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Holton-Farkas is a product line of French horns and mouthpieces created through the joint venture of musical instrument manufacturer Frank Holton & Co. and legendary horn virtuoso Philip Farkas. The first model was released in 1958, and although no new models are being made (Farkas died in 1992), the series is still being manufactured today. [ 1 ]
Frank Holton's wife Florence was a music teacher. [5] They had no children. [6] Frank Holton, though not an instrument maker himself, expanded his company to manufacture instruments [7] which was his occupation until retiring at age 80. Frank Holton died after a protracted illness on April 16, 1942, at the age of 84. [6]
Holton was a well-known professor of physics at Harvard and a historian of science. [1] In the book, Holton draws on "themata" that tie breakthroughs together in the history of physics; one reviewer noted that he may be the first person to draw a clear line between the philosophy book Either/Or and the complementarity principle of quantum mechanics that was formulated by Niels Bohr in the ...
Gerald James Holton (born May 23, 1922) is a German-born American physicist, historian of science, and educator, whose professional interests also include philosophy of science and the fostering of careers of young men and women.
Robert J Holton (born 9 September 1946) [1] is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Trinity College, Dublin.He is a specialist in social theory, historical sociology and the study of globalization, and the sociology of artificial intelligence.
Abner Linwood Holton Jr. (September 21, 1923 – October 28, 2021) was an American politician and attorney. He served as the 61st governor of Virginia , from 1970 to 1974, and was the first elected Republican governor of Virginia of the 20th century, as well as the first Republican governor since the Reconstruction era . [ 1 ]
Robert A. Holton (born 1944) is an American academic chemist who is known for his work regarding the chemical synthesis for Taxol (known as the Holton Taxol total synthesis), a widely utilized anti-cancer drug. He is a professor of chemistry at Florida State University.
Several other methods have also been proposed. One of the most prominent solutions is the scrambled Halton sequence, which uses permutations of the coefficients used in the construction of the standard sequence. Another solution is the leaped Halton, which skips points in the standard sequence. Using, e.g., only each 409th point (also other ...