Since 1999, the German parliament has again assembled in Berlin in its original Reichstag building, which dates from the 1890s and underwent a significant renovation under the lead of British architect Sir Norman Foster.

Semyonov shared the Nobel Prize in 1956 with Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, who independently developed many of the same quantitative concepts.

However, 179 other Conservative MPs were defeated, including present and former Cabinet ministers such as Norman Lamont, Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Michael Portillo.

For example, His Eminence Sir Norman Cardinal Gilroy did receive the accolade on his appointment as Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1969.

* 2005, Deutsche Bank Place, Sydney, Australia ( the first Sir Norman Foster building in the Southern Hemisphere )

In 1939, Australian scientist Howard Florey ( later Baron Florey ) and a team of researchers ( Ernst Boris Chain, Arthur Duncan Gardner, Norman Heatley, M. Jennings, J. Orr-Ewing and G. Sanders ) at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford made significant progress in showing the in vivo bactericidal action of penicillin.

Gordon published a scholarly edition of the Middle English text of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ; a revised edition of this text was prepared by Norman Davis and published in 1967.

Sir William Wallace ( Medieval Gaelic: Uilliam Uallas ; modern Scottish Gaelic: Uilleam Uallas ; Norman French: William le Waleys ; ; died 23 August 1305 ) was a Scottish knight and landowner who became one of the main leaders during the Wars of Scottish Independence.

* Chemistry – Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Nikolay Semenov

* February 4 – Sir Norman Wisdom, English comedian, singer, and actor ( d. 2010 )

* August 24 – Howard Florey and a team including Ernst Chain and Norman Heatley at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, publish their laboratory results showing the in vivo bactericidal action of penicillin.

* Peace – Sir Norman Angell ( Ralph Lane )

Most political parties in the various territories aligned themselves into one of two Federal political parties – the West Indies Federal Labour Party ( led by Grantley Adams of Barbados and Norman Manley of Jamaica ) and the Democratic Labour Party ( led by Manley's cousin, Sir Alexander Bustamante ).

In the BBC radio dramatizations, Gandalf has been voiced by Norman Shelley in The Lord of the Rings ( 1955 – 1956 ), Heron Carvic in The Hobbit ( 1968 ), Bernard Mayes in The Lord of the Rings ( 1979 ) and Sir Michael Hordern in The Lord of the Rings ( 1981 ).

At the age of 84, Spock came in 3rd ( out of a field of 8 ), rowing his dingy across the Sir Frances Drake Channel between Tortola and Norman Island, a distance of four miles.

A picture of Kensington taken by scientist Sir Norman Lockyer in 1909 from a helium balloon

Famous residents have included Mary, Queen of Scots ; King James VI of Scotland ; Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman ; documentary film pioneer John Grierson ; film music composer Muir Mathieson ; animation pioneer Norman McLaren ; TV presenter Kirsty Young ; and footballers Billy Bremner ( captain of Leeds United and Scotland ) and Frank Beattie ( captain of Kilmarnock ).

On 22 January, the RAF director of bomber operations, Air Commodore Sydney Bufton, sent a memo to the Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sir Norman Bottomley, suggesting that what appeared to be a coordinated air attack by the RAF to aid the current Soviet offensive would have a detrimental effect on German morale.

Sir William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke ( 1147 – 14 May 1219 ), also called William the Marshal ( Norman French: William le Mareschal ), was an English ( or Anglo-Norman ) soldier and statesman.

Norman & Beard re-erected it in a new case designed by Sir Thomas Jackson in the North Transept in 1914, with the addition of two stops to the Pedal.

Other noted guests on the programme included John Cleese, Ron Moody, Sir Norman Wisdom, Eric Sykes, Liz Fraser, Stanley Lebor, and Philip Jackson.

* brusque owner Sir Norman Tonsil ( Deayton ),

The station's owner was again played by Deayton, though the character name was changed from Sir Norman Tonsil to Sir Kenneth Yellowhammer for the TV series, to serve as one of the show's thinly-veiled references to Sky TV.

