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Definition |
| Arthur Jeffrey Dempster |
Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (August 14 1886 - March 11 1950) was a Canadian-American physicist best known for his work in mass spectrometry and his discovery of the uranium isotope 235U. (references) |
| Barry Dempster |
Barry Dempster (born in Scarborough, Ontario) is a Canadian poet and novelist who lives in Holland Landing, Ontario. (references) |
| Charles Dempster |
Charles Stewart 'Stewie' Dempster (November 15, 1903 - February 14, 1974) was a former New Zealand cricketer and coach. As well as representing New Zealand cricket team, he also played for Wellington, Scotland, Leicestershire and Warwickshire. (references) |
| Dempster Dinosaur |
The Dempster Dinosaur is a garbage-handling vehicle made by Dempster Brothers. (references) |
| Dempster Dumpmaster |
The Dempster Dumpmaster, introduced in the 1950s was the first commercially successful front loading garbage truck. (references) |
| Dempster Highway |
The Dempster Highway is a highway that connects the Klondike Highway in the Yukon Territory of Canada to Inuvik, Northwest Territories, on the Mackenzie River delta. During the winter months, the highway extends another 194 km to Tuktoyaktuk, on the northern coast of Canada, using frozen portions of the Mackenzie River delta as ice bridges. (references) |
| George Dempster (lawyer) |
George Dempster (1732-1818) was a Scottish lawyer who was elected member of Parliament for the Forfar and Fife boroughs. He, Andrew Erskine, and James Boswell were joint authors and a "triumvirate of wit", although he later regretted at least one of their attacks, the Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, as he believed the tragedy was better than anything he or his co-authors could have done. He was also one of the founding members of the Poker Club of Edinburgh. (references) |
| George Roby Dempster |
George Roby Dempster (16 September 1887-18 September 1964) was an industrialist and inventor, and also served as mayor of Knoxville. (references) |
| Sean Dempster |
Sean Dempster (born 20 January 1984) is an Australian Rules Football player from the state of Victoria playing for the Sydney Swans of the AFL. Dempster grew up in the Victorian coastal town of Mallacoota, about six hours from Melbourne near the New South Wales border. (references) |
| Stuart Dempster |
Stuart Dempster (born 1936 in Berkeley, California) is a trombonist, didjeridu player, composer, author of The Modern Trombone: A Definition of Its Idioms (1979), and on the faculty of the University of Washington. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship award in 1981. (references) |
| Thomas Dempster |
Thomas Dempster (1579 - September 6, 1625) was a Scottish scholar and historian. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.
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