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"Fortson is an unincorporated community in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. Notes Category:Unincorporated communities in Snohomish County, Washington Category:Unincorporated communities in Washington (state) "
"Babette Hughes (1905–1982) was an American playwright of one-act plays and mystery novelist. She was born in Seattle, Washington and while an English student at the University of Washington she met the American playwright Glenn Hugheswhom she married in 1924 for around 20 years. Hughes wrote comedic one- act plays, mysteries, and non-fiction works. Personal life She was born Helen Babette Plechner in Seattle, Washington on December 28, 1905.Washington Birth Records, 1870-1935 (via Ancestry.com), viewed on May 3, 2018. In 1923, while an English student at the University of Washington she met the American playwright Glenn Hughes, who had joined the university as an assistant professor of drama in 1919.Hughes, Glenn (1894–1964), Historylink, retrieved May 7, 2017. Secretly married in 1924, they were together for around 20 years. After their divorce in 1944 or 1946, she relocated from Seattle to New York City and married Benn Hall, a public relations executive. Her daughter Mary Anne remained in Seattle, and she returned to Seattle several times to visit. Once Hall died, Hughes took over his public relations firm. Plays Hughes frequently wrote comedic one-act plays, particularly in the subgenre of 10-minute plays. Her writing was reviewed positively, and she was known for her sophisticated characters. As well as writing her own plays, she worked with her husband to translate other monologues and plays from French into English. She wrote more than 20 plays, including: * March Heir (1925)Babette Hughes (1906–), Dollee: The Playwright's Database, retrieved May 7, 2017. * No More Americans (1925)Adapted into a radio play and presented on-air on KFAC in 1935 by players from Los Angeles City College: see * Three Players, a Fop and a Duchess (1925) * One Egg (1926)Published in 1926 as a part of a collection of twelve plays in The Appleton Book of Short Plays edited by Kenyon Nicholson and published by D. Appleton & Company * Bound for Mexico (1926) * Money for Jam (1928) * Backstage (1929) * Columbine in the Country (1930) * Please Do Not Pick the Flowers (1931) * Safety Pins First (1932)Performed 1940 at Mansfield University of Pennsylvania: see * The First White Woman (1932) * Too Many Cakes (1934) * Fit as a Fiddle (1936)The One-act Theater: New Comedies and Dramas, Samuel French, 1936, p177 * Daisy Won't Tell (1937) * If the Shoe Pinches (1937) * Mrs Harper's Bazaar (1937) * Early Victorian (1938) * Greek to You (1938) * Spring Scene (1939) * Because It's June (1940) * The Lady Who Came to Lunch (1942) * Life with Mother (1942)Included as one of two plays in Glenn Hughes' book on the history of the Penthouse Theatre at the University of Washington, The Penthouse Theatre, its History and Technique, Samuel French, 1942. * Sisters Under the Skin (1949) The Oakland Tribune called her play One Egg "a rather clever farce". In 1936, she was published in a collection of One-Act plays in a 2 volume collection, The One Act Theater, along with Ethel van der Veer and her husband, Glen Hughes and published by Samuel French, Inc.. Her 1937 one-act-play If the Shoe Pinches was published in the 1938 anthology The Best One-Act Plays of 1937, which features work by "the best-known playwrights". If the Shoe Pinches was performed in 1938 with blind actresses performing the six roles. Other works Another of Hughes' earliest works was Christopher Morley, multi ex uno (University of Washington chapbooks, no. 12, 1928), a work based on the life and personality of American poet and novelist Christopher Morley. It was published as part a series of chapbooks developed by her husband at the University of Washington. Hughes presents different aspects of Morley as different characters in the book, which was reviewed positively in the Oakland Tribune in 1928. She wrote two mysteries about a fictional detective from Stanford University, Murder in the Zoo in 1932 and Murder in Church in 1934. In May 1935, she wrote a fictional ending to the actual George Weyerhaeuser kidnapping in a piece for the Seattle Daily Times, in which the poet Egbert Lobe rescues the nine-year-old boy. Hughes' 1946 semi-autobiographical novel Last Night When We Were Young features a character named Julie who experiences similar things to the author. Kenneth Horan, writing for the Chicago Tribune on February 22, 1948, said in a review of the book, "There is sufficient talent in Miss Hughes' charming head to write any number of novels. But she seems to be in a hurry. She glosses over incidents with the wide broad sweep of a scythe, and she rushes headlong into the great moments of reconciliation or regret or accomplishment, without waiting to explain. But her writing has a quality of entertainment and for that, all else is forgiven". The book was followed the next year by Magic Penny, which was also about a playwright in a relationship with a much younger woman. She also wrote a non-fiction book based on her work in public relations, The right angles; how to do successful publicity (New York: Ives Washburn, 1965).Book News, The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 6, 1965, p. 129. References Category:American women dramatists and playwrights Category:American women novelists Category:1906 births Category:1982 deaths Category:Writers from Seattle Category:University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences alumni Category:20th-century American dramatists and playwrights Category:20th-century American novelists Category:20th-century American women writers Category:American mystery writers Category:Women mystery writers Category:Novelists from Washington (state) "
"Narendra Kumar (1 February 1940 – 28 August 2017) was an Indian theoretical physicist and a Homi Bhaba Distinguished Professor of the Department of Atomic Energy at Raman Research Institute. He was also an honorary professor at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research. Known for his research on disordered systems and superconductivity, Kumar was an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies – Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy, and National Academy of Sciences, India – as well as the American Physical Society and The World Academy of Sciences. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to physical sciences in 1985. In 2006 he received the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian honour of the Government of India, in the science and engineering category. Biography IIT Kharagpur - Main Building Raman Research Institute Born on the 1 February 1940 to Labha Mal Julka-Taravatti couple in Bilaspur in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, Narendra Kumar obtained an honors degree in electronics and electrical communication engineering in 1962 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, passing the examination with second rank. He continued at IIT kharagpur for his master's studies and before completing MTech with a first rank in 1963, he stood first in India in the All India Electronics Engineering Examination in 1962. After obtaining the master's degree, he started his career in 1963 as a senior scientific officer at Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (then known as Institute of Armament Studies) and served there till his move to National Chemical Laboratory in 1965 as a B grade scientist. Kumar resumed his studies in 1968 by enrolling for doctoral studies at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and secured a PhD under the guidance of Krityunjai Prasad Sinha and Ram Prakash Singh in 1971. After doing his post- doctoral work at the laboratory of Maurice Pryce of University of British Columbia, he joined Indian Institute of Science as an assistant professor and served the institution for close to quarter of a century during which period, he held the position of a professor from 1975 to 1994. He was appointed as the director of Raman Research Institute (RRI) in 1994 where he served until his superannuation in 2005. Post-retirement, he continued his association with RRI as the Homi Bhabha Distinguished Scientist and DAE chair professor. During his career, he has had visiting assignments at various institutions abroad such as University of Liège (1975–76), University of Warwick (1978–79), Drexel University (1984), National Autonomous University of Mexico (1985), McGill University (1987 and 1988) and International Centre for Theoretical Physics (1988–89). He was also associated with Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, a multidisciplinary research institute, where he held an honorary professor position and with Tata Institute of Fundamental Research as an adjunct professor since 2008. Kumar lived in R. M. V. Extension in Bengaluru in Karnataka. He died on 28 August 2017. Legacy A high- temperature superconductor levitating above a magnet His doctoral studies at IIT Bombay gave Kumar opportunity to work alongside noted physicists such as Krityunjai Prasad Sinha and Ram Prakash Singh and during his days at the University of British Columbia, he studied condensed matter physics with Maurice Pryce. He carried on his work on superconductivity and disordered systems at Indian Institute of Science and his collaboration with Pedro Pereyra and others yielded the Dorokhov-Mello-Pereyra-Kumar (DMPK) equation, a theory on multi-channel conductivity using the principle of maximum entropy, which has since been subjected to studies by several scientists. Besides his work on diffusion in glasses, he has done extensive studies on random dynamical systems, especially on the nature of electron transport. His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and the article repository of Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 167 of them. He has published four books, Interaction-Magnetically-Ordered-Solids, coauthored with his mentor, Krityunjai Prasad Sinha, Invitation to Contemporary Physics, Deterministic Chaos: Complex Chance out of Simple Necessity and Quantum Transport in Mesoscopic Systems: Complexity and Statistical Fluctuations which is a monograph in the field of mesoscopic physics. He had also guided 12 doctoral students in their doctoral studies. Kumar had been connected with the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) since 1970, serving as an associate or senior associate until 1992 and as a staff associate from 1993 to 2010. He was a former member of the editorial board of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter and various committees of The World Academy of Sciences. He had been involved with the committees for the review of research institutions which included Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and Physical Research Laboratory and has been the chairman of the committee of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research for selecting Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize winners. He also served as the president of the Indian Academy of Sciences during 1998–2000. Awards and honors The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1985. He received the TWAS Prize in 1992 and the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, chose him for its Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1996. A year after receiving the Mahendra Lal Sircar Prize in 1997, he was selected for the Goyal Award of Kurukshetra University in 1998, followed by the FICCI Award of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry in 1999. The Indian Science Congress Association awarded him the C. V. Raman Birth Centenary Award in 2000, the same year as he received the Meghnad Saha Medal of the Indian National Science Academy. The year 2006 brought him three major awards: the Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian honor, the R. D. Birla Award of the Indian Physics Association, and the Distinguished Materials Scientist Award of the Materials Research Society of India. The Indian Academy of Sciences elected Kumar as their fellow in 1985 and he was elected as a fellow by the Indian National Science Academy in 1987. He received elected fellowships of two science organizations in 1994, the National Academy of Sciences, India, and the American Physical Society. He became a fellow of The World Academy of Sciences the next year. The award orations delivered by him include the Jawarharlal Nehru Birth Centenary lecture (1996) and the Jagadis Chandra Bose lecture (2008) of the Indian National Science Academy. Selected bibliography =Books= * =Articles= * See also *Langevin dynamics *Order and disorder *Stochastic process *Bose–Einstein condensate Notes References Further reading * External links * * Category:1940 births Category:People from Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh Category:Indian condensed matter physicists Category:Scientists from Chhattisgarh Category:Indian technology writers Category:Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur alumni Category:Indian Institute of Technology Bombay alumni Category:Tata Institute of Fundamental Research faculty Category:Indian Institute of Science faculty Category:University of British Columbia alumni Category:National Autonomous University of Mexico faculty Category:University of Liège faculty Category:Academics of the University of Warwick Category:Drexel University faculty Category:McGill University faculty Category:Recipients of the Padma Shri in science & engineering Category:Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Physical Science Category:TWAS laureates Category:Fellows of the American Physical Society Category:Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy Category:Fellows of The National Academy of Sciences, India Category:TWAS fellows Category:Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences Category:20th-century Indian physicists Category:2017 deaths "