An early pioneer of radio astronomy was Grote Reber, an amateur astronomer who constructed the first purpose built radio telescope in the late 1930s to follow up on the discovery of radio wavelength emissions from space by Karl Jansky.

The history of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is typically divided into three broad time periods: ( 1 ) the early history during the lifetime of Joseph Smith, Jr. which is in common with all Latter Day Saint movement churches, ( 2 ) a " pioneer era " under the leadership of Brigham Young and his 19th century successors, and ( 3 ) a modern era beginning around the turn of the 20th century as Utah achieved statehood.

The history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) is typically divided into three broad time periods: ( 1 ) the early history during the lifetime of Joseph Smith, Jr. which is in common with all Latter Day Saint movement churches, ( 2 ) a " pioneer era " under the leadership of Brigham Young and his 19th Century successors, and ( 3 ) a modern era beginning around the turn of the 20th century as the practice of polygamy was discontinued.

Douglas Carl Engelbart ( born January 30, 1925 ) is an American inventor, and an early computer and internet pioneer.

Devo was also a pioneer of the music video, creating many memorable clips for the Laser Disc format, with " Whip It " getting heavy airplay in the early days of MTV.

The medieval universities of Western Christendom were well-integrated across all of Western Europe, encouraged freedom of enquiry and produced a great variety of fine scholars and natural philosophers, including Thomas Aquinas of the University of Naples, Robert Grosseteste of the University of Oxford, an early expositor of a systematic method of scientific experimentation ; and Saint Albert the Great, a pioneer of biological field research The University of Bologne is considered the oldest continually operating university.

Biogeographer Alexander von Humbolt ( 1769 – 1859 ) was an early pioneer in ecological thinking and was among the first to recognize ecological gradients, where species are replaced or altered in form along environmental gradients, such as a cline forming along a rise in elevation.

Peter Greenaway was an early pioneer of the use of computer generated imagery blended with filmed footage and was also one of the first directors to film entirely on high definition video for a cinema release.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Germany, three pioneer physical educators – Johann Friedrich GutsMuths ( 1759 – 1839 ) and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn ( 1778 – 1852 ) – created exercises for boys and young men on apparatus they had designed that ultimately led to what is considered modern gymnastics.

Originally dealing in whale oil which was widely used for illumination, Charles Pratt ( 1830 – 1891 ) of Massachusetts was an early pioneer of the natural oil industry in the United States.

Little is known about his early life and education, but he regarded himself as self-taught and a pioneer of wisdom.

Proudhon was an early pioneer of anarchism as well as of the important individualist anarchist current of mutualism.

Id Software was an early pioneer in the Linux gaming market, and Id Software's Linux games have been some of the most popular of the platform.

Mormon history can be divided into three broad time periods: ( 1 ) the early history during the lifetime of Joseph Smith, ( 2 ) a " pioneer era " under the leadership of Brigham Young and his successors, and ( 3 ) a modern era beginning around the turn of the 20th century.

File: Faraday. png | Michael Faraday ( 1791-1867 ): showed how a changing magnetic field can be used to generate an electric current ( Faraday's law of induction ), applied this knowledge to the development of several electrical machines, described principles of electrolysis, early pioneer in the field of low temperature study

The Dutch / Afrikaans term trekbokken refers to the large-scale migration of herds of springbok seen roaming the country during the early pioneer days of South Africa before farm fences were erected.

The English railway pioneer George Stephenson spent much of his early engineering career working for the coal mines of County Durham.

The Path of a pioneer: the early days of Reverend Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church.

* December 10 – Augusta Ada King ( née Byron ), Countess of Lovelace, early English computer pioneer and the daughter of Lord Byron ( d. 1852 )

* November 27 – Augusta Ada King ( née Byron ), Countess of Lovelace, early English computer pioneer ( b. 1815 )

The term " bug " was used in an account by computer pioneer Grace Hopper, who publicized the cause of a malfunction in an early electromechanical computer.

Being an early pioneer next to Rodolphe Töpffer in the art of combining words and pictures to tell often humorous stories in sequential panels, throughout the latter half of the 20th century Busch has become posthumously known in German by the honorary epithet of Großvater der Comics (" Grandfather of Comics ").

That service, United Press Movietone, or UPMT, was a pioneer in newsfilm syndication and numbered among its clients major US and foreign networks and local stations, including for many years the early TV operation of ABC News.

Balzac's extensive use of detail, especially the detail of objects, to illustrate the lives of his characters made him an early pioneer of literary realism.

Bildt was an early pioneer among politicians of using the Internet for communicating.

Morris County is probably named for William Wright Morris, an early judge and planter from Henderson.

However, parts of the county had long been known as retreats, including the " Little Charleston " of Flat Rock in which South Carolina's Low Country planter families had maintained second homes since the early 19th century.

* John Taylor ( Baptist preacher ), a notable pioneer preacher and church historian, who became part of the frontier planter elite, holding 20 slaves and in the county by the early 19th century.

Julien de Lallande Poydras, a merchant, planter, poet, statesman, banker, and philanthropist helped to establish the state's first public schools in Pointe Coupee Parish in the early 19th century.

* Samuel Luckett ( ca 1650-1705 ), an early resident and planter in Port Tobacco

Its early planter elite built numerous antebellum mansions and estates.

During the early 20th century, the college was a site of negotiation between the planter class and the new commercial elite, as well as between traditional parents and their more modern daughters.

Charles Carroll of Carrollton ( September 19, 1737 – November 14, 1832 ) was a wealthy Maryland planter and an early advocate of independence from Great Britain.

* Charles Carroll the Settler ( 1661-1720 ), wealthy early Maryland planter and lawyer, father of Charles Carroll of Annapolis

The character of Bouffier has some similarity to the legendary early 19th century American tree planter Johnny Appleseed.

He spent much of his early life in Jamaica, where he was a planter and merchant, and became Receiver-General for Taxes in 1753.

LeRoy Pope ( January 30, 1765 – June 17, 1844 ) was a prominent American planter, lawyer, and early settler of Madison County, Alabama.

Pope was a wealthy and successful planter, and was active in the early government and civic leadership of Huntsville and Madison County.

As a planter, he traded extensively with Philip Schuyler, who persuaded him to move to New York early in the 1770s.

Colonel Robert Bolling ( December 26, 1646 – July 17, 1709 ) was a wealthy early American settler planter and merchant.

In nearby Kilmore parish, English and Scottish men, women and children were burned to death in the cottage in which they were imprisoned., In County Armagh, recent research has shown that about 1, 250 Protestants were killed in the early months of the rebellion, or about a quarter of the planter population there.

Col. William Martin, son of General Joseph MartinInitially known as Henry Courthouse, the town of Martinsville, Virginia was later renamed in honor of this early soldier, planter, pioneer and real estate speculator.

For many years afterwards, General Martin remained an obscure figure, until Lyman Draper began collecting reminiscences about him, including those of Major John Redd, a prominent Henry County planter who served under Martin, and who also wrote about his early recollections of General Nathaniel Greene, George Rogers Clark, Daniel Boone, Col. Benjamin Cleveland, Dr. John Walker, and other early prominent Virginia figures.

Although the term " planter " to refer to a settler first appears as early as the 16th-century, the earliest true colonial plantation is usually agreed to be that of the Plantations of Ireland.

* John Mason ( planter ) ( 1766 – 1849 ), early American merchant, banker, businessman, and planter, son of George Mason

Randolph received his early education from his mother and private tutors, as was customary in many planter families.