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  Bigelow Laboratory - Henry B. Bigelow
Henry Bigelow was a pioneering ocean researcher whose extensive investigations in the early part of the Twentieth Century were later recognized as the foundation of modern oceanography.
Bigelow's 1929 report to the National Academy of Sciences led to establishment of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1930, of which he was the founding director.
Bigelow joined the teaching faculty of Harvard in 1921 and became an internationally known expert on the coelenterates and on fishes, especially sharks and rays.
www.bigelow.org /hbbigelow.html   (652 words)

  
 Kathryn Bigelow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kathryn Bigelow (born 27 November 1952) is a movie director having placed her distinctive style on male-dominated genres like science fiction, action and horror.
Bigelow entered the graduate film programme at Columbia University where she studied theory and criticism.
Bigelow was married to fellow director James Cameron from 1989 - 1991.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kathryn_Bigelow   (821 words)

  
 Henry Bryant Bigelow biography
Bigelow's extensive travels acquainted him with all the major centers for the study of marine biology and with the leading figures in the field at the time.
Bigelow was to become the preeminent American oceanographer of his generation, but he began his intellectual life as a zoologist concentrating on cytology, systematics, taxonomy, and zoogeography.
Bigelow's honors included the Agassiz Medal of the National Academy of Sciences, the Bowie Medal of the American Geophysical Union, the Johannes Schmidt Medal of the Carlsburg Foundation, and the Monaco Medal of the Institut Oc‚anographique.
www.agu.org /inside/awards/bigelow.html   (782 words)

  
 MAGAZINE | FEATURES | Kathryn Bigelow: K-19 | VOLUME 27-2: July 2002
Bigelow said that the first person to embrace both the idea of the film and her as the one who could tell the story was the widow of Captain Nikolai Zateyev who commanded the K-19.
For Bigelow, the MIT advisers were crucial because she couldn't imagine blocking, directing and talking with actors about a sequence she didn't thoroughly understand.
Bigelow sought a waiver from the WGA but was told it would not be granted unless she gave up her possessory credit onscreen and in paid advertising.
www.dga.org /news/v27_2/feat_bigelow_k19.php3   (3485 words)

  
 Las Vegas Mercury: The ultimate public-private partnership
Bigelow has long shunned any kind of publicity for himself, and since he is investing up to $500 million of his personal fortune into the aerospace company, he's reluctant to give away too much information to potential competitors.
Bigelow figures he can eventually get the cost of a space trip to a far more affordable level, in the $50,000-$100,000 range, which is about the cost of a really good car.
Bigelow admits that many people thought he was a bit goofy to pour his money into a project that is, to put it mildy, a longshot.
www.lasvegasmercury.com /2004/MERC-Jul-08-Thu-2004/24250261.html   (2267 words)

  
 Hernando: Frank H. Bigelow, POW of WWII, dies
Bigelow taught the world about the camps where captured American soldiers like himself were forced to work, unpaid, in harsh and dangerous conditions.
Bigelow emphasized the part where the lawyer called her husband a storyteller and a spokesman for his cause, who created a legacy so people will know the story.
Bigelow was a 19-year-old truck driver when he enlisted in the Navy about a year before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
www.sptimes.com /2003/07/17/Hernando/Frank_H_Bigelow__POW_.shtml   (526 words)

  
 Salon.com Technology | My own private space station
Bigelow, who made his fortune running Budget Suites, may be the United States' largest funder of research into the paranormal.
Bigelow has donated millions of dollars for the construction of the Bigelow Physics Building as well as the UNLV Bigelow Chair of Consciousness Studies, which is dedicated to the "rational investigation of the mysteries of human awareness, including the possibility of the persistence of consciousness after death."
Bigelow says he can build the first installment of his space station in two years, and reports that his aerospace engineers are already working on the modules of a research station for eventual use by private companies seeking to do research in microgravitational climes.
archive.salon.com /tech/feature/2001/06/07/bigelow/print.html   (2172 words)

