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James Gilbert E. Wright (March 25, 1874 – August 20, 1961) [1] [unreliable source] was a Scottish-born inventor, researcher and chemical engineer at General Electric who invented Silly Putty in 1943 while looking for a replacement for rubber. The invention of Nutty Putty, later renamed Silly Putty, happened accidentally.
James Wright (inventor), American creator of Silly Putty; James Wright (potter) (1819–1887), New Zealand potter; James Homer Wright (1869–1928), American pathologist; James Hood Wright (1836–1894), American banker, financier and railroad man; James W. Wright, executive director of the Development Authority of the North Country
The following is a list of astronomers, astrophysicists and other notable people who have made contributions to the field of astronomy.They may have won major prizes or awards, developed or invented widely used techniques or technologies within astronomy, or are directors of major observatories or heads of space-based telescope projects.
James Homer Wright (April 8, 1869 – January 3, 1928) was an early and influential American pathologist, who was chief of pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1896 to 1926. Wright was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [2] In 1915, he joined with Richard C. Cabot to begin publication of the Case Records of the Massachusetts General ...
The James Webb Space Telescope keeps finding galaxies that shouldn’t exist, a scientist has warned. Six of the earliest and most massive galaxies that Nasa’s breakthrough telescope has seen so ...
By 1762, he was an accomplished portrait artist, and his 1764 group portrait James Shuttleworth, his Wife and Daughter is acknowledged as his first true masterpiece. Benedict Nicolson suggests that Wright was influenced by the work of Thomas Frye; in particular by the 18 bust-length mezzotints which Frye completed just before his death in 1762 ...
Liberty Oilfield Services Inc. CEO Chris Wright laughs as he celebrates the companies IPO on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shortly after the opening bell in New York, U.S., January 12 ...
James Webb was undersecretary of state during the Truman administration when the federal government systematically purged its ranks of LGBTQ employees. Some scientists are pushing to rename the ...