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Jonathan Daniel "Jon" Hamm is an American actor most noted for playing advertising executive Don Draper in the AMC drama series Mad Men, which... premiered in July 2007. His performance on the show earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series in 2008. Hamm was born March 10, 1971, in St. Louis, Missouri, to Daniel and Deborah Hamm. His father ran a family trucking company and his mother was a secretary. Hamm's parents divorced when he was two, and he lived with his mother in Creve Coeur, Missouri, until she was diagnosed with terminal abdominal cancer when he was 10. Hamm then moved in with his father, who died when Hamm was 20. Hamm's first acting role was as Winnie-the-Pooh in first grade. At 16, he was cast as Judas in Godspell. Although he enjoyed the experience, he did not take acting seriously. Hamm attended John Burroughs School in Ladue, Missouri, where he was a member of the football, baseball, and swim teams. Following graduation in 1989, Hamm enrolled at the University of Texas, where he was a member of the Upsilon Chapter of Sigma Nu fraternity. Hamm returned home to attend the University of Missouri after his father's death.
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James Lee Burke is an American author of mysteries, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. He has won an Edgar Award for Black Cherry Blues and... Cimarron Rose . The Robicheaux character has been portrayed twice on screen, first by Alec Baldwin and then Tommy Lee Jones . Burke has also written seven miscellaneous crime novels, two short story anthologies, four books starring protagonist, Texas attorney Billy Bob Holland, and three books starring Billy Bob's cousin Texas sheriff Hackberry Holland. Burke was born in Houston, Texas, but spent most of his childhood on the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast. He attended the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and University of Missouri, receiving a BA and MA from the latter. He has worked in a wide variety of industries over the years, including oil, journalism and social care. He taught for the creative writing program at Wichita State University during the '80s, shortly before resettling in Montana. Burke owns homes with his wife, Pearl, in Lolo, Montana, and New Iberia, Louisiana.
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Tom Berenger is an American actor known mainly for his roles in action films. Berenger was born as Thomas Michael Moore in Chicago to an Irish... Catholic family. Berenger's father was a printer for the Chicago Sun-Times. Berenger has a sister, Susan. He picked "Berenger" as his professional name, after a school friend, because there was already a "Tom Moore" in the Actors' Equity Association. He graduated from Rich East High School in Park Forest, Illinois, in 1967. Berenger studied journalism at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, but decided to seek an acting career following his graduation. The Tom Berenger Acting Scholarship Fund was established in 1988 by Tom Berenger to award Theatre students for excellence in performance. He worked first in regional theatre and moved to New York City in the 1970s. Berenger worked in soap operas and had a starring role on One Life to Live. His feature film debut was the lead in Rush It , an independent film now mostly forgotten except for those of its cast members who went on to greater renown. In 1977, Berenger had a small but noticeable role as a murderer in Looking for Mr. Goodbar.
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George Campbell Scott was an American stage and film actor, director and producer. He was best known for his stage work, as well as his portrayal of... General George S. Patton in the film Patton, and as General Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove. Scott was born in Wise, Virginia, the son of Helena Agnes and George Dewey Scott . His mother died just before his eighth birthday, and he was raised by his father, an executive at the Ex-Cello Corporation. As a young man, Scott's original ambition was to be a writer like his favorite author, F. Scott Fitzgerald; while attending Redford High School in Detroit, he wrote many short stories, none of which were ever published. As an adult, he tried on many occasions to write a novel, but was never able to complete one to his satisfaction. Scott joined the US Marines, serving from 1945 until 1949, and was assigned to the prestigious 8th and I Barracks in Washington, D.C. In that capacity, he taught English literature and radio speaking/writing at the Marine Corps Institute. He later said that his duties at Arlington led to his drinking.
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Frank Luther Mott was an American historian and journalist of Quaker descent. Mott was born in Rose Hill, Iowa. He taught English at Simpson College... in Indianola, Iowa and was the head of the Journalism Department at the University of Iowa for twenty years until his appointment as Dean of the University of Missouri 's School of Journalism in 1942. After having coined the term photojournalism in 1924, Mott was influential in the development of photojournalism education: the first photojournalism class was taught at UI during his tenure, and the first photojournalism program, directed by Clifton C. Edom, started at MU in 1943 upon his request. His book, A History of American Magazines, won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for History; and Volume 4 of said work won the Bancroft Prize in 1958. Mott served as president of Kappa Tau Alpha from 1937–1939. He died in Columbia, Missouri.
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Barbara McClintock , the 1983 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, was an American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished... cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a leader in the development of maize cytogenetics. The field remained the focus of her research for the rest of her career. From the late 1920s, McClintock studied chromosomes and how they change during reproduction in maize. Her work was groundbreaking: she developed the technique for visualizing maize chromosomes and used microscopic analysis to demonstrate many fundamental genetic ideas, including genetic recombination by crossing-over during meiosis—a mechanism by which chromosomes exchange information. She produced the first genetic map for maize, linking regions of the chromosome with physical traits, and demonstrated the role of the telomere and centromere, regions of the chromosome that are important in the conservation of genetic information. She was recognized amongst the best in the field, awarded prestigious fellowships, and elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1944.
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R. Michael Roberts is an American biologist and a Curators' Professor of animal science at the University of Missouri. R. Michael Roberts was born... in 1940 in the United Kingdom. He graduated with a BA in Botany and PhD in Plant Physiology/Biochemistry from the University of Oxford. After completing his PhD from Oxford University, he went to the United States and completed his post-doctorate at State University of New York-Buffalo. He is a Curators' Professor of Animal Science at the University of Missouri. In 2006-2007 R. Michael Roberts was investigated by The University of Missouri for research misconduct based on images that had been altered in a 2006 Science paper where he was the principal investigator. The paper was officially retracted by Roberts and an apology to the scientific community was issued in the form of a published letter. R. Michael Roberts is known for his contributions in clarifying the biological mystery of embryo-maternal signaling, that leads to the maintenance of pregnancy and to the survival of the embryo in livestock species. It was known that chemical communication between embryo and mother was essential for a successful pregnancy in mammals.
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Frank Luther Mott was an American historian and journalist of Quaker descent. Mott was born in Rose Hill, Iowa. He taught English at Simpson College... in Indianola, Iowa and was the head of the Journalism Department at the University of Iowa for twenty years until his appointment as Dean of the University of Missouri 's School of Journalism in 1942. After having coined the term photojournalism in 1924, Mott was influential in the development of photojournalism education: the first photojournalism class was taught at UI during his tenure, and the first photojournalism program, directed by Clifton C. Edom, started at MU in 1943 upon his request. His book, A History of American Magazines, won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for History; and Volume 4 of said work won the Bancroft Prize in 1958. Mott served as president of Kappa Tau Alpha from 1937–1939. He died in Columbia, Missouri.
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