That year, Newcomb pointed out to a Johns Hopkins trustee that Peirce, while a Hopkins employee, had lived and traveled with a woman to whom he was not married ; the ensuing scandal led to his dismissal in January 1884.

The application was doomed ; his nemesis Newcomb served on the Institution's executive committee, and its President had been the President of Johns Hopkins at the time of Peirce's dismissal.

Until 1983, the angular value of the obliquity for any date was calculated based on the work of Newcomb, who analyzed positions of the planets until about 1895:

Newcomb's paradox was created by William Newcomb of the University of California's Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.

Newcomb was revered as a multitalented genius, with a special mastery of mathematics, and he had become internationally famous in the years before Doyle began writing his stories.

Until 1983, the Astronomical Almanac's angular value of the obliquity for any date was calculated based on the work of Newcomb, who analyzed positions of the planets until about 1895:

In 1879, he was posted to the Nautical Almanac Office, Washington ( part of the United States Naval Observatory ), to work with Simon Newcomb.

He conducted some preliminary measurements using largely improvised equipment in 1878, about the same time that his work came to the attention of Simon Newcomb, director of the Nautical Almanac Office who was already advanced in planning his own study.

From 1998 to 2006 Bruce Newcomb of Burley was the Speaker of the House.

Simon Newcomb ( 12 March 1835 – 11 July 1909 ) was a Canadian-American astronomer who revised Peter Andreas Hansen's table of lunar positions.

Helen Fort / Newcomb Middle School ( was 5-6 ; 542 / 7-8 ; 651 ) and

The Town of Newcomb was established in 1828 from parts of the Towns of Minerva and Moriah.

Roosevelt rushed down ten miles ( 16 km ) from his campsite at Lake Tear of the Clouds to the closest town and telephone which was outside of Newcomb, New York, approximately away from Long Lake.

Founded as a public medical college in 1834, the school grew into a comprehensive university in 1847 and was eventually privatized under the endowments of Paul Tulane and Josephine Louise Newcomb in 1884.

Newcomb was the first coordinate college for women in the United States and became a model for such institutions as Pembroke College and Barnard College.

Tulane was instrumental in promoting the arts in New Orleans and the South in establishing the Newcomb School of Art with William Woodward as director, thus establishing the renown Newcomb pottery.

The Newcomb campus was designed by New York architect James Gamble Rogers, noted for his work with Yale University's campus.

Baldwin was born in Massapequa, New York, the son of Carol Newcomb ( née Martineau ), a breast cancer survivor who founded the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Care Center of the University Hospital and Medical Center at Stony Brook, and Alexander Rae Baldwin, Jr., a high school history / social studies teacher and football coach .< ref >

His mother is Carol Newcomb ( née Martineau, born 1930 ), who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1990 and had a double mastectomy.

Baldwin was born in Massapequa, New York, the son of Carol Newcomb ( née Martineau ) and Alexander Rae Baldwin, Jr. His father was a high school history / social studies teacher and football coach.

At the time of publication of Hansen's Tables of the Moon in 1857, astronomers generally believed that the lunar theory was at last complete ; but within about a decade, it was noticed, and shown by Simon Newcomb, that the optimism had been unfounded: deviations between computed and observed positions began to grow at a rate showing that further refinement was necessary.

While no pictorial record exists to document what the original structure looked like, architectural historian Rexford Newcomb deduced the design and published a depiction in his 1916 work The Franciscan Mission Architecture of Alta California.

About 20 years later, Newcomb allegedly influenced the Carnegie Institution Trustees, to prevent C. S. Peirce's last chance to publish his life's work, through a denial of a Carnegie grant to Peirce, even though Andrew Carnegie himself, Theodore Roosevelt, William James and others, wrote to support it.

In the prelude to the American Civil War, many US Navy staff of Confederate sympathies left the service and, in 1861, Newcomb took advantage of one of the ensuing vacancies to become professor of mathematics and astronomer at the United States Naval Observatory, Washington D. C .. Newcomb set to work on the measurement of the position of the planets as an aid to navigation, becoming increasingly interested in theories of planetary motion.

Newcomb was clearly unaware of the Wright Brothers ' efforts whose work was done in relative obscurity and apparently unaware of the internal combustion engine's better power-to-weight ratio.

Horace Newcomb ( 1978 ) writes " More than any other research effort in the area of television studies the work of Gerbner and Gross and their associates sits squarely at the juncture of the social sciences and the humanities.

Newcomb's Tables of the Sun is the short title and running head of a work by the American astronomer and mathematician Simon Newcomb entitled " Tables of the Motion of the Earth on its Axis and Around the Sun " on pages 1 – 169 of " Tables of the Four Inner Planets " ( 1895 ), volume VI of the serial publication Astronomical Papers prepared for the use of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac.

