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  McDonnell Douglas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
McDonnell Douglas was a major American aerospace manufacturer, producing a number of famous commercial and military aircraft.
McDonnell was also developing jets, but being smaller they were prepared to be more radical, building on their successful FH-1 Phantom to become a major supplier to the Navy with the Banshee, Demon, and the Voodoo.
McDonnell made a number of missiles, including the unusual ADM-20 Quail, as well as experimenting with hypersonic flight, research that enabled them to gain a substantial share of the NASA projects Mercury and Gemini.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/McDonnell_Douglas   (829 words)

  
 University Gazette
The 10 recipients showed a remarkable ability to discuss the relevance of their research to issues facing society as it enters the next century, said John McDonnell, son of the aeronautics innovator and founder of the James S. McDonnell Foundation, a major private philanthropy based in St. Louis.
"James S. McDonnell believed that science and technology gave mankind the power to shape the future and the obligation to shape that future to benefit what is noble in mankind," he said.
The James S. McDonnell Foundation was established in 1950 by the late aerospace pioneer and founder of the McDonnell Douglas Corporation.
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 Boeing: History -- Biography - James Smith McDonnell
James Smith McDonnell was born in Denver, Colorado, April 9, 1899.
By the mid-1960s, McDonnell Aircraft Corp. was the largest employer in Missouri, and in 1967, it expanded its operation by merging with the largest employer in California, the Douglas Aircraft Co.
James S. McDonnell took over as Chairman and chief executive officer of the McDonnell Douglas Corp. In 1971, his nephew, Sanford N. McDonnell, became president, and James S. McDonnell was chairman of the board and chief executive officer.
www.boeing.com /history/mdc/mcdonnell.htm   (504 words)

  
 James S. McDonnell Hall - Hilltop - Historical Campus Tour - Washington University in St. Louis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
McDonnell Hall provides space for research, laboratories, and offices for the Departments of Biology and Earth and Planetary Sciences, as well as a 150-seat auditorium and a 75-seat classroom and 85-seat classroom.
James McDonnell graduated from Princeton with a Physics degree, and earned a Masters in Aeronautical Engineering from M.I.T. He served as a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve, and was one of six men to make the first packed-parachute jumps.
McDonnell established a professorship at Washington University in 1964, and the McDonnell Center for Space Sciences in 1975.
www.wustl.edu /tour/hilltop/mcdonnell.html   (205 words)

  
 McDonnell Aircraft Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The McDonnell Aircraft Corporation was an American aerospace manufacturer, based near St.
It was founded in 1939 by James Smith McDonnell, and merged, with the Douglas Aircraft Company, into McDonnell Douglas in 1967.
The advent of World War II was a major boost to the new company, from fifteen employees in 1939 the firm ended the war with over 5,000, a significant producer of aircraft parts.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/McDonnell_Aircraft_Corporation   (111 words)

  
 Record: Petersen named McDonnell professor
Petersen is director of the Division of Neuropsychology in Neurology, professor of anatomy and neurobiology and of radiology and associate professor of neurological surgery.
In 1950, he established the James S. McDonnell Foundation to "improve the quality of life." Today, the foundation abides by that mission by contributing to the generation of new knowledge through its support of research and scholarship.
McDonnell established his first University professorship in the space sciences in 1964 and established the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences in 1975.
record.wustl.edu /news/page/normal/2015.html   (707 words)

  
 Washington University names Clifford Will its McDonnell professor of physics
The James S. McDonnell Professorship of Physics was established in 1966 to create a chair in space physics.
James S. McDonnell, who founded the McDonnell Aircraft Corp. in 1939, was keenly interested in building up the space sciences at the university.
McDonnell served as a member and then as chair of the WUSTL Board of Trustees in the 1960s.
news-info.wustl.edu /news/page/normal/5118.html   (692 words)

