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Richard Dixon Oldham FRS ( 31 July 1858 – 15 July 1936 ) was a British geologist who made the first clear identification of the separate arrivals of P-waves, S-waves and surface waves on seismograms and the first clear evidence that the Earth has a central core.
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Great-Grandchildren: Rebecca Key, Bryan Dixon, Emily Key, Rosemary Hubbard, Garrett Dixon, Richard Hubbard, Allison Dixon, Melina Edgerton, Travis Law, Jendy Edgerton, Benjamin Law, Julien Gascon Edgerton, Hannah Hubbard, Quinn Edgerton, Carl Gascon Edgerton, and Kaylee Law.
One of the earliest important discoveries ( suggested by Richard Dixon Oldham in 1906 and definitively shown by Harold Jeffreys in 1926 ) was that the outer core of the earth is liquid.
Since shear waves cannot pass through liquids, this phenomenon was original evidence for the now well-established observation that the Earth has a liquid outer core, as demonstrated by Richard Dixon Oldham.
On March 7, 1904, over a thousand Springfield residents formed a lynch mob, stormed the jail and removed prisoner Richard Dixon, a black man accused of murdering police officer Charles B. Collis.
Richard Dixon was shot to death and then hung from a pole on the corner of Fountain and Main Street, where the mob continued to shoot his lifeless body.
The show also drew many well-known or then up-and-coming actors and actresses for single guest starring roles, such as Don Ameche, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Ken Berry, Sonny Bono, Eddie Bracken, Joseph Campanella, Virginia Capers, Rosalind Cash, George Clooney, Polly Holliday, Robert Culp, Ruby Dee, the Del Rubio triplets, Jeane Dixon, Anne Francis, Johnny Gilbert, Jack Gilford, Alice Ghostley, Peter Graves, Merv Griffin, George Grizzard, Gary Grubbs, Bob Hope, Julio Iglesias, Freddie Jackson, Tony Jay, Billy Jayne, Gordon Jump, Paula Kelly, Alan King, David Leisure, Jenny Lewis, Hal Linden, Mark Linn-Baker, Mario Lopez, Edie McClurg, Marian Mercer, Martin Mull, Leslie Nielsen, Jerry Orbach, Leland Orser, Tony Plana, Peggy Pope, Joe Regalbuto, Burt Reynolds, Debbie Reynolds, Donnelly Rhodes, Richard Riehle, Alex Rocco, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, Harry Shearer, McLean Stevenson, Inga Swenson, Jeffrey Tambor, Meshach Taylor, Jay Thomas, Alex Trebek, Dick Van Dyke, Tom Villard, Lyle Waggoner, David Wayne and Fred Willard.
** The original cast with Gwen Verdon, Richard Kiley, Leonard Stone, Doris Rich, Cynthia Latham, Joy Nichols, Bob Dixon & Pat Ferrier for Redhead
* In the 1970s, actor-comedian Richard M. Dixon ( born James LaRoe ), look-alike to then-President Richard Nixon, gained some celebrity, portraying the president in the films, Richard ( 1972 ) and The Faking of the President ( 1976 ).
Richard Watson Dixon ( 5 May 1833-23 January 1900 ), English poet and divine, son of Dr James Dixon, a Wesleyan minister.
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Oldham changed the spelling of the band name from " the Rollin ' Stones " to " the Rolling Stones " and changed the spelling of Richards last name to Richard because it " looked more pop ".
* Richard Dixon Oldham FRS, Irish geologst who first identified seismic p-and s-waves and found the first evidence for the Earth ’ s core.
Richard Oldham ( died 1485 / 86 ) was a pre-Reformation cleric who served as the Bishop of Sodor and Man in the second half of the 15th-century.
The incumbents of the Renfield Street chapel were George Almond ( 1825 – 1848 ), Bishop Walter Trower ( 1848 – 1853 ) and Richard Oldham.
