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Marshall Fire
The Marshall Fire was a wind-driven firestorm that burned through Superior and Louisville, Colorado, on December 30, 2021, destroying 1,084 homes, killing two people, and causing over $2 billion in damage.
Marshall H. Becker
Marshall H. Becker (1940–1993) was an American medical sociologist and professor at the University of Michigan, a pioneer of Health Belief Model and patient compliance research.
Marshall H. Edgell
Marshall H. Edgell, full name Marshall Hall Edgell, is a molecular biologist known for the 1974 Nature paper showing mammalian mitochondrial DNA is inherited maternally.
Marshall Hall (mathematician)
Marshall Hall Jr. (1910–1990) was an American mathematician at Ohio State and Caltech known for Theory of Groups, the Burnside problem for exponent 6, and the Hall–Paige conjecture.
Marshall Harvey Stone
Marshall Harvey Stone (1903–1989) was an American mathematician who joined analysis, algebra, and topology into functional analysis, and chaired mathematics at the University of Chicago.
Marshall Hatch
Marshall Davidson Hatch, born 1932 in Perth, is an Australian plant biochemist who co-discovered the C4 pathway of photosynthesis with C. Roger Slack, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1980.
Marshall I. Nathan
Marshall I. Nathan is an American electrical engineer who co-demonstrated stimulated emission from gallium arsenide p-n junctions in 1962, showing the injection laser was viable.
Marshall Islands
The Republic of the Marshall Islands (Aolepān Aorōkin M̧ajeļ) is a Pacific island country of 29 atolls in free association with the United States, with its capital at Majuro.
Marshall Islands campaign
The Marshall Islands campaign was a United States amphibious offensive in World War II, fought from January to February 1944, capturing Kwajalein, Majuro, and Eniwetok atolls from Japanese garrisons.
Marshall Jones (mechanical engineer)
Marshall Jones (born 1941) is an American mechanical engineer at General Electric known for industrial laser materials processing and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001.
Marshall K. Bartlett
Marshall K. Bartlett (1904–2002) was an American surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who performed early pancreatoduodenectomies and published on gallbladder surgery and pancreatitis.
Marshall Kay
Marshall Kay (George Marshall Kay, 1904–1975) was an American geologist at Columbia University whose 1951 memoir North American Geosynclines classified ancient sedimentary belts; he won the Penrose Medal in 1971.
Marshall L. Fisher
Marshall L. Fisher is a Wharton School operations management professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994 for improving supply chains with mathematical analysis.
Marshall M. Kaplan
Marshall M. Kaplan (1935–2012) was an American hepatologist known for widely cited New England Journal of Medicine reviews on alkaline phosphatase and primary biliary cirrhosis.
Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980), Canadian professor of English at Toronto, media theorist of "the medium is the message" and "the global village", author of The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962) and Understanding Media (1964), founder figure of media ecology.
Marshall mix design method
The Marshall mix design method is an empirical laboratory procedure that determines the optimum asphalt binder content for hot mix asphalt through stability and flow testing.
Marshall Peak
Marshall Peak is a peak in Antarctica at 71°09′S 061°32′W, listed in the 1989 US Board on Geographic Names Gazetteer of the Antarctic and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer, with the Spanish form Marshall, pico.
Marshall Plan
Marshall Plan, formally the European Recovery Program (ERP): 1948–1952 U.S. aid program, about $13.3 billion to sixteen Western European countries, proposed by George C. Marshall at Harvard on June 5, 1947, signed April 3, 1948.
Marshall Plumlee
Marshall Harrison Plumlee, born 1992, youngest of the Duke Plumlee brothers (Miles, Mason); 7-foot center, 2015 NCAA champion, brief NBA career with Knicks and Bucks, then U.S. Army Ranger infantry officer.
Marshall R. Posner
Marshall R. Posner is an American medical oncologist known for leading the phase 3 TAX 324 trial of TPF chemotherapy for head and neck cancer and rituximab therapy for pemphigus vulgaris.
Marshall R. Urist
Marshall R. Urist (1914–2001) was an American orthopedic surgeon and bone biologist at UCLA who discovered bone morphogenetic protein, the substance that induces new bone formation.
Marshall Rose (real estate developer)
Marshall Rose (1937–2025) was an American real estate developer who founded The Georgetown Company, developer of Easton Town Center and the Madison Square Garden renovation.
Marshall Rosenbluth
Marshall Rosenbluth (1927–2003) was an American plasma physicist and fusion researcher, called "the dean of plasma physics," who derived the Rosenbluth formula and won the National Medal of Science.
Marshall S. Horwitz
Marshall S. Horwitz is an American physician-scientist at the University of Washington who studies inherited and malignant blood disorders; his laboratory identified genes behind cyclic neutropenia, Kostmann syndrome, and acute leukemias.
Marshall Sahlins
Marshall Sahlins (1930–2021) was an American cultural anthropologist at the University of Chicago, best known for Stone Age Economics (1972) and its "original affluent society" thesis.
Marshall Scholarship
Marshall Scholarship: UK postgraduate award for US citizens, created by the 1953 Marshall Aid Commemoration Act as thanks for Marshall Plan aid; up to 50 FCDO-funded awards yearly at any UK university, GPA 3.7 minimum.
Marshall Steam Station
Marshall Steam Station is a four-unit coal-fired power plant in Terrell, North Carolina, on Lake Norman about 30 miles north of Charlotte, operated by Duke Energy Carolinas.
Marshall Teague (actor)
Marshall R. Teague (born 1953, Newport, Tennessee) is an American character actor, Navy veteran, and former deputy sheriff known for Jimmy Reno in Road House (1989), Ta'Lon on Babylon 5, and roles in The Rock and Armageddon.
Marshall Thundering Herd football
The Marshall Thundering Herd football team represents Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, and is known for the 1970 plane crash that killed 75 aboard, including 37 players.
Marshall University
Marshall University is a public university in Huntington, West Virginia, on the Ohio River. Founded in 1837 as Marshall Academy, it was named for Chief Justice John Marshall.