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 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 Abbe (April 13, 1851 – March 7, 1928) was an American surgeon and pioneer radiologist in New York City. He was born in New York City and educated at the College of the City of New York (S.B., 1871) and Columbia University (M.D., 1874). Abbe was most known as a plastic surgeon, and between 1877 and 1884 he served as a surgeon and professor of surgery at the New York Hospital, St. Luke's Hospital, and the New York Babies Hospital. During this time, he would spend summers travelling, and he amassed a large collection of Native American artifacts and archeological materials. He died of anemia, possibly due to his work handling radium. Данное издание не является...
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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 Bosch GmbH is a German diversified technology-based corporation which was started in 1886 by Robert Bosch in Stuttgart, Germany. Robert Bosch GmbH is the world's largest supplier of automobile components, and has business relationships with virtually every automobile company in the world. The headquarters of Bosch is in Gerlingen, near Stuttgart. Franz Fehrenbach became chairman on 1 July 2003. The Bosch Group comprises more than 275 subsidiary companies. Operating in the areas of automotive and industrial technology, consumer goods, and building technology, the Bosch Group reported sales of €43.7 billion in fiscal 2006, an increase of 5.4% over the previous fiscal. Данное...
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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 A. Metzger (born 1956) is an electrical engineer and science fiction author. He was a Nebula Award finalist in the novel category in 2002 for his second novel, Picoverse. Metzger began writing science fiction stories as a child, but it was not until 1987 that he sold his first sci-fi short story. He published his first novel, Quad World, in 1991. It was not until 2002 that he published Picoverse; he published his third and most recent novel, Cusp, in 2005. Metzger's works are widely considered hard sci-fi. Greg Bear called him "one of our most ambitious writers of high-tech, hard physics science fiction." 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 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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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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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Robert C. Reid (June 11, 1924, Denver, Colorado – May 18, 2006, Lexington, Massachusetts) was a chemical engineer and professor at MIT. He received his B.A. from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and a master's degree from Purdue University as well as an Sc.D. from MIT. He is best known for his work in the field of thermodynamics, particularly in co-authoring the thermodynamics reference book "Thermodynamics and Its Applications" with Mike Modell. He also co-wrote "The Properties of Gases and Liquids," another reference work. He was an editor of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Journal and directed...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Kingsbury Huntington (13 March 1921 - 5 June 1942), was a naval aircrewman and member of Torpedo Squadron 8 (or VT-8). Along with his entire squadron, Huntington was shot down during the Battle of Midway, on 4–5 June 1942. Born in Los Angeles, California, enlisted in the United States Navy 21 April 1941. He served on board Lexington (CV-2) and was rated aviation radioman third class before being transferred to Torpedo Squadron 8 on board Hornet (CV-8). He received the Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism and extraordinary achievement as rear gunner in a torpedo plane during an attack against enemy Japanese forces in the Battle of Midway 4 June 1942. Flying without fighter support and...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Francis Fairlie (born either March 1831 or 5 April 1830, in Glasgow) was a Scottish railway engineer. Fairlie was the son of T. Archibald Fairlie (an engineer) and Margaret Fairlie. He trained at Crewe and Swindon, then joined first the Londonderry and Coleraine Railway as Locomotive Superintendent in 1852, and four years later the Bombay, Baroda Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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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 Resnick (January 11, 1923–) is a well respected physics educator and author of physics textbooks. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland on January 11, 1923 and graduated from the Baltimore City College high school in 1939. He received his B.A. in 1943 and his Ph.D. in 1949, both in physics from Johns Hopkins University. From 1949-56, he was a member of the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh, where he first met David Halliday, with whom he wrote his most widely read textbook. He later became a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and was head of the interdisciplinary science curriculum for...
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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 Rogerson was an early American industrialist. He was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, and died in the United States. Robert Rogerson, was born in Taunton to parents who immigrated to the US, from the UK. After leaving Taunton, he came to Uxbridge, Massachusetts, where he acquired the Clapp Mill in 1817, which had been established on the Mumford River about seven years earlier. This was the oldest cotton mill in Uxbridge. Rogerson then built two cotton mills at the Mumford River in Uxbridge, in 1825. The complex became known as the Crown and Eagle Mills. The name derived from a tribute to both of his...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert N. Hall (born December 25, 1919) is an American engineer and applied physicist. He demonstrated the first semiconductor laser, and invented a type of magnetron commonly used in microwave ovens. He also contributed to the development of rectifiers for power transmission. Hall was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He studied at California Institute of Technology, receiving the B.S. in 1942 and the Ph.D. in 1948. Studying the characteristics of p-i-n diodes used as power rectifiers, he had a key insight which resulted in his being co-credited with William Shockley and W. T. Read, Jr., for the analysis of nonradiative carrier recombination in semiconductors. Данное издание не...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Nason Beck (26 March 1928 in San Angelo, Texas – 6 August 2008 in Chicago, Illinois) was an American scientist and a pioneer in the field of nuclear medicine. Part of a University of Chicago team, he was the first to propose, in 1961, the use of the radioisotope technetium-99m to detect disease using Positron Emission Tomography, a technique that is presently used an estimated 20 million times a year throughout the world. Beck also helped develop collimators for sharpening the images produced by gamma-ray scanners, and was referred to as 'Mr. Collimator' by colleagues. Beck attended Angelo State University for a year before joining the United States Navy in 1946, where he worked as an...
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