Last week Chicago happily found its top scholar in Caltech's acting dean of the faculty: dynamic Geneticist George Wells Beadle, 57, who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology for discovering how genes affect heredity by controlling cell chemistry ( Time, Cover, July 14, 1958 ).

Ted Wells had been replaced as Chief Engineer by Herbert Rawdon, who remained at the post until his retirement in the early 1960s ( he continued as a part-time consultant to Cessna President Dwane Wallace in Wichita until shortly before his death ).

The repertory system ensured that the comic patter character who performed the role of the sorcerer, John Wellington Wells, would become the ruler of the Queen's navy as Sir Joseph Porter in H. M. S.

In 1927, Florence Deeks sued Wells for plagiarism, claiming that he had stolen much of the content of The Outline of History from a work, The Web, she had submitted to the Canadian Macmillan Company, but who held onto the manuscript for eight months before rejecting it.

G. K. Chesterton quipped: " Mr. Wells is a born storyteller who has sold his birthright for a pot of message.

On 28 October 1940 Wells was interviewed by Orson Welles, who two years previously had performed an infamous radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds, on KTSA radio in San Antonio, Texas.

Blues harmonica players who are primarily or mainly associated with the instrument include Norton Buffalo, Jerry Portnoy, Lazy Lester, Bob Dylan, Sugar Blue, Billy Branch, Charlie Musselwhite, Corky Siegel, Junior Wells, Ron " Pigpen " McKernan, Kim Wilson, Slim Harpo, Al " Blind Owl " Wilson of Canned Heat, Jack Bruce of Cream and John Sebastian of The Lovin ' Spoonful.

Other luminaries include Keith Johnstone, the British teacher and writer – author of Impro, who founded the Theatre Machine and whose teachings form the foundation of the popular shortform Theatresports format, Dick Chudnow, founder of ComedySportz which evolved its family-friendly show format from Johnstone's Theatersports, Stan Wells, creator of the " Clap-In " longform style and founder of The Empty Stage Comedy Theatre in Los Angeles, and Bill Johnson, creator / director of The Magic Meathands, who pioneered the concept of " Commun-edy Outreach " by tailoring performances to non-traditional audiences, such as the homeless and foster children.

Studies of Charles Darwin's notebooks have shown that Darwin arrived separately at the idea of natural selection which he set out in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, but it has been speculated that he may have had some half-forgotten memory from his time as a student in Edinburgh of ideas of selection in nature as set out by Hutton, and by William Charles Wells and Patrick Matthew who had both been associated with the city before publishing their ideas on the topic early in the 19th century.

Other actors who have portrayed Lex Luthor include Scott James Wells and Sherman Howard in the television series Superboy.

Robb Wells, the actor who plays Ricky on the Showcase hit comedy Trailer Park Boys hails from Moncton, along with Julie Doiron, an indie rock musician and Holly Dignard the actress who plays Nicole Miller on the CTV series " Whistler ".

( However, George King had given MVP votes to two pitchers just the season before: Rick Helling and David Wells ; King was the only writer to cast a vote for Helling, who had gone 20 – 7 with a 4. 41 ERA and 164 strikeouts.

Jonathan Wells is one of a number of creationists who have criticized the use of peppered moth melanism as an example of evolution in action.

Other candidates who received votes were Robby Wells from North Carolina, former football coach at Savannah State University ; Dr. Laurie Roth of Washington state, who has a radio talk-show program ; and Susan Ducey of Kansas.

Influential writers who have reached wide audiences include H. G. Wells, Oswald Spengler, Arnold J. Toynbee, Pitirim Sorokin, Christopher Dawson, and Lewis Mumford.

* Andrew Wells — Another former villain, Andrew is an immature nerd who was captured by the Scoobies.

Other writers who have been influenced by the Nights include John Barth, Jorge Luis Borges, Salman Rushdie, Goethe, Walter Scott, Thackeray, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Nodier, Flaubert, Marcel Schwob, Stendhal, Dumas, Gérard de Nerval, Gobineau, Pushkin, Tolstoy, Hofmannsthal, Conan Doyle, W. B. Yeats, H. G. Wells, Cavafy, Calvino, Georges Perec, H. P. Lovecraft, Marcel Proust, A. S. Byatt and Angela Carter.

