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Mark King (snooker player)

Mark King (born 28 March 1974) is an English former professional snooker player.

Having turned professional in 1991, King was ranked within the world's top 32 players between 1996 and 2015, and won his first ranking event title in 2016, defeating Barry Hawkins 9–8 in the final of the Northern Ireland Open. He has also appeared in two other ranking tournament finals: the 1997 Welsh Open, where he lost 2–9 to Stephen Hendry; and the 2004 Irish Masters, where Peter Ebdon defeated him 10–7.

King has reached the last 16 of the World Championship seven times, in 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2008, 2009 and 2013, but has never progressed beyond this stage.

In March 2023, King was suspended "from attending or competing on the World Snooker Tour [following] initial investigation of irregular betting patterns reported to the WPBSA on the match between Mark King and Joe Perry at the Welsh Open on 13th February 2023." According to press reports, "The suspension will remain in place until the conclusion of the investigation or any subsequent charges that may or may not be brought."

Career
King turned professional in 1991 and advanced steadily through the rankings, reaching the top 48 by 1996. His Welsh Open final run lead to a top 32 place in the end of season rankings, and he continued to progress by reaching the top 16 a year later. He made his debut at the World Snooker Championship in 1994, losing to Darren Morgan in the first round.

He remained in the top 16 the following season without reaching a ranking quarter-final, but dropped out a year later. He made an immediate return in 2000–01, climbing to a career-high of #11. A poor 2002–03 season ended with him dropping out of the top 16 again after defeat to Drew Henry 10–5 in the first round of the World Championship. In the post-match interview, King suggested that he had lost patience with the game and would quit because "I've just had enough of the game."

After the 2004 World Championship, King became involved in a tense battle with Quinten Hann after his friend Andy Hicks eliminated Hann in a controversial first-round clash. Hann had been making provocative gestures during the match and after Hicks took victory, the two players had an altercation, with an angry Hann squaring up to Hicks. Upset by Hann's behaviour, King challenged the Australian to a boxing match, for which King was later criticised, as Hann's behaviour had already put the game into disrepute. Nevertheless, the bout went ahead and Hann controversially won the fight on a points decision.

In December 2004, King beat Robin Hull, Mark Williams, Alan McManus and John Parrott en route to the semi-finals of the UK Championship, losing 9–4 to eventual winner Stephen Maguire. At 8–3, a mobile phone went off in the crowd, prompting King to quip "if that's my missus, tell her I'll be home soon". In 2005, King beat Ronnie O'Sullivan 9–8 at the same event, having fought back from 5–3 down in a match which saw his opponent sitting with a wet towel draped over his head when King was at the table. King would eventually lose 9–6 in the last 16 to Joe Perry, but made a career best 146 break at the 2006 Championships.

Defeat to Neil Robertson (he was trailing 7–2 but only lost 10–9) in the qualifying for the World Championship in 2005 cost him the chance of a top 16 return, but King qualified a year later, resiliently losing 10–6 to Stephen Maguire in the first round. In 2007, King went out to David Gilbert in the qualifying round for the event.

In the 2008 World Championship, King beat six-times runner-up Jimmy White to qualify, then shocked the previous year's runner-up Mark Selby 10–8, having trailed 5–3 overnight. After potting the match ball, King showed his delight by shouting "Get in". He lost to Peter Ebdon in the last 16, but his top-16 place was secure and he would start the 08/09 campaign ranked 15th.

A consistent 2008–09 season saw King retain his top 16 spot.

At the 2009 Grand Prix King needed three snookers in the deciding frame against Ricky Walden to claim a 5–4 victory. He managed to get them and won by potting the final black. In the next round he lost to Robert Milkins.

At the 2010 China Open King defeated Thai player James Wattana 5–4 in the first round after trailing 2–4. He then won his second match 5–3 against Chinese player Tian Pengfei to reach his first Quarter final since the 2007 Malta Cup. A double triumph for King, the win helped to maintain his Top 16 place for the 2010/11 season.

At the 2010 World championship, King lost his first round match against former 6 times World Champion Steve Davis by 9–10. In the deciding frame, Davis led 55–37, with only 13 points available. King's attempts at getting the snooker he needed to win ended with him fluking the pink in the pocket.