Some of the best known British film comedy stars include Will Hay, George Formby, Sir Norman Wisdom, Sir Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers and the Monty Python team.

* November 20 – Sir John Fowler, British civil engineer ( b. 1817 )

The second edition, Fowler ’ s Modern English Usage ( 1965 ) was revised by Sir Ernest Gowers, who updated the text, contributed entries, and deleted articles " no longer relevant to literary fashions ".

He helped develop the early underground railways in London with Sir John Fowler, but he is best known for his work on the Forth Bridge.

Later, he became associated with Sir John Fowler in London.

By this time he had already made himself an authority on bridge construction, and shortly afterwards he was engaged on the work which made his reputation with the general public: the design and erection of the Forth Bridge in collaboration with Sir John Fowler and William Arrol.

With Sir John Fowler, he designed and engineered the Forth Bridge after the Tay bridge collapse.

An entirely different design was proposed by Sir Benjamin Baker and Sir John Fowler.

* Sir Henry Fowler, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Midland Railway and subsequently the London, Midland and Scottish Railway was born in Evesham, on 29 July 1870.

* Sir Henry Fowler — Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

The Forth Bridge ( railway ) | Forth Bridge, designed by Sir Benjamin Baker and John Fowler ( engineer ) | Sir John Fowler, opened in 1890, and now owned by Network Rail, is designated as a Category A listed building by Historic Scotland.

Some characters are allusions to persons involved in the construction of Forth Railway Bridge: Chief Engineer Arrol refers to the proprietor of the construction company, Sir William Arrol, whilst Engineers Baker and Fowler represent the two principal designers of the bridge, Sir Benjamin Baker and Sir John Fowler.

In that spirit, the following list of recurring semi-regulars ( and a few one-shots ) are unreferenced: Tobacco Rhoda, Joan L. Sullivan, Romeo McHaystack, Hamfat Gooch, Global McBlimp, Concertino Constipato, Jinx Rasputinburg, J. Sweetbody Goodpants, Reactionary J. Repugnant, B. Fowler McNest, Fleabrain, Stubborn P. Tolliver, Idiot J. Tolliver, Battling McNoodnik, Mayor Dan ' l Dawgmeat, Slobberlips McJab, One-Fault Jones, Swami Riva, Olman Riva, Sir Orble Gasse-Payne, Black Rufe, Mickey Looney, " Ironpants " Bailey, Henry Cabbage Cod, Flash Boredom, Priceless and Liceless, Hopeless and Soapless, Disgustin ' Jones, Skelton McCloset, Hawg McCall, " Good old " Bedly Damp ... and a host of others.

* Sir Henry Fowler, Chief Engineer for the London Midland and Scottish Railway

In the episode " The Queen's Birthday Present " from the British police sitcom The Thin Blue Line, Inspector Fowler talks about the great authors he reads, including Sir Walter Scott and W. M.

His final work was on the Central London Railway with Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker.

As early as 1946 the Attorney-General Sir Hartley Shawcross attacked " the campaign of calumny and misrepresentation which the Tory Party and the Tory stooge press has directed at the Labour government.

Perutz attacked the theories of philosophers Sir Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn and biologist Richard Dawkins in a lecture given at Cambridge on ' Living Molecules ' in 1994.

On October 6, 1777, a combined force of roughly 2, 100 Loyalists, Hessians, and British regulars led by Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton attacked forts Montgomery and Clinton from the landward side ( where the defenses were only partially completed ).

In the ensuing dispute, Tyler ( supposedly ) drew his dagger, and William Walworth, the Lord Mayor of London, drew his sword and attacked Tyler, mortally wounding him in the neck ; Sir John Cavendish, one of the King's knights, drew his sword and ran it through Tyler's stomach, killing him almost instantly.

But only a few installments later, this has sublimated somewhat into history: when Val saves his new friend Sir Gawain from a robber knight and Gawain decides to take the villain to Camelot for summary judgement from King Arthur, the whole party is at one point attacked by another enormous beast — only this time it ’ s a salt water crocodile !...

