Ian Sneddon was born December 8, 1919 Glasgow, Scotland. Ian's father was Naismith Sneddon, who was from a Scottish family that had immigrated to Arizona with the hopes of finding gold. Ian was raised in a poor but loving and caring home. Sneddon went to the Thornwood Primary School. From the age of 10 he was successful in competing for a place at the new Hyndland Secondary School in Glasgow. At 15 Ian became Dux of the school. James Milroy, Ian's mathematics teacher, persuaded him to stay at the school for one additional year to study mathematics. At 16, in 1936, Ian entered the University of Glasgow. While at the university, Ian was interested in both physics and mathematics. Ian graduated in 1940 with First Class Honours in both mathematics and physics. Ian was awarded a Bryce Fellowship after graduating from Glasgow. This allowed him to continue studying at Trinity College, Cambridge. Sneddon took undergraduate courses at Cambridge leading to the Mathematical Tripos. Before he entered Cambridge it was sure to happen that he would soon end up undertaking war work. Sneddon was assigned with the Ministry of Supply duties as a scientific officer in 1942. This was shortly after he took part two of the Mathematical Tripos. As a scientific officer he was sent to the Cavendish Laboratory. In September 1943 Ian Sneddon married Mary Campbell Macgregor. He had known Mary since his school days. Together Mary and Ian had one daughter and two sons. Sneddon was soon transferred to work at Fort Halstead in Kent. When the war ended Ian was appointed to a research post in the H H Wills Physical Laboratory at Bristol University. At Bristol University he continued to work with N F Mott on nuclear physics. Mott and Sneddon also worked on their wave mechanics book. Their book, Wave Mechanics and its Applications was published in 1948. Their book discussed applications of quantum mechanics instead of studying the theoretical foundations.
James Naismith. ... Naismith tried to play sports, such as lacrosse and soccer, inside. ... Naismith's game of basketball was a success. ... Naismith had wanted it to be a non-contact sport. ... Naismith married one of the first women basketball players, Maude Sherman. ...
Because it is a movement - indeed, the movement of the Holy Spirit, as Ian Fraser often reminds us - it has a certain spontaneity, which means that it takes on different shapes and hues in different contexts. ... Ian Fraser has drawn together interviews conducted over more that twenty years - with some communities visited on more than one occasion - and made them available to a wider readership. ...
Naismith invented basketball in 1891. Naismith was a physical-education instructor at international YMCA training school in Springfeild, Mass. ... But the janitor could find only some half-bushel baskets, which Naismith accepted. ... In December, 1891, Naismith's physical-education class played the first basketball game. ... Naismith published his 13 original rules for the game in the YMCA Training School newspaper on Jan. 15, 1892. ...
James Naismith was the Canadian physical education instructor who invented basketball in 1891. James Naismith was born in Almonte, Ontario and educated at McGill University and Presbyterian Cllege in Montreal. ... At Springfield College (which was then the Y.M.C.A. training school), James Naismith, under the direction of American phys-ed specialist Luther Halsey Gulick, invented the indoor sport of basketball. ... In 1959, James Naismith was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame (called the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame.) ...
As Ian and Sue Hughes are already involved in importing paper filters for large industrial water treatment plants, Ian has come up with the idea that Morningtown Peninsula could start using domestic water purifiers to solve the problem of the water been a little dirty or sometimes poor tasting. Ian has made enquiries and has learned that a minimum order of 30 000 domestic water purifiers need to be made, at a cost of $200.00ea, and 60 000 paper filters at $20.00ea. ... As Morningtown Peninsula is lacking excellence in its quality of water, Ian and Sue Hughes, primarily Ian have seen the ad...