  
 Spaceflight Now | Breaking News | Bigelow's Gamble
Ongoing technical assistance to Bigelow from JSC is focused on helping the company spawn development of orbiting commercial inflatable modules by the end of the decade, with the possibility of JSC later using the Bigelow technology for inflatable modules on the Moon or Mars.
Bigelow is committing $25 million to the prize, and more than one additional proprietary benefactor is in final discussion with Bigelow for the other half.
Bigelow is doing this not just to support development of one or two manned inflatable space modules but to generate an ongoing line of inflatables for diverse commercial or government civilian and military space research markets.
www.spaceflightnow.com /news/n0409/27bigelow   (3217 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Big-time Bigelow
Bigelow was the key to the BYU victory, scoring 21 points on 7-for-10 shooting from the field and 7-of-7 from the foul line.
Bigelow, who was one of Steve Cleveland's first high school recruits, has started all but one of his 117 games as a Cougar, dating back to 1998 before his LDS Church mission.
Bigelow and Co. — thanks to a perfect February — are hoping to be around for a while during March Madness.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595047502,00.html   (1072 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- Bigelow Aerospace to Tackle Inflatable Space Habitats
Bigelows plan is to establish a habitable commercial space station for research, manufacturing, entertainment and other uses.
Bigelow Aerospace is developing the Genesis Pathfinder -- one-third scale hardware meant to shakeout the bugs in a much larger space habitat tagged the Nautilus.
Bigelow Aerospace paid NASA "a substantial sum" he added, to acquire the sole rights to commercial development of the inflatable technology represented by those patents.
www.space.com /news/businessmonday_040524.html   (1237 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Bigelow smiled; ref hid
Bigelow was obviously stressed, but remarkably he managed a smile.
Bigelow, humiliated and labeled a doofus for more than a week in such a public manner, refused to blame the person responsible for his predicament.
Although on scholarship as a student athlete, Bigelow is not a professional and is not paid cash to play.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,590041577,00.html   (757 words)

  
 L. B. Bigelow Time Line
James Bigelow and Ann Spencer of Hartford, Conn; the family moved from Hartford to Nantucket, Mass shortly after the birth of Leonard and before the birth of their next child.
Bigelow's presence at the closing of the above deed could indicate a working arrangement with Isaac Battey (planemaker); or Leonard might simply have been a Baptist as was Nathan Barrus, Isaac Battey, and James A Eddy.
P.H.Manchester appears to have been a full time planemaker, however Bigelow in the 1850 census gave his occupation as book keeper, and a year later in 1854, was working as a machinist at the Providence Machine Co. on Eddy Street.
www.netris.org /RIToolmakers/BIGELOW,L.B/LBBigelowTimeLine.html   (712 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - $50M America's Space Prize up for grabs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In addition to the $50 million prize, Bigelow said his company also is prepared to offer $200 million in conditional purchase agreements for six flights of a selected vehicle.
Bigelow Aerospace will be hiring astronauts, as well as conduct the training of "space novices" similar to the way they are trained at Russia's Star City for soyuz flights.
Bigelow Aerospace opened its doors in April 1999 with the long-range vision of developing an aerospace business that would participate in commercial space flight.
www.usatoday.com /tech/science/space/2004-11-08-american-space-prize_x.htm   (1132 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: John Bigelow
John Bigelow (November 25, 1817 - December 19, 1911) was an American lawyer and statesman.
He was instrumental in the development of the New York Public Library, and a staunch proponent of the development of the Panama Canal.
On June 11, 1850, he married Jane Tunis Poultney: their son Poultney Bigelow was a lawyer, and a noted journalist and editor.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John-Bigelow   (289 words)

  
 Douglas A. Bigelow, Ph.D., Recent Publications
Bigelow, DA, Cutler, DL, Moore, McComb MD and Leung, P. Characteristics of hard to place patients.
Bigelow, DA, Sladen-Dew, N, and Russell, J. Meeting the challenges of serving persons with severe and persistent mental illness in a major Canadian city.
Bigelow, DA, Wilson, WH, McFarland, BH and Smith, J. (In prep.) A test of food distribution principles.
www.ohsu.edu /psychiatry/faculty/publications/bigelow2.htm   (656 words)

