Darwin was also a founding member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, a discussion group of pioneering industrialists and natural philosophers.

He began his career in 1978 as a member of the pioneering electronic music group Yellow Magic Orchestra ( YMO ), where he played keyboards and was an occasional vocalist.

Quatro directly inspired the pioneering Los Angeles based all-girl group The Runaways.

A pioneering group of skiers in the early 1990s started taking skiing to the snowboard parks.

) Out of this his pioneering work in group dynamics, associated with the " Tavistock group ", Bion wrote the influential < CITE > Experiences in Groups </ CITE >, London: Tavistock, 1961.

Having already collaborated four years earlier, Henny entered 1997 by teaming up with Def P from pioneering Dutch-language rap group Osdorp Posse ( who sampled De Bom on one of their tracks ).

American alternative punk rock group Devo created many self-produced music videos, which were included in the pioneering compilation " The Truth About Devolution ", directed by Chuck Statler.

In 1986 Sam Phillips was part of the first group inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and his pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.

The album / tour served to successfully re-introduce Glass Harp into the jam band scene, in which they are now considered a pioneering group.

The Datamax UV-1 was a pioneering computer designed by a group of computer graphics artists working at the University of Illinois at Chicago, known as the Circle Graphics Habitat.

Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware were the founder members of pioneering British electro-pop group The Human League ; Glenn Gregory had been their original choice when seeking a vocalist for the band but he was unavailable at the time, so they chose Philip Oakey instead.

* May 18 – Ian Curtis, vocalist of pioneering post-punk group Joy Division, hangs himself in his Macclesfield home, just one day before Joy Division are scheduled to begin their first U. S. tour.

The Delfonics are a pioneering Philadelphia soul singing group, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

In 1871 Fisk University became home to the Jubilee Singers, a pioneering group that popularized spirituals across the country.

They claim that Dr. Dre did not credit the group for pioneering the style when he released The Chronic, his Death Row debut album.

None of the other four in Tereshkova's early group flew, and in October 1969 the pioneering female cosmonaut group was dissolved.

Established by Jenő Zsigó in 1993, the Ando Drom Foundation serves to promote Romany art, enourage young talent, and to allow the Romany encounter their own culture within the community, through the productions of the band Ando Drom, among others, a group pioneering the reinterpretation of Romany music and dance.

The group became famous in Romania in the 1970s when it started fusing their 1960s rock and roll sound with traditional folk music, thus pioneering the " ethno rock " sub-genre.

John Solum, a flutist and pioneering baroque flutist, became the prime mover ( along with a group of other students and admirers of Kincaid's ) behind the commission of Aaron Copland's Duo for Flute and Piano, which was dedicated to Kincaid's memory.

Eiffel 65 is an Italian three-piece Eurodance group formed in 1998 and best known for pioneering in pitch correction and Auto-Tune, and for their international hit " Blue ( Da Ba Dee )".

He became Carlos Castaneda's close friend and became part of Leo Zeff's pioneering psychedelic therapy group ( 1965 – 66 ).

He later became a founding member of the pioneering gangsta rap group N. W. A ( composed of Yella, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, MC Ren, and Eazy-E ).

The group is widely credited as being one of the most influential and pioneering groups in the small hip-hop subgenre of horrorcore.

This successful blending of country, folk and rock styles led to pioneering country folk records by folk-influenced singer-songwriters such as John Denver and Neil Young during the 1970s.

Other artists including comedian, actor, and banjo player Steve Martin, Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac, Timothy B. Schmit of The Eagles, pioneering folk-rock artist Gram Parsons, Stephen Stills and David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, and Nash, The Beach Boys ' Al Jardine, Big Brother and the Holding Company founding member Peter Albin, Denny Doherty of The Mamas and the Papas, banjo master Tony Trischka, pop groups ABBA and The Bee Gees, Jefferson Airplane founding members Marty Balin and Paul Kantner, Buffalo Springfield founding member Richie Furay, Byrds co-founder Gene Clark, roots musician and master mandolin player David Grisman, singer-songwriters Tom Paxton, Harry Chapin, Jimmy Buffett, Tim Buckley, Steve Goodman ( composer of " The City Of New Orleans "), Steve Gillette, Michael Smith ( composer of " The Dutchman "), and Shawn Colvin, folk-rock group We Five co-founder Jerry Burgan, folk and rock musician Jerry Yester, and progressive jazz vocal group Manhattan Transfer among many others cite the Kingston Trio as a formative influence in their musical careers.

In his answer thereto, he advised the Board that he had made no such statement in 1956, and asserted that his only claim to `` pioneering '' was in 1952.

Allan Dwan ( April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981 ) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.

The term " Altaic ", as the name for a language family, was introduced in 1844 by Matthias Castrén, a pioneering Finnish philologist who made major contributions to the study of the Uralic languages.

Alexis Carrel ( June 28, 1873 – November 5, 1944 ) was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques.

Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

However in the United Kingdom, pioneering research into painting materials and conservation, ceramics, and stone conservation was conducted by Arthur Pillans Laurie, academic chemist and Principal of Heriot-Watt University from 1900.

In 2008 Atari was honored at the 59th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards for pioneering the development of handheld games with its Lynx game unit.

Druyan was responsible for the selection of the music on the Voyager Golden Record for the pioneering exploratory missions of the Solar System — Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.

The nickname was first used for a baseball team by the Cincinnati Red Stockings, who were members of the pioneering National Association of Base Ball Players.

One of the most influential contributions to this question was an essay written in 1950 by pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing, titled Computing Machinery and Intelligence.

His most notable work was developing comparative grammar studies of the Bantu languages, building on the pioneering work of Wilhelm Bleek.

The team was founded in the 1940s as a charter franchise in the All-America Football Conference ( AAFC ), with Paul Brown, the team's namesake and a pioneering figure in professional football, as its first coach.

Camp is responsible for pioneering the play from scrimmage ( earlier games featured a rugby scrum, and was also the one who decided that teams should have four downs to advance the ball ten yards.

Early in the 20th century, Columbus also was home to a number of pioneering car manufacturers, including Reeves, which produced the unusual four-axle Octoauto and the twin rear axle Sextoauto, both around 1911.

It was during this time that Barnard first became acquainted with Norman Shumway, who did much of the pioneering research leading to the first human heart transplant.

Zizhi Tongjian, literally " Comprehensive Mirror to Aid in Government ", was a pioneering reference work in Chinese historiography.

Rogers is widely considered to be one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy research and was honored for his pioneering research with the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions by the American Psychological Association in 1956.

In two pioneering epidemiological field studies, he was able to demonstrate human sewage contamination was the most probable disease vector in two major epidemics in London in 1854.

David Llewelyn Wark " D. W ." Griffith ( January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948 ) was a premier pioneering American film director.

Edson de Castro was the Product Manager at Digital Equipment Corporation ( DEC ) of their pioneering PDP-8, a 12-bit computer generally considered by most to be the first true minicomputer.

Between 1947 and 1951 he was the editor at the pioneering paperback publisher Avon Books, where he made available highly affordable editions of the works of A. Merritt, H. P. Lovecraft, and C. S. Lewis ' Silent Planet space trilogy, bringing these previously little-known authors a wide readership.

The game, Night Trap, was not a great success, but is considered a pioneering title as it was the first game to use live actors, specifically a well known personality ( Plato ).