As well as and in parallel with his role at SIL, Pike spent thirty years at the University of Michigan, during which time he served as chairman of its linguistics department, professor of linguistics, and director of its English Language Institute ( he did pioneering work in the field of English language learning and teaching )

Eadweard James Muybridge (; 9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904 ) was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion and in motion-picture projection.

The first successful aircraft were biplanes, but many pioneering aircraft were monoplanes, for instance the Blériot XI that flew across the English Channel in 1909.

Osbourne rose to prominence as lead singer of the pioneering English band Black Sabbath, whose dark and hard sound helped spawn the heavy metal genre.

* Henry Maudsley ( 1835 – 1918 ) was a pioneering English psychiatrist.

William Hogarth ( 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764 ) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art.

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin ( 1 March 1812 – 14 September 1852 ) was an English architect, designer, artist and critic, chiefly remembered for his pioneering role in the Gothic Revival style ; his work culminated in the interior design of the Palace of Westminster.

In William Caxton's pioneering printed English, it is rare except in an abbreviated the, written with a thorn and a superscript E. This was the longest-lived usage, though the substitution of Y for thorn soon became ubiquitous, leading to the common ' ye ' as in ' Ye Olde Curiositie Shoppe '.

John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers are a pioneering English blues band, led by singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist John Mayall, OBE.

Henry Kenneth Alfred " Ken " Russell ( 3 July 1927 – 27 November 2011 ) was an English film director, known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his flamboyant and controversial style.

Amy Johnson CBE, ( 1 July 1903 – 5 January 1941 ) was a pioneering English aviatrix.

The English satirist and editorial cartoonist William Hogarth, who emerged In the 18th century, has been credited with pioneering Western sequential art.

Pupin's 1899 patent for loading coils, archaically called " Pupin coils ", followed closely on the pioneering work of the English physicist and mathematician Oliver Heaviside, which predates Pupin's patent by some seven years.

Two further titles were later won in successive years, as Wolves cemented their position as the premier team in English football and became globally renowned for their on-field success as well as high-profile floodlit friendlies against top European club sides and the pioneering development of the Cullis “ kick and rush ” style of football.

The Marxist historian E. P. Thompson emphasized the continuing force of this tradition in his pioneering article on the " Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century.

Jonathan Douglas " Jon " Lord ( 9 June 1941 – 16 July 2012 ) was an English composer, pianist, and Hammond organ player known for his pioneering work in fusing rock with classical or baroque forms, especially with Deep Purple, as well as Whitesnake, Paice, Ashton & Lord, The Artwoods, and The Flower Pot Men.

He founded a number of learned societies on early English Literature, and made pioneering and massive editorial contributions to the subject, of which the most notable was his parallel text edition of the Canterbury Tales.

Another member of the circle was pioneering English feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.

The Abney level was invented by Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney ( 1843 – 1920 ) who was a Royal Engineer, an English astronomer and chemist best known for his pioneering of colour photography and colour vision.

English photographer Eadweard Muybridge pioneered motion picture, while pioneering Scottish documentary maker John Grierson coined the term " documentary " to describe a non-fiction film in 1926.

The station, which had long held a monopoly over Sri Lanka's airwaves, had been established in 1925, and one of Sri Lanka's pioneering broadcasters, Vernon Corea, almost immediately grasped the opportunity to introduce Sri Lankan Music on the English Services of Radio Ceylon.

He was educated at Woolverstone Hall School ; the University of Sussex, receiving his degree in English literature in 1970 ; and the University of East Anglia, where he was one of the first graduates of Malcolm Bradbury's pioneering creative writing course.

The understanding of the succession of styles was still very weak, as suggested by the title of Thomas Rickman's pioneering book on English architecture: An Attempt to discriminate the Styles of English Architecture from the Conquest to the Reformation ( 1817 ).

