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Florence Donald Shapiro (born May 2, 1948) [1] is an American politician from Texas. Her political career lasted over 30 years and coincided with Plano 's growth from a bedroom community of 17,000 to a city of almost 300,000 residents. After moving to Plano in 1972, she served on the Plano City Council from 1979 to 1990 and served as the city's ...
Aiken code. The Aiken code (also known as 2421 code) [1] [2] is a complementary binary-coded decimal (BCD) code. A group of four bits is assigned to the decimal digits from 0 to 9 according to the following table. The code was developed by Howard Hathaway Aiken and is still used today in digital clocks, pocket calculators and similar devices ...
Lawrence Shapiro. Lawrence Shapiro is a professor in the Department of Philosophy [1] at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the United States. His research focuses in the philosophy of psychology. He also works in both the philosophy of mind, and philosophy of biology .
Coupon, a document exchanged in a retail context to provide a discount on goods or services. Coupon (finance), with respect to bonds or certain derivatives, a coupon rate is the interest rate that the issuer pays to the bond holders. Coupon (PWB), a printed circuit card used to test the quality of a printed wiring board (PWB) fabrication process.
Arthur "Art" Shapiro is an American vision scientist and creator of visual illusions. He is the co-editor of the Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions. [1] He is currently a professor of psychology and computer science with the American University in Washington, D.C. , and Director of the Collaborative for Applied Perceptual Research and ...
Jack Shapiro. Jack Emanuel "Soupy" Shapiro (March 22, 1907 – February 5, 2001) was an American gridiron football player who played in one game with the Staten Island Stapletons of the National Football League (NFL) in 1929. Shapiro is most famous for being the shortest player in NFL history at about 5 ft 1 in (1.55 m).
Zalman Mordecai Shapiro (12 May 1920 – 16 July 2016) was an American chemist and inventor. He received 15 patents , including a 2009 patent on a process to make commercial production of diamonds cheaper, [1] and played a key role in the development of the reactor that powered the world's first nuclear powered submarine , the Nautilus .
Shapiro was born in New Jersey. Spending his early years in New York City and New Jersey, Shapiro started his career in the early 1980s as a comedian at Catch A Rising Star on Broadway. [2] Besides performing regularly on stage, [2] throughout the 1990s he acted and starred in numerous films by Louis CK, including Tomorrow Night. [3]