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Ruark Lewis
Ruark is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Arthur Ruark (1899–1979), American physicist * Davis R. Ruark (born 1955), former State's Attorney for Wicomico County, Maryland * Gibbons Ruark (born 1941), contemporary American poet * Jeanne Ruark Hoff, former college basketball player * '' Rebecca T. Ruark'', Chesapeake Bay skipjack * Robert Ruark Robert Ruark (December 29, 1915 in Wilmington, North Carolina – July 1, 1965 in London, England) was an American author, syndicated columnist, and big game hunter. Early life Born Robert Chester Ruark, Jr., to Charlotte A. Ruark and Rober ... (1915–1965), American author and syndicated columnist See also * Ruark number, a dimensionless number see in fluid mechanics {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Ruark
Arthur Edward Ruark (November 9, 1899 – 1979) was an American physicist and academic known for his role in the development of quantum mechanics. He wrote the book ''Atoms, Molecules, and Quanta'' with Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Harold Clayton Urey in 1930, and is the author of numerous scientific papers on quantum physics. Early life and education Ruark was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Oliver Miles and Margaret Gordon Ruark (née Smith). He graduated from Towson High School in Maryland and attended Shepherd University. He received a Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and PhD from Johns Hopkins University. Career He was a member of Atomic Structure Section of the National Bureau of Standards from 1922 to 1926. He was assistant professor of physics at Yale University from 1926 to 1927. He was physicist for Gulf Oil and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research from 1927 to 1929. He was chief of physics division Gulf Research Laboratory in 1930. He was professor o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davis R
Davis may refer to: Places Antarctica * Mount Davis (Antarctica) * Davis Island (Palmer Archipelago) * Davis Valley, Queen Elizabeth Land Canada * Davis, Saskatchewan, an unincorporated community * Davis Strait, between Nunavut and Greenland * Mount Davis (British Columbia) United States * Davis, California, the largest city with the name * Davis, Illinois, a village * Davis, Massachusetts, an abandoned mining village * Davis, Maryland, a ghost town * Davis, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Davis, North Carolina, an unincorporated community and census-designated place * Davis, Oklahoma, a city * Davis, South Dakota, a town * Davis, West Virginia, a town * Davis, Logan County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Davis Island (Connecticut) * Davis Island (Mississippi) * Davis Island (Pennsylvania) * Davis Peak (Washington) * Fort Davis, Oklahoma * Mount Davis (California) * Mount Davis (New Hampshire) * Mount Davis (Pennsylvania) Other * Than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gibbons Ruark
Gibbons Ruark (born 1941) is a contemporary American poet. Known for his deeply personal often elegiac lyrics about his native North Carolina and beloved Ireland, Ruark has had poetry in such publications as '' The New Yorker'', '' The New Republic'', and '' Poetry''. His collections include ''Rescue the Perishing'', ''Small Rain'', ''Keeping Company'', ''Reeds'', ''A Program for Survival'', ''Passing Through Customs: New and Selected Poems'', ''Staying Blue'', and, most recently, ''The Road to Ballyvaughan.'' He has won numerous awards including three Poetry Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, residencies at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland and a Pushcart Prize. Early years Gibbons Ruark was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, the son of a Methodist minister. When he was nine years old, his mother was hospitalized with a severe case of Polio, an incident which he writes about in several poems. He was brought up in various towns in North Carolina an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanne Ruark Hoff
Jeanne Ruark Hoff (born c. 1960 in Mississippi) is a former college basketball player for Stanford University and the mother of Olympic swimming medalist Katie Hoff. Basketball career An Air Force brat, Ruark lived in five states, the Panama Canal Zone, and the Philippines before enrolling at Stanford University in 1978. She became the school's first women's basketball star: in her freshman season of 1978-79, she averaged 21.3 points and 8.4 rebounds per game and was named to the first team of the Northern California Athletic Conference (in which Stanford women's basketball played from 1977 to 1982). Her 21.3 points per game was a Stanford season record until it was broken by Candice Wiggins in the 2005-06 season. In 1980, she married fellow Stanford student John Hoff and took the 1980-81 season off. She returned to play two more seasons at Stanford, becoming the first Stanford player to score 2,000 points in her career. In 1982, she helped lead the Stanford women to thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca T
Rebecca, ; Syriac: , ) from the Hebrew (lit., 'connection'), from Semitic root , 'to tie, couple or join', 'to secure', or 'to snare') () appears in the Hebrew Bible as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau. According to biblical tradition, Rebecca's father was Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram, also called Aram-Naharaim. Rebecca's brother was Laban the Aramean, and she was the granddaughter of Milcah and Nahor, the brother of Abraham. Rebecca and Isaac were one of the four couples that some believe are buried in the Cave of the Patriarchs, the other three being Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, and Jacob and Leah. Early life After the Binding of Isaac, Sarah died. After taking care of her burial, Abraham went about finding a wife for his son Isaac, who was already 37 years old. He commanded his servant (whom the Torah commentators identify as Eliezer of Damascus) to journey to his birthplace of Aram Naharaim to select a bride from his own family, rather than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Ruark
Robert Ruark (December 29, 1915 in Wilmington, North Carolina – July 1, 1965 in London, England) was an American author, syndicated columnist, and big game hunter. Early life Born Robert Chester Ruark, Jr., to Charlotte A. Ruark and Robert C. Ruark, a bookkeeper for a wholesale grocery, young Ruark grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina. His brother, David, was adopted, and little is known about him. The Ruark family was deeply affected by the Depression, but still managed to send Robert to college. He graduated early from New Hanover High School, and enrolled in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at age 15. His studies included a few journalism classes but did not gain a degree. Early career In the 1930s, Ruark was fired from an accounting job in the Works Progress Administration, and did a hitch in the United States Merchant Marine. He worked for two small town newspapers in North Carolina: the ''Hamlet News Messenger'' and, later, the '' Sanford Herald'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
