Henry Rose Carter

Henry Rose Carter

It shows him in his Public Health Service uniform sometime after 1915, when he attained the rank of Assistant Surgeon General. Carter was a quarantine officer and a field epidemiologist, best known for his discovery in 1898 of the extrinsic incubation period of yellow fever. His discovery led directly to the historic finding by Reed, Carroll, Agra-monte, and Lazear in 1900 that mosquitoes are t...

Lillian Carter, Rosalynn Carter, and caregiving.

O n March 10, 2011, former First Lady Rosalynn Carter was the guest speaker for the 20th induction ceremony of the Georgia Women of Achievement at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia. No one was more appropriate for this role, as one of the three women inducted that day was her own mother-in-law, Lillian Gordy Carter, who passed away in 1983 at the age of 85. Both of my parents were born and rai...

Jimmy carter.

He was educated in the Plains public schools in Georgia, attended Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and ultimately received a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1946. He was the first member of his family ever to go to college, and at the Naval Academy ranked 60th in a class of 820. He later did graduate work in nuclear physics...

Brandon Carter,

Although implicit in the discovery of the Schwarzschild solution 40 years earlier, the issues raised by the theory of what are now known as black holes were so unsettling to physicists of Einstein’s generation that the subject remained in a state of semiclandestine gestation until his demise. That turning point – just half a century after Einstein’s original foundation of relativity theory, and...

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