• Sir Samuel Crowe Curran (23 May 1912 – 15 February 1998), FRS, FRSE was a Scottish physicist and academic who was the first Principal and Vice-Chancellor...
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  • Samuel Matthew Curran MBE (born 3 June 1998) is an English cricketer who plays for England in all formats. In domestic cricket, he represents Surrey,...
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  • the Royal College of Science and Technology (ARCST). Under Principal Samuel Curran, internationally respected nuclear physicist (and inventor of the scintillation...
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    Keith Murray (chairman of the University Grants Committee) and Sir Samuel Curran, with the formation of the University of Strathclyde. The British also...
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    first electronic scintillation counter was invented in 1944 by Sir Samuel Curran whilst he was working on the Manhattan Project at the University of...
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    combination for detecting gamma rays was discovered in 1944 by Sir Samuel Curran whilst he was working on the Manhattan Project at the University of...
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  • cricketer; brother of Tom Curran Sir Samuel Curran (1912–1998), British physicist and founder of the University of Strathclyde Sarah Curran (1782–1808), daughter...
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  • Joan, Lady Curran (26 February 1916 – 10 February 1999), born Joan Elizabeth Strothers, was a Welsh physicist who played important roles in the development...
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    researchers at the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) Samuel Curran, William Butement, Edward Shire, and Amherst Thomson conceived of the...
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    Professor Darwin Caldwell, robotics expert and leader of iCub project. Sir Samuel Curran, physicist, inventor of the Scintillation Counter, and founder of Strathclyde...
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    Patience Worth (redirect from Pearl Curran)
    Lenore Curran (February 15, 1883 – December 2, 1937). This symbiotic relationship produced several novels, poetry and prose which Pearl Curran claimed...
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    Aldermaston in Berkshire included William Penney, William Cook, Ken Allen, Samuel Curran, Henry Hulme, Bryan Taylor and John Ward. They did not know how to build...
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    Researchers included Nicholas Kemmer, Alan Nunn May, Anthony French, Samuel Curran and the French scientists including Lew Kowarski and Hans von Halban...
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    1980, when he became principal at Strathclyde University, succeeding Samuel Curran who had held the post since 1959. There, his early foci were accommodating...
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  • January 1991. p. 39. "Scientist in the service of Aldermaston" by Sir Samuel Curran. Gardner, W.J., Beardsley, E.T. and Carter, T.E. (ed. Phillips, N.C...
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    champion Enrico Cocozza, underground filmmaker Colin Cramb, footballer Sir Samuel Curran, physicist, inventor of the scintillation counter, and founder of Strathclyde...
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  • detective Nick Curran (Douglas) as he investigates the brutal murder of a wealthy rock star. During the course of the investigation, Curran becomes entangled...
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    knighted. Joan Curran, invented the Window (Chaff) radio countermeasure system. As Samuel Curran's wife, she became Lady Joan Curran. She also went to...
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    functions of the university. The building itself is named after Sir Samuel Curran, the Principal who had masterminded Strathclyde's genesis as a university...
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    Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer. He was known for his energetic...
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  • Christopherson (Durham 1961-78), Geoffrey Templeman CBE (Kent 1963-80), Sir Samuel Curran (Strathclyde 1964-81), Brian Flowers (London 1985-90 Imperial 1973-85)...
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    uranium-235, uranium-238 and deuterium. Ken Allen had an idea, which Samuel Curran supported, of a three-layer Dick that used a greater amount of lithium...
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    Hugh Childers (Trinity), founder of the University of Melbourne Sir Samuel Curran (St John's), founder, first Principal and first Vice-chancellor of the...
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  • Thomson Rees Wilson, at the Cavendish Laboratory during which time Samuel Curran worked under him. In 1929 Dee married Phyllis Elsie, daughter of George...
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  • founding members included Catherine Shapter, and the physicists Joan Curran and Samuel Curran. They received media attention in 2007 from an advertising campaign...
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  • Granville, Baron Granville of Eye, politician (born 1898) 15 February – Samuel Curran, physicist (born 1912) 16 February – Harry Hinsley, historian and cryptanalyst...
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  • administrators affiliated with the University of Strathclyde. Samuel Curran (1964–1981; Curran previously served as Principal of the Royal College of Science...
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    subsequently renamed the Livingstone Tower. In 1959, renowned physicist Sir Samuel Curran took up the position of principal of the Royal College of Science and...
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  • Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Patrick Dunbar Ritchie, Sir Samuel Curran, George Hibberd and Donald Pack. In 1976 he received his third doctorate...
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    it ran at them and then pointed his rifle at Weaver's son, Samuel, who was armed. Samuel fired back at the marshals, and was shot and killed by the team...
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