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  Christiaan Barnard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Barnard was quite photogenic and enjoyed the media attention following the operation, which made him famous around the world.
Barnard continued to perform heart transplants: a transplant operation was conducted on 2 January 1968, and the patient, Philip Blaiberg, survived for 19 months.
Barnard divorced in 1982, and retired due to stiffness brought on by rheumatoid arthritis in his hands in 1983, mostly due to activities on his ranch in the Great Karoo.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christiaan_Barnard   (507 words)

  
 Barnard College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Barnard's original 1889 home was a rented brownstone at 343 Madison Avenue, where a faculty of six offered instruction to 14 students in the School of Arts, as well as to 22 “specials,” who lacked the entrance requirements in Greek and so enrolled in science.
Barnard College was one of the Seven Sisters founded to provide an education for women comparable to that of the Ivy League schools, which (with the exception of Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania) only admitted men for undergraduate study into the 1960s.
Barnard was the sister school of Columbia College, one of the undergraduate schools of Columbia University.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barnard_College   (701 words)

  
 Barnard's star - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Barnard's star is a star in the constellation Ophiuchus which is notable for having the largest proper motion (10.3" per year) of any star relative to the Sun.
During the period that the claim was accorded credibility, it contributed to the star's fame among the science fiction community and the star's adoption as a target for Project Daedalus (a plan for a prototype interstellar space probe).
Barnard's star is also known as BD +04°3561a, HIP 87937, Munich 15040, Vyssotsky 799, LHS 57, GCTP 4098.00, G 140-024 and various other technical names.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barnard%27s_star   (309 words)

  
 Yerkes Observatory Virtual Museum-People-Barnard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Barnard's first telescope, a simple lens in a cardboard tube, was made for him by one of his coworkers from the small objective of a broken spyglass found in the street.
Barnard was disgusted at the poor quality and lack of focus of the pictures, and he saw Holden's time on the 36-inch as a waste of valuable observing time.
Barnard showed up for work one morning with a raw wound on his face, claiming he was concentrating so hard on his observations that he did not realize his nose had frozen to the eyepiece.
astro.uchicago.edu /yerkes/virtualmuseum/Barnardfull.html   (2716 words)

  
 Christian Barnard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Christian Barnard’s place in medial history is based on the fact that Barnard performed the first open heart transplant in history.
Christian Barnard was a pioneer of organ transplants and he must be placed alongside the likes of Pasteur, Lister, Koch, Fleming, Florey and Jenner in any list of medical giants.
Barnard studied heart surgery at the University of Minnesota in the US and returned to South Africa to set up a cardiac unit in Cape Town.
www.historylearningsite.co.uk /christian_barnard.htm   (514 words)

  
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When the (male) elders nixed the idea, Barnard defended it with what the clerk considered "uncommon tenacity," to the point where she and her delegation were told to leave the session.
Barnard fought the charges, insisting that her conclusions were in harmony with the original Quaker conviction that the leadings of the spirit within and not outward scripture, however interpreted, was the final measure of truth for Friends.
Hannah Barnard's case was famous among Quakers of her time, and for decades afterward; a spate of pamphlets and books appeared, arguing the issues one way or the other.
www.quaker.org /liberal-history/barnard.html   (1595 words)

  
 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > People > John Barnard
This led to an approach from Jim Hall who asked Barnard to draw an Indycar for him and, working in the front room of his father's house in Wembley, Barnard designed the Chaparral 2K with which Johnny Rutherford won the 1980 Indy 500 and the Indycar title.
Courted by Ferrari in 1987, Barnard was able to dictate his terms to the Italian company - he was given $2 million and his own design center - Ferrari Guildford Technical Office - in England.
The dispute was settled in December 1998 and Barnard signed an agreement to work as a technical consultant to Prost in 1999 while continuing to run B3 Technoloies.
www.grandprix.com /gpe/cref-barjoh.html   (532 words)

  
 Yerkes Observatory Virtual Museum-People-Barnard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Barnard came to prominence as an astronomer through the discovery of numerous comets.
Between 1895 and 1897, a 40-inch refracting telescope was built for the University of Chicago at Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, surpassing the Lick telescope in size.
Barnard moved to Williams Bay in 1897 when the 40-inch objective glass was mounted, and helped test the telescope.
astro.uchicago.edu /yerkes/virtualmuseum/Barnard.html   (556 words)

  
 Barnard's Star
Barnard's Star, an old and very dim red dwarf, was once thought to have two Jupiter -class planets.
The star was named after its discoverer, noted astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard (1857-1923), who found in 1916 that the star has the largest known proper motion of all known stars (10.3 arcseconds per year).
Some have suggested that any rocky planets that formed around Barnard's are likely to be sparse in the heavier elements of the atomic table, and that there may be a greater probability of gas giants made mostly of hydrogen and helium in cold, outer orbits.
www.solstation.com /stars/barnards.htm   (1172 words)

  
 A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: Christiaan Barnard
Barnard was the son of a rather poor Afrikaner preacher and his wife, and grew up in Beaufort West, a town on South Africa's semi-arid Great Karroo plateau.
As Barnard later wrote, "For a dying man it is not a difficult decision because he knows he is at the end.
Barnard had been bothered by rheumatoid arthritis since he was young, and advancing stiffness in his hands forced his retirement from surgery in 1983.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bmbarn.html   (620 words)