  
 New Leadership At Bigelow Laboratory
Bigelow is the state's premier oceanographic research organization located in Boothbay Harbor.
Bigelow Director Louis "Sandy" Sage presented outgoing chairman Neil Rolde with a framed series of micro-photographs of plankton tak-en from water samples collected by Neil in his travels world-wide and donated to the research collection maintained by Bigelow.
Bigelow Laboratory's principal concern is the biological productivity of the world's oceans, blending research and education to better understand marine ecosystems.
boothbayregister.maine.com /2001-11-29/bigelow_lab.html   (472 words)

  
 Privacy Notice : Bigelow Chemists
Bigelow will treat your rights to privacy with the same respect our CEO would like his personal privacy to be given.
Bigelow wants you to fully understand what information we gather about you, how that information is collected, how that information is used and how you can control the collection and/or use of information about you.
Bigelow may share this information with advertisers, partners and other third parties but Bigelow will not share this information in such a manner that you would be personally identified.
www.bigelowchemists.com /privacy.php?osCsid=968f30eadf749d07b34f9b5ec96f9c5c   (990 words)

  
 Abajah Bigelow portrait   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Abijah Bigelow, a 1795 graduate of Dartmouth College, was a lawyer and politician who lived in Leominster and Worcester, Massachusetts.
After he retired from Congress, Bigelow settled in Worcester and became involved in local government, serving as a justice of the peace and clerk of the courts in that city.
Several of Bigelow's letters are published in Clarence S. Brigham, 'Letters of Abijah Bigelow, Member of Congress to his Wife 1810-1815,' Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 40 (October 1930): 305-406.
www.americanantiquarian.org /Exhibitions/Portraits/abajahbigelow.htm   (438 words)

  
 Jacob Bigelow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jacob Bigelow studied medicine in Philadelphia under Benjamin Smith Barton, author of the first American textbook on botany.
Bigelow was professor of materia medica at Harvard from 1815 to 1855 and practiced medicine in Boston for sixty years.
It was one of the first two books in America to include plates printed in color (the other was a botanical work written and printed in 1817 in Philadelphia by William Barton, nephew of his former professor).
www.med.virginia.edu /hs-library/historical/classics/Bigelow.html   (174 words)

  
 Bam-Bam Bigelow
Bigelow held the belt for a couple of months before getting taken out by the 'posterboy' of the NWA Memphis area, Jerry "The King" Lawler (40-time Southern Heavyweight Champ).
Bigelow came back to the WWF with a new manager, Luna Vachon, and almost immediately began feuding with such wrestlers as Doink and Tatanka.
Bigelow claimed that he was still the King of Extreme, and that he deserved the belt.
www.accelerator3359.com /Wrestling/bios/bambam.html   (3763 words)

  
 Jacob Bigelow’s American Medical Botany: Digital Reissue Illuminates Access to Rare Work
Bigelow brought a scientific depth and aesthetic pleasure not only to the subject of which he wrote and illuminated but also to the publishing and printing process itself.
Bigelow described the use in rheumatism along with the reputation of the root in external preparations as a cancer treatment.
Bigelow described the medicinal properties as those of an “acrid narcotic.” “It occasions heartburn, nausea, faintness, and frequently vertigo and diminished vision.” Enumerating the views of his contemporaries, root preparations found to be of utility in acute rheumatism, jaundice, diseases of the lung and liver, influenza, and whooping cough among others.
www.herbalgram.org /iherb/herbalgram/articleview.asp?a=2720&p=Y   (2791 words)

