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Paul Queneau
Paul Etienne Queneau (March 20, 1911 – March 31, 2012) was an American professor of chemical and metallurgical engineering at Dartmouth College. He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Biography Queneau was born in Philadelphia on March 20, 1911, to Augustin Leon Jean and Abbie Jean (Blaisdell) Queneau, a descendant of Ralfe Bleasdale, who settled in Pemaquid Point in Maine in 1635. His father was a French-born metallurgist who served as technical assistant to the president of the United States Steel Corporation. Queneau earned his B.A. from Columbia College in 1931, his BSc and E.E. from Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science in 1932 and 1933, respectively. After Columbia, he began working for the International Nickel Company (INCO). He volunteered in the United States Army during World War II and was trained at the United States Army Engineer School before being dispatched to Europe with the United States Army Corps of Engineers. He was awarded ...
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia ( ), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population, sixth-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The city is the urban core of the Philadelphia metropolitan area (sometimes called the Delaware Valley), the nation's Metropolitan statistical area, seventh-largest metropolitan area and ninth-largest combined statistical area with 6.245 million residents and 7.379 million residents, respectively. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Americans, English Quakers, Quaker and advocate of Freedom of religion, religious freedom, and served as the capital of the Colonial history of the United States, colonial era Province of Pennsylvania. It then played a historic and vital role during the American Revolution and American Revolutionary ...
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United States Army Engineer School
The United States Army Engineer School (USAES) is located at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. It was founded as a School of Engineering by General Headquarters Orders, Valley Forge on 9 June 1778. The U.S. Army Engineer School provides training that develops a wide variety of engineering skills including: combat engineer, bridging, construction, geospatial, topography, diving, and firefighting. USAES defines its mission as: Synchronize and integrate the Doctrine, Organization, Training, Material, Leader Development, Personnel, and Facilities (DOTMLPF) domains to ensure the Engineer Regiment is prepared to provide engineer support now and into the future.'''' History As with the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the Engineer School traces its roots to the American Revolution. General Headquarters Orders, Valley Forge, dated 9 June 1778 read "3 Captains and 9 Lieutenants are wanted to officer the Company of Sappers. As the Corps will be a SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING, it opens a prospect ...
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Columbia School Of Engineering And Applied Science Alumni
Columbia most often refers to: * Columbia (personification), the historical personification of the United States * Columbia University, a private university in New York City * Columbia Pictures, an American film studio owned by Sony Pictures * Columbia Sportswear, an American clothing company * Columbia, South Carolina * Columbia, Missouri Columbia may also refer to: Places North America Natural features * Columbia Plateau, a geologic and geographic region in the U.S. Pacific Northwest * Columbia River, in Canada and the United States ** Columbia Bar, a sandbar in the estuary of the Columbia River ** Columbia Country, the region of British Columbia encompassing the northern portion of that river's upper reaches *** Columbia Valley, a region within the Columbia Country ** Columbia Lake, a lake at the head of the Columbia River *** Columbia Wetlands, a protected area near Columbia Lake ** Columbia Slough, along the Columbia watercourse near Portland, Oregon * Glacial Lake ...
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Columbia College (New York) Alumni
Columbia College may refer to one of several institutions of higher education in North America: Canada * Columbia College (Alberta), a private post-secondary institution in Calgary * Columbia College (British Columbia), a two-year liberal arts institution in Vancouver * Columbia International College, a private preparatory school in Hamilton, Ontario United States ''Listed alphabetically by state'' * Columbia College (California), a community college in Sonora, California * Columbia College Hollywood, a film school in Los Angeles, California * Columbia College, an historical college in Lake City, Florida, now merged with Stetson University * Columbia College Chicago, a large arts and communications college in Chicago, Illinois * Loras College, a private Catholic college in Dubuque, Iowa, known as Columbia College during 1920–1939 * Columbia College (Missouri), a liberal arts college in Columbia, Missouri * Columbia University, New York, known as Columbia College during 178 ...
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Dartmouth College Faculty
Dartmouth may refer to: Places * Dartmouth, Devon, England ** Dartmouth Harbour ** Dartmouth (UK Parliament constituency) * Dartmouth, Massachusetts, United States * Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada * Dartmouth, Victoria, Australia Institutions * Dartmouth College, a private Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States ** Dartmouth Big Green, athletic teams representing the college ** '' The Dartmouth'', a newspaper of Dartmouth College * Dartmouth University, a defunct university (1817–1819) in New Hampshire * University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, a university in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, United States * Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center, a research hospital in Lebanon, New Hampshire * Britannia Royal Naval College or Dartmouth, a college in Dartmouth, Devon, England Ships * ''Dartmouth'' (1655), a 22-gun ship * HMS ''Dartmouth'' (1693), a 48-gun fourth rate * HMS ''Dartmouth'' (1698), a 50-gun fourth rate * HMS ''Dartmouth'' (1910), a Town-class c ...
