Famous People with Name Marvin

Marvin Camras            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Marvin Camras: was an electrical engineer and inventor who was widely influential in the field of magnetic recording.Camras built his first recording device, a wire recorder, in the 1930s for a cousin who was an aspiring singer. Shortly afterwards he discovered that using magnetic tape made the process of splicing and storing recordings easier.Camras's work attracted the notice of his professors at what is now the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT or Illinois Tech) and he was offered a position at the Armour Research Foundation (which in 1940 merged with Lewis Institute to become the Illinois Institute of Technology) to develop his work.

Marvin Leonard Goldberger            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Marvin Leonard Goldberger: a theoretical physicist and former president of the California Institute of Technology.Marvin Goldberger received his B.S. at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago in 1948 or 1949. His thesis advisor was Enrico Fermi. The title of his thesis was "Interaction of High- Energy Neutrons with Heavy Nuclei". [1Dr. Goldberger was a professor of physics at Princeton University from 1957 through 1977. He received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics in 1961,[2], and in 1963 was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. From 1978 through 1987 he served as president of Caltech. He was the Director of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1987 to 1991. From 1991 to 1993 he was a professor of physics at the University of California, Los Angeles. From 1993 to the present he has been a professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego, where he has served as Dean of Natural Sciences. He is currently an emeritus professor at UC San Diego.

Marvin Bell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Marvin Bell: is an American poet and teacher.He is the author of over 16 books of poetry. Notable books of poetry including The Book of the Dead Man (Copper Canyon, 1994) and Ardor: The Book of the Dead Man, Vol. 2. (Copper Canyon, 1997)

Marvin Lee Minsky            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Marvin Lee Minsky: is an American cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of MIT's AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy.Marvin Lee Minsky was born in New York City, where he attended The Fieldston School and the Bronx High School of Science. He later attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He served in the US Navy from 1944 to 1945. He holds a BA in Mathematics from Harvard (1950) and a PhD in the same field from Princeton (1954).

Marvin Lionel Bender            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Marvin Lionel Bender: was an American author and co-author of several books, publications and essays regarding African languages, particularly from Ethiopia and Sudan. He retired from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He did extensive work in all four language families of Ethiopia: Semitic, Cushitic, Omotic, Nilo-Saharan. He was a participant in the Survey of Language Use and Language Teaching in East Africa, sponsored by the Ford Foundation in 1968-1970, and later performed other research sponsored by the NSF.

Lee Marvin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lee Marvin: was an American film actor. Known for his gravelly voice, white hair and 6`2" stature, Marvin at first did supporting roles, mostly villains, soldiers, and other hard-boiled characters, but after winning a Best Actor Oscar for his part in Cat Ballou, he landed more heroic and sympathetic leading roles.

Charles Frederick Marvin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charles Frederick Marvin: was an American meteorologist, born at Putnam, Ohio. He graduated from Ohio State University in 1883, and was appointed to the United States Army Signal Corps of the United States Army. On July 1, 1891, an Act of Congress created the Weather Bureau from the signal service. All the men and duties relating to weather were transferred from the War Department. He became professor of meteorology in 1903 in the Weather Bureau, and chief there in 1913.Marvin conducted important experiments for determining the amount of moisture in the air, invented instruments for automatically measuring and recording rainfall, snowfall, etc., and produced other advancements during the time when man first began the employment of powered aircraft.

Brian Marvin            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Brian Marvin: was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Bedfordshire. He was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire. Marvin started his career at the age of 18 with Buckinghamshire, for whom he played until 1978. Ha