* 1944 – Frederick W. Smith, American businessman, founded FedEx

The company went bankrupt in 1875, but the following year Heinz founded another company, F & J Heinz, with his brother John Heinz and a cousin Frederick Heinz.

The company went bankrupt in 1875, but the following year Heinz founded another company, F & J Heinz, with his brother John Heinz and a cousin Frederick Heinz.

But as Chu points out, there are plenty of examples of science fiction poetry and verse by writers including Diane Ackerman, Emily Dickinson, Suzette Haden Elgin ( who founded the Science Fiction Poetry Association and authored The Science Fiction Poetry Handbook ), Ruth Fainlight, Robert Frazier, Cathy Park Hong, Andrew Joron, and Frederick Turner, among many others.

* 1811 – The University of Oslo is founded as The Royal Fredericks University, after Frederick VI of Denmark and Norway.

In 1924 Creed & Company, founded by Frederick G. Creed, entered the teleprinter field with their Model 1P, which was soon superseded by the improved Model 2P.

The city became the centre of the German Liberation movement against Napoleon, and the gathering place for volunteers from all over Germany, with the Iron Cross military decoration founded by Frederick William III of Prussia in early March 1813.

Frederick the Wise did not support Luther, who was a professor at the university he founded, but he protected him by hiding Luther in Wartburg Castle in Eisenach.

The University of Naples Federico II was founded by Frederick II in the city, the oldest state university in the world, making Naples the intellectual centre of the kingdom.

Starting with an article called " The Magyar Struggle ", written on January 8, 1849, Frederick Engels, himself, began a series of reports on the Revolution and War for Independence of the newly founded Hungarian Republic.

Miller Brewing Company was founded in 1855 by Frederick Miller when he purchased the small Plank-Road Brewery.

Sydney was founded after the war by Colonel Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, and named in honour of Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, who was serving as the Home Secretary in the British cabinet.

Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists ' Residency was founded in 1910 by Frederick Fursman and Walter Marshall Clute, two faculty members from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago ( SAIC ).

The city of Fredrikstad was founded in 1567 by King Frederick II, and established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 ( see formannskapsdistrikt ).

* Frederick Nicholls ( businessman ) ( 1856 – 1921 ), businessman, founded the first electric power company in Canada

This use of " landscape architect " became established after Frederick Law Olmsted and Beatrix Farrand with others founded the American Society of Landscape Architects ( ASLA ) in 1899, and with the 1949 founding of the International Federation of Landscape Architects ( IFLA ).

The university's forerunner was the Kurkölnische Akademie Bonn ( English: Academy of the Prince-elector of Cologne ) which was founded in 1777 by Maximilian Frederick of Königsegg-Rothenfels, the prince-elector of Cologne.

The new Rhein University ( German: Rhein-Universität ) was then founded on October 18, 1818, by Frederick William III.

The Hanoverians maintained the strongest links with Kew, in particular Princess Augusta who founded the botanic gardens and her husband Frederick, Prince of Wales who resided at the White House in Kew and commissioned the building of the first substantial greenhouse at Kew.

The university was closed in 1811, and its assets divided between two new universities founded under King Frederick William III: Frederick William University of Berlin, presently Humboldt University ; and Silesian Frederick William University in Breslau, presently the University of Wrocław.

Boy Scouting was founded by Robert Baden Powell in England and co-founded by the American Scout Major Frederick Russell Burnham.

The area was first settled in 1805 and the town was founded in 1815, and named after Frederick Royse, a founding father.

The George C. Marshall Institute was founded in 1984 by Frederick Seitz ( former President of the United States National Academy of Sciences ), Robert Jastrow ( founder of NASA ’ s Goddard Institute for Space Studies ), and William Nierenberg ( former director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography ).

In Requiem for a Species ( 2010 ), Clive Hamilton is critical of the Marshall Institute and contends that the conservative backlash against climate science was led by three prominent physicists -- Frederick Seitz, Robert Jastrow, and William Nierenberg, who founded the Institute in 1984.

He also founded the Augustinian monastery of Vorau Abbey and founded and supported the Carthusian monastery of Seitz.

The European Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements ( IRMM ), one of the EU Joint Research Centres, was founded in Geel in 1957 as a result of the Treaty of Rome.

* The College of Engineering, founded in 2003, inherited longstanding programs ( i ) Computer Science and ( ii ) Information Technology, and launched ( iii ) Computer Engineering, ( iv ) Electrical Engineering, ( v ) Engineering Technology — with majors in ( a ) Construction Engineering Technology, ( b ) Electrical Engineering Technology, ( c ) Manufacturing Engineering Technology, ( d ) Mechanical Engineering Technology, and ( e ) Nuclear Engineering Technology — and ( vi ) Materials Science and Engineering, and ( vii ) Mechanical and Energy Engineering.

ASTM, founded in 1898 as the American Section of the International Association for Testing and Materials, predates other standards organizations such as BSI ( 1901 ), DIN ( 1917 ), ANSI ( 1918 ) and AFNOR ( 1926 ).

