who is robert henry bragg?
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a Physicist of the African Diaspora-Dr. Bragg has made major contributions in the areas of materials charcterization using x-ray diffraction and small angle x-ray scattering, and their use as a tool in studying heat-activated processes in materials. Early in his career, he developed methods of quantitative x-ray diffractions of compounds; e.g., Ca(OH)2 in hydous silicates. Robert Bragg originated the now-standard practice of using the data as self-calibrating in the quantitative determination of preferred orientation in polycrystalline aggregates. His work provides clear guidance in the analysis of the diffraction patterns of materials of high transparency to x-rays, e.g. Be, B, and C. His novel studies of the coarsening of the microstructure of glassy carbon using small angle x-ray scattering have provided the accepted value for the activation energy for a-direction vacancy migration in graphite. Perhaps his most important work is the recent demonstration that all apparently unordered carbon materials are mixtures of metastable carbon self-interstitial compounds, and his first principles derivation of the equations governing the phase transformations at high temperatures as these materials are converted to graphite.\n\nDr. Bragg was Senior Physicist (1959-61) at the Research Institute of Illinois Institute of Technology. He was appointed as Research Scientist at the Palo Alto Research Laboratory for the Lockheed Missile and Space Company from 1961 to 1963. From 1963-69 he served as the Senior Staff Scientist at the Palo Alto Research laboratory. Dr. Bragg served as Chairman if the department from 1978 to 1981. Beginning in 1969 Dr. Bragg has served as a Professor of Material Science and Mineral Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. Beginning in 1969 Professor Bragg has also been a Principal Investigator for the Materials and Molecular Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
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http://www.hotshotdigital.com/OldRock/BobMarleyBio.html\ntry this
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Huge question and too much to answer here but try \n\nBill Bryson - a short history on nearly everything.
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Dudley Weldon Woodard: \n\nWilliam Waldron Schieffelin Claytor:
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Do you mean Robert Earnshaw?He was born in Zambia.
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Robert Hooke, FRS (July 18, 1635 - March 3, 1703) was an English polymath who played an important role in the scientific revolution, through both experimental and theoretical work. His father's name was John Hooke and his mother unknown.\n\nBorn in Freshwater on the Isle of Wight, Hooke received his early education at Westminster School. In 1653, Hooke won a place at Christ Church, Oxford. There he met the chemist (and physicist) Robert Boyle, and gained employment as his assistant. It is possible that Hooke formally stated Boyle's Law, as Boyle was not a mathematician. In 1660, he discovered Hooke's law of elasticity, which describes the linear variation of tension with extension in an elastic spring. In 1662, Hooke gained appointment as Curator of Experiments to the newly founded Royal Society, and took responsibility for experiments performed at its meetings. In 1665 he published a book entitled Micrographia, which contained a number of microscopic and telescopic observations, and some original biology. Indeed, Hooke coined the biological term cell -- so called because his observations of plant cells reminded him of monks' cells which were called "cellula". The hand-crafted, leather and gold-tooled microscope Hooke used to make these observations for "Micrographia," is on display at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, DC. Also in 1665 he gained appointment as Professor of Geometry at Gresham College.\n\nRobert Hooke also achieved fame as Surveyor to the City of London and chief assistant of Christopher Wren, helping to rebuild London after the Great Fire in 1666. He worked on designing the Monument, Royal Greenwich Observatory and the infamous Bethlem Royal Hospital (which became known as 'Bedlam').\n\nHe died in London in 1703. Although he was wealthy from his work in the City, he never married.\n\nIt seems that no authenticated portrait of him survives. In 2003 the historian Lisa Jardine claimed a recently discovered portrait represents Robert Hooke. However, Prof. Jardine's hypothesis was soon disproved by Prof. William Jensen (University of Cincinnati) and independently by the German researcher Andreas Pechtl (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz). Actually, the portrait represents Jan Baptist van Helmont. A seal used by Hooke displays an unusual profile portrait of a man's head, that some have argued portrays Hooke. Both these claims remain in dispute, however. Moreover, the engraved frontispiece to the 1728 edition of Chambers' Cyclopedia shows as an interesting detail the bust of Robert Hooke.
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He was a chemist who discovered guncotton and ozone.  I'm sure Wiki would have an entry on him, and maybe some actual refrences
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I suggest you to read the biography of Sam Walton
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You're talking about John Pentland Mafferty, the Trinity scholar?  Or Lord Pentland?
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Philo T. Farnsworth \nhttp://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/farnsworth.htm
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If you're talking about William Wordsworth Longfellow, he's basically famous for being one of the greatest English poets of all times. His poems have been published in books, if that helps. Actually, I have a rather entertaining website to send you to that has information written about WWL in an amusing manner you might appreciate. Give it a try.
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Col. Robert Gould Shaw\n\nand i think the other one was Col. James M. Montgomery \n\n\ncheck www.imdb.com for more info
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Bragg,Sir William Lawarance (1890 - 1971) English Physicist,B.Adelaide,Australia,educated in Australia and at Trinity College, Cambridge;son of W.H.Bragg.He was professor of Experimental Physics at Cambridge and Director of the Cavendish Laboratory. In 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics for their studies,with the X-Ray Spectrometer, of X-Ray spectra,X-Ray Diffraction and of Crystal structure.In 1941 he was Knighted.Among his works are 'The Structure of Silicates'(1930,2d enl.ed.1932) & Atomic Structure of Minerals(1937).With his father he wrote X-Rays and Crystal Structure(1915,5th ed.1925).
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General James Abercombie....I think so\njust check out where I found the answer to confirm it.
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Here's 3 i can think of, off the top of my head...\nSmith Wigglesworth\nBilly Sunday\nF.F. Bosworth\n(under construction)\n\n To know the most important preacher of the 20th Century, click here...\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibletruths_forbelievers/
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Algernon Swinburne\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algernon_Charles_Swinburne
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General Robert E. Lee, Commanding General, Army of Northern Virginia, Confederate States of America...