King made an impressive start to the new season when he reached the Quarter Final of the 2010 Shanghai Masters. King was too strong for qualifier Joe Delaney in the first round, winning 5–3. The same scoreline saw him overcome Peter Ebdon in the next round but King was then beaten comfortably by Mark Selby 5–1. However his lack of form in the following ranking events made him fall out of the top 16 after the 2011 Welsh Open.

At the 2011 Masters, King beat defending champion Mark Selby 6–4 to reach his first quarter-final at the event since 1999. After the match, King suggested that his comeback from 0–2 down was prompted by his opponent's celebration to winning the second frame on the black, when he "put his cue up and it gave me the hump a bit" King then lost in the quarter-finals 1–6 against Jamie Cope. He ended the season by losing 7–10 to Graeme Dott in the World Championship and was ranked 26, dropping 11 places during the year. He was therefore out of the top 16 in the end of season rankings for the first time since the 2007–08 season.

2011/2012 season
King's ranking meant that he would need to win a match to qualify for the ranking tournaments in the 2011–12 season. He failed to qualify for four of the eight ranking tournaments during the season and was knocked out in the first round in two. However, he produced an excellent run in the Shanghai Masters where he reached his first semi-final since the 2005 Welsh Open. He required a final frame decider to beat Liu Song in qualifying 5–4 and once in China he won by the same scoreline to knock out defending champion Ali Carter in the first round. Further wins followed over Fergal O'Brien and Anthony Hamilton, before he was whitewashed 0–6 by Mark Selby in the last four. King also reached the quarter-finals of the World Open by beating Mark Williams 5–1 and Tom Ford 5–4, but then lost 1–5 to Mark Allen. King lost to seventeen-year-old Luca Brecel in qualifying for the World Championship and finished the season ranked world number 31, dropping five places during the year.

2012/2013 season
King began the 2012–13 season by failing to qualify for three of the first four ranking events. The one he did reach was the Shanghai Masters, where he beat Zhao Xintong 5–3 in the wildcard round and local favourite Ding Junhui 5–4 in the first round, having trailed 0–3. He lost 3–5 to Shaun Murphy in the following round. King saw off Mark Williams 6–3 in the first round of the 2012 UK Championship, before surrendering a 3–0 lead against 17-year-old Luca Brecel to lose 4–6. He also reached the second round of the German Masters by whitewashing Stephen Maguire 5–0, but then lost in a deciding frame to Matthew Stevens. King failed to qualify for the World Open and lost in the first round of the Welsh Open and China Open. He faced Mark Allen in the opening round of the World Snooker Championship and produced a big shock by fighting back from 6–8 down to produce his best snooker at the end of the match in a 10–8 win. He raced into a 6–2 lead in the first session of his second round match against Ding Junhui, before falling 7–9 behind in the next session and ultimately lost 9–13. King ended the season ranked world number 29.

2013/2014 season
King had his best results in the Chinese ranking events during the 2013–14 season, beginning with the Wuxi Classic where he beat Rory McLeod 5–3 and Marco Fu 5–4, before being thrashed 5–0 by Neil Robertson in the last 16. At the Shanghai Masters he knocked out Graeme Dott, but Robertson was again victorious when the pair met in the last 16 this time winning 5–3. During King's tie with Fergal O'Brien in the last 64 of the 2013 UK Championship, he made 15 consecutive foul and misses in the sixth frame and went on to lose 6–3. The match was played in a sports hall as the Barbican Centre itself was too small to accommodate enough tables, with King saying afterwards that the conditions were not good enough and as long as the top players were okay the governing body did not care. At the China Open, King saw off Aditya Mehta 5–4, Fu 5–3 and Jamie O'Neill 5–3 to reach his only quarter-final of the season. He faced Ding Junhui who had already won four ranking events during the season and lost 5–2. King failed to reach The Crucible this year as Jamie Cope beat him 10–7 in the final round of World Championship qualifiers.

2014/2015 season
King lost in the qualifying rounds of three of the first five ranking events of the 2014–15 season and was knocked out in the first round of the other two. He defeated Steven Hallworth and Michael White both 5–3 to qualify for the German Masters and eliminated world number five Barry Hawkins 5–3 in the first round. In the last 16 he lost 5–2 to Stephen Maguire. A consistent season in the European Tour events saw King finish 24th on the Order of Merit to make his debut in the Grand Final. King secured another win over Hawkins this time 4–2 and looked like moving 3–2 ahead of Judd Trump in the last 16. However, Trump got the snooker he needed and won the next frame to defeat King. King closed the season with a 5–4 loss to Robin Hull in the second round of the China Open and was narrowly edged out 10–9 by Anthony McGill in the final round of World Championship qualifying. He fell outside the top 32 in the rankings for the first time since 1996 at the culmination of the season as he was 36th.

