* Museum Of New Art ( MONA )- founded in Detroit, Michigan in 1996 this contemporary art museum is generally acknowledged to be the pioneer of the concept of the pop-up museum.

George Balanchine is often considered to have been the first pioneer of contemporary ballet through the development of neoclassical ballet.

Popular stars of Australian TV have included: the pioneer variety show hosts Graham Kennedy, Bert Newton, Don Lane and Daryl Somers, and contemporary talk show hosts Andrew Denton and Rove McManus.

Blink-182 is recognized as a key pioneer of contemporary pop punk music, influencing various acts over their career.

Chanakya was authored the ancient Indian political treatise called Arthaśāstra, contemporary with the Book of Lord Shang of Shang Yang, due to which he is considered as the pioneer of the field of economics and political science.

Among the contemporary Muslim scholars Dr. Mirza Abul Fazl was a pioneer who took interest in the study of the chronological order of the Qur ' an and invited the attention of Muslim scholars towards its importance.

Disco Volante included influences from contemporary classical music, avant-garde jazz, electronic music pioneer Pierre Henry, Edgar Allan Poe, John Zorn, Frank Zappa, Krzysztof Penderecki and European film music of the 1960s and 1970s, such as those composed by Ennio Morricone and Peter Thomas.

Maxim recounted his days as an automobile pioneer in his book Horseless Carriage Days and also wrote the book Life's Place in the Cosmos, an overview of contemporary science that surmised life existed outside of earth.

He is pioneer poet in contemporary Bhojpuri Poetry.

Increased competition in the top 40 format — first from WMEX ( 1510 AM, now WWZN ), which had programmed a top 40 format since 1957, then from WRKO, which adopted the format in 1967 — led WBZ to shift its music programming to adult contemporary in 1969, playing several songs an hour between 6 and 9 a. m. ( though it was not unheard of for Carl DeSuze to play only one, if any, song an hour during his show ), 10 to 12 songs an hour between 9 a. m. and 4 p. m., and 4 to 6 songs an hour between 4 and 7 p. m .. At night, WBZ programmed talk shows, with such hosts as Guy Mainella, a pioneer in sports talk ; Jerry Williams in the evenings ; and Larry Glick's overnight show ( the latter two held the same popular shifts at WMEX years earlier ).

Starting with V. Shantaram and before him the pioneer DadaSaheb Phalke, Marathi cinema went on to influence contemporary Hindi cinema.

On June 18, 2008 Carvin received the President ’ s Merit Award from the Recording Academy in recognition of his extraordinary gifts as a passionate singer, performer, expressive communicator, and pioneer of contemporary gospel music.

His experimental station did not survive him, or rather could not withstand the vacillations of the 1870 Franco-Prussian war despite some revealing respect for intellectual works in WWII anecdotes, but his discoveries were built on by others, including his better known contemporary, Liebig – who loudly acknowledged Boussingault as the pioneer and great discover of many advances in soil and plant chemistry.

Petra is a music group regarded as a pioneer of the Christian rock and contemporary Christian music genres.

Fleury was a pioneer in the rediscovery of many forgotten Baroque flute compositions, and in commissioning new pieces by contemporary composers.

As Japan modernized and Westernized rapidly in the Meiji period, Mokuami moved along with new trends in theatre, becoming a pioneer of Shin-kabuki (" New Kabuki "), writing plays in new genres such as katsurekimono ( realistic, historically accurate jidaimono period plays ) and zangirimono ( sewamono genre plays featuring Meiji era contemporary characters and setting ).

Gabrielle Pizzi was a pioneer in the Aboriginal art world and made it her life's mission to have Aboriginal art accepted as powerful contemporary art, and since 1990, regularly curated exhibitions of Australian Aboriginal art internationally.

She is regarded as the pioneer of BSL poetry and her work influenced many contemporary Deaf poets.

Antoniou is also known for her work as an editor and pioneer on the field of contemporary erotic fiction and in particular as editor of lesbian erotica antologies including the three volume Leather Women series, Some Women, By Her Subdued, No Other Tribute, and a collection of her own short stories and essays titled The Catalyst and Other Works.

Hanson was a pioneer in advancing the argument that observation is theory-laden – that observation language and theory language are deeply interwoven – and that historical and contemporary comprehension are similarly deeply interwoven.