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1911 Births
Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia. * January 3 ** 1911 Kebin earthquake: An earthquake of 7.7 Moment magnitude scale, moment magnitude strikes near Almaty in Russian Turkestan, killing 450 or more people. ** Siege of Sidney Street in London: Two Latvian people, Latvian anarchists die, after a seven-hour siege against a combined police and military force. Home Secretary Winston Churchill arrives to oversee events. * January 4 – Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott expeditions, Amundsen and Scott expeditions: Robert Falcon Scott's British Terra Nova Expedition, ''Terra Nova'' Expedition to the South Pole arrives in the Antarctic and establishes a base camp at Cape Evans on Ross Island. * January 5 – Egypt's Zamalek SC is founded as a general sports and Association football club by Belgian lawyer George Merzbach as Q ...
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Peter Scott
Sir Peter Markham Scott (14 September 1909 – 29 August 1989) was a British ornithologist, conservation movement, conservationist, painter, naval officer, broadcaster and Sportsperson, sportsman. The only child of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, he took an interest in observing and shooting wildfowl at a young age and later took to their breeding. He established the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust in Slimbridge in 1946 and helped found the World Wide Fund for Nature, the logo of which he designed. He was a yachting enthusiast from an early age and took up gliding in mid-life. He was part of the UK team for the 1936 Summer Olympics and Sailing at the 1936 Summer Olympics – O-Jolle, won a bronze medal in sailing a one-man dinghy. He was knighted in 1973 for his work in Conservation biology, conservation of wild animals and was also a recipient of the WWF Gold Medal and the J. Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation Prize. Early life Scott was born in London at 174, Buckingham Pala ...
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Perry River (Nunavut)
Perry River (Kuugjuaq) is a waterway in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada. It empties into Chester Bay on the southern Queen Maud Gulf. At one time, Stephen Angulalik, and later Red Pedersen, ran a Hudson's Bay Company outpost called Perry River () on a small island at the mouth of the river. See also *List of rivers of Nunavut This is a list of rivers that are in whole or partly in Nunavut, Canada: By watershed Arctic watershed *Beaufort Sea **Great Bear Lake (Northwest Territories) *** Bloody River ***Dease River ** Horton River *Viscount Melville Sound ** Nanook River ... References Rivers of Kitikmeot Region Hudson's Bay Company trading posts in Nunavut Former populated places in the Kitikmeot Region {{Nunavut-river-stub ...
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The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) is a professional organization for materials scientists and engineers that encompasses the entire range of materials and engineering, from minerals processing and primary metals production to basic research and the advanced applications of materials. The society's functions include providing forums for the exchange of information; encouraging technology transfer; promoting the education and development of professionals and students; representing the profession in the accreditation of educational programs and in the registration of professional engineers (a U.S.-grounded activity); encouraging professionalism, ethical behavior, and concern for the environment; and stimulating a worldwide sense of unity in the profession. TMS is headquartered in Pittsburgh, United States, but is international in scope. Included among its approximately 13,000 professional and student members are metallurgical and materials engineers, scientists, res ...
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Lurgi AG
Air Liquide S.A. ( , ; literally "liquid air") is a French multinational company which supplies industrial gases and services to various industries including medical, chemical and electronic manufacturers. Founded in 1902, after Linde it is the second largest supplier of industrial gases by revenues and has operations in over 70 countries. It has headquarters at the 7th arrondissement of Paris. Air Liquide owned the patent for Aqua-Lung until it expired. Air Liquide's headquarters are in Paris. It also has major sites in Japan, Houston, Newark, Delaware, Frankfurt, Shanghai and Dubai. The company's research and development ( R&D) targets the creation of industrial gases, and gases that are used in products such as healthcare items, electronic chips, foods, and chemicals. The major R&D groups within Air Liquide focus on analysis, bioresources (foods and chemicals), combustion, membranes, modeling, and the production of hydrogen (H2) gas. History 1900–1930: Creation and ...
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Thayer School Of Engineering
The Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth (branded as Dartmouth Engineering) is the engineering school of Dartmouth College, a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Located in a three-building complex along the Connecticut River on Dartmouth's campus, Dartmouth Engineering offers undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in engineering sciences, and has partnerships with other Liberal arts college, liberal arts colleges throughout the United States to offer dual degrees. The school was established in 1867 with funds from Dartmouth alumnus Sylvanus Thayer, also known for his work in establishing the engineering curriculum at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. In 2016, Dartmouth Engineering became one of the first comprehensive, national research university in the US, where more than 50 percent of the graduating class to earn undergraduate engineering degrees were women. History Thayer School of Engineering is name ...
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European–African–Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
The European–African–Middle Eastern Campaign Medal was a military award of the United States Armed Forces which was first created on November 6, 1942, by issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The medal was intended to recognize those military service members who had performed military duty in the European Theater (to include North Africa and the Middle East) during the years of the Second World War. History The EAME Campaign Medal was initially established by Executive Order 9265, dated 6 November 1942, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and announced in War Department Bulletin 56, 1942. The European–African–Middle Eastern Campaign Medal was awarded as a service ribbon throughout the entire Second World War due to the ribbon design being approved by the Secretary of War in December 1942. The medal design was submitted to the Commission of Fine Arts on 17 September 1946 and the first sample was completed in July 1947. The first recipient of the European–Africa ...
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