This is the first biography in twenty years of James Clerk Maxwell, one of the greatest scientists of our time and yet a man relatively unknown to the wider public. Approaching science with a freshness unbound by convention or previous expectations, he produced.
Learn about the life and legacy of John Hancock, a merchant, politician, and Founding Father of the United States. Discover how he rose from humble beginnings to become a wealthy and influential leader in the American Revolution.
John M. Perkins (born J) is an American Christian minister, civil rights activist, and author. He is the founder and president emeritus of the John & Vera Mae Perkins Foundation with his wife, Vera Mae Perkins.
John Cockcroft won the Nobel Prize in Physics with his colleague Ernest Walton for producing the first artificial nuclear disintegration in history. Cockcroft & Walton designed and built the first 'high energy' particle accelerator.
Jory John is an American author of children's books. He is known for incorporating dark humor and discussing difficult topics in his books. His books have landed on the New York Times bestseller list, including the first (The Good Egg) and second positions (The Bad Seed). He has also been an E.B. White Read-Aloud Honor recipient twice.
Historian John Quarstein has painstakingly compiled bits of historical data gathered through years of research to present the first comprehensive picture of the lives of the officers and crew who served faithfully in an iron ship unlike any vessel previously known.
John Johnson (born J) is an American television anchorman, senior correspondent, documentary filmmaker, and visual artist. He was a reporter on New York City television news for many years.
Sir Robert Ropner. Colonel Sir Robert Ropner Bt., M.P., V.D., J.P., was the son of John Henry Ropner of Magdeburg, Prussia. As a child in Germany the young Robert avidly read books about the sea and seafaring, these fed his dreams of ocean travel, even though he had never seen the sea.
John Wycliffe (l. , also John Wyclif) was an English theologian, priest, and scholar, recognized as a forerunner to the Protestant Reformation in Europe. Wycliffe condemned the practices of the medieval Church, citing many of the same abuses that would later be addressed by other reformers.
John Clayton Mayer (surname pronunciation: /ˈmeɪ.jɜr/[1]) (born Octo) is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter. From Connecticut, he went to the Berklee College of Music, before moving to Atlanta, Georgia, in His first two albums, Room for Squares and Heavier Things, were successful and were made multi-platinum by the RIAA.
John Hagee Biography: Pastor John Hagee is an American Pastor, popularly known as the senior pastor and founder of Cornerstone Church, a megachurch in San Antonio, Texas.
CGG was organized as a religious non-profit church in January in Charlotte, North Carolina, with the primary leadership core consisting of Pastor John Ritenbaugh; elders John Reid, Edwin Pope, and James Russell; and Martin Collins and Richard Ritenbaugh.
When she was involved in a brawl outside the New York bar Bill’s Gay Nineties in the summer of , TIME identified Adela Rogers St. Johns as a “ Cinemauthor “—a portmanteau that demonstrated.
John Jay was born in New York City in His grandfather, Augustus Jay, had been a French Huguenot who came to America in the s seeking religious freedom. His father, Peter Jay, gained wealth as a merchant, and retired to a farm in Rye, New York, shortly after John was born.