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Noyce, Robert Norton
(Encyclopedia) Noyce, Robert NortonNoyce, Robert Nortonnois [key], 1927–90, American engineer, inventor, and entrepeneur, b. Burlington, Iowa.; grad. Grinnell College (B.A., 1949), Massachusetts…Kroemer, Herbert
(Encyclopedia) Kroemer, Herbert, 1928–, German physicist, Ph.D. Univ. of Göttingen, 1952. Kroemer was a researcher at RCA Laboratories in Princeton, N.J. (1954–57), and at Varian Associates in Palo…Hickok, Wild Bill
(Encyclopedia) Hickok, Wild Bill, 1837–76, American frontier marshal, b. Troy Grove, near Ottawa, Ill., as James Butler Hickok. He took part in the Kansas struggle preceding the Civil War, was a…John R. Jack Horner Biography
John R. “Jack” HornerPaleontologistBorn: 6/15/1946Birthplace: Shelby, Montana One of the best known American paleontologists, Jack Horner discovered and named two species of dinosaurs,…Jack Haley, Jr. 2001 Deaths
Jack Haley, Jr.Age: 67 Emmy Award–winning director and producer who helmed the 1974 all-star documentary That's Entertainment. He was once married to Liza Minnelli. His father, Jack Haley,…Jack Kent Cooke 1997 Deaths
Jack Kent CookeAge: 84 majority owner of the NFL's Washington Redskins since 1974; oversaw the building of a new natural grass 78,600-seat stadium in Maryland which would later bear his name…Jack Henry Abbott 2002 Deaths
Jack Henry AbbottAge: 58 convicted murderer and writer whose prison letters to Norman Mailer were published as the best-selling In the Belly of the Beast (1981). Mailer helped Abbott, who was…Brewer's: Every Man Jack of Them
Everyone. The older form of everyone was everichon, often divided into every chone, corrupted first into every-john, then into every Jack, then perverted into every man Jack of 'em. “I…Brewer's: Jack o' both Sides
A supernumerary who plays on both sides to make up a party; one who for profit or policy is quite colourless. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Jack o' the…Jack County, TX Census Data
Texas Jack County, Texas People QuickFactsJack CountyTexasPopulation, 2005 estimate 9,06422,859,968Population, percent change, April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2005 3.4%9.6%Population, 2000 8,76320,…