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"Anna Lee Fisher Anna Lee Fisher (née Tingle) (born August 24, 1949) is an American chemist, emergency physician, and a former NASA astronaut. Formerly married to fellow astronaut Bill Fisher, and the mother of two children, in 1984 she became the first mother in space. Fisher was formerly the oldest active American astronaut. During her career at NASA, she has been involved with three major programs: the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station and the Orion project. Fisher was born in New York City, and grew up in San Pedro, California. She is a 1967 graduate of San Pedro High"
"Anna Lee Fisher of St. Albans, New York on August 23, 1977. They have two daughters, Kristin Anne (b. July 29, 1983), who is a Washington D.C.-based correspondent for the Fox News Channel, and Kara Lynne (b. January 10, 1989) who received her MBA degree in May, 2017 from SMU in Dallas, Texas. The Drs. Fisher were divorced in 2000. Dr. Fisher collects Bill Graham Fillmore, Family Dog, and other rock/concert music posters from the 1965-1973 time frame. He is an amateur luthier, specializing in making, repairing, and refinishing Neapolitan-style mandolins. Dr. Fisher is also the owner of Twenty-First Century"
"First Play"" initially appeared in ""Shaw 7: The Neglected Plays"", Alfred Turco, Jr., ed. (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1987) and was reprinted in ""Modern Critical Views: George Bernard Shaw"", Harold Bloom, ed. (Infobase [Facts on File/Chelsea House], 1987). She has presented papers on ""The Heroine, the Star Goddess, and the Invention of Mathematics"" (CUNY English Forum, 1984) to ""A Woman with the Hair of a Pythoness"" (reprinted in ""Wallace Stevens and the Feminine"" [University of Alabama, 1993]) to ""Milton's Diabolical Calculus: Pandaemonium in ""Paradise Lost"""" (Symposium for Medieval, Renaissance & Baroque Studies, University of Miami, 2001). In 1995, Fisher spoke"
"Anna S. Fisher Anna S. Fisher (1873–1942) was an American artist and teacher. She was proficient in both watercolors and oil paints. The National Academy of Design included her works in 40 annual exhibitions between 1904 and 1942. Fisher was born in Cold Brook, New York. She studied at Pratt Institute Art School in Brooklyn, New York, graduating in 1900. She then taught at Pratt for forty years. Fisher was a member of the American Watercolor Society; the National Academy Museum and School; the American Watercolor Society; the New York Society of Painters; Allied Artists of America; the National Arts"
"Ann Fisher (grammarian) Ann Fisher (born approximately 9 December 1719 – 2 May 1778) was a British author and grammarian. Her ""A New Grammar"" published in 1745 makes her the earliest published female author on modern English grammar, with deference to Elizabeth Elstob who published a grammar of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) in 1715. Fisher was born in Lorton, Cumberland, England, the daughter of Henry Fisher, yeoman, of Oldscale. Not much more is known of her life until her marriage to Thomas Slack in December 1751. Together they had nine children and ran a number of businesses, including a ladies' school"
"school and received a Master of Science in Chemistry from UCLA in 1987. She resides in Houston, Texas. Fisher was selected as an astronaut candidate in January 1978. In August 1979, she completed her training and evaluation period, making her eligible for assignment as a mission specialist on space shuttle flight crews. Following the one-year basic training program, Fisher's early NASA assignments (pre-STS-1 through STS-4) included the following: For STS-5 through STS-7, Fisher supported vehicle integrated testing and payload testing at Kennedy Space Center. In addition, Fisher supported each Orbital Flight Test (STS 1-4) launch and landing (at either a"
"Emeritus Professor of Poetry and Art at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has exhibited widely and his work is represented in the Tate Gallery. He edits the magazine ""Spanner"". Allen Fisher Allen Fisher (born 1944) is a poet, painter, publisher, teacher and performer associated with the British Poetry Revival. Fisher was born in London and started writing poetry in 1962. His early long project ""Place"" was published in a series of books and pamphlets in the 1970s. He worked on a project called ""Gravity as a consequence of shape"" from 1982 which he completed in 2007. This was followed by a"
"Club and the National Association of Women Artists. Fisher died in Cold Brook in 1942. The same year Pratt Institute held a memorial exhibition of her work. Her work is in the collections of Pratt Institute Art School, the Brooklyn Museum, National Academy Museum and School, and the National Arts Club. Anna S. Fisher Anna S. Fisher (1873–1942) was an American artist and teacher. She was proficient in both watercolors and oil paints. The National Academy of Design included her works in 40 annual exhibitions between 1904 and 1942. Fisher was born in Cold Brook, New York. She studied at"