It reminds us that she remains a pioneer among contemporary British writers.

He helped pioneer modern color theory, and his theories on flat patterning and ornament still resonate with contemporary designers today.

* Xavier Herbert-although not formally associated with the movement, his Capricornia of 1938, describes the early pioneer movement in the contemporary Northern Territory, Australian values, and white settler relationships positive and negative with the natives, as well as the native culture itself.

While some series like De Familie Snoek and Bessy stuck very close to their origin ( an everyday Flemish contemporary family for the former, and a pioneer family in the American Old West in the latter ), others were more loose.

In these areas, being a pioneer and struggling to learn the local languages in the face of opposition, he had less success than he had enjoyed in India.

There he was invited to head Saint Paul's College, a pioneer seminary for the education of secular priests that became the first jesuit headquarters in Asia, but soon departed, having spent the following three years in India.

** Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, French traveller and pioneer of trade with India ( d. 1689 )

India is a pioneer in vocational training in Film & Television, and Information Technology. AAFT.

The art of Ventriloquism was popularised by Y. K. Padhye in India, who is believed to be the pioneer of this field in India.

People so honored at the park include merengue singer Joseíto Mateo, salsa singer La India, Cuban musician Israel " Cachao " Lopez, Cuban tenor Beny Moré, Tito Puente, Spanish language television news anchor Rafael Pineda, salsa pioneer Johnny Pacheco, singer / bandleader Gilberto Santa Rosa and music promoter Ralph Mercado.

Mansur Hoda Scientist and pioneer of Appropriate Technology in India along with E. F. Schumacher of Small is Beautiful fame.

One of Snodland's residents was Thomas Fletcher Waghorn ( 1800 – 50 ), a postal pioneer who shortened the overland route between England and India from three months to between 35 and 45 days.

In this period, a think tank comprising R. Franklin Cook, a former missionary to India and member of the World Mission department since 1961 ; missiologist Paul Orjala, pioneer missionary to Haiti ; and Honorato Reza, long-time representative for the Hispanic church, was formed to advise Phillips.

Ghaffar Khan forged a close, spiritual, and uninhibited friendship with Mahatma Gandhi, the pioneer of non-violent mass civil disobedience in India.

The first full-length motion picture in India was produced by Dadasaheb Phalke, Dadasaheb is the pioneer of Indian film industry a scholar on India's languages and culture, who brought together elements from Sanskrit epics to produce his Raja Harishchandra ( 1913 ), a silent film in Marathi.

* David Hare, 1774-1842, Scottish philanthropist and pioneer of modern European Education in India

As such, he is considered as the pioneer of the field of economics and political science in India, and his work is thought of as an important precursor to Classical Economics.

In India, Sir Syed is commemorated as a pioneer who worked for the socio-political upliftment of Indian Muslims, Sir Syed is also hailed as a founding father of Pakistan for his role in developing a Muslim political class independent of Hindu-majority organisations.

In India, Sir Syed is commemorated as a pioneer who worked for the socio-political upliftment of Indian Muslims, though his views on Hindu-Muslim issues are a subject of controversy.

* Streynsham Master ( 1640-1724 ), pioneer in the British East India Company

Cutting developed railroad interests in West India ; his son was a pioneer in refining sugar from sugar beets.

He was also a pioneer in the revival of Buddhism in India after it had been virtually extinct there for several centuries, and he was the first Buddhist in modern times to preach the Dharma in three continents: Asia, North America, and Europe.

* Stephen Hector Taylor-Smith ( 1891 – 1951 ), pioneer of rocket mail in India

* Stephen Hector Taylor-Smith, pioneer of " Rocket Mail " in India, and immortalised by a postage stamp.

A pioneer of wildlife conservation in India, he also represented South Indian Europeans in the Indian parliament after 1947.

Notable former students include Thomas Walter Manson, the biblical scholar and Rylands Professor in the University of Manchester ; Lesslie Newbigin, ecumenist, bishop, scholar and pioneer of the Church of South India ; William Paton, a precursor to Newbigin and a seminal figure in modern ecumenism ; and W. D. Davies, known for his work on Paul and his Jewish background.

* Thomas Greenhill ( 1611-1658 ), a pioneer of the British East India Company