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2 unusual facts about Arthur B. McDonald


Arthur B. McDonald

Theoretical models of the Sun predict that neutrinos should be made in staggering numbers.

McDonald and Yoji Totsuka were awarded the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics "for discovering that the three known types of elementary particles called neutrinos change into one another when traveling over sufficiently long distances, and that neutrinos have mass".


Alphonse Roy

He successfully contested as a Democrat the election of Arthur B. Jenks to the Seventy-fifth Congress and served from June 9, 1938, to January 3, 1939.

Archie McLeod

Helen (died in 2007) was married to retired Church of Scotland minister and former Moderator Alexander "Sandy" McDonald and they had three children, the youngest of whom is actor David Tennant.

Arthur B. Hancock III

Through H-G-W Partners, Hancock owned and raced 1989 U.S. Horse of the Year Sunday Silence whose wins included the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Breeders' Cup Classic.

Arthur B. Hancock, Jr.

He was educated at two prep schools: St. Mark's School in Massachusetts and Woodberry Forest School in Virginia.

Arthur B. Jenks

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress.

Arthur B. McBride

He moved to Cleveland in 1913, when he was in his mid-twenties, to be circulation manager for the Cleveland News.

Arthur B. Patten

Tragedy struck the family on July 8, 1903, when A.B.'s son Roger aged one year and a half was drowned while they were vacationing at Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire.

Arthur B. Rouse

Rouse was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1927).

Arthur B. Woods

As was the case with many non-prestige British films of the 1930s, little attention or care was given to Woods' films after their original cinema run, and most of his films from the mid-1930s are now considered lost.

This was a thriller, but Woods spent the next four years making comedies and musical films (including three with popular singer Keith Falkner which represented Falkner's entire screen output) before starting also to take on crime films, starting with The Dark Stairway, made in 1937 and released in early 1938.

Many of his films involved collaborations with producer Irving Asher, cinematographer Basil Emmott and screenwriter Brock Williams, while another frequent association was with actress Chili Bouchier.

Arthur Chapman

Arthur B. Chapman (1908–2004), British-American animal genetic researcher

Arthur Ellis

Arthur B. English, Canada's official hangman who used the pseudonym Arthur Ellis, as did some of his successors

Arthur Hancock

Arthur B. Hancock, Jr., Arthur B. "Bull" Hancock (1910–1972), American horse breeder

Arthur Jenks

Arthur B. Jenks (1866–1947), U.S. Representative from New Hampshire

Charles McDonald

Charles C. McDonald (born 1933), general in the United States Air Force

Craig, Nebraska

Ira J. McDonald, Los Angeles City Council member, 1941–43, born in Craig

Crime Writers of Canada

The awards are named for Arthur B. English, a British expatriate who, under the pseudonym Arthur Ellis, became Canada’s official hangman in 1913.

David J. McDonald, Jr.

He is married to Maura McDonald and has two sons: Sean McDonald and Charles McDonald.

Domino's Pizza, Inc. v. McDonald

, 107 Fed. Appx. 18 (9th Cir. 2004).

Donald Blackburn

Following his retirement from military service, Blackburn took a position with Braddock Dunn & McDonald, where he served as vice president, special projects until he retired in 1979.

Edward F. McDonald

McDonald was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1891, until his death in Harrison on November 5, 1892 just a few days before the Congressional election.

Eugene F. McDonald

Moving to Chicago in 1904, he became an automobile salesman with the Franklin Auto Company and, as a publicity stunt, once drove a car up the steps of the General Logan Monument in Grant Park—with a photographer present and a policeman there to arrest him.

Frank B. McDonald

From 1982 to 1987, as NASA Chief Scientist, McDonald was a principal adviser to the NASA administrator and other senior officials.

In 1959, McDonald became one of the first scientists to join NASA's new Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

He was a key force behind several initiatives and programs of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, for which he served as chief scientist.

Frank McDonald

Frank B. McDonald (1925–2012), astrophysicist and creator of the Voyager probe

Ira J. McDonald

McDonald was born May 1, 1895, in Craig, Nebraska, the son of John S. McDonald and Amanda B. Hildreth, both of Jamestown, Tennessee.

J.M. McDonald

After about six months in Kemmerer, McDonald went to Spokane, Washington, to assists his brothers in a department store venture there.

In April 1905, McDonald moved to Kemmerer, Wyoming to assist James Cash Penney, a former neighbor of his in Hamilton, in operating his first store.

Janulis Spur

The name was proposed by Peter Bermel and Arthur B. Ford, co-leaders of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Thiel Mountains party which surveyed these mountains in 1960–61.

John Frederick Mowbray-Clarke

The Mowbray-Clarkes lived in Rockland County, New York at a farm and studio called Brocken, just six miles from Arthur B. Davies.

Joseph McDonald

Joseph A. McDonald (1866–1930), American businessman influential in the steel industry

Joseph E. McDonald (1819–1891), U.S. Representative and Senator from Indiana

Levelland, Texas

However, several prominent UFO researchers, among them Dr. James E. McDonald, a physicist at the University of Arizona, and Dr. J. Allen Hynek, an astronomer at Northwestern University, disputed this explanation.

Matthew Riddle

Riddle faced Che Mills on February 16, 2013 at UFC on Fuel TV: Barao vs. McDonald.

Max E. Youngstein

In 1951, Youngstein joined Arthur Krim, Robert Benjamin, Arnold Picker and Bill Heineman in purchasing the then financially troubled United Artists studio from Charles Chaplin and Mary Pickford.

Northern Wedding

Vice Admiral Wesley L. McDonald, Commander, Second Fleet, gave a news conference to a group of U.S. and international journalists in the carrier’s ‘War Room’ on the 9th, describing in some detail the significance of the exercise – normally held every four years – in preparing the allies to resist a Soviet-led attack against the West.

Nutt Bluff

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) at the suggestion of Arthur B. Ford, leader of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) geological party in the Dufek Massif, 1976–77, after Constance J. Nutt, geologist, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, a member of the USGS party.

Princequillo

Retired after his four-year-old racing season, Princequillo was purchased by Arthur B. Hancock and sent to the Hancock family's Ellerslie Stud in Albemarle County, Virginia and later to their Claiborne Farm near Paris, Kentucky.

Reginald Purdell

He tried his hand at film directing in 1937 with two comedies Don't Get Me Wrong, a Max Miller vehicle co-directed with Arthur B. Woods, and Patricia Gets Her Man.

Robert A. McDonald

In 1989 he transferred to Toronto to lead P&G's Canadian Laundry business, and moved to the Philippines as General Manager in 1991.

Sexual abuse scandal in Bridgeport diocese

Bishop William E. Lori has opposed legislation by State Representative Michael P. Lawlor and State Senator Andrew J. McDonald that would remove control of the diocese from the bishop and place it into the hands of laymen.

Walter Pach

With painters Arthur B. Davies and Walt Kuhn, he brought together leading contemporary European and American artists.

William E. Lori

Lori has opposed legislation in Connecticut proposed by State Rep. Michael P. Lawlor and Sen. Andrew McDonald that would remove control of the diocese from the bishop and place it in the control of the laity.

William Haggin Perry

In 1960, through his Gamely Corporation William Perry entered into an annual foal sharing partnership with Arthur Hancock of Claiborne Farm.


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