"Capitol Hill to testify before a number of committees."" After leaving NASA, Fisher returned to the practice of emergency medicine. He remains in active medical practice in the greater Houston area at the present time. William Frederick Fisher William Frederick Fisher (born April 1, 1946) is an American physician and a former NASA astronaut. Fisher went into space in 1985 on board the Space Shuttle. He retired from NASA in 1992 and returned to the full-time practice of medicine. His time at NASA coincided with that of his former wife and fellow astronaut Anna Lee Fisher. Fisher was born April"
"Angeles, California, enrolled in art school. Her first marriage to Garry Gregson ended in divorce in 1970. After a brief return to Los Angeles, Fisher moved to London on 8 August 1971 to pursue a painting career full-time. She died at age 47 from hyperacute haemorrhagic leuco-encephalitis (not an aneurysm, as is commonly written). Fisher studied minimalist art and sculpture, graduating in 1968 with a BFA from the Chouinard Art Institute, but soon recognised that her compelling ambition was to be an intimate, observational painter. From 1970 to 1971 she was personal administrative assistant to the American printmaker Ken Tyler"
"Saitoti, van Offelen and Linda Donley-Reid, she ""was able to absorb techniques of interviewing, to learn what questions to ask in order to explore the many aspects of traditional African life."" Beckwith first heard about Angela Fisher through Fisher's brother Simon in 1974, during a hot air balloon ride in Maasai country. They met during Fisher's exhibition of traditional African jewelry in Nairobi, where they discovered they shared a passion for documenting traditional African cultures. Within one week, they were photographing a Maasai warrior ceremony together. During more than three decades of collaboration, they produced ""African Ark"" (Abrams, 1990), ""African"
"giving this astronaut class five total recipients of this top NASA award. This is second to the New Nine class which won seven. After the ""Challenger"" accident, Sally Ride would serve on both the Rogers Commission and the ""Columbia"" Accident Investigation Board. By 2008, only Anna Fisher remained on active duty eligible for a flight assignment, By 2011 she was no longer eligible for space travel and had become a management astronaut, She currently works jointly for the Capsule Communicator and Exploration branches of NASA, working as a station CAPCOM and on display development for the Orion project. Fisher's tenure"
"prime or backup site) as a physician in the rescue helicopters, and provided both medical and operational inputs to the development of rescue procedures. Fisher was a CAPCOM for STS-9. She eventually flew in late 1984 on STS-51-A aboard ""Discovery"". The mission deployed two satellites, and recovered two others whose failed to ignite. Fisher was assigned as a mission specialist on STS-61-H prior to the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Following the accident she worked as the Deputy of the Mission Development Branch of the Astronaut Office, and as the astronaut office representative for Flight Data File issues. In that capacity"
"Adrian Fisher Adrian Fisher (born 5 August 1951) is a well-known maze and puzzle designer, responsible for more than 700 mazes in 35 countries since 1979. Fisher and his wife Marie are Directors of Adrian Fisher Design Ltd. Fisher has created 48 mirror mazes, and pioneered the extensive use of thematic chambers within mirror mazes, to achieve Mirror Maze Adventures. He has created 44 hedge mazes, and pioneered the use of Folly Towers, Tunnels, Walk-through Parting Waterfalls and Foaming Fountain Gates in mazes. He designed the world’s first cornfield maize maze in 1993 and over 400 since, and has set"
"Allen Fisher Allen Fisher (born 1944) is a poet, painter, publisher, teacher and performer associated with the British Poetry Revival. Fisher was born in London and started writing poetry in 1962. His early long project ""Place"" was published in a series of books and pamphlets in the 1970s. He worked on a project called ""Gravity as a consequence of shape"" from 1982 which he completed in 2007. This was followed by a book of emblems (poem-image-commentary) called ""Proposals"" and, in 2014, a collage book of poetry, visual images and prose quotations called ""SPUTTOR"". As editor of ""Spanner"" and ""New London"
"Amanda Fisher Dame Amanda Gay Fisher is a British cell biologist and Director of the Medical Research Council (MRC) London Institute of Medical Sciences at the Hammersmith Hospital campus of Imperial College London, where she is also a Professor leading the Institute of Clinical Sciences. She has made contributions to multiple areas of cell biology, including determining the function of several genes in HIV and describing the importance of a gene's location within the cell nucleus. As a postdoctoral researcher, she produced the first functional copies of HIV, providing researchers with access to enough biologically active material to study the"