  
 James S. McDonnell
James Smith McDonnell graduated with honors in Physics from Princeton University and earned a M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1924.
In spite of the predominance of military aircraft emanating from his companies, James McDonnell was dedicated to the cause of peace in the world, but a peace founded on strength.
A staunch supporter of the United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a philanthropist as expressed in the McDonnell Foundation, a strong supporter of his community of St. Louis and its Washington University— these are the genuine marks of his humanitarian values.
www.allstar.fiu.edu /aero/mcdonnell.htm   (340 words)

  
 McDonnell Foundation To Award 10 Scientific Fellowships   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The James S. McDonnell Foundation is organising an international competition culminating in the award of the 10 fellowships to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of its founder -- aerospace pioneer James S. McDonnell.
James S. McDonnell, whose company became the McDonnell Douglas Corporation, believed that science and technology give mankind the unprecedented power to shape the future and the obligation to use that power responsibly for intellectual, social, and cultural development.
A critical component of the application process will be an essay in which candidates discuss the relevance of their research to the issues facing society at the start of the 21st century.
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 collectSPACE - news - "Smithsonian hangar to honor McDonnell"
Born in 1899, James Smith McDonnell went from an Arkansas boyhood delivering newspapers by horseback to flying for the Army Air Service Reserve, earning a degree in physics at Princeton and a graduate degree in aeronautical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
McDonnell's innovations transformed military flight, creating the first U.S. carrier-based jet fighter; the first twin-rotor, twin-engine helicopter; the first ramjet helicopter; and the first convertiplane, which lifted vertically by rotor and flew forward by pusher propeller.
McDonnell Aircraft merged with Douglas Aircraft Corp. in 1967, bringing together the largest employer in Missouri with the largest in California.
www.collectspace.com /news/news-072202c.html   (688 words)

  
 HAMPTON ROADS ABORTION FOES TO HELP WRITE GOP PLATFORM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Both McDonnell and James said that they would support a broad declaration of tolerance that applied to the entire GOP platform, but would oppose efforts to insert the clause just for the anti-abortion plank.
McDonnell, 42, is a social conservative who was first elected to the House of Delegates in 1991.
McDonnell was an early supporter of Dole's presidential bid, which may have been a key factor in his election to the panel.
scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1996/vp960704/07040596.htm   (510 words)

  
 USEC News Release
McDonnell has nearly 30 years of management and leadership experience in various segments of government and the private sector.
McDonnell also has served as director of the Office of Energy Assurance at the U.S. Department of Energy and director of National Security Programs for Oak Ridge Associated Universities.
McDonnell received his B.S. degree from the State University of New York, Albany and earned an M.A. degree from Georgetown University.
www.usec.com /v2001_02/Content/News/NewsTemplate.asp?page=/v2001_02/Content/News/NewsFiles/06-23-04.htm   (275 words)

  
 James McDonnell Pususta obituary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
James McDonnell Pususta, age 82 of Waverly, died Saturday, Nov.
James was born March 22, 1915 in Waverly, Minn. to Joseph and Cecilia (McDonnell) Pususta.
James was preceded in death by his mother and father, brothers, Jerome, Francis and Charles; sisters, Mary Alice Jenkens and Jeanette Ring.
www.herald-journal.com /obits/1997/pususta1197.html   (116 words)

  
 James S. McDonnell Prologue Room Air & Space Exhibit
The James S. McDonnell Prologue Room in St. Louis tells this panoramic story of more than eight decades of aviation progress, from biplanes to space travel.
Scale models, dioramas, paintings and photographs depict such important events as the first flight around the world in 1924, the first take-off of a jet fighter from a U.S. Navy carrier in 1946, the first aircraft to land at the South Pole in 1956, and the first manned spacecraft to orbit the Earth in 1962.
Part of the Defense unit of The Boeing Company, the exhibit represents all of Boeing throughout history and is located on the lobby level of the Bldg.
www.boeing.com /companyoffices/aboutus/tours/prologueroom/prologue.html   (345 words)

