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    Robert W. Gore (April 15, 1937 – September 17, 2020) was an American engineer and scientist, inventor and businessman. Gore led his family's company,...
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    discovered in 1938 by Roy Plunkett, a chemist with DuPont. His son, Robert W. Gore, in college at the time, suggested a method for encapsulating the wires...
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  • provided. Gore-Tex was co-invented by Wilbert L. Gore and Gore's son, Robert W. Gore. In 1969, Bob Gore stretched heated rods of polytetrafluoroethylene...
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  • politician and newspaper publisher Robert W. Gore (1937–2020), American engineer and scientist, inventor and businessman Bobby Gore (1936–2013), American gang...
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  • Lee "Bill" Gore (January 25, 1912 – July 26, 1986) was an American engineer and scientist, inventor and businessman who co-founded W. L. Gore and Associates...
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  • recount dispute in Florida's 2000 presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. On December 8, the Florida Supreme Court had ordered a statewide...
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    1977 to 1985. Gore was the Democratic nominee for president of the United States in the 2000 presidential election, which he lost to George W. Bush. The...
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  • 2022. "Robert W. Gore, Chairman Emeritus of W. L. Gore & Associates, and Inventor of GORE-TEX® Technology Dies at 83". www.gore.com. W. L. Gore and Associates...
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    Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (/vɪˈdɑːl/ vih-DAHL; born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual...
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  • Cokie Roberts, American journalist and bestselling author (b. 1943) 2020 – Robert W. Gore, American engineer and businessman, co-inventor of Gore-Tex (b...
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    Texas Governor George W. Bush, the eldest son of George H. W. Bush, narrowly defeated incumbent Democratic Vice President Al Gore. It was the fourth of...
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    opponent, then-Governor of Texas George W. Bush, the Republican candidate, had narrowly won the election. Gore won the national popular vote but lost the...
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    Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech KCMG PC DL (20 May 1918 – 26 January 1985), known as David Ormsby-Gore until June 1961 and as Sir David Ormsby-Gore from...
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    Gorakavi (born 1989), India – low-cost Braille Typewriter Robert W. Gore (1937–2020), U.S. – Gore-Tex Igor Gorynin (1926–2015), Russia – weldable titanium...
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    Thomas Pryor Gore (December 10, 1870 – March 16, 1949) was an American politician who served as one of the first two United States senators from Oklahoma...
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    for a few years until 1977, when his mother married Robert W. Gore, the President of W. L. Gore and Associates. He graduated from the private Tower Hill...
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    Tallahassee Democrat. 2014-02-12. Retrieved 2020-07-30. "The President: George W. Gore Jr. '23". DePauw University. 2019-02-01. Retrieved 2020-07-30. "Opinion:...
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    The Göring Telegram was a message sent by Hermann Göring, head of the Luftwaffe and Adolf Hitler's designated successor as leader of Nazi Germany, that...
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    Hermann Wilhelm Göring (or Goering; German: [ˈhɛʁman ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈɡøːʁɪŋ] ; 12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German politician, military leader, and...
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  • April 2019). "What Are PFAS?". Live Science. Retrieved 6 October 2019. "Robert W. Gore", Science History Institute, 29 June 2016, retrieved 9 October 2019...
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  • Robert Hayes Gore (May 24, 1886 – December 26, 1972) was an American politician and successful newspaper publisher who was appointed as the governor of...
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    U.S. patent number 3,953,766 was granted to inventors Bill Gore and his son Robert W. Gore for expanded polytetrafluoroethylene, a highly-elastic polymer...
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  • invent.org/inductees/charles-goodyear https://www.invent.org/inductees/robert-w-gore https://www.invent.org/inductees/gordon-gould https://www.invent...
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    Wilmington Bill Gore (1912–1986) – scientist, founder of W. L. Gore and Associates Robert W. Gore (1937–2020) – businessman; inventor of Gore-Tex; lived in...
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    2002 Paul S. Anderson 2003 William H. Joyce 2004 Gordon E. Moore 2005 Robert W. Gore 2006 James C. Stevens 2007 Herbert Boyer 2008 Ian Shankland 2009 Richard...
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    Robert Thomas "Butch" Goring (born October 22, 1949) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and coach. He played 16 seasons in the National...
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  • and The Sword of Truth Author Terry Goodkind Has Died Gore-Tex technology inventor Robert W. Gore dies at 83 ’Forrest Gump’ author Winston Groom dead at...
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    2005) April 13 – Lanford Wilson, American playwright (d. 2011) April 15 Robert W. Gore, American inventor (d. 2020) Frank Vincent, American actor (d. 2017)...
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    U.S. Senator from Tennessee Al Gore were nominated by the convention for president and vice president. Clinton and Gore went on to take advantage of the...
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    Conservation Voters. Kennedy endorsed and campaigned for Vice President Al Gore during his 2000 presidential campaign, and openly opposed Ralph Nader's Green...
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