsen assisted Dr. Thomas G. Stockham in the development of Stockham's restoration technique for sound and images. This work led to RCA's Caruso-A Legendary Performer that applied Stockham's restoration techniques to acoustic recordings of opera great Enrico Caruso. Ingebretsen worked with Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull in 1974 to produce one of the first digital films, a 20-second portrait of a human hand. Данное издание...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Fourer is a prominent scientist working in the area of operational research and management science. He is currently a professor at Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences Department of Northwestern University. Robert Fourer is recognized as being the designer of the popular modeling language for mathematical programming called AMPL. Together with David M. Gay and Brian Kernighan he was awarded 1993 ORSA/CSTS Prize by the Computer Science Technical Section of the Operations Research Society of America, for writings on the design of mathematical programming systems and the AMPL modeling language. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert "Bobby" Bowie Owens (1870 – 1940) was a U.S. electrical engineer. He discovered alpha rays. Born October 29, 1870, Owens was a graduate of the Industrial College of Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University. On August 19, 1891 he was employed as the "Adjunct Professor in Electrical Engineering" in the newly formed school of Electrical Engineering at the University of Nebraska. After seven years of service left the now-department in shape comparable to other universities of the time, in August 1898, Owens took a position as MacDonald Chair of Electrical Engineering at McGill University in Montreal. During his time at Nebraska, Owens was involved in forming The Society of...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert D. Briskman (born October 15, 1932) was the Chief Technical Officer and Executive Vice President, Engineering of Sirius Satellite Radio since its founding in 1991 and is currently Technical Executive of Sirius XM Radio. Briskman has been involved with communication satellite systems since their inception. Briskman, the technical innovator of mobile satellite radio services, was responsible for the development, implementation and operation of Sirius Satellite Radio's broadcast distribution system. His technology development responsibility included design of low cost satellite receiving terminals for automobiles and of broadcast sound programming, earth station, terrestrial repeaters and...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Robert Dennard (born September 5, 1932) is an American electrical engineer and inventor. Dennard was born in Terrell, Texas, U.S.. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, in 1954 and 1956, respectively. He earned a Ph.D. from Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1958. His professional career was spent as a researcher for International Business Machines. In 1968, he invented dynamic random access memory (DRAM). Dennard was also among the first to recognize the tremendous potential of downsizing MOSFETs. Данное...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert L. Hurt is a member of the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) at the California Institute of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from University of California, Los Angeles. Hurt produced the first published artist concepts of the Trans-Neptunian object 90377 Sedna, from data obtained by the Spitzer Space Telescope. His work has been used by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Since 2006, Hurt has hosted a video podcast called The Hidden Universe and often speaks on the subject of using new media to communicate science and astronomy. He is a frequent guest on mainstream science programs as well. Hurt is also a member of the American Astronomical Society and the Sigma...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Friedland (born 1950) is Deputy Chairman and Director of Ivanhoe Energy and Ivanhoe Mines, Inc. He has had mining interests in the Venezuelan Amazon, Siberia, the Rocky Mountains, Zambia and the Atlantic coast of Southern Africa. He holds dual nationality with Canada and the United States. His personal fortune is estimated at $1 billion. Ivanhoe Mines is developing giant copper-gold and coal reserves in East Asia, especially Mongolia. Known as "Toxic Bob" and "The Ugly Canadian", Friedland was chairman of Galactic Resources which operated Summitville mine, the site of the United States' worst cyanide release and mine bankruptcy and Superfund site. This mine closed in 1990 but is still...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert C. Michelson (born 1951) is an American engineer and academic widely known for inventing the entomopter, a biologically inspired flapping-winged aerial robot, and for having established the International Aerial Robotics Competition. He has received degrees in electrical engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the Georgia Institute of Technology. His professional career began at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory where he worked on radar-based ocean surveillance systems. He later became a member of the research faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology. At the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) he was involved in full-time research, directing over 30 major...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Robert A. Richmond was born April 20, 1980 in the town of Cleveland, Tennessee, and now resides in Florida. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief for TechIMO.com, a technical Internet discussion community serving approximately 200,000 registered members and 1.9 million forum posts. As identified in his online biographical entries, Robert's formal education includes an Associate of Science Degree in Mathematics with a specific concentration of Scientific Application Development. Practical experience includes several years of editorial operations, including technical and computer hardware review articles...