  
 The McDonnell Project in Philosophy and the Neurosciences   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In April 1999, the James S. McDonnell Foundation awarded ten James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellowships to commemorate the centennial of James S. McDonnell's birth.
The McDonnell Project in Philosophy and the Neurosciences is funded by the fellowship awarded to Kathleen Akins (Department of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University) in the category of History and Philosophy of Science.
The goal of the McDonnell Project is to provide an international group of researchers with the means, opportunity, and community to do research that lies firmly at the intersection of philosophy and the neurosciences.
www.sfu.ca /neurophilosophy   (360 words)

  
 12-12-95-mcdo.htm
McDonnell III of the Class of 1958 and John F. McDonnell of the Class of 1960, and from the James S. McDonnell Foundation.
The McDonnell gift is among the keystone contributions to the Anniversary Campaign for Princeton, a $750 million fund-raising effort that was officially launched on Nov. 10.
The plans for the McDonnell building reflect both the strong tradition of physics teaching at the University, where some two-thirds of all undergraduates take a physics course during their four years on campus, and the latest insights into how sciences are best taught.
www.princeton.edu /pr/news/95/q4/1212mcdo.html   (931 words)

  
 Clifford M. Will
Additional Background: Clifford M. Will is the James S. McDonnell Professor of Physics and a member of the university's McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences in Arts and Sciences.
His research interests are theoretical, encompassing the observational and astrophysical implications of Einstein's general theory of relativity, including gravitational radiation, fl holes, cosmology, the physics of curved spacetime, and the theoretical interpretation of experimental tests of general relativity.
He was named the James S. McDonnell Professor of Physics in Arts and Sciences in 2005.
news-info.wustl.edu /sb/page/normal/144.html   (1146 words)

  
 Nothing Is Forever   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
McDonnell progressed to a spectacular level with its aircraft that were built for the Navy.
When James McDonnell saw his friend, Donald Douglas, in trouble, he knew this was an opportunity to get into the Commercial business, which he had tried unsuccessfully in the past.
I always said that the difference between McDonnell Douglas Commercial Marketing and Boeings Marketing Department was that before they launched the 707 program, Boeing had decided to be Number One in Commercial aircraft at all cost.
www.capstonestudios.com /nif/5_end/ac/ac.html   (466 words)

  
 Udvar Hazy Center Celebrates Its Opening
Although the Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. opened to much acclaim in December 2003, the 53,000-square-foot James S. McDonnell Space Hangar was inaccessible because of the needed refurbishment of its centerpiece, space shuttle Enterprise.
A total of 113 large space artifacts are housed in the hangar.
The McDonnell Space Hangar is named for aerospace pioneer James S. McDonnell, whose company built a number of pioneering aircraft and both the Mercury and Gemini spacecraft, flown by the first American astronauts.
www.nasm.si.edu /museum/udvarhazy/articles/space_opening.cfm   (643 words)

  
 JSMF - 1999 James S. McDonnell Foundation Centennial Fellowships
Ten early career researchers, whose work could shape our knowledge of the world around us, are each the recipient of a $1 million research fellowship awarded to their grantee institution, thanks to the McDonnell Foundation.
The James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellowships targeted scientist-scholars whose work will contribute substantially to the development of knowledge and its responsible application in the next century.
Candidates were judged by an international panel of distinguished scientists and scholars, who considered entrants' scholarly promise, excellence of research programs, and ability to communicate the relevance of the research to broad audiences.
www.jsmf.org /grants/historical/cf/cf_awards_1999.htm   (199 words)

  
 WHMC-St. Louis sl 446 UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION OF THE USA
James S. McDonnell, president of McDonnell-Douglas Corporation, received the first International Cooperation award issued by the St. Louis Chapter at its annual dinner in 1965, proclaimed by president Johnson as International Cooperation Year.
James S. McDonnell also was elected to the national board of directors at the UNA-USA's first biennial convention in New York later that year.
The Chapter and the National Board of the UNA also established "The Annual James S. McDonnell Lecture in the United Nations Studies for St. Louis Area Youth" in 1978.
www.umsl.edu /~whmc/guides/whm0446.htm   (2373 words)

