WebDaniel Carleton Gajdusek (/ ˈ ɡ aɪ d ə ʃ ɛ k / GHY-də-shek; September 9, 1923 – December 12, 2008) was an American physician, medical researcher, and convicted sex offender who was the co-recipient (with Baruch S. Blumberg) of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for work on the transmissibilty of kuru, implying the existence of an infectious …

WebCarleton College (/ ˈ k ɑːr l t ɪ n / KARL-tin) is a private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota. Founded in 1866, it had 2,105 undergraduate students and 269 faculty members in fall 2016. The 200-acre main campus is between Northfield and the 800-acre Cowling Arboretum, which became part of the campus in the 1920s.. Admissions is highly …

WebNew OCDSB Trustees Sworn-in, Chair and Vice-Chair Elected 15 November 2022 In a special ceremony on Tuesday, November 15, trustees were officially sworn in as members of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board for a four-year term.

WebCara Carleton "Carly" Fiorina (née Sneed; born September 6, 1954) is an American businesswoman and politician, known primarily for her tenure as CEO of Hewlett-Packard (HP). As chief executive officer of HP from 1999 to 2005, Fiorina was the first woman to lead a Fortune Top-20 company.. In 2002, Fiorina oversaw what was then the largest …

WebGuy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester KB (3 September 1724 – 10 November 1808), known between 1776 and 1786 as Sir Guy Carleton, was an Anglo-Irish soldier and administrator. He twice served as Governor of the Province of Quebec, from 1768 to 1778, concurrently serving as Governor General of British North America in that time, and again from 1785 to …

WebCarleton Stevens Coon (June 23, 1904 – June 3, 1981) was an American anthropologist.A professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, lecturer and professor at Harvard University, he was president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Coon's theories on race were widely disputed in his lifetime and are …

WebPalisades, formerly known as Sneden's Landing (pronounced SNEE-dens), is a hamlet in the Town of Orangetown in Rockland County, New York, United States, located north of Rockleigh and Alpine, New Jersey; east of Tappan; south of Sparkill; and west of the Hudson River.. The hamlet has no mayor, nor any official legislative bodies. It does, …

WebThe Saratoga campaign in 1777 was an attempt by the British high command for North America to gain military control of the strategically important Hudson River valley during the American Revolutionary War.It ended in the surrender of the British army, which historian Edmund Morgan argues, "was a great turning point of the war, because it won for …

WebSaint John is a seaport city of the Atlantic Ocean located on the Bay of Fundy in the province of New Brunswick, Canada.Saint John is the oldest incorporated city in Canada, established by royal charter on May 18, 1785, during the reign of King George III. The port is Canada's third-largest port by tonnage with a cargo base that includes dry and liquid bulk, break …

WebNew York's congressional districts since 2013 These are tables of congressional delegations from New York to the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate . The current dean of the New York delegation is Senator and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer , having served in the Senate since 1999 and in …