2015/2016 season
King was knocked out in the first round of the 2015 Australian Goldfields Open 5–1 by Mark Selby. At the Paul Hunter Classic, King advanced to the semi-finals with the loss of just one frame. He moved 3–0 up on Shaun Murphy with two 123 breaks but then missed multiple chances to win the match, as well as Murphy getting some flukes, to be beaten 4–3. He was also a losing quarter-finalist at the Gibraltar Open and Gdynia Open to finish ninth on the Order of Merit. In the Grand Final he lost 4–2 to Mark Allen in the second round. King overcame Ali Carter 5–2 at the China Open and beat Murphy 5–3 and Martin O'Donnell 5–0 to reach his first ranking event quarter-final in two years. He could not win a frame after being 3–2 up on Judd Trump to lose 5–3.

2016/2017 season – first ranking title
King failed to get past the second round in the first eight events of the 2016–17 season. At the inaugural Northern Ireland Open, King beat Igor Figueiredo, Liang Wenbo, Fergal O'Brien, Kurt Maflin, Hossein Vafaei Ayouri and Kyren Wilson to reach his first ranking event final since 2004. He was 5–1 down to Barry Hawkins, before winning six successive frames. King went on to be 8–7 up, with the 16th frame going to a re-spotted black after King had needed a snooker and he missed a double on it to win. King took the deciding frame to win a ranking event for the first time in his 25-year career. He paid tribute to his father who had lent King money for the trip to Belfast.

King saw off Stephen Maguire and Ali Carter both 4–3 to progress to the quarter-finals of the World Grand Prix, where he lost 4–2 to Marco Fu. For the fourth year in a row King could not play in the World Championship as he was beaten 10–4 by Xiao Guodong in the final qualifying round.

2023/2024 season
King is currently suspended from the World Snooker Tour related to irregular betting patterns in a match against Joe Perry at the Welsh Open on February 13, 2023.

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William Burnett

Sir William Burnett, KCB, FRS (16 January 1779 – 16 February 1861) was a British physician who served as Physician-General of the Royal Navy.

Early life
Burnett was born in Montrose, Scotland on 16 January 1779 and attended Montrose Grammar School. He was appointed surgeon's mate on board the Edgar soon after his arrival at Edinburgh to pursue his medical studies. Later he served as assistant-surgeon in the Goliath under Sir John Jervis, and was present at St. Vincent and the siege of Cadiz. He also served with distinction at battles of the Nile and Trafalgar.

Prison hospitals
Between 1805 and 1810 Burnett was in charge of the hospitals for prisoners of war at Portsmouth and Forton. His diligence in his most arduous hospital duties recommended Burnett in 1810 for the office of Physician and Inspector of Hospitals to the Mediterranean Fleet. His health deteriorated and he returned to England towards the end of 1813; but in March 1814 he was able to undertake the medical charge of the Russian fleet in the Medway, which was suffering severely from fever. He combined with this the charge of the prisoners of war at Chatham, among whom a virulent fever was raging. On the completion of this service Burnett settled at Chichester as a physician until 1822, when Lord Melville offered him a seat at the Victualling Board as colleague of Dr. Weir, then Chief Medical Officer of the Navy.

Physician-General
Later he became Physician-General of the Royal Navy (later renamed Director-General of the Medical Department of the Navy) and introduced valuable reforms, including requiring regular classified returns of diseases from naval medical officers, urging the erection of, and largely planned, the Melville Hospital at Chatham for naval patients, and introducing more humane treatment of naval lunatics at Haslar.

In 1841, the naval medical corps testified their high regard for the benefits he had conferred on the service by presenting him with his full-length portrait by Sir Martin Archer Shee and a service of plate. He was largely instrumental in securing a better position for assistant-surgeons in the navy.

Burnett was an elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1833. He was knighted on 25 May 1831, appointed physician-in-ordinary to King William IV on 13 April 1835, and soon after created a Knight Commander of the Royal Guelphic Order. He was promoted to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath by Queen Victoria in 1850.