In 2010, the Chongqing International Institute of Semiconductor, which is located in and hosted by CQUPT, was founded with the participating of nearly 50 partners in industry from around the world, including Qualcomm in USA, Eplida in Japan, the International Association of Semiconductor Equipment and Materials European Microelectronics Center in Taiwan among others.

CSR had earlier purchased Rinker Materials, which was founded by Marshall " Doc " Rinker and A. V.

This Commission was founded in 2003 and comprises seven sections: of Civil Engineering ; of Construction, Technology and Operation of Machines ; of Engineering and Technology of Ceramic Materials ; of Informatics, Automatics and Robotics ; of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering ; of Mining and Power Engineering ; of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering.

* The École nationale supérieure de physique, électronique et matériaux or Phelma ( Physics, Applied Physics, Electronics and Materials Science ), founded in 2008, created from the merge of the former schools ENSPG, ENSEEG and ENSERG.

Regardless of the staff's heavy workload, the TH Darmstadt managed to set the course for the future, as evidenced by the School of Information Science, established in 1974, the ' Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Technikforschung – ZIT ' ( Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies on Technology ), founded in 1987, and the School of Materials Science, established in 1989.

The USAF ICAM program was founded in 1976 at the US Air Force Materials Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio by Dennis E. Wisnosky and Dan L. Shunk and others.

Witzel was issued a subpoena by the California Parents for Equalization of Educational Materials ( CAPEEM ), a group founded specifically for the schoolbook case, in November 2006 to support their law case against the California authorities ' decisions in the textbook case.

Returning to Holland, Vertregt sought other employment and in 1952 became director of the newly founded Institute for Technical Courses, a sister organisation of the Bond voor Materialenkennis ( Society for the Knowledge of Materials ).

The Department of Materials at the University of Oxford, England was founded in the 1950s as the Department of Metallurgy, by William Hume-Rothery, who was a reader in Oxford's Department of Inorganic Chemistry.

The Society for Psychical Research was founded in 1882 with the express intention of investigating phenomena relating to Spiritualism and the afterlife.

* 1971 – The Society for American Baseball Research is founded in Cooperstown, New York.

* Binary Research, a company founded in Auckland, New Zealand by Murray Haszard in 1991 after the sale of his previous company, B32 Software

The Pakistan Cave Research & Caving Federation was founded in Pakistan in 1997.

He also began teaching at the Harlem Arts Workshop, founded by Augusta Savage in the basement of what is now the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Venter founded Celera Genomics, The Institute for Genomic Research ( TIGR ) and the J. Craig Venter Institute ( JCVI ), and is now working at JCVI to create synthetic biological organisms.

Engelbart recruited a research team in his new Augmentation Research Center ( ARC, the lab he founded at SRI ), and became the driving force behind the design and development of the oN-Line System ( NLS ).

Dalhousie is also one of the founding members of the Halifax Marine Research Institute, founded on 2 June 2011.

Following a large donation from the Jewish German American banker James Loeb who had at one time been a patient, and promises of support from ' patrons of science ', the German Institute for Psychiatric Research was founded in 1917 in Munich.

Until her death in 1979 she participated in the Armstrong Memorial Research Foundation that she founded.

* 2002 – Cancer Research UK, the world's largest independent cancer research charity, is founded.

With the help of Mises, in the late 1920s Hayek founded and served as director of the Austrian Institute for Business Cycle Research, before joining the faculty of the London School of Economics ( LSE ) in 1931 at the behest of Lionel Robbins.

Gary Arlen Kildall ( May 19, 1942 – July 11, 1994 ) was an American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur who created the CP / M operating system and founded Digital Research, Inc. ( DRI ).

* Interval Research Corporation, a defunct technology think tank founded by Paul Allen

The Institute was founded in 1972, when packet switching pioneer Keith Uncapher left RAND Corporation with backing from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

* 1940 – Clive Sinclair, English inventor and businessman, founded Sinclair Radionics and Sinclair Research

In 1969, Margaret MacVicar founded the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program ( UROP ) to enable undergraduates to collaborate directly with faculty members and researchers.

Soon after in 1966, the Centre for Mass Communication Research was founded at Leicester University, and degree programmes in media studies began to sprout at polytechnics and other universities during the 1970s and 1980s.

For example, the International Brain Research Organization was founded in 1960, the International Society for Neurochemistry in 1963, the European Brain and Behaviour Society in 1968, and the Society for Neuroscience in 1969.

The Society for Psychical Research ( SPR ) was founded in London in 1882.

The Peenemünde Army Research Center (, HVP ) was founded in 1937 as one of five military proving grounds under the Army Weapons Office ( Heeres Waffenamt ).

In 1992, Joseph Nicolosi, Charles Socarides, and Benjamin Kaufman founded the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality ( NARTH ), a mental health organization that opposes the mainstream medical view of homosexuality and aims to " make effective psychological therapy available to all homosexual men and women who seek change.

He also founded at the university the Rockefeller-funded Institute of Economics in 1932 and became its Director of Research.

* 1928 – Walter Martin, American minister and author, founded the Christian Research Institute ( d. 1989 )

* Australia-In 1979 the Australian Society for Psychical Research was founded.