The Times went on the next month to publish a lengthy review by H. G. Wells who accused it of " foolishness, cliché, platitude, and muddlement about mechanical progress and progress in general.

He was still in contact with his Shrewsbury friends, who had added John Wells to their number, and were now running their own humour magazines at Oxford, Parsons Pleasure and Mesopotamia, to which Rushton made many contributions during his frequent visits.

He also contributed all the illustrations and the mast-head figure of Little Nitty ( who still appears on the cover, a blended caricature of John Wells and the Daily Express standard-head ).

The oldest football club in Wells though is Belrose FC who play their football in the Mid-Somerset Football League at Haybridge Park.

The New York Times published two positive reviews of the book: Basil Davenport ( 1905 – 1966 ) compared Clarke to Olaf Stapledon, C. S. Lewis, and H. G. Wells — a " very small group of writers who have used science fiction as the vehicle of philosophic ideas.

Coaching had declined considerably by 1905, but the sign was still there, near the old Wells Fargo building in San Francisco, creaking in the fog as it had for thirty years.

Russell Patterson and Carolyn Wells ' New Adventures of Flossy Frills was a continuing strip series seen on Sunday magazine covers.

While obtaining his master's degree, Alston was the boys ’ work director at the Utopia Children's House, started by James Lesesne Wells.

This picture won the World Press Photo award in 1980, and was taken in Karamoja district in Uganda by Mike Wells.

At its peak of popularity eugenics was supported by a wide variety of prominent people, including Winston Churchill, Margaret Sanger, Marie Stopes, H. G. Wells, Theodore Roosevelt, George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, John Harvey Kellogg, Linus Pauling and Sidney Webb.

The earliest known use of an expert witness in English law came in 1782, when a court that was hearing litigation relating to the silting-up of Wells harbour in Norfolk accepted evidence from a leading civil engineer, John Smeaton.

He was taken to the headquarters of the Second British Army in Lüneburg, where Doctor Wells conducted a medical exam.

Herbert George " H. G ." Wells ( 21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946 ) was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre.

Herbert George Wells was born at Atlas House, 46 High Street, Bromley, in the county of Kent, on 21 September 1866.

Called " Bertie " in the family, he was the fourth and last child of Joseph Wells ( a former domestic gardener, and at the time a shopkeeper and professional cricketer ) and his wife Sarah Neal ( a former domestic servant ).

The teaching was erratic, the curriculum mostly focused, Wells later said, on producing copperplate handwriting and doing the sort of sums useful to tradesmen.

In December that year, however, Williams was dismissed for irregularities in his qualifications and Wells was returned to Uppark.

It was not until 1890 that Wells earned a Bachelor of Science degree in zoology from the University of London External Programme.

Upon leaving the Normal School of Science, Wells was left without a source of income.

" I was never a great amorist ", Wells wrote in Experiment in Autobiography ( 1934 ), " though I have loved several people very deeply ".

One of the most interesting ways that Wells expressed himself was through his drawings and sketches.

These picshuas have been the topic of study by Wells scholars for many years, and recently a book was published on the subject.

Since " Barbellion " was the real author's pen name, many reviewers believed Wells to have been the true author of the Journal ; Wells always denied this, despite being full of praise for the diaries, but the rumours persisted until Barbellion's death later that year.

Near the end of the Second World War, Allied forces discovered that the SS had compiled lists of people slated for immediate arrest during the invasion of Britain in the abandoned Operation Sea Lion, and Wells was included in the alphabetical list on the same page of " The Black Book " as Rebecca West.

Wells was a diabetic, and a co-founder in 1934 of what is now Diabetes UK, the leading charity for people living with diabetes in the UK.

* Bonzi Wells, a Muncie, Indiana native, was a four-year letterwinner at Ball State, finishing his career as the Mid-American Conference's all-time leading scorer, and leading the NCAA in steals.

Shot from a script approved by H. G. Wells, the film was a blend of horror, humor and confounding visual effects.