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Edward Maurice Mezvinsky (/ m ɛ z ˈ v ɪ n s k i /; born January 17, 1937) is an American politician and lawyer from Iowa. He is a former U.S. Representative and felon. A Democrat, he represented Iowa's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives for two terms (1973–77). Mezvinsky grew up in Ames, Iowa, and played high ...
After selling his company, Reiman returned to publishing in 2008 when he launched a reader-submission magazine that focuses on his home state: "Our Iowa." He started a similar magazine, "Our ...
When Hugo Otopalik unexpectedly died in 1953, Harold Nichols was the only person Iowa State interviewed to replace him. He would go on to helm the Iowa State wrestling program for 32 years. During his time at Iowa State, his teams went 483–94–14 in addition to not finishing outside the top four at the NCAA Tournament from 1957 to 1983. [ 5 ]
Costas M. Soukoulis (Greek: Κώστας Μ. Σούκουλης; 15 January 1951 – 14 March 2024) was a Greek physicist, who was a senior scientist in the Ames Laboratory and a Distinguished Professor of Physics Emeritus at Iowa State University.
John Madson (1923 in Ames, Iowa – April 19, 1995 in Alton, Illinois) was a naturalist, conservationist, journalist, and freelancer who worked in the field of outdoor writing. Over time his work concentrated on the celebration of the vanished tallgrass prairie ecosystems of the U.S. Midwest, and he won acclaim from his publisher as "the father ...
Mchugh was Assistant Professor of Statistics and Psychology at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa from 1950 until 1954 when he was appointed Associate Professor. [1] In 1956 he began working at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis as Associate Professor of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health; he became Professor of Biometry in 1961; and was appointed Professor and Director ...
Countryman practiced law in Nevada, Iowa. From 1950 to 1954, Countryman served as attorney for Story County, Iowa as a member of the Republican party. From 1955 to 1957, Countryman served as Attorney General of Iowa. In 1956, 1960, and 1968, Countryman unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for United States Senate. He continued to ...
Hugh David Young (November 3, 1930 – August 20, 2013) was an American physicist who taught physics for 52 years at Carnegie Mellon University.Young is best known for co-authoring the later editions of University Physics, a highly regarded introductory physics textbook, with Francis Sears and Mark Zemansky (this book — first published in 1949 — is often referred to as "Sears and Zemansky ...