Burnett retired in 1855 and was succeeded as Director-General by Sir John Liddell. On retirement he settled at Chichester, where he died on 16 February 1861.

Burnett Bay in the Northwest Territories, Canada was named for Burnett.

Burnettizing
In 1839 Burnett was granted a British patent for Burnettizing, the application under pressure of an aqueous solution of zinc chloride to ropes, canvas and timber as a preservative. The Admiralty found the process to be effective but when Burnett attempted to diversify into business on his own behalf, particularly the supply of treatments for railway construction timbers, it was to the detriment of his naval career.

Publications
An Account of the Effect of Mercurial Vapours on the Crew of His Majesty's Ship Triumph, in the Year 1810 - William Burnett (1823)

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Talk:Leon Theremin

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Did Theremin therefore invent RFID ? Shyamal 08:32, 26 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Quote from the RFID article: "Although some people think that the first known device may have been invented by Leon Theremin as an espionage tool for the Russian Government in 1945, the first real usage of RFID devices predates that." I guess he didn't. Jonathan Grynspan 23:13, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Did he spend a good deal of time in France, or is there another reason his name was transliterated in a French way? (Rather than, say 'Leo Termen') Xyzzyva 16:11, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I can only guess but Albert Glinsky's biography (pages 9-10) traces his ancestors to the Albigenses sect in southern France, and a group that escaped the Inquisition were named Théremin (acute accent). From the sixteenth century they spread to several countries, one branch settling in Saint Petersburg. Leon himself also had relatives in France. He, or his attorneys, did spell it Leo (and Thèremin with a grave accent) when registering the 1928 US patent. Oddmusic claims his westernised name is "Leon Theremin" (no accents). What puzzles me is why wikipedia spells it "Léon" as only the French spell it that way as far as I can see. -Wikianon (talk) 06:49, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Lavinia Williams—request for source
Guys, I recently created an article for Lavinia Williams, please see my note at Talk:Lavinia Williams. Does someone have an authoritative source confirming that she and Theremin were married before he was abducted by the KGB? A cursory internet search revealed the following: If someone can get the real story, from a source that is not just the internet, then please contribute the story and reference to both the Theremin and Williams pages. I'd really like to know what actually happened. Thanks!
 * Pages devoted specifically to Lavinia Williams make no mention of Theremin.
 * Pages about Theremin frequently mention that he was married to an African-American dancer before his abduction.
 * Many of these pages give the dancer's name as Iavana Williams, but these all appear to have plagiarized from one another.
 * Several pages copy the Wikipedia article along with its assertion that her name was "Lavinia Williams".
 * Several pages tell the story and use the name "Lavinia Williams" and are not direct copies of Wikipedia. However, they mention her just for the purpose of telling the star-crossed love story, and I am concerned about the innate propensity for this story to propagate itself as an urban legend, given the remarkable circumstances involved (two people each very prominent in a different field, a marriage socially frowned upon, the KGB putting a stop to it!, both of them living for half a century after that but apparently never communicating).
 * A web search for "Iavana Williams" returns only pages that mention her only because she married Theremin, only in pages that basically are copies of one another. I'm thinking it got mistranscribed somewhere and then plagiarized around.

By the way, I actually never heard of Lavinia Williams until I read the Theremin article; it sparked my interest and now I've started an article on her (and she deserves one independently of this Theremin business). So: writers of this article, nice work!

EsdnePyaJ 14:59, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm pretty sure the 1994 documentary says they got married (I saw it last night). You should watch it if you haven't yet. --Cam 15:45, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Also in this 1989 interview he says they got married at the Soviet Consulate, though his memory is faulty on other matters so who knows. --Cam 16:57, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Abduction
Here in this talk area we talk about his abduction. In the movie documentary, his wife's best friend says that Lavinia told her that he was abducted, and did not leave of his own volition. So, this means that either the people who say he left due to financial reasons are lying, or he staged his own abduction in front of his wife, which I find peculiar and absurd, given the zero evidence presented for the "running away" theory and the direct documentary evidence in the film documentary.

I think some clarification in this regard is in order, and that the article should have a more evenly weighted description.

