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Tom Newman (other)
Tom or Thomas Newman may refer to: * Tom Newman (billiards player) (1894–1943), British player of English billiards and snooker * Tom Newman (musician) (Thomas Dennis Newman, born 1943), musician and producer * Tom Newman (scientist) (fl. 1985), researcher in nanotechnology * Thomas Newman Thomas Montgomery Newman (born October 20, 1955) is an American composer, conductor and orchestrator. He is best known for his film scores, earning accolades of six Grammy Award, Grammy Awards, an Emmy Awards, Emmy Award, two British Academy F ... (Thomas Montgomery Newman, born 1955), American composer * Thomas Newman (MP) (fl. 1415–23), lawyer and member of the Parliament of England * Thomas C. Newman (1852–1928), Chicago saloonkeeper and co-creator of Cohasset Punch {{hndis, Newman, Tom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Newman (billiards Player)
Tom Newman (23 March 1894 – 30 September 1943) was an English professional player of English billiards and snooker. He was born Thomas Edgar Pratt in Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire. He always appeared under the name Tom Newman when playing billiards or snooker and changed his name formally in 1919, shortly before his marriage that year. He established himself as the best billiards players of the 1920s, appearing in every World Professional Billiards Championship final between 1921 and 1930, and winning the title six times. In the last five of these finals he met Joe Davis, winning twice (1926 & 1927) and losing three times (1928, 1929 & 1930). Newman was a great break builder at billiards, and was a master of the cannon shot. His first century break at the "three ball game" came when he was 11 years of age; and in the 1930–31 season he made 30 breaks of 1000. During this season, on 5 March 1931, he made his personal highest break of 1,827 in a match against Walter Lindrum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Newman (musician)
Thomas Dennis Newman (born 7 May 1943) is an English record producer and musician. In 1970 he began working with Richard Branson and helped to found The Manor Studio in Oxford for the nascent Virgin Records. There he produced the recording of Mike Oldfield's ''Tubular Bells.'' Career In 1968 Newman played in a band called July whose only album was the eponymous ''July'' on UK Major Minor and US Epic. Before that he was in a British band called The Tomcats who played around London and later in Spain. In 1966, they recorded at least three EPs on Spanish Philips (436387, 436388 and 436826). Also an amateur painter, one of his paintings can be seen during the Beatles' rooftop concert behind the drum set. In 1970, Newman began working with Richard Branson and helped build The Manor Studio in Oxford. While there he met the 18-year-old Mike Oldfield who lent him a rough demo tape of what would become ''Tubular Bells.'' In November 1973, Newman participated in a live-in-the-stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Newman (scientist)
Tom Newman, a graduate student at Stanford University in 1985, was one of the two people to meet one of a pair of challenges put forth by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society in 1959, in a talk titled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom".Gribbin, John. ''Richard Feynman: A Life in Science'', Dutton, 1997, p. 170. In December of that year, Feynman offered two challenges at the meeting, held that year in Caltech, offering a $1000 prize to the first person to solve each of them. Both challenges involved nanotechnology, and the first prize was won by William McLellan. The second challenge was for anyone who could find a way to inscribe a book page on a surface area 25,000 times smaller than its standard print (a scale at which the entire contents of the Encyclopædia Britannica could fit on the head of a pin). Newman claimed the prize when he wrote the first page of Charles Dickens' ''A Tale of Two Cities'', at the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Newman
Thomas Montgomery Newman (born October 20, 1955) is an American composer, conductor and orchestrator. He is best known for his film scores, earning accolades of six Grammy Award, Grammy Awards, an Emmy Awards, Emmy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA Film Awards, and 15 nominations for Academy Awards. In a career that has spanned over four decades, he has scored numerous films including ''The Player (1992 film), The Player'' (1992), ''The Shawshank Redemption'' (1994), ''Meet Joe Black'' (1998), ''American Beauty (1999 film), American Beauty'' and ''The Green Mile (film), The Green Mile'' (both 1999), ''Pay It Forward (film) , Pay It Forward'' (2000), ''In the Bedroom'' (2001), ''Road to Perdition'' and ''White Oleander (film), White Oleander'' (both 2002), ''Finding Nemo'' (2003) and its sequel ''Finding Dory'' (2016), ''Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events'' (2004), ''Cinderella Man'' (2005), ''WALL-E'' (2008), the ''James Bond'' films ''Skyfall'' (2012) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Newman (MP)
Thomas Newman was a lawyer and the member of the Parliament of England for Marlborough Marlborough or the Marlborough may refer to: Places Australia * Marlborough, Queensland * Principality of Marlborough, a short-lived micronation in 1993 * Marlborough Highway, Tasmania; Malborough was an historic name for the place at the sou ... for the parliaments of 1415, March 1416, and 1423.NEWMAN, Thomas, of Durnford, Wilts. ''The History of Parliament''. Retrieved 9 December 2018. He was closely associated with Sir William Sturmy. References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |