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James Gregory (comedian) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Gregory (born 1946) is an American stand-up comedian. He was born in Lithonia, Georgia in 1946, and he worked as a salesperson until he was 36 years old, when he first began introducing perform...
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James Gregory (1638-1675) ... James Gregory was a Scottish scientist and first Regius Professor of Mathematics at St Andrews who described the first practical reflecting telescope. He worked on using infinite convergent series to find the areas of the circle and hyperbola.
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James Gregory, the Aberdeen mathematician, is arguably the greatest scientist associated with St Andrews. In 1661, at the age of 23, he invented a type of reflecting telescope, later to be described as `Gregorian'.
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James Gregorie (he favoured this Scottish spelling over 'Gregory') was born in Drumoak, near Aberdeen, Scotland, in November 1638. His father having died young, he was sent by his older brother ... Gillespie, CC, ed, Dictionary of Scientific Biography, (New York, Scribner's, 1970-1990), s.v. "Gregory, James" by DT Whiteside...
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"As familiar as a favorite leather easy chair" is how one magazine writer described the craggy, weather-beaten face of ineluctable character actor James Gregory. Indeed, it is hard to imagine...
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