In 1976 he earned acclaim for his first major film role, portraying Thomas Jerome Newton, an alien from a dying planet, in The Man Who Fell to Earth, directed by Nic Roeg.

After I, Claudius, he and the ex-patriate German film producer Erich Pommer founded the production company Mayflower Pictures in the UK, which produced three films starring Laughton: Vessel of Wrath ( US Title The Beachcomber ) ( 1938 ), based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham, in which his wife Elsa Lanchester co-starred ; St. Martin's Lane ( US Title Sidewalks of London ), about London street entertainers, which featured Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison ; and Jamaica Inn, with Maureen O ' Hara and Robert Newton, about Cornish smugglers, based on Daphne du Maurier's novel, and the last film Alfred Hitchcock directed in Britain before moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s.

It was directed by Lewis Milestone, and featured Michael Rennie as Jean Valjean, Robert Newton as Javert, Sylvia Sidney as Fantine, Debra Paget as Cosette, Edmund Gwenn as the bishop, Cameron Mitchell as Marius, Elsa Lanchester as Madame Magloire and James Robertson Justice as Robert ( Fauchelevent ).

The play received a 20th anniversary revival in the 2011-2012 season at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London's West End, directed by Jeremy Herrin and starring Thandie Newton, Tom Goodman-Hill, and Anthony Calf.

In 1999, Kaku was one of the scientists profiled in the feature-length film Me % 26 Isaac Newton, directed by Michael Apted.

In 2009, she directed her first feature-length film titled Beautiful Kate, adapted by Ward from a 1982 Newton Thornburg novel, and premiered at the Sydney Film Festival.

Newton next portrayed the United States President's First Daughter Laura Wilson in 2012, a disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich and released 13 November 2009.

* The pagan island of " Summerisle " featured in the motion picture The Wicker Man ( filmed in 1973 & directed by Robin Hardy ) is sometimes mistakenly associated with this archipelago, but in actuality The Wicker Man was filmed around Newton Stewart in Dumfries and Galloway.

A good example of Newton playing a sympathetic lead role is Noël Coward's This Happy Breed directed by David Lean in 1944.

On May 9, 1961, at the annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters new FCC chairman Newton Minow delivered a scathing speech directed at the " procession of game shows, violence, audience participation shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, Western badmen, Western goodmen, private eyes, gangsters, more violence, and cartoons, and, endlessly, commercials, many screaming, cajoling, and offending, and, most of all, boredom [...] Is there one network president in this room who claims he can't do better?

In 2010, Ryan appeared in the comedy film Huge alongside Noel Clarke, Johnny Harris, Ralph Brown, Thandie Newton, and Tamsin Egerton, directed by Ben Miller.

In 1922 he began teaching vocal music and directed stage productions at Bethel College in North Newton, Kansas.

At Goethe's time, it was generally acknowledged that, as Isaac Newton had shown in his Opticks in 1704, colourless ( white ) light is split up into its component colours when directed through a prism.

:"“ Attention was directed to the Second League by the unusual experience of Newton Heath.

The attention of Newton was also directed to the discharge of water from orifices in the bottom of vessels.

Most recently, Mr. Thatcher was deemed principal horn in James Newton Howard's soundtrack of The Last Airbender directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

Newton also widened the mandate of the Shaw Festival ( the performance of plays written and set in Bernard Shaw's lifetime, 1856 – 1950 ) by programming the works of lesser known playwrights such as Granville Barker, whose entire oeuvre was performed at the Shaw Festival in a series of highly praised productions directed by Neil Munro.

In a 1973 revision of his compendium of essays, Profiles of the Future, Clarke acknowledged the Second Law and proposed the Third in order to round out the number, adding " As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there ".

The faculties of the Academy for Jewish Religion in New York and of the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College in Newton Centre, Massachusetts also includes a large number of Conservative rabbis.

Much of the earliest development of the infinitesimal calculus by Newton and Leibniz was formulated using expressions such as infinitesimal number and vanishing quantity.

‪ File: Ernst Mach 01. jpg ‬‬| Ernst Mach ( 1838-1916 ): contributed the Mach number, studied shock waves and how airflow is disturbed at the speed of sound, influenced logical positivism, forerunner of Einstein ’ s relativity through his criticism of Newton ‬‬‬‬

This section of Rules for philosophy is followed by a listing of ' Phenomena ', in which are listed a number of mainly astronomical observations, that Newton used as the basis for inferences later on, as if adopting a consensus set of facts from the astronomers of his time.

: For Newton number, see also Kissing number in the sphere packing problem

The power number N < sub > p </ sub > ( also known as Newton number ) is a commonly-used dimensionless number relating the resistance force to the inertia force.

Based in the neighboring town of Newton, Boston is served with a good amount of free improvisation music from Boston College's non-commercial radio station 90. 3 FM WZBC, as part of its vast number of experimental programs.

Farmer himself penned a number of crossover fiction stories and novels set in what is now termed the Wold Newton Universe ; not all characters in Farmer's Wold Newton fiction are core members of the Wold Newton Family, but all are linked into the larger WNU via connections with Farmer's primary Wold Newton Family works, Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life.

The leader of a number of the resident deserters, Newton Knight, shot McLemore in the back as McLemore and other officers and friends sat around the fireplace of state Representative Amos Deason's house in Ellisville.

The faculty of the Academy for Jewish Religion in New York and of the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College in Newton Centre, Massachusetts also includes a large number of Conservative rabbis.

