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William George Morgan (January 23, 1870 – December 27, 1942) was the inventor of volleyball, originally called "Mintonette", a name derived from the game of badminton which he later agreed to change to better reflect the nature of the sport. [1] He was born in Lockport, New York, U.S. [2]
William G. Morgan (1870–1942), American inventor of the game of volleyball William Llewellyn Morgan (1884–1960), Welsh international rugby union player William A. Morgan (footballer) (born 1914, date of death unknown), English footballer who played as goalkeeper for Coventry City F.C.
William G. Morgan: January 23, 1870 United States: He is the inventor of volleyball, and the inaugural member of the Volleyball Hall of Fame. [143] 1986: Dr. Harold T. Friermood: September 14, 1902 United States: He is the man who brought volleyball to the Olympics. Beginning in 1944, he was a tireless advocate of getting volleyball into the ...
G. William Morgan, also known as George William Morgan, health physicist and founding member of the Health Physics Society. Morgan held key health physics positions at Oak Ridge National Laboratory , the Manhattan Project and the Atomic Energy Commission .
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William G. Morgan House, also known as "Morgan Acres," is a historic home located at Bunker Hill, Berkeley County, West Virginia. It was built in 1849, and is a two-story, nine-bay, brick dwelling in the Greek Revival style. It is a long, narrow building with a central block and side wings, measuring 75 feet long and 21 feet deep.
William Morgan, FRS (26 May 1750 – 4 May 1833) [1] was a British [1] physician, physicist and statistician, who is considered the father of modern actuarial science. He is also credited with being the first to record the "invisible light" produced when a current is passed through a partly evacuated glass tube: "the first x-ray tube".
William Morgan (born 1774 – disappeared c. 1826) was a resident of Batavia, New York, whose disappearance and presumed murder in 1826 ignited a powerful movement against the Freemasons, a fraternal society that had become influential in the United States. [1]