* Richard Russell ( rugby league ) ( born 1967 ), rugby league footballer of the 1990s for England, Oldham, and Castleford Tigers
Peter Davenport also brought in goalkeeper Richard Whiteside, midfielder Dave Prout and right back Chris Lever after trials from Oldham.
Richard William Holden ( born 9 September 1964 ), who appeared for Oldham Athletic and Manchester City amongst his professional clubs, scored 47 goals for Peel First Team in 48 appearances ( 1996 – 97 ) and as at 5 May 2010 was in his second spell as the club's First Team manager, having made 200 club appearances ( 105 goals ).
Although the song's lyrics were written by Verve vocalist Richard Ashcroft, it has been credited to Keith Richards and Mick Jagger after charges by the original copyright owners that the song was plagiarized from the Andrew Oldham Orchestra recording of The Rolling Stones ' 1965 song " The Last Time ".
The site was opened by Dr Richard Hu, Minister of Finance of Singapore, on 1 March 1993, the 107th anniversary of the school's founding by Bishop Oldham.
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Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS ( 3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967 ) was a British Labour politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.
Sir Harold ( Harry ) Walter Kroto, FRS ( born 7 October 1939 as Harold Walter Krotoschiner ), is a British chemist and one of the three recipients to share the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley.
Other prominent academics associated with the University include Geoffrey Bennington, the creator of the MA programme in Modern French Thought ( Derrida, Lyotard ); Homi K. Bhabha ( postcolonialism ); Rachel Bowlby ( feminism, Woolf, Freud ); Geoff Cloke FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry ); Jonathan Dollimore ( Renaissance literature, gender and queer studies ); Katy Gardner ( social anthropology ); Gabriel Josipovici ( Dante, the Bible ); Michael Land FRS ( Animal Vision-Frink Medal )); Michael Lappert FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry ); Alan Lehmann FRS ( Genetics and Genome Stability ); ( Laura Marcus ( Woolf ); John Murrell FRS ( Theoretical Chemistry ); Peter Nicholls ( Pound, modernism ); John Nixon FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry )); Laurence Pearl FRS ( Structural Biology ); Guy Richardson FRS ( Neuroscience ); Jacqueline Rose ( feminism, psychoanalysis ); Nicholas Royle ( modern literature and theory ; deconstruction ); Alan Sinfield ( Shakespeare, sexuality, queer theory ); Norman Vance ( Victorian, classical reception ); Richard Whatmore & Knud Haakonssen ( intellectual historians ); Gavin Ashenden ( Senior Lecturer in English, University Chaplain, and Chaplain to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II ; Cedric Watts ( Conrad, Greene ); Marcus Wood ( postcolonialism ).
Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton FRS ( 19 June 1809 – 11 August 1885 ) was an English poet, patron of literature and politician.
Sir Richard Brook Sykes, DSc, FRS, FMedSci, FKC ( born 7 August 1942 ) is a biochemist and former executive in a number of pharmaceuticals, most notably GlaxoSmithKline.
Richard Rawlinson FRS ( February 3, 1690 – April 6, 1755 ) was an English clergyman and antiquarian collector of books and manuscripts, which he bequeathed to the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane KT, OM, PC, KC, FRS, FBA, FSA ( 30 July 1856 – 19 August 1928 ), was an influential British Liberal Imperialist and later Labour politician, lawyer and philosopher.
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross, GCB, GCSI, PC, FRS ( 30 May 1823 – 8 January 1914 ), known before his elevation to the peerage as R. A.
Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Baronet FRS ( 9 December 1758 – 19 May 1838 ) was an English antiquarian, archaeologist, artist, and traveller of the 18th and 19th centuries, the first major figure in the detailed study of the history of his home county, Wiltshire.
Richard Laurence Millington Synge FRS ( Liverpool, 28 October 1914-Norwich, 18 August 1994 ) was a British biochemist, and shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Archer Martin.
Richard van der Riet Woolley FRS ( 24 April 1906 – 24 December 1986 ) was an English astronomer who became Astronomer Royal.
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