Their principles were publicly attacked by the President of the Academy, Sir Charles Lock Eastlake.

Thus enforced with 23 ' fresh ' ships and so numbering in between 60 to 65 men-of-war and 6 fireships, the English attacked in line on the fourth day with Sir Christopher Myngs now in charge of the van, Rupert of the center, and Monk of the rear squadron.

Events went seriously wrong for James and he had to escape to the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth along with the earl of Orkney after his escorts were attacked by James Douglas of Balvenie and which resulted in Sir David Fleming's death.

During the administration of Sir Robert Peel, Palmerston led a retired life, but he attacked with characteristic bitterness the Webster-Ashburton Treaty with the United States.

General " Boy " Browning's widow, the author Daphne du Maurier, ferociously attacked his characterisation and " the resultant establishment fallout, much of it homophobic, wrongly convinced that the newly ennobled Sir Richard had deliberately contrived to scupper his own chance of a knighthood.

On 14 June 1978, Healey likened being attacked by the mild-mannered Sir Geoffrey Howe in the House of Commons to being " savaged by a dead sheep ".

Samuel Johnson once triumphed in such an exchange: ' a fellow having attacked him with some coarse raillery, Johnson answered him thus, " Sir, your wife, under pretence of keeping a bawdy-house, is a receiver of stolen goods "'.

While in the dungeon, the Nephews find the treasure box, but are nearly attacked by the ghost, and find the other way out of the dungeon ; the pillar that Sir Swamphole's armor is resting on is actually a door.

The new commander of the Eighth Army, Lieutenant General Sir Bernard Montgomery, had the opportunity to conclusively defeat the Panzerarmee Afrika under Erwin Rommel, since Rommel was at the end of enormously stretched supply lines, the British were close to their supply bases, and Rommel was about to be attacked from the rear by Torch.

A number of musketeers sent to dislodge them were beaten back and a troop of the Trained Bands under the Lord Mayor Major General Sir Richard Browne attacked them and they retreated to Ken Wood near Highgate.

The Continental Army under General George Washington attacked the rear of the British Army column commanded by Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton as they left Monmouth Court House ( modern Freehold Borough ).

Haig, Asquith and Bertie complained of inaccuracies and it was attacked by Sir John Fortescue in the “ Quarterly Review ” as “ one of the most unfortunate books ever written ”.

When reinforcements from the Royal Navy commanded by Commodore James Lucas Yeo arrived in Kingston, Yeo almost immediately embarked some troops commanded by Sir George Prevost and attacked Sackett's Harbor.

A member of the advisory board for the early Australia Council Vance was attacked as a Communist “ fellow traveller ” ( which to some extent he was ) during the McCarthyist period of the 1950s, but his integrity was recognised by the deeply conservative Prime Minister of that era, Sir Robert Menzies.

In June 1844 he was appointed interpreter at Amoy ( Xiamen ) and in March 1845 he and his consul, Mr ( afterwards Sir ) Rutherford Alcock, were transferred to Foochow, where Parkes was attacked by stone-throwing Manchu soldiers on 4 October.

* A large leopard seal attacked Thomas Orde-Lees ( 1877 – 1958 ), a member of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914 – 1917 when the expedition was camping on the sea ice.

On the morning of 13 September 1645, a covenanting army led by Sir David Leslie attacked the royalist forces camped at Philiphaugh, and a rout ensued.

In May 1645 the house was attacked again by the Parliamentarian forces, this time led by Sir Thomas Fairfax, but he was unsuccessful.

* Sir Michael Parkinson had always lamented the fact that, despite all the star guests he had interviewed on television over the years, he would probably be remembered for " that bloody bird " ( the glove puppet Emu, which had attacked him during an interview with " owner " Rod Hull ).

His first and most famous work was The Philosophy of the Infinite ( 1854 ), in which he attacked the statement of Sir William Hamilton that we can have no knowledge of the Infinite.