Lockyer took the position of chair of the committees, because many members were Nature contributors and many others were close friends, including Joseph Hooker, geologist Archibald Geikie, Alfred Lord Tennyson and zoologist Ray Lankester. Lockyer’s wife, Mary, was honorary assistant treasurer....
The cost of a general multiprocessor is, however, very high and further design options were considered which would decrease the cost without seriously degrading the power or efficiency of the system. The options consist of recentralizing one of the three major components. … Centralizing the [con...
In 1945, aTimesscience reporter, William L. Laurence, was the only journalist to witness theexplosionof theatomic bomboverNagasaki, Japan. He won aPulitzer Prizein 1946 for his reporting, but, “Atomic Bill” (as he was known by hisTimescolleagues) was, with the knowledge ofTimeseditors, ...
The Booker Prize was the subject of controversy on several occasions, and in 1984 Salman Rushdie, the winner of the award in 1981 for his novel Midnight’s Children, described the judging committee as “Killjoyces” and “Anti-Prousts” after the committee chairman stated that he had not ...
bishop of Aberdeen, sir Edward Lauder archdeacon of Lothian, and Sir Patrick Ogilvie knight (the sheriff of Angus and justiciar of Scotland). Whereupon there was an agreement on both sides; and five years later, when each was of marriageable age, there came as envoys from the king of ...
James Watson, one of three scientists to co-discover DNA structure, has auctioned off the 1962 Nobel Prize medal he received for the achievement; Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov paid $4.8 million for the medal but then returned it to Watson ...
The African American experience has been central to New York City since its earliest colonial settlement, and the lives, history, and culture of New York’s Black residents and leaders are recognized in landmarks and historic districts throughout the city. The New York City Landmarks ...
Davies himself paid for the building work, which commenced in 1908 under the supervision of architect Archibald Leitch. By 1910, the club had moved lock, stock and barrel from their old home of Bank Street. United's opening fixture at Old Trafford was played on 19 February 1910. The new ...
Around 1892, he turned active management of the drug store over to his son Harry and went into the florist and nursery business with his son Archibald. Their first greenhouses were located north of Main Street behind what is now Rosa’s Pizza. Henry T. died in 1912. Archibald continued th...
In 1856, Scottish chemistArchibald Couperbegan research on the bromination of benzene at the laboratory ofCharles Wurtzin Paris.[11]One month after Kekulé's second paper appeared, Couper's independent and largely identical theory of molecular structure was published. He offered a very concrete idea...