A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.

Scots-born migrants that played a leading role in the foundation and development of the United States included cleric and revolutionary John Witherspoon, sailor John Paul Jones, industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and scientist and inventor Alexander Graham Bell.

* 585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce.

The Earth expedition is headed by an Israeli scientist while a leading role among the revolutionaries is played by the " Yunodins ", members of a dispersed and persecuted minority explicitly described as " The Jews of Mars ".

Along with scientist William Ramsay at University College, London, Lord Rayleigh theorized that the nitrogen extracted from air was mixed with another gas, leading to an experiment that successfully isolated a new element, argon, from the Greek word (, " inactive ").

The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages ( Basic Books ; 2010 ) 310 pages ; shows he was the leading scientist and mathematician of his day.

* Danish definition: " Intention or gross negligence leading to fabrication of the scientific message or a false credit or emphasis given to a scientist "

** The body of David Kelly, a scientist at the Ministry of Defence, is found a few miles from his home, leading to the Hutton inquiry.

Bobby suggests a leading American scientist, Professor Jacob Barnhardt ( Sam Jaffe ), who lives in Washington, D. C. Bobby takes Klaatu to Barnhardt's home, but the professor is absent.

In the pilot episode of the 1950s television program Adventures of Superman Jor-El, portrayed by Robert Rockwell, was Krypton's leading scientist, who tried to warn the ruling council of Krypton's demise.

Harold Dwight Lasswell ( February 13, 1902 — December 18, 1978 ) was a leading American political scientist and communications theorist.

In the version, German scientist Emil von Wolff misplaced a decimal point in an 1870 measurement of spinach's iron content, leading to an iron value 10 times higher than it should have been, and this faulty measurement was not noticed until the 1930s.

Not himself a scientist, he has been called " the most skillful apologist of the virtuosi ", or in other words the leading propagandist for the approach of the English natural philosophers of the later 17th century.

Camp David: Peacemaking and Politics ( 1986 ), by leading political scientist

* Angela Belcher, a leading scientist in research using viruses to build nanochips, nanobatteries and other nanotechnological devices

He compared the handwriting of the five leading " suspects " ( Duncan-Sandys ; Douglas Fairbanks, Jr .; John Cohane, an American businessman ; Peter Combe, a former press officer at the Savoy Hotel ; and Sigismund von Braun, brother of the German scientist Wernher von Braun ) with the captions written on the photographs.

Eric Trist ( September 1909 – 4 June 1993 ) was a British scientist and leading figure in the field of Organizational development ( OD ).

He was educated at Lewis School Pengam and Clare College, University of Cambridge and became a leading space scientist.

Its team includes the world leading venture capitalist John Doerr ; Sun Microsystem's co-founder Bill Joy ; NASA rocket scientist K. R. Sridhar ; former US Vice President Al Gore ; and former US Secretary of State Colin Powell.

* Sir John T. Houghton, leading scientist, former Chief Executive of the Met Office and former co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Charles University political scientist Zdeněk Zbořil, for instance, intimated that direct voting could result in a president and prime minister who were hostile to each other's goals, leading to bitter deadlock.

The Manuscript is Everhard's autobiography as she tells of: her privileged childhood as the daughter of an accomplished scientist ; her marriage to the socialist revolutionary Ernest Everhard ; the fall of the US republic ; and her years in the underground resistance from the First Revolt through the years leading to the Second Revolt.

* The EJLB-CIHR Michael Smith Chair in Neurosciences and Mental Health allows a Canadian university or health research institute to attract a leading scientist in the field of neurosciences and mental health to Canada.

Salton was perhaps the leading computer scientist working in the field of information retrieval during his time.

Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity.

This is not a rejection of existence by Gilson, a leading modern metaphysician in the classical tradition: " philosophers are wholly justified in taking existence for granted ... and in never mentioning it again ...." In Gilson's view, the participial being is a given, a primitive of experience, not subject to proof or investigation, as it is the grounds of proof.

Discrepancies between the observed perihelion precession rate of the planet Mercury and that predicted by classical mechanics were prominent among the forms of experimental evidence leading to the acceptance of Einstein's Theory of Relativity ( in particular, his General Theory of Relativity ), which accurately predicted the anomalies.

New forms of anti-monarchism, such as liberalism and later socialism, quickly overtook classical republicanism as the leading republican ideologies.

However, the interpretations leading to the development of the equations were very different, since at the time of development, statistical dynamics had not yet unified the separate studies of thermodynamics and classical dynamics.

This electron flew in the face of classical electrodynamics, which had successfully treated electricity as a fluid for many years ( leading to the invention of batteries, electric motors, dynamos, and arc lamps ).

Lawrence, a British leading authority on classical sculpture and architecture ( d. 1991 )

Dresden in the 20th century was a major communications hub and manufacturing center, as well as a leading European centre of art, classical music, culture and science until its complete destruction on 13 February 1945.

This is in contrast to the classical cyclotron, where the frequency was held constant, thus leading to the synchrocyclotron operation frequency being

His mother set up as voice teacher in London, where he met leading performers, including members of George Edwardes's Gaiety Theatre company, classical musicians such as Landon Ronald, and singers such as Adelina Patti.

) A qualitative description leading to Ohm's law can be based upon classical mechanics using the Drude model developed by Paul Drude in 1900.

One of the leading classical composers from El Salvador is Carlos Colón-Quintana.

The act specified that the " leading object shall be without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and mechanics arts ... in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits of professions of life.

Today, Decca is a leading label for both classical music and Broadway scores although it is branching out into pop music from established recording stars: its most recent hit was Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA ( 2007 ) by Boyz II Men, which reached No. 27 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart.

The covariant or spinfoam version of the dynamics developed during several decades, and crystalized in 2008, from the joint work of research groups in France, Canada, UK, Poland, and Germany, leading to the definition of a family of transition amplitudes, which in the classical limit can be shown to be related to a family of truncations of general relativity.

The music has influenced many of the 20th century's leading composers and is one of the most recorded works in the classical repertoire.

Olivier's performance won him an engagement as the leading man of the Old Vic Theatre the following season, starting his career as a classical actor, but he was said to have resented Gielgud's direction and developed a wary relationship with Gielgud which resulted in Olivier turning down Gielgud's request to play the Chorus in Olivier's film of Henry V and later doing his best to block Gielgud from appearing at the Royal National Theatre when Olivier was its director.

Some classical recordings were issued in high fidelity and even stereophonic sound on the Capitol label by William Steinberg and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski with various orchestras ( including the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra ), and Sir Thomas Beecham and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as light classical albums by Carmen Dragon and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and a series of albums of film music conducted by leading Hollywood composers such as Alfred Newman.

In 1856 he became joint editor of Mnemosyne, a philological review, which he soon raised to a leading position among classical journals.

Here he studied philology, his studies encompassing both classical and modern languages, and became one of the leading spirits in the famous Hain or Dichterbund.

These are in contrast to kinematics, the branch of classical mechanics that describes the motion of objects without consideration of the causes leading to the motion.

The classical economists produced their " magnificent dynamics " during a period in which capitalism was emerging from feudalism and in which the industrial revolution was leading to vast changes in society.

At 5 ' 8 " she was too tall to be a classical ballerina, but Kosloff continually gave her leading parts.