American academician, architect, and author Rexford Newcomb published design studies of the original bell tower in his 1916 work The Franciscan Mission Architecture of Alta California.

" Newcomb recounts his own role in bringing Lane's work, in 1876, to the attention of

Wells also used the concept of parallel universes as a consequence of time as the fourth dimension in stories like The Wonderful Visit and Men Like Gods, an idea proposed by the astronomer Simon Newcomb, who talked about both time and parallel universes ; " Add a fourth dimension to space, and there is room for an indefinite number of universes, all alongside of each other, as there is for an indefinite number of sheets of paper when we pile them upon each other ".

In June 1791, Deacon and Judge Nathaniel Gray, Elisha Gray, Joel Hatch, Abram Raymond, Newcomb Raymond and James Raymond, visited these lands in the interest of the company as an exploring party, accompanied by Josiah Throop, chief of the corps who had surveyed the tract that and the preceding years.

* George Bush ( 1796 – 1859 ) was a biblical scholar who wrote the book Life of Mohammed, and a cousin of Obadiah Newcomb Bush.

* Bitter Creek Newcomb — killed May 2, 1895, in Payne County, Oklahoma Territory, by the Dunn Brothers, who were Bounty Hunters.

The 1941 report ends: " The X-ray branch had as a guest Professor Rose C. L. Mooney of Newcomb College, who was prevented by the war from carrying on research in Europe under a Guggenheim Fellowship ... As the year ends, the National Defense effort is beginning to claim the services of a number of staff members.

Kate Newcomb, a doctor who practiced in a " 70-mile circle " around Woodruff, Wisconsin and was later honored as the namesake of that town's Dr. Kate Newcomb Museum, was the subject of a 1954 episode, bringing attention to her " million pennies " drive to raise funds for a small community hospital ; viewers of the episode donated over $ 112, 000 in pennies.

His friends were Henri Poincaré physicist, count Eugéne Aymar de la Baume, Joseph Vallot ( who was the richest man in France ), Gustave Eiffel architect, prince Roland Bonaparte, Camille Chautemps Prime-Minister, a French entrepreneur called Devousoud from Chamonix, Simon Newcomb American astronomer and admiral,

Chandler argues, " different genres — even different programmes — contribute to the shaping of different realities, but cultivation analysis assumes too much homogeneity in television programmes " This point is addressed by Horace Newcomb ( 1978 ) who argues that violence is not presented as uniformly on television as the theory assumes ; therefore, television cannot be responsible for cultivating the same sense of reality for all viewers.

Stanley Newcomb " Stan " Kenton ( December 15, 1911 – August 25, 1979 ) was a pianist, composer, and arranger who led an innovative, influential, and often controversial American jazz orchestra.

In 1951, he married Dolores " Dodi " Brisbi ( November 23, 1929 – March 19, 2005 ), a graduate of Newcomb College in New Orleans, who he met while he was attending Tulane.

In rare instances, miniature versions have been made for wear on clothing, suspended from a ribbon ; for Lieutenant Frank Newcomb, for the men of the First Byrd Expedition of 1928-1930, and for the men who completed the first transatlantic flight in May 1919.

* Robert Lachal, Martin Tomanovits, Graeme McCall, Anthony Walker, Richard Garrard, Simon Newcomb, Peter Gillon who competed at Tokyo 1964.

Known to his family as " Bob ", he was born in New Orleans to George Walter Anderson, a grain broker, and Annette McConnell Anderson, member of a prominent New Orleans family, who had studied art at Newcomb College, where she had absorbed the ideals of the American Arts and Crafts movement.

Significant past gifts to the University include the Seven Society Carillon in the UVA Chapel, donated in memory of deceased members of the society, and given with the request that there should be a toll of seven times seven bells on the passing of a member ; a memorial to past Seven Society members who gave their lives in World War I ; $ 17, 777. 77 for a loan fund in honor of University president John Lloyd Newcomb ; the ceremonial mace carried in academic processions ; $ 10, 777. 77 in support of the re-establishment of Homecomings ; a plaque on the Rotunda honoring University students who died in the Korean War ; $ 7, 077. 77 to endow the Ernest Mead Fund for the Music Library ; $ 47, 777. 77 for the making of a film on the honor system ; and $ 1 million in support of the University's South Lawn Project.

* William Newcomb ( died 1999 ), professor and theoretical physicist who devised Newcomb's paradox

Josephine Louise Newcomb ( born Josephine Louise Le Monnier, 1816 – 1901 ) established the college as a memorial to her daughter Sophie, who died in 1870 at the age of 15.