Norris Stubbs (8 November 1948 – 9 August 2014) was a Bahamian sprinter and college professor. He competed in the men's 100 metres at the

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. He completed his undergraduate degree at Grinnell College before attending Columbia University. There he studied under

Ferdinand Freudenstein Ferdinand Freudenstein (12 May 1926 – 30 March 2006) was an American physicist and engineer known as the "Father of Modern Kinematics." Freudenstein applied digital computation to the kinematic synthesis of mechanisms. In his Ph.D. dissertatio ...

, receiving his doctoral degree in Engineering Mechanics in 1976. He spent the majority of his professional career as a professor in the department of Civil Engineering at

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1948 births 2014 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Olympics Bahamian male sprinters Olympic athletes for the Bahamas Athletes from Nassau, Bahamas {{Bahamas-athletics-bio-stub