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Alfred Lee Loomis of the National Defense Research Committee decided to establish a new laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop this radar technology.
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It originally was known as " LRN " for Loomis Radio Navigation, after Alfred Lee Loomis, who invented the longer range system and played a crucial role in military research and development during World War II, but later was renamed to the abbreviation for the more descriptive term.
* 1887 – Alfred Lee Loomis, American physicist, philanthropist, scientific research patron ( d. 1975 )
Alfred Lee Loomis organized the Radiation Laboratory at Cambridge, Massachusetts which developed the technology in the years 1941-45.
The stages of sleep were first described in 1937 by Alfred Lee Loomis and his coworkers, who separated the different electroencephalography ( EEG ) features of sleep into five levels ( A to E ), which represented the spectrum from wakefulness to deep sleep.
Also in 2005, Carolyn Burke's substantial biography, Lee Miller, A Life, was published in the U. S. by Alfred A. Knopf and in the U. K. by Bloomsbury.
" The attribution of the line to Barrington is considered apocryphal since the 1911 discovery by Sydney book collector Alfred Lee of the 1802 book in which the line first appeared.
In 1905, the Sydney book collector Alfred Lee discovered the 1802 English book " Original Poems and Translations ... chiefly by Susanna Watts ," which collected poems by Watts and others.
* Australian Dictionary of Biography entry on Alfred Lee, discoverer of the original source of the " Barrington Prologue.
Before her death in 1804 the couple had six children ; Anne Lucinda Lee ( 1790 – 1845 ), Infant Son Lee ( 1791-1791 ), Richard Henry Lee ( Feb 1793-Mar 1793 ), Charles Henry Lee ( b. Oct 1794 ), William Arthur Lee ( b. Sept 1796 ), Alfred Lee ( 1799 – 1865 ).
* " The Man on the Flying Trapeze " by George Leybourne, Gaston Lyle, & Alfred Lee ( first published the previous year )
Ultimately the original cast included Alfred Drake ( Curly ), Joan Roberts ( Laurey ), Celeste Holm ( Ado Annie ), Howard Da Silva ( Jud Fry ), Betty Garde ( Aunt Eller ), Lee Dixon ( Will Parker ) and Joseph Bulloff ( Ali Hakim ).
Prior to his arrest, Vang Pao was slated to have an elementary school in Madison, Wisconsin named after him, a proposal that met with opposition over Alfred W. McCoy's allegations that Vang had been involved in war crimes and drug trafficking, with Gary Yia Lee and other scholars strongly disputing his claims Vang's June 2007 arrest later led the Madison School to reopen discussion on the school's naming.
Alfred and Loomis
The first, championed by Roger Sherman Loomis, Alfred Nutt, and Jessie Weston, holds that it derived from early Celtic myth and folklore.
Alfred Lee Loomis ( November 4, 1887 – August 11, 1975 ) was an American attorney, investment banker, philanthropist, scientist / physicist, pioneer in military radar usages, inventor of the LORAN or Long Range Navigation System, and lifelong patron of scientific research.
Born in Manhattan, Loomis was the son of Julia Josephine Stimson and Henry Patterson Loomis, and grandson of Alfred Lebbeus Loomis.
In 1917 Alfred Loomis and Landon K. Thorne, the wealthy husband of Loomis's sister Julia, purchased of Hilton Head Island, which they established as a private preserve for riding, boating, fishing, and hunting.
From left to right: Ernest O. Lawrence, Arthur H. Compton, Vannevar Bush, Conant, Karl T. Compton, and Alfred Lee Loomis | Alfred L. Loomis
During the Great Depression, wealthy scientist Alfred Loomis anonymously paid the journal's fees for authors who could not afford them.
Her maternal great-grandfather was journalist David S. Barry and her paternal great-great-grandfather was Alfred Lebbeus Loomis, a physician who served as president of the Association of American Physicians.
His 1937 Alfred Loomis house in Tuxedo Park, NY is regarded as an early experiment in double-skin facade construction.
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* Alfred ( racehorse ), a leading competitor for the 1849 Grand National Steeplechase that finished fourth
* Page, Norman, ‘ Housman, Alfred Edward ( 1859 – 1936 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 )
Thomas Nast's passion for drawing was apparent from an early age, and he was enrolled for about a year of study with Alfred Fredericks and Theodore Kaufmann and at the school of the National Academy of Design.
* June 29 – 1928 Democratic National Convention: At the Democratic National Convention in Houston, New York Governor Alfred E. Smith becomes the first Catholic nominated by a major political party for President of the United States.
The handwritten correspondence between Richard Strauss and Ludwig Karpath, covering 31 years was acquired by the National Library of Austria in 1962 from the daughters of Dr. Alfred Marill who was Mr. Karpath's attorney.
At the London Economic Conference of 1933, the head of the German delegation, the Economics Minister Dr. Alfred Hugenberg of the German National People's Party, put forth a programme of German colonial expansion in both Africa and Eastern Europe as the best way of ending the Great Depression, which created a major storm at the conference.
Alfred National Park is a 3, 050 – hectare national park in Victoria, Australia, 388 km east of Melbourne.
The town of Austell is named for General Alfred Austell ( 1814 – 1881 ), founder of the Atlanta National Bank ( later Wachovia ), in recognition of his efforts to bring major railways to the South.
File: Alfred and Jane Ables House ( NRHP ) Buena Vista, GA. JPG | The Alfred and Jane Ables House, located in Buena Vista, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 9, 2002.
Tacony Plantation, on the National Register of Historic Places, was the home of planter Alfred Vidal Davis, Sr.
Alfred Hitchcock filmed I Confess in Quebec City in 1953 and met with producers of the National Film Board in Montreal.
Gokhale had visited Ireland and had arranged for an Irish nationalist, Alfred Webb, to serve as President of the Indian National Congress in 1894.
Science Friday is funded by the NPR member stations that broadcast the program, by individual donors, and by foundation and corporate underwriters including the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the US National Science Foundation, the Noyce Foundation, the S. D.
This included Charles Gerhardt's series of albums devoted to classic film scores by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Alfred Newman, Dimitri Tiomkin, Max Steiner, Franz Waxman, and others, performed by the National Philharmonic Orchestra in London's Kingsway Hall.
On 27 February 1917 Sir Alfred Mond, an MP and First Commissioner of Works, wrote to the Prime Minister David Lloyd George to propose the establishment of a National War Museum.
The judging panel of the 2002 Turner Prize, which awarded the £ 20, 000 prize to Tyson, consisted of the critic Michael Archer, then Director of the Hayward Gallery, Susan Ferleger Brades, director of the Musée National d ' Art Moderne, at the Centre Georges Pompidou Alfred Pacquement, and collector Greville Worthington.
At the same conference, the African National Congress President General Alfred Bitini Xuma along with delegates of the South African Indian Congress brought up the issue of the brutality of Smuts ' police regime against the African Mine Workers ' Strike earlier that year as well as the wider struggle for equality in South Africa.
On 26 June 1980 the Secretary General of the African National Congress, Alfred Nzo, announced the conferring of the Isitwalandwe Medal, the ANC's highest honour, on Govan Mbeki.
The following are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: Alfred Village Historic District, Alumni Hall, Fireman's Hall, Allen Steinheim Museum and the Terra Cotta Building.
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fossils ( New York: Alfred A. Knopf ), 846 pages.
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