  
 Bigelow Gives First Interview On UFO Pursuit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Bigelow and his staff also dodged media inquiries, saying public knowledge about their observations would be premature and not in keeping with es- tablished scientific methods.
Bigelow, in fact, said one reason he spends more than a million dollars a year on NIDS research is to do what he feels the government and other institutions should be doing preparing America and the rest of the world for eventual ET contact.
Off on one of those evening cruises, Bigelow's grandparents had a close encounter that not only had a profound impact on them, but when he was told the story two years later strongly affected their 10-year-old grandson.
www.virtuallystrange.net /ufo/updates/1998/aug/m11-004.shtml   (1213 words)

  
 spacetoday.net: Report: Bigelow to offer orbital space prize
Robert Bigelow, owner of a company developing commercial space modules, is expected to announce as early as this week the creation of a $50-million prize for the development of an orbital space transport, Aviation Week reported in its latest issue.
Bigelow himself is expected to contribute have of the prize purse, with the other half coming from an unnamed donor who is in final negotiations with Bigelow.
Bigelow has already announced plans for unmanned launches of test modules, called Genesis Pathfinder, in the next two years, leading to a full-scale module, called Nautilus, which could be docked together to form a small space station.
www.spacetoday.net /Summary/2574   (260 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - John Bigelow (Journalism And Publishing, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - John Bigelow (Journalism And Publishing, Biography) - Encyclopedia
His France and the Confederate Navy (1888) is a valuable historical work.
Bigelow found in Paris the original manuscript of Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, which he edited and published in 1868.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Bigelow.html   (285 words)

  
 Utah's UFO Ranch, Page 3   UUFOH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Bigelow, described as "the most prominent financier in the paranormal research field" has erected an observation building on the site to study the odd phenomena that has included "lights emerging from circular doorways that seem to appear in mid-air", cow mutilations and unusual soil/grass damage.
Bigelow made some rather wild statements, according to three witnesses, involving the five jet-fl metal rods that Bigelow requested to take for testing and would not return.
Bigelow would not return the rods, which he never purchased outright and had no ownership rights to, expecting his concocted explaination to settle the matter.
www.aliendave.com /UUFOH_TheRanch3.html   (3010 words)

  
 US People--Bigelow, Elmer Charles
Bigelow heroically fought the blaze, contributing greatly to saving his ship, but was badly injured and died the next day.
Water Tender Second Class Bigelow was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity".
Water Tender Bigelow was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in combat action on board USS Fletcher (DD-445) during the Corregidor operation, 14 February 1945.
www.history.navy.mil /photos/pers-us/uspers-b/e-biglow.htm   (540 words)

  
 From Our Cabinet: Order of the Rising Sun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The son of Dr. Henry Jacob Bigelow, a famous Boston surgeon, William Sturgis Bigelow (1850–1926) seemed destined to follow in his father's footsteps.
Bigelow remained in Japan for seven years to study Buddhism—a study that would continue for the remainder of his life.
William Sturgis Bigelow lived between two worlds, and according to a biographical sketch of his life by Dr. Curtis Prout, when Bigelow died in 1926, half of his ashes were interred at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and half were buried in Japan, near a Buddhist temple and overlooking a favorite lake.
www.masshist.org /Cabinet/may2002/bigelow.htm   (289 words)

  
 Bigelow struggling, but not panicking :: CougarBlue, Provo Utah
Aside from the statistics, Bigelow played with more fire and aggression, which was clear on a spinning move he made in the lane that led to an easy basket.
Part of that might be because Bigelow has never finished a season averaging fewer than 13.9 points, which is what he scored in 2002-03.
Mainly, however, Bigelow is the Cougars’ most experienced player, the kind of guy younger teammates will look to when it’s tough to score and the game is on the line.
www.cougarblue.com /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3268   (702 words)

  
 Bigelow Collection
Captain Bigelow went to England in 1943 as 709th Squadron Navigator.
In September 1944, promoted to Major, Bigelow assumed the position of Group Navigator for the 447th.
Bigelow retired from the Air Force after 30 years of service.
www.447bg.com /library/bigelow.html   (96 words)

  
 Bigelow Laboratory Awarded $100,000
With this award, Bigelow has raised $225,000 from three private foundations in the past two months.
It is expected that when the new facility is opened in 2006, Bigelow will double its annual revenues to nearly $10 million.
Bigelow is a world-renowned research institution employing 50 scientists and staff.
boothbayregister.maine.com /2003-06-12/bigelow_gets_grant.html   (459 words)

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