Gould is best known for his thirty-year fight with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to obtain patents for the laser and related technologies.

* The record returned to Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, on October 17, 2004, when Doug Gould assembled 117 trailers for a total length of.

Struggling for cash, the company sold 17 % of its stock to Canadian businessman Irving Gould, taking in $ 400, 000.

In making his 1981 re-recording of the Goldberg Variations, Glenn Gould considered playing this variation at a slower tempo, in keeping with the tempo of the preceding variation ( Variation 16 ), but ultimately decided not to because " Variation 17 is one of those rather skittish, slightly empty-headed collections of scales and arpeggios which Bach indulged when he wasn ’ t writing sober and proper things like fugues and canons, and it just seemed to me that there wasn't enough substance to it to warrant such a methodical, deliberate, Germanic tempo.

He was born at Sharpham Park, Glastonbury, Somerset, son of Davidge Gould, and educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1732, aged 17 ; he gained his B. A.

Andrew Gould ( born December 17, 1946 ) is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Schlumberger, a global oilfield services company supplying technology, information solutions and integrated project management.

Captain Robert Gould Shaw leads a company of Union soldiers from a Massachusetts Infantry Regiment in an attack on Confederate troops at the Battle of Antietam, on September 17, 1862.

Gordon Gould ( July 17, 1920 – September 16, 2005 ) was an American physicist who is widely, but not universally, credited with the invention of the laser.

* Sir Davidge Gould 17 November 1846 – 23 April 1847

Theophilus Gould Steward ( 17 April 1843 – 11 January 1924 ) was an American author, educator, clergyman.

Arthur Gould died on October 17, 1956 and was laid to rest in a family plot, in the St. Patrick Cemetery located in his hometown of Rockland.

Also in 1683 ( on June 17 ), Gould married Martha Roderick, and the two would later have a daughter named Hannah.

Edith Kingdon Gould ( August 20, 1920 – August 17, 2004 ) was a socialite, linguist, and poet.

Towards the end of the nineteenth century, the artistic roster included Harry Furniss, Linley Sambourne, Francis Carruthers Gould, and Phil May.

Stephen Jay Gould ( September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002 ) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science.

Gould died on May 20, 2002, from a metastatic adenocarcinoma of the lung, a form of cancer which had spread to his brain.

* May 20 – Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist and author ( b. 1941 )

* May 27 – Jay Gould, American financier ( d. 1892 )

Chester Gould ( November 20, 1900 – May 11, 1985 ) was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the Dick Tracy comic strip, which he wrote and drew from 1931 to 1977, incorporating numerous colorful and monstrous villains.

At the county level, Will County residents are located within Board District 6, and are represented by Don Gould ( R-Shorewood ), Sharon May ( D-Channahon ), and Deborah Rozark ( R-Wilmington ).

On May 2, 1872 a large forest fire destroyed the villages of Carter and Gould, 6 miles ( 10 km ) north of Salladasburg on Larrys Creek in Mifflin Township.

* May 20-Stephen J. Gould, paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and writer

In May 1945, the US Navy " received in custody " Dr. Herbert A. Wagner, the inventor of the Hs 293 missile ; for two years, he first worked at the Special Devices Center, at Castle Gould and at Hempstead House, Long Island, New York ; in 1947, he moved to the Naval Air Station Point Mugu.

In January 1988, Cosmopolitan magazine published an article by Robert E. Gould, a psychiatrist, entitled " Reassuring News About AIDS: A Doctor Tells Why You May Not Be At Risk.

John Gould Fletcher ( January 3, 1886 – May 10, 1950 ) was an Imagist poet, author and authority on modern painting.

* May 20-Stephen Jay Gould ( b. 1941 ), paleontologist / evolutionist.

Monica Mary Gould ( born 5 May 1957 ) is a former Australian politician.

* May 27-Jay Gould, American financier who, with Jim Fisk, took control of the Erie Railroad ( d. 1892 ).

* May 16 – George Jay Gould I, eldest son of Jay Gould, president of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad and the Western Pacific Railroad ( born 1864 ).

Jacob Gould Schurman ( May 22, 1854 – August 12, 1942 ) was a Canadian-born educator and diplomat, who served as President of Cornell University and United States Ambassador to Germany.

It was most likell due to this 1897 meeting that William Osler and Margaret Charlton became involved in the formation of the Association of Medical Librarians, founded on May 2, 1898, by four librarians and four physicians who met in the office of the Philadelphia Medical Journal, at the invitation of its editor, George M. Gould, M. D.

On May 29, 2007, Jason and Bobby Sniderman announced that the iconic flagship store, on Toronto's Yonge and Gould Streets, would close permanently on June 30, 2007.

George Jay Gould I ( February 6, 1864 – May 16, 1923 ) was a financier and the son of Jay Gould.

* Jay Gould III ( May 13, 1920-May 11, 1987 ).

* Bulla vernicosa Gould, 1859 ( most probably a color variant of Bulla ampulla )

* Bulla difficilis T. Habe, 1950: synonym of Bulla vernicosa Gould, 1859

The Mystery Writers of America honored Gould and his work with a Special Edgar Award in 1980.

Gould even analyzed a controversial conchology textbook, The Conchologist's First Book, edited by Edgar Allan Poe in 1839.

Ellen Gould White ( born Harmon ) ( November 26, 1827 – July 16, 1915 ) was a prolific author and an American Christian pioneer.

The Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library of the University of Washington School of Law chose the website as " Website of the Week for Jan. 26, 2004 ".

On September 26, 2001, Horan's lawyer, Jack L. Gould, appealed the decision to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Edward " Ned " Needles Hallowell ( November 3, 1836 – July 26, 1871 ) was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, commanding the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry following the death of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw at the Second Battle of Fort Wagner in 1863.

Purchased by Bobby Gould as a 26 year old in 1984, he endured a couple of relegation battles in the mid 80s, where his strike partner was Terry Gibson, playing a large part in a memorable 4-1 survival clincher against Everton in 1985.

Benjamin Apthorp Gould ( September 27, 1824 – November 26, 1896 ) was a pioneering American astronomer.

Jay Gould II ( September 1, 1888 – January 26, 1935 ) was an American real tennis player and a grandson of the railroad magnate Jay Gould.

* William Gould Newman, February 26, 1974 to October 7, 1975

By Levi Swanton Gould, Loammi Baldwin article on page 26.

Edwin Gould ( February 26, 1866 – July 12, 1933 ), was an American capitalist and railway official.

He was born in New York City to Jay Gould on February 26, 1866.

* New York Times ; January 26, 1932 ; page 25 ; " Edith Gould gets divorce, is rewed "

* Time ; March 26, 1945 ; The Duchess de Talleyrand, 70, chic, spry daughter of the late financier Jay Gould, and a longtime ( 40 years ) resident of prewar France, announced that she would auction off her famed collection of orchid plants — more than 5, 000, valued at about $ 75, 000 — for the benefit of the Red Cross.