St. Francis Xavier is noteworthy for his missionary work, both as organizer and as pioneer.

As a pioneer of the local gay press movement, he was one of the founders and former president of both The National Gay Press Association and the National Gay Newspaper Guild.

Bach was also a pioneer of the harpsichord concerto, both in works designated as such, and in the harpsichord part of his Fifth Brandenburg Concerto.

Another pioneer of collage was Joseph Cornell, whose more intimately scaled works were seen as radical because of both his personal iconography and his use of found objects.

" Nurmi was considered a pioneer also in regards to training ; he developed a systematic all-year-round training program that included both long-distance work and interval running.

In both its romanticization of the pioneer and its glorification of Homo sapiens as the toughest player in the Darwinian game, it presages themes developed further in books like Time Enough for Love and Starship Troopers.

Critic William Baer notes that throughout his career " he constantly rose to the challenge of his own aspirations ", adding that " he was a pioneer and visionary who greatly affected the history of both stage and cinema ".

Yerkes was a pioneer in the study both of human and primate intelligence and of the social behavior of gorillas and chimpanzees.

" On November 2, WSM hired long-time announcer and program director George D. " Judge " Hay, an enterprising pioneer from the National Barn Dance program at WLS-AM in Chicago, who was also named the most popular radio announcer in America as a result of his radio work with both WLS and WMC-AM in Memphis, Tennessee.

As such, he really is a pioneer in his field – both for his new methods and for the fact that he went against the grain of the beliefs of the time ( Shell shock was not considered a " real " illness and " cures " mainly involved electric shock, with doctors such as Lewis Yealland particularly keen on this form of " treatment ").

Although both the consumer desktop and the workstation benefit from CPUs designed around the multicore concept ( essentially, multiple processors on a die, the application of which IBM's POWER4 was a pioneer ), modern workstations typically use multiple multicore CPUs, error correcting memory and much larger on-die caches than those found on " consumer-level " CPUs.

British techno music artist and rave pioneer Ian Loveday, better-known as Eon, used samples from David Lynch's Dune in the songs " Spice " and " Fear: The Mindkiller ", both from 1990 and featured on his 1992 album Void Dweller.

* Ransom Eli Olds, was a pioneer of the American automobile industry, for whom both the Oldsmobile and Reo brands were named.

Some famous residents of Sebastopol include: The horticulturist Luther Burbank who established an Gold Ridge Environmental Farm in the township in the late 19th century ; Johnny Otis, Rhythm and Blues pioneer ; Willard Libby, inventor of carbon dating went to Analy High School ; the cartoonist Charles Schulz ; rapper Smoov-E ; actress Karen Valentine of the television show Room 222 ; actress Schuyler Grant of the 1985 adaptation of Anne of Green Gables ; and the musicians Les Claypool of Primus, singer / songwriters Nick Gravenites, and both Jerry Garcia and Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead ; novelist Francine Rivers ; actor Peter Krause.

The pioneer farmers soon found the soil well suited to growing potatoes and this became an important commodity for both cash sales and trading.

The most popular stop at Hocking is Robins Crossing, a restored pioneer village located on both the Hocking Valley Scenic Railway train route and the Hockhocking Adena Bikeway.

Groulx was later remembered both for his strong case in favour of economic reconquest of Quebec by French Canadians, defense of the French language, and pioneer work as the first chair of Canadian history in Quebec ( Universite de Montreal ; see Ronald Rudin, Making History in Twentieth Century Quebec, Toronto University Press, 1997 ).

It is regarded as a pioneer of both black metal and Viking metal.

At the same time, Barbon took an interest in the development of insurance and the banking industry, and helped to pioneer both.

the pioneer Victorian photographers David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson who photographed many of the fishermen and fishwives of Newhaven in both their village surroundings and the partnership's Calton Hill studio in Edinburgh.