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Robert King Merton was a distinguished American sociologist perhaps best known for having coined the phrase "self-fulfilling prophecy," the explanation for how a belief or an expectation, correct or incorrect, affects the outcome of a situation or the way a person or a group will behave. He also coined many other phrases that have gone into everyday use, such as "role model," which first appeared in a study on the socializaton of medical students at Columbia. The term grew from his theory of a reference group, or the group that individuals compare themselves to, but do not necessarily belong to. Social roles were a central piece to Merton's theory on social groups. Merton emphasized that, rather than a person assuming one role and one...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Rathbun Wilson (March 4, 1914 – January 16, 2000) was an American physicist who was a group leader of the Manhattan Project, a sculptor, and an architect of Fermi National Laboratory (Fermilab), where he was also the director from 1967–1978. Wilson was born in Frontier, Wyoming, in 1914. In 1932 he arrived at Ernest O. Lawrence's Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, which was at that time blossoming into the top American site for both experimental and theoretical physics due to the efforts of Lawrence and J. Robert Oppenheimer. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Squadron Leader Robert Kronfeld, AFC, (5 May 1904 – 12 February 1948) was an Austrian-born gliding champion and sailplane designer of the 1920s and 30s. He became a British subject and an RAF test pilot. He was killed testing a glider in 1948.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Edward Cox (1917 – December 16, 1989) was an American optical engineer and a popularizer of amateur telescope making. He conducted the popular "Gleanings for ATMs" (Amateur Telescope Makers) column in Sky and Telescope magazine for 21 years. Cox worked briefly at Perkin Elmer in 1939. Shortly thereafter he was inducted into the Army Air Corps and served for two years in the South Pacific as a weather specialist. After the war, Cox accepted part-time positions as photographic technician at Harvard Observatory and as staff member at Sky and Telescope. He also became associate editor of Weatherwise magazine. Данное издание не является оригинальным....
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Robert Noel Parker (24 December 1936 – 30 December 2004) was an Australian sound engineer, jazz expert and broadcaster, well known for his radio series Jazz Classics in Digital Stereo. Born in Sydney, Australia, he worked for the Commonwealth Film Unit then moved to Britain in 1964 to work in the film and television industry. On returning to Australia, he received a commission from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for a radio series on jazz. As a collector of records from the age of twelve, he had built up a large collection of vintage music. He developed a system for transferring recordings to digital...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert M. Brown was the Chief Engineer for Union Pacific Railroad in the 1960s and 1970s. For his work with the railroad, Modern Railways magazine selected Brown to receive the magazine's Man of the Year award in 1978; the award has since been continued by Railway Age magazine as the Railroader of the Year. He was the first railway Chief Engineer to receive this honor that was previously awarded only to top-level executives. Brown was also involved in the hiring process at Union Pacific for Bill Wimmer, the 2007 recipient of the Railroader of the Year award, and coincidentally, only the second Chief Engineer to be chosen for the honor. Данное издание не является...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Durrer (1890 – 1978) was a Swiss engineer who developed the basic oxygen steelmaking process (the Linz-Donawitz process, named after the towns where the technology was commercialized). The process was successfully tested by Durrer in 1948 and further refined and implemented by VOEST and OAMG in Austria, independently of the "big steel" establishment of the United States and the Ruhr. Durrer graduated from the Aachen University in 1915. He stayed in Germany and in 1928 accepted the chair of the Professor of Metallurgy at the Berlin Institute of Technology. In 1943 Durrer returned from Nazi Germany to Switzerland and was appointed to the board of Roll AG, the country's largest...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Lesnik is a car designer, born 1971 in Limbus, a village near Maribor Slovenia. After three failed attempts to enter the Academy of Fine Art and Design Ljubljana he registered at the University of Pforzheim, and while there he took an exam to work with Volkswagen — and received employment. Since April 2007, he has worked with Kia Motors. He won the "Designer of the year, 2006" award, a Slovenian award for industrial design. Pforzheim is a town of nearly 119,000 inhabitants in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg, southwest Germany at the gate to the Black Forest. It is world-famous for its jewelry and watch-making industry. Because of that it gained the nickname "Goldstadt" or Golden City....
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