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Robert L. Johnson at The Interviews: An Oral History of Television; Appearances on C-SPAN; How I Built This - Live Episode! Black Entertainment Television: Robert Johnson; Interview with Robert Johnson, president and founder of BET, from KUT's In Black America series on the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, April 29, 1986
Robert Johnson Omohundro was a research nuclear physicist for the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington. [1] He worked at the laboratory from 1948 to 1984 for 36 years. [1] [5] Some of his most notable work included being a part of the Manhattan Project where he helped develop the atomic bomb, created instruments for measuring, and identified radiation emissions coming from nuclear warheads. [5]
Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island , Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses .
Jerome Rothenberg was born and raised in New York City, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrant parents, [3] and is a descendant of the Talmudist rabbi Meir of Rothenburg. [4] He attended the City College of New York, graduating in 1952, and in 1953 he received a Master's Degree in Literature from the University of Michigan.
[5] Scottish novelists Robert Louis Stevenson (author of Treasure Island) and J. M. Barrie (author of Peter Pan featuring Captain Hook) both identified Johnson's General History of the Pyrates as one of their major influences, and Stevenson even borrowed one character's name (Israel Hands) from a list of Blackbeard's crew which appeared in ...
Robert was the son of a tax collector and the grandson of a country doctor from the region of Limousin in historical Occitania. [4] His father died prematurely in 1905 and his mother took her two sons first to Limoges, where Robert attended the Lycée Gay-Lussac and then to Paris, where he completed his pre-university education at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand.
In the post-war period, Campbell continued to write and translate poetry and to lecture. He also joined other White South African writers and intellectuals, including Laurens van der Post, Alan Paton, and Uys Krige, in speaking out against apartheid. Campbell died in a car accident in Portugal on Easter Monday, 1957.
Blaylock has cited Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Dickens as his inspirations. [2] He was born in Long Beach, California; studied English at California State University, Fullerton, receiving an M.A. in 1974; and lives in Orange, California, teaching creative writing at Chapman University. He ...