"Jean Fisher Jean Fisher (17 October 1942 – 12 December 2016) was a UK-based art critic and writer. Her research explored the intertwined legacies of colonialism and the emergent conflicts of globalization in Ireland, Native America, the Black Atlantic and more recently Palestine. She studied zoology and fine art. In the 1980s in New York City she contributed regularly to ""Artforum International"". At that time she curated exhibitions of contemporary Native American art with the artist Jimmie Durham. In New York she taught in the School of Visual Arts, State University of New York at Old Westbury and the Whitney"
"William Frederick Fisher William Frederick Fisher (born April 1, 1946) is an American physician and a former NASA astronaut. Fisher went into space in 1985 on board the Space Shuttle. He retired from NASA in 1992 and returned to the full-time practice of medicine. His time at NASA coincided with that of his former wife and fellow astronaut Anna Lee Fisher. Fisher was born April 1, 1946, in Dallas, Texas. He graduated high school in Syracuse, New York, then attended Stanford University before entering medical school at the University of Florida . He married fellow physician and later fellow astronaut,"
"she served as the crew representative on the Crew Procedures Change Board. Fisher served on the Astronaut Selection Board for the 1987 class of astronauts. Fisher also served in the Space Station Support Office where she worked part-time in the Space Station Operations Branch. She was the crew representative supporting space station development in the areas of training, operations concepts, and the health maintenance facility. With her husband, fellow astronaut Dr. William Frederick Fisher, she had two daughters, Kristin Anne (b. July 29, 1983) and Kara Lynne (b. January 10, 1989). From 1988 to 1996, Dr. Fisher took an extended"
"Dana R. Fisher Dana R. Fisher is an American sociologist, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Program for Society and the Environment at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research interest is the relationship between environmentalism and democracy. Fisher graduated with an AB in East Asian Studies and Environmental Studies from Princeton University, an MS in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was awarded the Katherine DuPre Lumpkin Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to her"
"children with his first wife, including Linda Whetstone, who has been involved with many of Fisher's think tanks. His granddaughter, Rachel Whetstone, serves as senior vice-president of communications and public policy for Uber. She is married to David Cameron's former director of strategy Steve Hilton. His second wife, Dorian Fisher, was George N. Crocker's widow. He died on 8 July 1988 in San Francisco, California. Antony Fisher Sir Antony Fisher (born Antony George Anson Fisher, also nicknamed AGAF; 28 June 1915 – 8 July 1988) was a British businessman and think tank founder. He participated in the formation of various"
"in the City of Birmingham on 2 July 1974. In the House of Lords, Fisher became Crown Representative of the General Medical Council in September 1974 and later chaired the Esperanto Group. She was nominated an Assistant Whip for Environment in 1983, an office she held until the following year. Fisher entered the European Parliament in 1975, sitting in Strasbourg until 1979. She was vice-president of the Institute of Trading Standards Administration (today the Trading Standards Institute). In December 1991, at the age of 72, Lady Fisher slept rough in a nest of cardboard boxes at Birmingham's St Philip's Cathedral"
"Anne B. Fisher Anne Benson Fisher (February 1, 1898 – March 5, 1967) was an American writer of fiction and non-fiction whose primary emphasis was California. Her two most significant works were her novel ""Cathedral in the Sun"" (1940) and her contribution to the Rivers of America Series, ""The Salinas: Upside Down River"" (1945). In 1922 Fisher married Walter Kenrick Fisher. They resided in Pacific Grove, California, and also had a house in Carmel Valley. Fisher moved to Medford, Oregon after her husband's death. Her novel ""Cathedral in the Sun"" was based on the lives of the early settlers of"
"M. F. K. Fisher Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (July 3, 1908 – June 22, 1992) was a preeminent American food writer. She was a founder of the Napa Valley Wine Library. Over her lifetime she wrote 27 books, including a translation of ""The Physiology of Taste"" by Brillat-Savarin. Fisher believed that eating well was just one of the ""arts of life"" and explored this in her writing. W. H. Auden once remarked, ""I do not know of anyone in the United States who writes better prose."" Fisher was born Mary Frances Kennedy on July 3, 1908 at 202 Irwin Avenue,"
"located in the lower left bay, is sheltered by an enclosed hip-roofed vestibule. The interior follows a central-chimney plan, with two rooms on the first floor and two on the second, set on either side of the chimney. The building has retained interior finishes, as well as Fisher family possessions. Jonathan Fisher House The Jonathan Fisher House is a historic house museum at 44 Mines Road in Blue Hill, Maine. The house was built in 1814 by Reverend Jonathan Fisher, the first settled minister of Blue Hill, and is now a museum dedicated to his legacy. Fisher (1768-1847) kept a"