Bezout's theorem was essentially stated by Isaac Newton in his proof of lemma 28 of volume 1 of his Principia, where he claims that two curves have a number of intersection points given by the product of their degrees.

* A number used in error approximations for formulas that are applications of Taylor's theorem, such as Newton – Cotes formulas

A Gaussian quadrature rule is typically more accurate than a Newton – Cotes rule which requires the same number of function evaluations, if the integrand is smooth ( i. e., if it is sufficiently differentiable ).

Newton shot a number of pictorials for Playboy, including pictorials of Nastassja Kinski and Kristine DeBell.

Huey Newton Foundation members, containing a significant number of the original party's leaders, once successfully sued the group ; their ultimate objective in doing so — to prevent the NBPP from using the Panther name — appears to have been unsuccessful.

The Civil parish of North Petherton includes the villages of North Newton ( on the route of the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal ) and Northmoor Green ( also known as Moorland ) in the Somerset Levels, as well as a number of other smaller settlements.

In addition, The Jewish National and University Library has published a number of high-quality scanned images of various Newton documents.

A number of smaller teams operate in the town, the most prominent being Vulcan Newton FC who have previously been in the Lancashire Combination and North West Counties League.

From the 16th century, researchers including Jan Baptist van Helmont, Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton tried to establish theories of the experimentally observed chemical transformations.

Some sources, including Newton, refer to the entire force as a centripetal force, even for eccentric orbits, for which gravity is not aligned with the direction to the center of curvature.

In many Christadelphian hymn books a sizeable proportion of hymns are drawn from the Scottish Psalter and non-Christadelphian hymn-writers including Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, William Cowper and John Newton.

* Toward the Scientific Revolution From MIT OpenCourseWare, class materials for the history of science up to and including Isaac Newton.

Many leading scientists including Newton and Huygens doubted that such a clock could ever be built and had more optimism for astronomical observations ( such as the Method of Lunar Distances ).

Starting around the 15th century, new algorithms based on infinite series revolutionized the computation of, and were used by mathematicians including Madhava of Sangamagrama, Isaac Newton, Leonhard Euler, Carl Friedrich Gauss, and Srinivasa Ramanujan.

Despite some challenges to religious views, however, many notable figures of the scientific revolution — including Nicolaus Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz — remained devout in their faith.

He studied mathematics, metaphysics, and philosophy under Professor William Small, who introduced the enthusiastic Jefferson to the writings of the British Empiricists, including John Locke, Francis Bacon, and Isaac Newton.

Woodley released several solo albums and focused on songwriting, including co-writing the patriotic song " I Am Australian " with Dobe Newton ( of the Bushwackers ) in 1987.

Until then, no one envisioned the possibility that infinities come in different sizes, and moreover, mathematicians had no use for “ actual infinity .” The arguments using infinity, including the Differential Calculus of Newton and Leibniz, do not require the use of infinite sets.

* Newton fractals, including Nova fractals

Newton, faced in May 1686 with Hooke's claim on the inverse square law, denied that Hooke was to be credited as author of the idea, giving reasons including the citation of prior work by others before Hooke.

* Previous writings by Newton, including Quaestiones quadem philosophicae, De motu corporum in gyrum

Newton, as President of the Royal Society, did much to obscure Hooke, including, it is said, destroying ( or failing to preserve ) the only known portrait of the man.

Newton, faced in May 1686 with Hooke's claim on the inverse square law, denied that Hooke was to be credited as author of the idea, giving reasons including the citation of prior work by others before Hooke.

According to Reid, McEwen was aware that McMahon was habitually breaching Cabinet confidentiality and regularly leaking information to favoured journalists and lobbyists, including Maxwell Newton, who had been hired as a " consultant " by Japanese trade interests.

Some painters, theoreticians, writers and scientists, including Goethe, Kandinsky, Isaac Newton, have written their own colour theories.

Witten has been honored with numerous awards including a MacArthur Grant ( 1982 ), the Fields Medal ( 1990 ), the Nemmers Prize in Mathematics ( 2000 ), the National Medal of Science ( 2002 ), Pythagoras Award ( 2005 ), the Henri Poincaré Prize ( 2006 ), the Crafoord Prize ( 2008 ), the Lorentz Medal ( 2010 ) the Isaac Newton Medal ( 2010 ) and the Fundamental Physics Prize ( 2012 ).

During her career, she has also worked with many other renowned photographers, including Richard Avedon, Steven Meisel, Helmut Newton, Peter Lindbergh, Norman Parkinson, Eve Arnold, Francesco Scavullo, Annie Leibovitz, Denis Piel, and Robert Mapplethorpe.

All sources say it was named in honor of Sir Isaac Newton, including the 1896 history of Newton County.

Established by the Longitude Act 1714, the Board gathered the greatest scientific minds of the day to work on the problem, including Sir Isaac Newton, and put up prizes for those who could demonstrate a working device or method.

To this day, there is still a significant population of Catholics, including most of the area farmers, who worship at St. Gregory in St. Nazianz to the south, St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Clarks Mills to the north ( presently joined to St. Michael in Whitelaw ), or St. Thomas the Apostle in Newton to the east.

The Town of Wagner includes numerous other settlements including: Bar, Goll, Kinsman, McAllister, Newton, Packard and Wagner.

Æthelred was a devout king, " more famed for his pious disposition than his skill in war ", and he made several gifts of land to the expanding church, including grants at Tetbury, Long Newton, and Somerford Keynes.