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Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) [1] was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which was successfully launched on March 16, 1926. [2]
Goddard is a surname of Norman origin, found in England and France. [1] It is derived from the personal name Golhard. [ 1 ] Recorded variants include Godard and Godart in England; Goudard and Godar in France; Gotthard , Godehard and Goddert in Germany; and Goedhard and Goedhart in Holland.
Henry Herbert Goddard (August 14, 1866 – June 18, 1957) was an American psychologist, eugenicist, and segregationist during the early 20th century. He is known especially for his 1912 work The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness, [2] which he himself came to regard as flawed for its ahistoric depiction of the titular family, and for translating the Binet-Simon ...
Paulette Goddard (born Marion Levy; June 3, 1910 – April 23, 1990) was an American actress and socialite. Her career spanned six decades, from the 1920s to the ...
Mark Goddard (born Charles Harvey Goddard; July 24, 1936 – October 10, 2023) was an American actor who starred in a number of television programs. He is probably best known for portraying Major Don West in the CBS series Lost in Space (1965–1968).
Goddard College began in 1863 in Barre, Vermont, as the Green Mountain Central Institute. In 1870, it was renamed Goddard Seminary in honor of Thomas A. Goddard [Wikidata] (1811–1868) and his wife Mary (1816–1889). [5] Goddard was a prominent merchant in Boston, and was one of the school's earliest and most generous benefactors. [5]
Richard Duane Goddard [2] (February 24, 1931 – August 4, 2020) was an American television meteorologist, author, cartoonist, and animal activist. From 1966 until his retirement in 2016, he was the evening meteorologist at WJW-TV in Cleveland , Ohio .
Goddard served as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Central States Mission, assigned to places such as Manitoba and Minnesota in about 1948-1950. He resumed his world traveling shortly after his mission, heading to Foggia in Italy. [ 2 ]