"Andrew Fisher (physicist) Andrew James Fisher is Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at University College London. His team is part of the Condensed Matter and Materials Physics group, and based in the London Centre for Nanotechnology (a joint venture between UCL and Imperial College, London). His research area is in understanding the behaviour of electrons in nanostructures. Predicting the behaviour of electrons using quantum mechanics theory, to compare with experimental data. Current funded project topics include: He was educated at Abingdon School from 1976 until 1983 before going to Clare College, Cambridge. Fisher lectured at"
"have been central to the artist's work, examining domestic and personal issues through a feminist perspective with honesty. She often uses herself and her family as models. Art history has been an influence on her work, as has religious iconography, and drawing has been a central part of her artistic practice. The ""Canopy Series"" (1987) draws on experiences from the artist's own family. It was first exhibited in Glasgow at the Third Eye Centre, and later in Aberdeen, Dundee, at the 10th International Bradford Biennale, Plymouth, Cardiff and Orkney. Fisher's ""Vigil I"" series (1999–2000) is a suite of prints made"
"which Ann ran herself. In spite of the prejudices against women as ""of inferior intelligence"" at that time, Fisher managed to publish what is considered the fourth most popular English grammar book produced in the 18th century, as well as a number of other titles, many of which were published by her husband, Thomas. She died of an asthma attack in 1778. As indicated in the title, ""A New Grammar with Exercises of Bad English"", Ann's book used examples of poor English to teach grammar. ""A New Grammar"" also attacked the use of Latin rules in the vernacular, and was"
"house of Nasa's Langley Research Center. Those include semi-official duties — Fisher was a special guest at the 95th Indianapolis 500 on May 24, 2015. Those have also included appearances related to both the novelty of her being one of the original six women selected by NASA (Connie Chung interviewed her on the day she was selected) and her former marriage to fellow astronaut Bill Fisher — they appeared together with their daughter Kristin on an August 1983 segment of Good Morning America. Outside of the publicity she does herself, her likeness has been widely shared on the Internet and"
"Paul C. Fisher Paul C. Fisher (October 10, 1913 – October 20, 2006) was an American inventor and politician. He invented the Fisher Space Pen. Fisher was born in Lebanon, Kansas, the son of Alice (Bales) and Carey Albert Fisher, a Methodist minister. The Fisher Space Pen is a ballpoint pen which works with thixotropic ink and a pressurized ink cartridge. It can write on almost any substance ranging from butter to steel. It also can survive a wide array of temperatures, ranging from -50 to 160 degrees Fahrenheit. Fisher submitted his invention to NASA. After vigorous testing, NASA approved"
"the United States"". She stressed the need for conservation, and believed ""unclaimed"" land should be used for agriculture. She was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Geographical Society, and also was a member of the Appalachian Mountain Club and the Boston Society of Natural History. She died in 1941 from illness. Currently, at Wellesley College, there is a scholarship in her name for women graduates of this institution who are planning on further study. Elizabeth F. Fisher Elizabeth Florette Fisher (November 26, 1873 – April 25, 1941) was one of the first"
"at Chouinard. Durant warned her against painting ""death masks"" like one might see in Greek cemeteries and encouraged her to embody her figures with life. Within a short time Fisher distanced herself from conceptual art to favor portraiture, the male and female nude, and depictions of dancers, singers, actors and musicians. She occasionally sat in on classes by David Hockney at the Slade School of Art and from 1975 began to hire models to sit for her. Later in her career, intrigued by the writing of Paris-based painter Avigdor Arikha about ""plein-air"" painting and his practice of ""alla prima"" painting,"
"at Gemini G.E.L., the print atelier he founded in Los Angeles. During this period Fisher re-united with her mother, who now lived and painted in Los Angeles and who once again became an important source of inspiration as well as an intellectual ally. At Gemini, she met Robert Irwin and R B Kitaj; each had a profound if contradictory influence on Fisher's own developing philosophy of art. She worked a few hours a week for the historian Ariel Durant, whose ideas about art history helped her come to terms with her current emphasis on style, an artifact from her years"