Hwarwick 21:22 17 August 2007 (UTC)

The information regarding Theremin's return to the Soviet Union is contained in the book, Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage, which is cited in the article. The information in the movie interviews is hearsay, and is refuted in the book, which is scrupulously researched.THD3 19:52, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Rehabilitation %28Soviet%29
I deleted the line which read "The Soviet Union rehabilitated him in 1956." Rehabilitated from what, pray tell? His wicked Capitalist ways? Begone, POV! Loundry (talk) 15:50, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * reinstated as per Rehabilitation %28Soviet%29 (section topic here renamed) Artlondon (talk) 17:23, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Albert Glinsky book cites
I have added a few cites to passages from a preview of Albert Glinsky's book, but here is stuff I didn't include: -Wikianon (talk) 22:47, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * November 1925 Lev gave his address as 50 Marat Street, Leningrad
 * Lev's aunts were Elena Emiliviena Termen and Olga Emiliviena Termen
 * Elena sang and Olga played piano at Lev's lecture concert at the Leningrad Philharmonic Society 1927-04-10
 * at that lecture Lev demonstrated music and color with an "illumovox", no details
 * Early 1927 the Council of Labour and Defence (CTO) directed Lev design a distance vision unit for border patrol
 * 1927 June a secret version of Lev's television was ready for the Kremlin, - the preview frustratingly ends here
 * Page 261: Lev worked on a zsystem to record voices inside a room by beaming low power infrared at a window and extracting the sounds from the disturbed reflection, and Lavrentiy Beria used it to monitor discussions inside American, British and French embassies in Moscow
 * From the notes, chapter 7, pages 167 to 176 covers Lavinia Williams and the American Negro Ballet

More sources
While looking for verifying sources not from the movie, I came across these possibly useful links, but I did not use them for lack of time: -Wikianon (talk) 22:47, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Light and Shadows of a Great Life english article by Bulat Galeyev
 * An Interview with Leon Theremin 1989, interview with Olivia Mattis - covers three marriages: Katia Constantinova, Lavinia Williams, Maria
 * Andrei Smirnov bio Founding Director of The Theremin Center, mostly on the musical instrument and music
 * ARTMargins by Natascha Drubek-Meyer, has short translated extract of Bulat Galeyev's book Soviet Faust
 * THE JULIUS GOLDBERG RCA THEREMIN with 1932 photo of Julius Goldberg, Leonid Bolotine, Gleb Yellin as the Theremin ensemble that played on the radio

Henry Theremin?
I read in a history text and heard from an artist that the inventor of the theremin was named Henry Theremin. Is there any reason for this confusion? Was there another individual named Henry Theremin? Or were these two "resources" just foolishly mistaken...?Twitterpated. (talk) 18:31, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Karl Baumgart not Karl Karlowitsch Baumgart
Karlowitsch is a name extension introduced during an enforced 'russification' period that began in the late 19th century. The traditional Russian name extension was also forced upon (Baltic) Germans and other ethnic groups of the Russian Empire during that period. Karlowitsch indicates that the first name of Karl Baumgart's father had been Karl. Since this name extension was forced upon non-russian people, I would rather use Baumgart's real name, which is Karl Baumgart, without any extension. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.157.52.83 (talk) 20:17, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Theremin and television - nothing more than unproven allegations
"The concept of breaking a single video frame into interlaced 'fields' was first demonstrated by Russian inventor Léon Theremin in 1927" (Albert Glinsky: Theramin, University of Illinois Press, 2000)

First of all, I do not doubt that Theremin invented his electronic instrument "Theramin" and other things in the 1920s. These are proven facts.

But with all respect, I very much doubt this whole Theremin / television inventor / interlaced inventor stuff. This sounds like one of those classic Russian/Soviet falsifications to me.

The whole story is just based on a single source, which is the book mentioned above - published in 2000. The other source would be Theremin's own few lines about this topic in the book "A.F. Joffe - Memories [my own translation], Academy of Sciences Press [again my own translation], Moscow, 1973", offering a phantastic story how he invented television devices with a few lines up to 62 and even 120 lines (incorporating interlaced 'lines' technique) within 2 or 3 (!) years (from 1924 or 1925 to 1927) as part of his academic thesis! Moreover, he was travelling a lot during that period to present his 'Theramin', to negotiate lincence issues for his 'Theramin', etc. His alleged development of television of course had to be temporary halted during his extensive travels in 1925/26. He also claims to have invented in 1927 a portable(!) camera or whole television system with 100 lines, which could operate outdoor and under daylight conditions! (Meaning without any additional light source - in 1927!!!)