  
 About Barnard College
Founded in 1889, Barnard was the only college in New York City, and one of the few in the nation, where women could receive the same rigorous and challenging education available to men.
One of the original Seven Sisters, Barnard was, from the beginning, a place that took women seriously and challenged them intellectually.
Barnard students reap all the benefits of a small, independent liberal arts college - and they are also in the curricular and extracurricular mainstream of Columbia University.
www.barnard.columbia.edu /about/history.htm   (325 words)

  
 SummitPost.org - Mount Barnard Climbing Information
Mt. Barnard is located on the Sierra Crest in a stunningly beautiful area between Wright Lakes and Wallace Basins and is in both Sequoia National Park and the John Muir Wilderness in Inyo National Forest.
Barnard was first climbed on September 25,1892 by John Hunter, William Hunter, and C. Mulholland.
The east side of Mt. Barnard is subject to the Mt. Williamson Bighorn Sheep Restrictions, which means that the George Creek approach is off-limits for most of the year.
www.summitpost.org /show/mountain_link.pl/mountain_id/1466   (1002 words)

  
 BBC News | HEALTH | Christiaan Barnard: Single-minded surgeon
Barnard's unique approach to the human heart changed this area of medical procedures forever, and for the pioneering doctor it meant lifelong celebrity and worldwide renown.
On December 3, Barnard led a 30-man medical team in transferring the heart of a 25-year-old motor victim into Washkansky's body, and medical history was made.
Barnard never stopped working, writing scientific books and novels, and in later life spending much of his time at the Baptist Medical Centre in Oklahoma, where he tried to find a way of slowing the ageing process.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/health/1470356.stm   (648 words)

  
 Chester Barnard - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Chester Irving Barnard ( 1886 – 1961) was a telecommunication s executive and author of Functions of the Executive, an influential 20th century management book, in which Barnard presented a theory of organization and the functions of executives in organizations.
His most notable work is the development of the Acceptance Theory of Authority which states that managers only have as much authority as they are given by their workers.
Organization Theory: From Chester Barnard to the Present and Beyond.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /chester_barnard.htm   (334 words)

  
 Barnard's Star   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
At a distance of 6 light years, Barnard's star is our second nearest neighbor star.
The smaller and brighter star imges of last year are superimposed on the fuzzier and larger images of this year.
The motion since last year is easy to see when compared to the small star just to the left of Barnard's Star in both images.
schmidling.netfirms.com /barnard.htm   (604 words)

  
 More M24: Barnard 93 Dark Nebula
Barnard 93 is centered at 18h 16m 54s -18d 04m 00s.
Barnard, E.E. Dark Regions in the Sky Suggesting an Obscuration of Light.
Barnard, E.E. On the Dark Markings of the Sky - with a Catalogue of 181 Such Objects.
seds.lpl.arizona.edu /messier/more/m024_b93.html   (197 words)

  
 Barnard Library Information
Barnard Library adheres to the Columbia University Libraries Policy on Confidentiality of Library Records (see http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/services/confidentiality.html).
Barnard is part of the controlled printing system, called NINJa, introduced on the Columbia campus in September 2003.
Controlled printing means that Barnard and Columbia students and faculty will have a weekly allotment of pages that they can print from a library PC, while staff and other library users will have to pay to print from all library PCs.
www.barnard.columbia.edu /library/aboutinf.htm   (1848 words)

  
 Junior Barnard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Barnard was a loud guitarist who had an overdriven tube sound decades before it became widely popular with rock guitarists.
Junior Barnard was seriously injured in an automobile accident and died at Fresno County General Hospital on April 15, 1951.
Junior Barnard was one of the first to fuse elements of jazz, country, rockabilly, and rock and roll into an exciting style that was in many ways years ahead of its time.
www.texasplayboys.net /Biographies/junior.htm   (1979 words)

  
 Core works - Barney Barnard
Barney Barnard died in 1963, the same year the 11th edition came out, but the eulogy to Barnard first appears in the 9th edition which has a "revised to" date of August 1964.
Barnard just swaps them, they both occupy the spot the other had in the 1st edition, the joint edition and in Higham's work.
Barnard switches their order with his 2nd edition and it remains there in all the rest of his editions.
www.lost-dutchman.com /dutchman/entries/barn.html   (3245 words)

  
 Barnard's Star   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Also cataloged as Munich 15040 or LFT 1385, Barnard's Star was discovered in 1916 by E.E. Barnard to have the largest known proper motion of all stars, 10.29 arc seconds per year, by comparing photographic plates obtained in 1894 and 1916, and later tracing it back to 1888 in E. Pickering's plate archive.
Barnard's star is a red main-sequence dwarf of apparent visual magnitude 9.56 and absolute visual magnitude +13.4.
Barnard's Star page from Project Daedalus, one of the first engeneering studies of an unmanned interstellar starship; due to its proximity, Barnard's Star had been selected as target.
www.seds.org /~spider/spider/Misc/barnard.html   (351 words)

