Famous Relatives

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Originally posted by Bullwinkle:
To prove that the apple does in fact fall a incredible distance from the tree….

My family (well…Uncle) invented something that you use daily…

Alfred awarded him in 1956 and 1972.

Can you guess who is in Bullwinkle’s family tree?

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Originally posted by ClevelandDad:
Pretty interesting question. Linus Pauling?

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Originally posted by Bullwinkle:

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Originally posted by ClevelandDad:

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Originally posted by Bullwinkle:

That is a diagram of a transistor on the stamp along with your famous uncle. The E is an emitter, the C is the collector, and the B is the B base. And now, you know the rest of the story...

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1972/bardeen-bio.html

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Yes, but is it PNP or NPN?

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Originally posted by PGStaff:
2bmom,

Reason we do that pertains to bloodlines. Don't know why we ask for famous relatives. However, it sure is interesting reading that stuff. There's been everything from baseball players in the hall of fame to Ben Franklin to Richard Nixon to Evander Holyfield to Elvis Presley.

My most famous relative was the person who shot and killed Jesse James in St Joe, MO. He was also an outlaw and in the James gang. I actually paid to visit the house where he killed Jesse. I kid you not, the biggest attraction was a bullet hole in the wall. Somehow it just didn't seem like it was worth paying for as we stood there staring at a small hole in the wall!

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Death

Jesse James's home in St. Joseph, where he was shotWith his gang depleted by arrests, deaths, and defections, James thought that he had only two men left whom he could trust: brothers Robert and Charley Ford. Charley had been out on raids with James before, but Bob was an eager new recruit. To better protect himself, James asked the Ford brothers to move in with him and his family. James often stayed with the Fords' sister Martha Bolton, and according to rumor he was "smitten" with her.[2] He did not know that Bob Ford had been conducting secret negotiations with Thomas T. Crittenden, the Missouri governor, to bring in the famous outlaw.[38] Crittenden had made capture of the James brothers his top priority; in his inaugural address he declared that no political motives could be allowed to keep them from justice. Barred by law from offering a sufficiently large reward, he had turned to the railroad and express corporations to put up a $5,000 bounty for each of them. President Ulysses S. Grant had also wanted James to be captured.[2]

On April 3, 1882, after eating breakfast, the Fords and James prepared for departure for another robbery, going in and out of the house to ready the horses. It was an unusually hot day. James removed his coat, then declared that he should remove his firearms as well, lest he look suspicious. James noticed a dusty picture on the wall and stood on a chair to clean it. Robert Ford took advantage of the opportunity, and shot James in the back of the head.[39][40][41] James' two previous bullet wounds and partially missing middle finger served as identifying marks for his body.[11]

The murder of Jesse James was a national sensation. The Fords made no attempt to hide their role. Indeed, Robert Ford wired the governor to claim his reward. Crowds pressed into the little house in St. Joseph to see the dead bandit, even while the Ford brothers surrendered to the authorities— but they were dismayed to find that they were charged with first degree murder. The Ford brothers were indicted, pled guilty, and sentenced to death by hanging in one day, but, two hours later were granted a full pardon by Governor Crittenden.[42]

The governor's quick pardon suggested that he may have been aware that the brothers intended to kill, rather than capture, James.[citation needed] The Ford brothers, like many who knew James, never believed it was practical to try to capture such a dangerous man.[citation needed] The implication that the chief executive of Missouri conspired to kill a private citizen startled the public and helped to create a new legend around James.

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John Bardeen (May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and electrical engineer, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory .

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2bmom,

Reason we do that pertains to bloodlines. Don't know why we ask for famous relatives. However, it sure is interesting reading that stuff. There's been everything from baseball players in the hall of fame to Ben Franklin to Richard Nixon to Evander Holyfield to Elvis Presley.

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Originally posted by PGStaff:
My most famous relative was the person who shot and killed Jesse James in St Joe, MO. He was also an outlaw and in the James gang.

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Originally posted by donnie:
Cleveland Dad,
The reference to the Ford brothers is well documented in the South, as "the dirty little coward who shot Mr. Howard" Howard being the alias that Jesse used to dodge yankee occupiers. There are numerous books with that title and in fact a recent movie with that title with Brad Pitt playing Jesse.
By now you realize that our famous lineage is Southern. We are related to the James Gang, our ancestors rode in the most feared clavary unit in the South, General Nathan Bedford Forrest, and fought in the Texas 5th, General Robert E Lee's hardest fighting men in the war. When the Texan's rode with Lee to Gettysburg, thru Maryland, the women would come out on the porches to look at the" wild, unkept, tall, and ruggedly handsome fighting men" from TEXAS.
All Southerners consider their family and lineage famous, our culture is so distinct from other parts of the country. Wyatt Earp was a direct family descendant, and down here, my Grandpa used to always say, you can tell a Southerner right away, because they will always ask a stranger, "Where is your family from?" while a yankee will always ask "what do you do for a living" Listen around and see if that isn't so.