According to unschooling pioneer John Holt, "... the anxiety children feel at constantly being tested, their fear of failure, punishment, and disgrace, severely reduces their ability both to perceive and to remember, and drives them away from the material being studied into strategies for fooling teachers into thinking they know what they really don't know.

Beltram was referenced as a pioneer in the late 1990s house music scene by Daft Punk, in their song " Teachers " off their 1997 debut album, Homework and author, Simon Reynolds, credited Beltram with having " revolutionized techno twice before the age of 21 ," when describing both " Energy Flash " and " Mentasm " in his book Generation Ecstasy.

Although he was a pioneer of the honking tenor saxophone that became a regular feature of jazz playing and a hallmark of early rock and roll, Jacquet was a skilled and melodic improviser, both on up-tempo tunes and ballads.

For several years Cantor co-starred in an act with pioneer comedian Bert Williams, both appearing in blackface ; Cantor played Williams's fresh-talking son.

The late W. R. G. Baker, a pioneer in television design and long-time vp & gm of the Electronics Division, and later, by his own choice, an individual consultant.

Morris proved that a market existed for works of graphic design in their own right and helped pioneer the separation of design from production and from fine art.

The boys also received help with their bigger engine from outboard motor pioneer Ole Evinrude, who was then building gas engines of his own design for automotive use on Milwaukee's Lake Street.

He was a pioneer in studies of modern high design and was dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities.

After World War II, as General Designer of small arms for the Soviet Army, his design subordinates included the Germans Hugo Schmeisser, designer of the StG-44, and Werner Grüner ( of MG 42 fame ) who was a pioneer in sheet metal embossing technology in the 1950s.

During the 1950s, composer and electronic music pioneer Raymond Scott approached Moog, asking him to design circuits for him.

There is absolutely no doubt that the Synclavier System was " the " pioneer system in revolutionizing the movie and television sound effects and Foley effects methods of design and production starting at Glen Glenn Sound.

Oldsmobile once again was a pioneer when, for the 1949 model, they introduced their Rocket engine, which used an overhead valve V8 design rather than the flathead " straight-8 " design which prevailed at the time.

Another pioneer of corporate identity design is Paul Rand, who was one of the originators of the Swiss Style of graphic design.

The third pioneer of corporate identity design is Saul Bass.

Davis Allen, a pioneer in corporate interior design, had a forty-year tenure at SOM.

He was also a pioneer in the use of the Picturesque in the design of buildings and their layout.

Coulomb leaves a legacy as a pioneer in the field of geotechnical engineering for his contribution to retaining wall design.

Neil Henderson, a pioneer in the royalty-free, source provided market space, joined Mentor Graphics in 2002 with the acquisition of Accelerated Technology Inc. Stephen Mellor, a leader in the UML space and co-originator of the Shlaer-Mellor design methodology, joined Mentor Graphics in 2004 following the acquisition of Project Technology.

After the beginning of the Jet Age of military fighters and bombers, Convair was a pioneer of the delta-winged aircraft design, along with the French Dassault aircraft company, which designed and built the Mirage fighter planes.

During the 1970s, Edward Tufte developed a course on statistical graphics, which he further developed in joint seminars with John Tukey, a pioneer in the field of information design.

Others who have spent time at NPL include Harry Huskey, a computer pioneer ; Alan Turing, one of the fathers of modern digital computing who was largely responsible for the early ACE computer design ; Robert Watson-Watt, generally considered the inventor of radar, Oswald Kubaschewski, the father of computational materials thermodynamics and the numerical analyst James Wilkinson.

The design also brought him in contact with Lieutenant Commander John Cyril Porte RN, an influential British aviation pioneer.

In 1947 tourism pioneer Harry Wigley of Mt Cook airline fame commissioned him to design and build the first tow for the Coronet Peak Ski Field near Queenstown-New Zealand's first commercial skifield.

* Alphonse Chapanis ( 1917 – 2002 ), an American pioneer in the field of industrial design

* David Parnas ( born 1941 ), pioneer of software engineering who developed the concept of module design which is the foundation of object-oriented programming today