John Parsons

John Whiteside Parsons

About

Born

02 October 1914 · Los Angeles, CA

Died

17 June 1952 · Pasadena, CA

Work

Position

Chemist · Author · Justice · Usher · Engineer · Physicist

He was one of the principal founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Aerojet. Parsons was also an occultist and one of the first United Statess to take a keen interest in the writings of England author and Thelema's founder Aleister Crowley....

Education

Specialty

Fiction writer

Area of science

Leadership · Nuclear physics

John Whiteside Parsons " John Whiteside Parsons " ( born " Marvel Whiteside Parsons "; October 2, 1914 – June 17, 1952 ), better known as " Jack Parsons ", was an American rocket propulsion researcher at the California Institute of Technology and a pioneer in solid rocket fuel research and development
" He was critical of the socialist policies instituted in the Soviet Union by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union under the leadership of Joseph Stalin at the time, believing that like the fascism leaders Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, they led to the " establishment of concentration camps, the murder and torture of free citizens, and the annihilation of all freedom.

Skills & Activities

Preference

Torture · Libertarianism · Socialism · Dictatorship · Security clearance · Fascist · Authoritarianism · Capitalism · Con artist · Agorism · Scientology · Villain

Skill

Creative · Sterilization · Progress · Scientific

Sport

Hunter

Activity

Magic

His rocket research was some of the earliest in the United States, and his pioneering work in the development of Solid-fuel rocket and the invention of JATO units for aircraft was of great importance to the start of humanity's space age....

John Denham Parsons

About

Born

1861 · South Stoneham , Hampshire, England

Work

He was a member of the Society for Psychical Research. He attempted pamphlet controversy with Sir Sidney Lee and authorities at the British Museum over the Shakespeare authorship question.

Skills & Activities

Activity

English non-fiction writer

John Meeson Parsons

About

Born

1798

Died

1870

Work

Position

Chairman

For many years he resided at 6 Raymond Buildings, Gray's Inn, and spent much of his time in collecting pictures and works of art....

Education

Specialty

Director

He then settled in the city of London, and became a member of the Stock Exchange.
In this office he was succeeded by Pascoe Grenfell on 11 April 1844, and ceased to be a director on 21 Aug....

Skills & Activities

Preference

Associate

Parsons, youngest son of Thomas Parsons of Newport, Shropshire, was born at Newport, and educated by the Rev....

John Edward Parsons

About

Born

24 November 1829 · New York City

Died

16 February 1915

Parents

Edward Lamb
Matilda Parsons

Work

Position

New York lawyer · Lawyer · President

He was educated at New York University and Yale Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1852....

Education

Studied at

New York University · Yale University

Parsons began his legal career as the New York County District Attorney,
He served as president of the New York University Alumni Association and as a member of the university’s counsel.

Skills & Activities

John Edward Parsons " John Edward Parsons " ( October 24, 1829 – January 16, 1915 ) was a lawyer in New York City
His father was England and his mother was descended from a prominent Wallingford, Connecticut family....

John Parsons

About

Born

1742

Died

1785

Work

Position

18th-century English medical doctor

He was educated at Westminster School, becoming a king's scholar in 1756.
Parsons subsequently studied medicine at Oxford, London, and Edinburgh, with a preference for natural history and botany, and while at Edinburgh in 1766 was awarded the Hope prize medal for the best Hortus Siccus....

Education

Area of science

Natural history

Academic degree

Professor

In 1759, he was elected to Christ Church, Oxford, where he matriculated on 19 June.
Parsons was admitted a candidate of the Royal College of Physicians on 30 September 1774, and fellow a year later, 30 September 1775.

Skills & Activities

The son of Major Parsons of the Dragoons,
Parsons died of fever on 9 April 1785, and was buried in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, where there was a white marble gravestone to his memory.

John T . Parsons

About

Born

11 October 1913 · Detroit

Died

19 April 2007 · Traverse City

Spouse

Elizabeth Parsons (nee Elizabeth Mae Shaw)

Children

Carl, John, Robert, Grant, David Cameron Parsons, Meredith

Parents

Carl and Edith Thoren

Work

who Parsons hired when he was head of the Rotary Wing Branch of the Propeller Lab at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in April 1946....

Education

In 1948, Parsons' company, " Parsons Corporation " of Traverse City, Michigan, was awarded a contract to make the innovative and challenging tapered wings for military aircraft; they won the contract because they developed the computer support to do the difficult three-dimensional interpolation for the complex shapes, as well as the 800 steps long production cycle for the wing manufacturing....

Skills & Activities

Award

National Medal of Technology Recipient · National Medal

( Bendix Corporation was an initial license taker of the patent, in 1955, and eventually bought all the rights to it....