It is usually attributed to renowned orientalist and author Sir Richard Francis Burton, but the chief work was done by the pioneering Indian archaeologist, Bhagwanlal Indraji, under the guidance of Burton's friend, the Indian civil servant Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot, and with the assistance of a student, Shivaram Parshuram Bhide.

Conan Doyle also showed the photographs to the physicist and pioneering psychical researcher Sir Oliver Lodge, who believed the photographs to be fake.

Sir Frederick Henry Royce, 1st Baronet, OBE ( 27 March 1863 – 22 April 1933 ) was a pioneering car manufacturer, who with Charles Stewart Rolls founded the Rolls-Royce company.

While twins have been of interest to scholars since early civilization, such as the early physician Hippocrates ( 5th c. BCE ), who attributed similar diseases in twins to shared material circumstances, and the stoic philosopher Posidonius ( 1st c. BCE ), who attributed such similarities to shared astrological circumstances, the modern history of the twin study derives from Sir Francis Galton's pioneering use of twins to study the role of genes and environment on human development and behavior.

It was in the Cobb harbour, after the great storm of 1824, that Captain Sir Richard Spencer RN carried out his pioneering lifeboat design work.

Its National Spinal Injuries Centre is one of the largest specialist spinal units in the world, and the pioneering rehabilitation work carried out there by Sir Ludwig Guttmann led to the development of the Paralympic Games.

Upon being published, Mahan struck up a friendship with pioneering British naval historian Sir John Knox Laughton, the pair maintaining this relationship through correspondence and visits when Mahan was in London.

When Mascot was declared an aerodrome in 1920 it was known as Sydney Airport, in 1953 it was renamed Sydney ( Kingsford Smith ) Airport in honour of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, who was a pioneering Australian aviator.

He, with his brother Francis, founded the pioneering locomotive company Crossley and the ( now defunct ) car manufacturer Crossley Motors and was a Director of the Manchester Ship Canal. Sir William Crossley's Key

The pioneering neurologist Sir John Eccles followed Burnet ’ s example, becoming the second of five Australians to take out the Nobel Prize / Australian of the Year double.

The hospital's National Spinal Injuries Centre is one of the largest specialist spinal units in the world, and the pioneering rehabilitation work carried out there by Sir Ludwig Guttmann led to the development of the Paralympic Games.

* Sir John Cockcroft, joint recipient of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics for pioneering work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles, was elected as the first president in 1967, though he died suddenly ten days later.

His son Sir Frederick Morton Eden, 2nd Baronet, of Maryland ( 1766 – 1809 ) was a pioneering writer and the author of The State of the Poor, published in 3 volumes in 1797.

Historiometry started in the early 19th century with studies on the relationship between age and achievement by Belgian mathematician Adolphe Quetelet in the careers of prominent French and English playwrights but it was Sir Francis Galton, a pioneering English eugenist who popularized historiometry in his 1869 work, Hereditary Genius.

First issue of the journal Muhammadan Social Reformer dated 24 December 1870, it was a pioneering publication initiated by Sir Syed to promote liberal ideas in Muslim society.

Sir Syed's pioneering work received support from the British.

Sir Patrick Geddes ( 2 October 1854 – 17 April 1932 ) was a Scottish biologist, sociologist, geographer, philanthropist and pioneering town planner ( see List of urban theorists ).

Sir Archibald McIndoe CBE FRCS ( 4 May 1900 — 11 April 1960 ) was a pioneering New Zealand plastic surgeon who worked for the Royal Air Force during World War II.

* Sir Austin Bradford Hill, pioneering medical researcher who discovered the link between smoking and cancer

One of the most pioneering Irish architects was Sir Edward Lovett Pearce ( 1699 – 1733 ), who became one of the leading advocates of Palladianism in Ireland.

Sir William Cornelius Van Horne, KCMG ( February 3, 1843 – September 11, 1915 ) was a pioneering Canadian railway executive.

* Sir Patrick Geddes FRSE, biologist, sociologist, philanthropist and pioneering town planner.

* Stretford's pioneering aviator Sir John Alcock