Should these claims be true, Theremin would have been ways ahead of all other television pioneers. I think - and 'early television buffs' would agree - about one decade ahead wouldn't be exaggerated in this case. The story of early television would have to be rewritten.

The stupid thing, now, about all of these phantastic 'achievements' regarding television devices is that there is not a single proof for not even one of these claims. No photos, no patent files, no drawings, no working schemes, no technical descriptions, nothing detailed and nothing general, no presentations (he travelled a lot and had his own laboratory in the US during the early 1930s), no contemporary articles. Absolutely nothing. Zero.

However, Theremin himself claims that there had been an article in the magazine Ogonyok [my own translation] in the 1920s. But even if that would be true, it wouldn't change anything about the non-existing proofs: Theremin maybe indeed has written a (theoretic) thesis about television and maybe did some research. But if one remembers the tons of propaganda, which had been put out especially by the early Soviet Union, to show how 'progressive' and 'modern' the largely backwards country was, it is not unlikely that Ogonyok somehow 'sexed up' its article a little bit.

There is some literature about Theremin from (communist) East Germany, a soviet puppet state, which glorified everything Soviet/Russian. Theremin had been a big celebrity in East Germany due to his various achievements. But in none of this literature, if at all, I could discover anything new about his alleged achievements in the field of television. It's always the same few statements, which I tried to give above in my own words.

So I have good reason to assume that this whole 'Theremin-television story' is nothing more than a huge fake!

I can only hope that it's only Russian chauvinists that spread such allegations via the 'University of Illinois Press' and all over corresponding Wikipedia articles.

I for my part will erase those non-proven statements about Theremin and television.

Greets. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.157.52.83 (talk) 20:21, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

 * It's not a question of what's proven, it's a question of what's sourced. The University of Illinois Press in general and Glinsky's book in particular are considered adequate sourcing.  If you think the information is wrong, find a countersource.  I am reinstating the material.THD3 (talk) 20:39, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Espionage for USSR while living in the USA?
A 2002 TV-show airing on Investigation Discovery Channel tonight (pre-dawn hours Thu 29 Apr 2010) claims that included in the great volume of espionage data that reached the West after the demise of the USSR was, eventually, the information that while in the USA Theremin was relaying information from the U.S. Patent Office to the Soviet Union. This information was stated to have been revealed by a former KGB officer who will not publicly reveal his identity, at a point later in time than both the release of the documentary movie and the death of Theremin. There are problems with the story: if Theremin were copying from the in-house archives of Patents as any person could do, is this really "espionage" or is it merely "research" employing a person on the ground to overcome the disadvantages of research-via-correspondence? If Theremin were pretending to "file" patents as the story stated then how surreptitious could his copying of other patents have been? Why would he live in New York instead of Washington, D.C.? According to this tale Theremin's return to the Soviet Union was because many overseas "spies" were being recalled and purged at that time. Can someone with knowledge examine this, confirm, or refute, describing exactly what Theremin was doing in language more specific than that of the TV-show?69.86.126.190 (talk) 08:56, 29 April 2010 (UTC)Christopher L. Simpson

Color television?
I seem to recall hearing or reading that his 1920s television invention was already in color? (And that Lenin disapproved of the whole TV concept, and therefore it was canceled) Is that sourced somewhere? -- megA (talk) 12:25, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Brian Wilson?
What is the link between Brian Wilson and Léon Theremin? This should be made apparent in the article. --tslocum (talk | contribs) 23:45, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

Brian Wilson's only connection is that he hired another musician to play a type of "Electro-Theremin" on a few records. Therefore the link is highly tenuous at best and should be deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:100F:B022:6EB:2C0B:792E:D13C:80C2 (talk) 22:36, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

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"Petrograd (renamed from Saint Petersburg)".....................?? (this article as of July 12 2015) Purely for information: (notnot original research)- Petrograd was renamed Leningrad amid or just after the Russian revolution. Look it up.Dates etc. This major Russian city's name reverted, from Leningrad to Petrograd, when the Soviet Union aka USSR Union of Soviet Socialist States fell apart some, 70 years later, in the early 1990s. Look it up. Fatuous, ignorant, gormless remarks like 'Petrograd (renamed from Saint Petersburg)' have no space in a serious article. These are just anglicised versions of the Russian script. Look it up. - Think before you post. Regards. Some competent editor, not a noddy, plse fix this. Thanks. Very interesting article nonetheless. 146.199.22.15 (talk) 15:57, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

