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  2. Christopher Zeeman - Wikipedia

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    He was the Society's first Forder lecturer, involving a lecture tour in New Zealand, in 1987. Between 1988 and 1994 he was the Professor of Geometry at Gresham College. [10] In 1978, Zeeman gave the televised series of Christmas Lectures at the Royal Institution. [11]

  3. Massey Lectures - Wikipedia

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    The Massey Lectures is an annual five-part series of lectures given in Canada by distinguished writers, thinkers, and scholars who explore important ideas and issues of contemporary interest. [1] Created in 1961 in honour of Vincent Massey, a former Governor General of Canada and coordinator of the 1951 Massey Report, it is widely regarded as ...

  4. Lecture - Wikipedia

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    Barbara McClintock delivers her Nobel lecture. A lecture (from Latin: lectura 'reading') is an oral presentation intended to present information or teach people about a particular subject, for example by a university or college teacher. Lectures are used to convey critical information, history, background, theories, and equations.

  5. La Cañada Flintridge, California - Wikipedia

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    La Cañada Flintridge, commonly known as just La Cañada (Spanish for 'The Canyon'), is a city in the foothills of the Verdugo Mountains [7] in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Located in the Crescenta Valley , in the western edge of the San Gabriel Valley , it is the location of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory .

  6. Nipo Strongheart - Wikipedia

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    [7]: p61 He gave a few performance-lectures in early 1930: one in Pennsylvania [121] and two in Wisconsin. [122] In July 1930, Strongheart attended a congress of Native Americans from the United States and Canada. [123] In October 1930, he joined the Izaak Walton League chapter in Los Angeles. He gave a talk in support of their call for ...

  7. Joseph B. MacInnis - Wikipedia

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    Occupations. Physician. author. diver. Awards. Order of Canada. Joseph Beverly MacInnis CM (born 2 March 1937) is a Canadian physician, author, and diver. [1] In 1974, MacInnis was the first scientist to dive in the near-freezing waters beneath the North Pole. [2] In 1976 he became a member of the Order of Canada. [3][4]

  8. Feynman's Lost Lecture - Wikipedia

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    978-0393039184. OCLC. 33078849. Dewey Decimal. 521/.3. LC Class. QB603.M6 G66 1996. Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun is a book based on a lecture by Richard Feynman. Restoration of the lecture notes and conversion into book form was undertaken by Caltech physicist David L. Goodstein and archivist Judith R. Goodstein.

  9. Michael Spivak - Wikipedia

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    On Spaces Satisfying Poincaré Duality (1964) Doctoral advisor. John Milnor. Michael David Spivak[1] (May 25, 1940 – October 1, 2020) [2][3] was an American mathematician specializing in differential geometry, an expositor of mathematics, and the founder of Publish-or-Perish Press. Spivak was the author of the five-volume A Comprehensive ...