The fundamental ionisation mechanism used was discovered by John Sealy Townsend by his work between 1897 and 1901, and is known as the Townsend discharge, which is the ionization of molecules by ion impact.

The British administration, which began with Robert Townsend Farquhar as governor, was followed by rapid social and economic changes.

Richardson was born in Southport, Lancashire, to Marian Georgina ( née Townsend ), a housewife, and William Alan Richardson, a marketing executive.

Werblin's partners, Townsend B. Martin, Leon Hess, Donald C. Lillis, and Philip H. Iselin, had a falling out with Werblin over the way the team was run — though the franchise had begun to make a profit, Werblin was making all the policies and decisions himself with little or no input from his partners, much to their dismay.

The PET / CT scanner, attributed to Dr David Townsend and Dr Nutt was named by TIME Magazine as the medical invention of the year in 2000.

On defense, their three-man front was led by Pro Bowl defensive linemen Howie Long and Lyle Alzado, along with rookie Greg Townsend, who recorded 10. 5 sacks and a 66-yard fumble return touchdown.

" The Chronicle for Aug. 3 and 4, 1923, says the same thing the Examiner does, that Harding's body was taken from the Palace Hotel directly to the train depot at Third and Townsend.

Even though he was farming potatoes and wheat on his land, he was also the postmaster for Port Townsend, Washington and rowed a boat daily across the inlet in order to work at the post office there.

Charles Townsend, his batting partner when he reached the milestone, said that as he approached his hundred: " This was the one and only time I ever saw him flustered ..." Eventually Sammy Woods bowled a full toss which Grace drove for four to reach his century.

Margaret was chaperoned by Peter Townsend, the King's equerry.

Peter Townsend was appointed Comptroller of her mother's household.

By 1953, Townsend was divorced from his first wife ; he proposed marriage to Margaret.

" The Queen was counselled by her private secretary to post Townsend abroad, but she refused, instead transferring him from the Queen Mother's household to her own.

She reportedly accepted his proposal a day after learning from Peter Townsend that he intended to marry a young Belgian woman, Marie-Luce Jamagne, who was half his age and bore a striking resemblance to Margaret.

Her affair with Peter Townsend and the Queen's dealing with this was the subject of the first episode of the Channel 4 Docudrama The Queen in which she was portrayed by Katie McGrath

The first reported completion of all the Munros plus the subsidiary tops in one continuous expedition was by Chris Townsend in 1996.

He graduated from Townsend Harris High School and then earned a Bachelor's degree from the City College of New York in 1940 in mathematics, where he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon.

Wedgwood was chairman ; also present were William Townsend Aiton ( successor to his father, William Aiton, as Superintendent of Kew Gardens ), Sir Joseph Banks ( President of the Royal Society ), James Dickson ( a nurseryman ), William Forsyth ( Superintendent of the gardens of St. James's Palace and Kensington Palace ), Charles Francis Greville ( a Lord of the Admiralty ) and Richard Anthony Salisbury, who was to become the Secretary of the new society.

In 1861 The Spectator was bought by a journalist, Meredith Townsend, who soon went into partnership with Richard Holt Hutton, a theologian whose friend William Gladstone later called ‘ the first critic of the nineteenth century ’.

In 1887 Townsend was succeeded by John St Loe Strachey, a young aristocrat who had replaced H. H.

He found his cause supported by the " Ever Victorious Army ", which, having been raised by an American named Frederick Townsend Ward, was placed under the command of Charles George Gordon.

In 1730, Colonel David Dunbar, the superintendent and governor of the Territory of Sagadahock, laid out a new town, named Townsend after Viscount Townshend.

In 1961, Rockefeller was named Arkansas Republican national committeeman, having succeeded Wallace Townsend, a lawyer in Little Rock who had held the position since 1928.

* Townsend Thoresen, past ferry operator, now named P & O Ferries

Harpenden has a large number of its streets named after English literary figures on the East side of the town ( an area known, unsurprisingly, as the Poets ' Corner ), including Byron Road, Cowper Road, Kipling Way, Milton Road, Shakespeare Road, Spenser Road, Shelley Court, Tennyson Road, Townsend Road, Masefield Road and Wordsworth Road.

A small street in a housing development outside Boston, John Birch Memorial Drive in Townsend, is also named for him.

Fort Worden, located in Port Townsend, Washington and four United States Navy ships have been named USS Worden for him.

Bosanquet once covered all of Lambton County north of Townsend Line ( named after early settler Asa Townsend ).

A number of mammals are named for Townsend, including Townsend's Ground Squirrel ( Spermophilus townsendii ), Townsend's Chipmunk ( Tamias townsendii ), Townsend's Pocket Gopher ( Thomomys townsendii ), Townsend's Mole ( Scapanus townsendii ), Townsend's Vole ( Microtus townsendii ), and the Whitetail Jackrabbit ( Lepus townsendii ).

This bird was named after the American ornithologist, John Kirk Townsend.

There she gave birth to a son and then died without disclosing that she had a common-law husband – Robert Townsend, after whom the child was named.

* Other restaurant named Victoria Station in Townsend, TN and Perth, Australia.

But Li Hongzhang lead the Why Army combined by the " Ever Victorious Army ," which, having been raised by an American named Frederick Townsend Ward, was placed under the command of Charles George Gordon.

His middle name was given to him by his father who named him after his close friend and co-player, Andre Townsend.

The effect is named for Carl Ramsauer ( 1879-1955 ) and John Sealy Townsend ( 1868-1957 ), who each independently studied the collisions between atoms and low-energy electrons in the early 1920s.

This animal was named after the American naturalist John Kirk Townsend, who first described it.

The character of " The Professor " ( played by Hal Holbrook ) from the movie Shade was based on Dai Vernon, and the character Vernon ( Stuart Townsend ) was named after him

The original garden in front of Townsend Hall was established with a donation from Emily Clark Diffenback in the mid-1960s, and has been named Clark Garden in her honor.

A competition was run amongst the viewers to name the new puppy and seeing as though Townsend had recently won a Logie award, the puppy was named Logie.

Shortly after the Townsend purchase, an attorney for Little River Lumber Company named Jim Wright rallied a hodge-podge group of attorneys, businessmen, and mountaineers at Elkmont to propose the establishment of a national forest rather than a national park.

On June 1, 2010, with considerable support from the New York Tea Party movement, Berntsen was named the Republican designee for US Senate against incumbent US Senator Chuck Schumer from New York and faced a Republican primary against Jay Townsend who received the Conservative party designation.

The school is named for Townsend Harris, who besides his many diplomatic accomplishments, had helped found the Free Academy of the City of New York, later to become City College, and was a strong proponent of free education.