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William E. Flanary is an American comedian and ophthalmologist who performs under the stage name Dr. Glaucomflecken. He practices in Clackamas County , Oregon. Since 2016 he has become well known for making and uploading medical satire skits on Twitter , TikTok and YouTube .
Historians have produced some evidence to suggest that others may have come before him in the invention; however, a correspondence between George Whatley and John Fenno, editor of the Gazette of the United States, suggested that Franklin had indeed invented bifocals, and perhaps 50 years earlier than had been originally thought. [2]
Benjamin Franklin and four fictional associates experience the American Revolution.Although the series spans 16 years from the Boston Tea Party in 1773 to the ratification of the U.S. Constitution and George Washington becoming the first U.S. president in 1789, no main characters appear to age much, except for Dr. Franklin.
Feng "Franklin" Tao [4] [5] (Chinese: 陶丰; [6] [7] pinyin: Táo Fēng; born August 28, 1971) is a Chinese-born American chemical engineer who was a tenured associate professor at the University of Kansas. [8] His research areas of specialization are heterogeneous catalysis, energy chemistry, nanoscience and surface science.
Dr. Franklin's Island is a young adult science fiction book by Ann Halam published in 2001. It is narrated in the first person. [1] Loosely based on H. G. Wells' 1896 novel The Island of Dr. Moreau, [2] it tells the story of three teenagers who end up on an island owned by Dr. Franklin, a brilliant but insane scientist, who wants to use them as specimens for his transgenic experiments.
Franklin Ruehl was an American actor, [1] ufologist and cryptozoologist. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He has appeared on such shows as Jimmy Kimmel Live! , The Roseanne Show and Tom Green Live among others. Ruehl's show, Mysteries from Beyond the Other Dominion , [ 4 ] started on a public-access television cable TV channel in the Los Angeles area in the late 1980s.
The Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism involved two entirely separate and independent French Royal Commissions, each appointed by Louis XVI in 1784, that were conducted simultaneously by a committee composed of four physicians from the Paris Faculty of Medicine (Faculté de médecine de Paris) and five scientists from the Royal Academy of Sciences (Académie des sciences) (i.e., the ...
Franklin G. Miller (born 1948) [1] is an American bioethicist and senior faculty member at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). [2] Education.