Goddard may refer to:
People
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Goddard (given name) Goddard is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
*Goddard Lieberson (1911–1977), American record producer and music industry executive
*Goddard Oxenbridge (died 1537), English landowner and administrator
*Goddard Pemberton
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Goddard (surname) Goddard is a surname of Norman origin, found in England and France. It is derived from the personal name "Golhard". Recorded variants include Godard and Godart in England; Goudard and Godar in France; Gotthard, Godehard and Goddert in Germany; ...
Places in the United States
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Goddard, Kansas
Goddard is a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States, and a suburb of Wichita. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 5,084.
History
In 1883, Ezekiel Wilder purchased farmland on the planned railway of the Atchison, T ...
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Goddard, Kentucky
Goddard is an unincorporated community in Fleming County, Kentucky, United States. Goddard is located on Kentucky Route 32, east-southeast of Flemingsburg. Goddard Bridge, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The N ...
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Goddard, Maryland
Goddard is an unincorporated community and former census-designated place (CDP) in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. It was named after the physicist Robert H. Goddard. The population was 5,554 in the 2000 census. The area was no lon ...
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Goddard College
Goddard College is a progressive education private liberal arts low-residency college with three locations in the United States: Plainfield, Vermont; Port Townsend, Washington; and Seattle, Washington. The college offers undergraduate and gra ...
, a low-residency college with campuses in Vermont and Washington
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Goddard Memorial State Park
Goddard Memorial State Park is a public recreation area occupying along the shores of Greenwich Cove and Greenwich Bay in Warwick, Rhode Island. The state park grounds were once the estate of Civil War officer and Rhode Island politician Rober ...
, Warwick, Rhode Island
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Homer, Indiana, also known as Goddard
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Maurice K. Goddard State Park, New Vernon Township, Pennsylvania
Named after
Robert H. Goddard
Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket. Goddard successfully laun ...
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Goddard (crater)
Goddard is a lunar impact crater that is located along the eastern limb of the Moon, and so is visible from the edge from Earth. It is best viewed during favorable librations when the orientation of the Moon brings it further into sight. The cra ...
, a lunar crater along the eastern limb of the Moon
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Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph
The Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS or HRS) was an ultraviolet spectrograph installed on the Hubble Space Telescope during its original construction, and it was launched into space as part of that space telescope aboard the Space Shutt ...
, a spectrograph installed on the Hubble Space Telescope
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Goddard High School (New Mexico)
Robert H. Goddard High School (''Goddard High School'', GHS) is a public senior high school in Roswell, New Mexico, United States. It is a part of the Roswell Independent School District. Established in 1965, the school is named after rocket pion ...
, Roswell, New Mexico
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Goddard Space Flight Center, a major NASA space science laboratory in Greenbelt, Maryland
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Goddard Institute for Space Studies
The Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) is a laboratory in the Earth Sciences Division of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center affiliated with the Columbia University Earth Institute.
The institute is located at Columbia University in N ...
, component laboratory of Goddard Space Flight Center
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Blue Origin Goddard, a private spacecraft which first flew in November 2006
* Version 13 of the popular Linux distribution
Fedora, nicknamed Goddard
* Goddard, a robotic dog in the American animated television series ''
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius''
Other uses
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Goddard & Gibbs
The firm of Goddard & Gibbs were London-based English glassmakers and stained glass window manufacturers. The company was established by Walter Gibbs in 1868, although one firm which it subsequently acquired had been established earlier, in 185 ...
, stained glass manufacturers
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Goddard School
The Goddard School is an early childhood education provider with more than 500 franchised Schools in 37 states and hundreds of markets, including the Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, New York City, Philadelphia, Portland, and St. Louis mark ...
, a national network of franchised, early childhood education providers
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Goddard–Thorn theorem
In mathematics, and in particular in the mathematical background of string theory, the Goddard–Thorn theorem (also called the no-ghost theorem) is a theorem describing properties of a functor that quantizes bosonic strings. It is named after ...
, a mathematical theorem about certain vector spaces
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Maine penny
The Maine penny, also referred to as the Goddard coin, is a Norwegian silver coin dating to the reign of Olaf Kyrre King of Norway (1067–1093 AD). It was claimed to be discovered in Maine in 1957, and it has been suggested as evidence of P ...
, also known as the "Goddard coin"
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Godard (disambiguation)
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