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"Robert Wayne Alexander (born March 19, 1941) is an American biologist and cardiologist known for research in the fields of atherosclerosis, hypertension, and vascular biology. Early life and education Robert Wayne Alexander was born on March 19, 1941 in Memphis, Tennessee. After he graduated high school, Alexander was accepted to the University of Mississippi where he graduated in 1962. Alexander then attended classes at Emory University in Atlanta. While at Emory, Alexander was a regular at the Emory faculty's Saturday Morning Clinical Cardiology at Grady Memorial Hospital. In 1967 he obtained from Emory University his M.S Degree and a year later he obtained his Ph.D. Upon graduation from Emory, Alexander attended Duke University School of Medicine, graduated in 1969, and then began an internship under James Wyngaarden. He would return to Duke in the mid-1970s to complete his cardiology fellowship as a member of the United States Public Health Service. Alexander took up residency at the University of Washington in Seattle which he completed a few years later. Career Alexander was the Senior Surgeon at the Experimental Therapeutics Branch of the National Heart and Lung Institute until 1976 when he became a Harvard University faculty member at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. In 1982, he became an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard. In 1988, he became the R. Bruce Logue Professor of Medicine and Director of the Division of Cardiology at Emory University in Atlanta where he attended years before. He kept all of the college's faculty and he brought in new researchers. Five years later Alexander co-founded Atherogenics Inc. and he served as its director and board member until 2009. Alexander became Emory University's School of Medicine Chair in 1999. In 2013, Alexander stepped down as Emory University's department of medicine chairman but he stayed on with the department of cardiology in a faculty role. Research Alexander began his research while he studied for his Ph.D. at Emory University in his late teens/early twenties. He published over 250 scientific publications and provided edits for ten books. Alexander has contributed notably to the vascular biology field of study taking it from basic observations to applications which could be applied clinically, including drug development. The editors at Hurst's the Heart selected Alexander as one of the people to contribute to the textbook. Alexander directly has supervised twenty-five postdoctoral fellows. An award at Emory University Atlanta (R. Wayne Alexander Excellence in Research Accomplishment Award) is named after Alexander. Alexander has been a part of organizations such as the American Heart Association. He's been on the editorial board of various journals. =Controversy= In the early 2010s, six of the papers that belonged to Alexander's research group were retracted. Co-author Lian Zuo was blamed for the first of three retracted papers but not for the newer ones which were retracted for image manipulation. The newer retracted published papers were from the early mid 2000s and were in the Journal of Biological Chemistry ,in circulation (one paper), and on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology (two papers). Personal life In 1971, Alexander married Jane Mansfield Woods and they have three children together. References 1941 births Living people People from Memphis, Tennessee 21st-century American biologists Emory University alumni Emory University faculty University of Washington alumni "
"Edwin Shepard Chickering (21 September 1912 – 14 February 2003) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force. Early life Chickering was born in Oil City, Pennsylvania on 21 September 1912. He graduated from Lehigh University in 1935 with a degree in engineering. After graduating, he joined the United States Army Air Corps and attended flight school. He was commissioned a second lieutenant and assigned to Kelly Field in Texas. World War II Col. Edwin S. "Chick" Chickering in his P-47 Thunderbolt in 1945 During World War II, Chickering commanded the 357th Fighter Group in England and later commanded the 367th Fighter Group in Europe. Korean War During the Korean War Chickering commanded of the 67th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing. Awards and decorations Chickering was awarded the Legion of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Air Medal with seven Oak Leaf Clusters, the Bronze Star, and the French Croix de Guerre with Palm. ReferencesExternal links * 1912 births 2003 deaths American army personnel of World War II American air force personnel of the Korean War "
"Uthman ibn Abi Nis'a al-Khath'ami () was the ninth governor of al-Andalus for the Umayyad Caliphate, for four months from late AD 728 (AH 110) until early 729 (111), succeeding Hudhayfa ibn al-Ahwas al-Qaysi., at 493. The Latin sources, the Mozarabic Chronicle (754) and the Prophetic Chronicle (883), concur in giving him a term of four months. The Andalusian scholar Ibn Habib (878/9), however, gives him five months.Ann Christys, "The Transformation of Hispania after 711", in Hans Werner Goetz, Jörg Jarnut and Walter Pohl (eds.), Regna and Gentes: The Relationship between Late Antique and Early Medieval Peoples and Kingdoms in the Transformation of the Roman World (Leiden: Brill, 2003), pp. 219–241. Al-Maqqari seems to believe he succeeded Yahya ibn Salama al-Kalbi in December 727 and was in turn succeeded by Hudhayfa in June or July 728,Roger Collins, Early Medieval Spain: Unity in Diversity, 400–1000 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995), p. 300. an inversion of the order of governors given in primary sources. The Mozarabic Chronicle does not specify how Uthman came to power and it may be that he was not appointed or approved by either his immediate superior, the governor of Ifriqiya, or the sovereign, the Umayyad caliph in Damascus. According to the Chronicle, which criticises Hudhayfa for his lack of seriousness,Roger Collins, The Arab Conquest of Spain, 710–797 (Blackwell, 1989), p. 85. > Uthman came secretly from Africa to rule Spain. After [he] had ruled for > four months, substituting for [Hudhayfa] with honour, [al-Haytham] openly > revealed the seal or authorization of the prince, sent from the aforesaid > region [Ifriqiya], indicating that he was to take control of Spain > immediately.Kenneth Baxter Wolf (ed. and trans.), "The Chronicle of 754", > Conquerors and Chroniclers of Early Medieval Spain, Second Edition > (Liverpool University Press, 1999), §78, p. 115. Uthman was succeeded by al-Haytham ibn Ubayd al-Kilabi. NotesReferences Umayyad governors of al-Andalus 8th-century Umayyad people 8th-century Arabs "