  
 Irish Republican Army -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
However, public opinion gradually shifted, initially over the summary executions of 16 senior leaders--some of whom, such as (additional info and facts about James Connolly) James Connolly, were too ill to stand--and people thought complicit in the rebellion.
Two (additional info and facts about RIC) RIC constables (James McDonnell and Patrick O'Connell) were killed while the South Tipperary IRA volunteer unit was attempting to seize a quantity of (A type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate) gelignite.
Technically, the men involved were considered to be in a serious breach of IRA discipline and were liable to be court-martialed, but it was considered more politically expedient to hold them up as examples of a rejuvenated militarism.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/ir/irish_republican_army.htm   (2807 words)

  
 St. Louis Front Page Feature - James S. McDonnell Planetarium
The StarBridge level of the Boeing Space Station at the James S. McDonnell Planetarium features nine interactive space exhibits including the Space Communications Station where visitors can communicate with others "back on Earth" via computers tied into the Science Center's Cyberville™ Gallery.
The centerpiece of the St. Louis Science Center's James S. McDonnell Planetarium is a $3.5 million Zeiss Universarium Planetarium Model IX projector, located on the StarBay level.
LOUIS - After months of anticipation, hundreds of visitors who attended the opening of St. Louis Science Center's James S. McDonnell Planetarium, Friday, June 22, were unable to get tickets to see the new exhibits and Zeiss Model IX projector inside the $13 million renovated building in Forest Park.
www.slfp.com /McDonnellPlanetarium.htm   (1469 words)

  
 3189. James S McDonnell, builder of Mercury and Gemini space capsules. Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
James S McDonnell, builder of Mercury and Gemini space capsules.
Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson.
The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.
www.bartleby.com /63/89/3189.html   (89 words)

  
 James S. McDonnell Foundation - 21st Century Collaborative Activity Awards
James S. McDonnell Foundation - 21st Century Collaborative Activity Awards
The James S. McDonnell Foundation offers a small number of Collaborative Activity Awards.
The collaborative activity awards category formalizes a funding mechanism the Foundation has used over the past decade to support study panels and research networks.
www2.mc.duke.edu /admin/aa/notices/mcdon02.htm   (609 words)

  
 James S. McDonnell Foundation
Founded in 1950 by aerospace pioneer James S. McDonnell, the Foundation was established to "improve the quality of life," and does so by contributing to the generation of new knowledge through its support of research and scholarship.
Information on JSMF’s 2006 grant competitions will be posted sometime in November.
The James S. McDonnell Foundation is partnering with seven other non-profit philanthropic and advocacy organizations to form the Brain Tumor Funders' Collaborative (BTFC).
www.jsmf.org   (137 words)

  
 James S McDonnell Foundation Brain Research:Bridging, Brain, Behavior   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
James S McDonnell Foundation Brain Research:Bridging, Brain, Behavior
A maximum of $450,000 total costs can be requested and the funds can be expended over a minimum of three years or a maximum of six years.
Applicants must be sponsored by a nonprofit institution as defined by Section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Tax Code.
www.biu.ac.il /RA/www/rserch/calls/calls/mcdonnell_bridging.html   (301 words)

  
 Koop, Dr C Everett, to Mead, Margaret. Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
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McMurrin, Sterling M, McNally, James B M, McNamara, Robert S, McNeil, Don, 8405
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 James S. McDonnell USO: Home Away From Home
James S. McDonnell USO: Home Away From Home
On November 3, 2005, the USO paid tribute to the local military and their families at the Annual Salute to Heroes Gala.
Note: By request of the U.S. Department of Defense the James S. McDonnell USO does not send packages overseas.
www.usostl.org   (226 words)

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