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John Moffat (Northern Rhodesian Politician)
John Moffat may refer to: *John Alston Moffat (1825–1904), Canadian entomologist *John Moffat (physicist) (born 1932), professor and physicist *John Keith Moffat (born 1943), professor and biophysicist at the University of Chicago *John Moffat (missionary) (1835–1918), British missionary and imperial agent in southern Africa *John Moffat (mining pioneer) (1841–1918), Scottish-born mining entrepreneur in Australia *John Moffat (Royal Navy officer) (1919–2016), Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm pilot *John Moffatt (actor) (1922–2012), English actor and playwright See also *John Moffatt (other) John Moffatt may refer to: * John Moffatt (actor) (1922–2012), English actor * John Moffatt (physicist) John Moffatt (12 October 1922 – 23 December 2013) was a British physicist and academic. He was the provost of The Queen's College, Oxfo ... * John Moffet (other) {{hndis, Moffat, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Alston Moffat
John Alston Moffat (1825 – February 26, 1904) was a British-born Canadian entomologist who served as librarian and secretary to the Entomological Society of Ontario for fourteen years. Born in the estate of Milton, three miles from Glasgow his father's business collapsed and they moved to Glasgow. Not liking the city, he moved to New York on July 1, 1836 and then lived in Nassagaweya. His mother, a sister of John Alston of Rosemount, died back home shortly after and his father remarried. A brother of his father was Dr William Moffat who had served under Wellington in the peninsular war. An older brother lived in Binbrook where Moffat spent some years and then moved to Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Hamilton has a population of 569,353, and its census metropolitan area, which includes Burlington and Grimsby, has a population of 785,184. The city is approximately southwest of T ..., working as a merchant tailor. On walks in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Moffat (physicist)
John W. Moffat (born 24 May 1932) is a Danish-born British-Canadian physicist. He is currently professor emeritus of physics at the University of Toronto and is also an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo and a resident affiliate member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Moffat is best known for his work on gravity and cosmology, culminating in his nonsymmetric gravitational theory and scalar–tensor–vector gravity (now called MOG), and summarized in his 2008 book for general readers, ''Reinventing Gravity''. His theory explains galactic rotation curves without invoking dark matter. He proposes a variable speed of light approach to cosmological problems. The speed of light ''c'' may have been more than 30 orders of magnitude higher during the early moments of the Big Bang. His recent work on inhomogeneous cosmological models purports to explain certain anomalous effects in the CMB data, and to account for the recently discovered acceler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Keith Moffat
John 'Keith' Moffat (born 1943) is Louis Block Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and former Deputy Provost for Research at the University of Chicago. He currently heads BioCARS at Argonne National Laboratory, where he worked on the Advanced Photon Source. He is most noted for his contributions to Time resolved crystallography. He is a former Guggenheim Fellow and former Cornell University faculty member. He has a Ph.D. from King's College, Cambridge under the Nobel laureate Max Perutz at MRC-LMB and an undergraduate degree from the University of Edinburgh. He is married with an adopted son. Selected publications * * * * * See also * List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1985 * List of University of Chicago faculty * List of University of Cambridge people * List of University of Edinburgh people This is a list of notable graduates as well as non-graduate former students, academic staff, and university officials of the University of Edinburgh in Scotl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Moffat (missionary)
John Smith Moffat (1835–1918) was a British missionary and imperial agent in southern Africa, the son of missionary Robert Moffat and Mary Moffat. He was the brother-in-law of missionary explorer David Livingstone. He is known for his various publications and essays detailing his journeys and experiences in Africa and the eastern Mediterranean. Like his famous father, Moffat was a Congregationalist minister affiliated with the London Missionary Society but he became involved in British colonial expansion particularly in Matabeleland, later part of Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. His missionary work included helping to start the first mission in Matabeleland in 1859 at Inyati. In 1865 he took over the running of his father's mission in Kuruman. In 1879 he resigned from the missionary society and joined the British Bechuanaland colonial service. In 1888 at the instigation of Cecil Rhodes he was sent to Matabeleland to use his father's reputation to persuade its king Lobengula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Moffat (mining Pioneer)
John Moffat (26 May 1841 – 28 June 1918) was a Scottish-born entrepreneur who developed a mining and industrial empire around Loudoun Mill and Irvinebank in North Queensland which drove the development of north-eastern Australia. He was a devout Swedenborgian who was famous for both vision and enterprise. He was born in Newmilns (New Mills), Ayrshire and spent most of his youth immersed in books. Extremely shy in temperament, he was known to hide whenever visitors approached. It was a habit he was to retain throughout his life. Career Emigration to Australia After learning bookkeeping and working as a clerk in Newmilns and Glasgow, he emigrated to Australia, where he worked as a shepherd on a remote outback station west of Brisbane. He was known to carry a large swag of books and stuffed his saddle-bags with philosophy, theology, engineering and science books. He frugally saved his pennies and entered into business with Brisbane storekeeper, Robert Love. A lot of custom started ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Moffat (Royal Navy Officer)
John William Charlton Moffat (17 June 1919 – 11 December 2016) was a Scottish Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm pilot, widely credited as the pilot whose torpedo crippled the German battleship '' Bismarck'' and author of the biographical ''I sank the Bismarck''. Moffat took part in the courageous strike on the German battleship ''Bismarck'' during its Atlantic sortie, codenamed Operation Rheinübung, on 26 May 1941 whilst flying a Fairey Swordfish biplane. Early life and family John Moffat was born in the village of Swinton in the Scottish Borders county, to Mary and Peter Moffat. When he was a child his parents moved to Earlston where his father opened the first garage. John's father, Peter, had served in the Royal Navy during the First World War, joining in 1914 to qualify as an aeronautical engineer for the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). Peter served in No. 2 Wing RNAS under Wing Commander Charles Rumney Samson, the first man to fly an aircraft off a ship. Peter Moffat served ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Moffatt (actor)
Albert John Moffatt (24 September 1922 – 10 September 2012) was an English character actor and playwright, known for his portrayal of Hercule Poirot on BBC Radio in twenty-five productions and for a wide range of stage roles in the West End from the 1950s to the 1980s. Moffatt's parents wished him to follow a career in a bank, but Moffatt secretly studied acting and made his stage debut in 1944. After five years in provincial repertory theatre he made his first London appearance in 1946. In the early 1950s he was cast in small parts in productions headed by John Gielgud and Noël Coward, and achieved increasingly prominent roles over the next decade. He was a member of the English Stage Company, the Old Vic, and the National Theatre companies. His range was considerable, embracing the classics, new plays, revue and pantomime. Moffatt began broadcasting on radio in 1950 and on television in 1953. His most enduring role was that of Agatha Christie's Belgian detective, Hercu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Moffatt (other)
John Moffatt may refer to: * John Moffatt (actor) (1922–2012), English actor * John Moffatt (physicist) John Moffatt (12 October 1922 – 23 December 2013) was a British physicist and academic. He was the provost of The Queen's College, Oxford, from 1987 to 1993.'MOFFATT, John', ''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing pl ... (1922–2013), British physicist and academic * John Moffatt (producer) (born 1964), American television producer, also known for his world record on a personal water craft See also * John Moffat (other) * John Moffet (other) {{hndis, Moffatt, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