  
 Kobus Barnard 's Publications and Student Theses
Kobus Barnard, Pinar Duygulu, and David Forsyth, " Exploiting Text and Image Feature Co-occurrence Statistics in Large Datasets,"   to appear as a chapter in Trends and Advances in Content-Based Image and Video Retrieval (tentative title).
Kobus Barnard, Matthew Johnson, and David Forsyth, "Word sense disambiguation with pictures," Workshop on learning word meaning from non-linguistic data, held in conjunction with The Human Language Technology Conference, Edmonton, Canada, May 27-June 1, 2003.
Kobus Barnard, Pinar Duygulu, Raghavendra Guru, Prasad Gabbur, and David Forsyth, "The effects of segmentation and feature choice in a translation model of object recognition", Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp II: 675-682, 2003.
vision.cs.arizona.edu /kobus/research/publications   (1448 words)

  
 Extrasolar Planets
The purpose of the article was to alert the astronomical world that indeed, E.E. Barnard detected a unique find, that is a star with a proper motion larger than any star that had been studied previously.
Before the story of Barnard's Star continues it would be best to consider a few astronomical terms that will play a large role in the supposed confirmation of planets revolving around the star.
According to van de Kamp, a wobble in the movement of Barnard's Star was detected which he determined was the result of a body revolving around the star.
www.public.asu.edu /~sciref/exoplnt.htm   (15809 words)

  
 Welcome to the Barnard Griffin Winery - Award-Winning Washington Wines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Barnard Griffin Winery is located in the heart of Washington State's wine country.
Richland, one of the Tri-Cities (with Pasco and Kennewick) is situated in south-central Washington at the confluence of the Yakima, Columbia, and Snake rivers.
Founded in 1983 by Rob Griffin and Deborah Barnard, Barnard Griffin has been producing Award Winning wines for over 20 years.
www.barnardgriffin.com   (68 words)

  
 Barnard Missouri Resource Guide, City or community of Barnard, Missouri Facts, Information, Relocation, Real Estate, ...
The amount of land area in Barnard is 0.403 sq.
The distance from Barnard to Washington DC is 981 miles.
Barnard is positioned 40.17 degrees north of the equator and 94.82 degrees west of the prime meridian.
www.usacitiesonline.com /mocountybarnard.htm   (160 words)

  
 Barnard's Retail Trend Report - retail newsletter, retail publication,- Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Kmart under its new guidance stands a chance of rising from ashes, not as threat to Wal-Mart —- it can’t —- but as store of preference for a growing customer base in the communities it serves as high-low discounter.
Barnard's Retail Trend Report is published bi-monthly by Barnard Enterprises, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Barnard Enterprises, Inc. The materials contained herein may not be reproduced by any means whatsoever without written consent from the publisher.
www.retailtrends.com   (275 words)

  
 George Barnard (1819 - 1902) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
George N. Barnard set up one of the first daguerrrotype studios in the United States in Oswego, New York.
Barnard worked alongside Timothy O’Sullivan, John Reekie, and Alexander Gardner in the Matthew Brady Studio.
After the war, Barnard continued as a portraitist across the Eastern United States, eventually working with the founder of the Kodak Company, George Eastman, in Rochester, New York.
wwar.com /masters/b/barnard-george_.html   (185 words)

  
 George Eastman House George N. Barnard Stereo Views Series
Barnard, George N. Grave of Oceolo, Patriot and Warrior, who died at Fort Moultrie, January, 1838.
Barnard, George N. Stone Church, Centerville, Used as a Hospital, after the battle of the 18th July, 1861.
Barnard, George N. Butcher's Stall in Charleston Market-Buzzards Enjoying their Morning Meal.
www.geh.org /fm/st06/htmlsrc/barnard_idx00001.html   (245 words)

  
 Barnard College Department of Dance
The Barnard College Department of Dance offers an exceptional dance program that is solidly based on the integration of dance as an art form within a liberal arts curriculum.
Located in New York City, the Barnard College Department of Dance is able to provide a rich tapestry of dance study.
The city is a major center for international performances and is home to a major dance research facility at the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts; this environment gives students access to internationally recognized dancers, choreographers, writers, and scholars.
www.barnard.edu /dance   (357 words)

  
 Alice L
Alice L. Barnard was the first woman to be appointed principal of a Chicago public school.
Although she never worked directly at Barnard, the school was named after her in honor of her service to the
She was principal of the Dearborn school as well as the Jones school, and retired in 1891.
www.barnard.cps.k12.il.us   (221 words)

  
 Bob Barnard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Barnard is presented by jazz festivals and clubs all over the world and the response is seldom less than enthusiastic.
Barnard has also recorded with top US jazz artists over the years including Wild Bill Davison, Milt Hinton, Peanuts Hucko, Dan Barrett, Ken Peplowski, Bob Wilber, Warren Vaché, Ralph Sutton, Dick Wellstood, Jim Galloway, Jim Cullum, Bud Freeman and many others.
Len Barnard (brother) is on a better position than anyone.
www.riverwalk.org /profiles/barnard.htm   (927 words)

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