Theremin had nothing to do with interlacing
The claim that Theremin has invented interlacing is bollocks. The source used twice in the article for the claim that Theremin has invented interlacing can be found as a Google Book here:, and it makes no mention of Theremin having anything to do with interlacing at all, much less having invented it. --2003:71:4E16:4B83:4CBE:CCA1:12C7:4742 (talk) 04:39, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Agree, the source does not back this statement up well enough. – Thjarkur (talk) 09:11, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

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The result of the move request was: Moved buidhe 16:30, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Léon Theremin → Leon Theremin – (Leon Theremin seems seldom to have spelled the anglicized version of his name as "Léon", whether or not it was pronounced this way. Instead, he consistently signed his own name as "Leon Théremin", and print media consistently (after 1927) give "Leon Theremin". Counterexamples include a poster for his Metropolitan Opera debut gives "Léon Théremin", and an RCA destroyed master disc gives "Léon Thérémin". Glinsky's authoritative biography opts for "Leon Theremin" throughout and this should, I think, be adopted consistently by this article). Lt1896 (talk) 13:32, 14 April 2020 (UTC) Lt1896 (talk) 13:30, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Support Leon Theremin without diacritics.--Ortizesp (talk) 14:27, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

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did he?
"The U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons hired Theremin to build a metal detector for Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary."

Well, did he build one or not? 2A02:908:F42:68A0:2066:55B2:EDCD:8AB7 (talk) 21:53, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

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Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai

Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai (5 April 1901 – 31 August 1950) was an Indian mathematician specialising in number theory. His contribution to Waring's problem was described in 1950 by K. S. Chandrasekharan as "almost certainly his best piece of work and one of the very best achievements in Indian Mathematics since Ramanujan".

Biography
Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai was born to parents Subbayya Pillai and Gomati Ammal. His mother died a year after his birth and his father when Pillai was in his last year at school.

Pillai did his intermediate course and B.Sc Mathematics in the Scott Christian College at Nagercoil and managed to earn a B.A. degree from Maharaja's college, Trivandrum.

In 1927, Pillai was awarded a research fellowship at the University of Madras to work among professors K. Ananda Rau and Ramaswamy S. Vaidyanathaswamy. He was from 1929 to 1941 at Annamalai University where he worked as a lecturer. It was in Annamalai University that he did his major work in Waring's problem. In 1941 he went to the University of Travancore and a year later to the University of Calcutta as a lecturer (where he was at the invitation of Friedrich Wilhelm Levi).

For his achievements he was invited in August 1950, for a year to visit the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, United States. He was also invited to participate in the International Congress of Mathematicians at Harvard University as a delegate of the Madras University but he died during the crash of TWA Flight 903 in Egypt on the way to the conference.

Contributions
He proved the Waring's problem for $$k\ge 6$$ in 1935 under the further condition of $$(3^k + 1)/(2^k - 1)\le [1.5^k] + 1$$ ahead of Leonard Eugene Dickson who around the same time proved it for $$k\ge 7.$$

He showed that $$g(k) = 2^k + l - 2$$ where $$l$$ is the largest natural number $$\le (3/2)^k$$ and hence computed the precise value of $$g(6) = 73$$.

The Pillai sequence 1, 4, 27, 1354, ..., is a quickly growing integer sequence in which each term is the sum of the previous term and a prime number whose following prime gap is larger than the previous term. It was studied by Pillai in connection with representing numbers as sums of prime numbers.

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Joe Swail

Joe Swail (born 29 August 1969) is a Northern Irish former professional snooker player from Belfast. He retired in May 2019 after being relegated from the tour. He has reached ten major ranking semi-finals, including the 2000 and 2001 World Championships but only one final. Swail is renowned for playing well at the Crucible Theatre, having reached the last 16 on four further occasions. He is also a former English amateur champion and Northern Ireland amateur runner-up, and has captained Northern Ireland internationally. He was Irish champion in 1992 and 2005.

Career
Swail has had a very mixed history in the rankings. He took just two seasons to reach the Top 32, and three to reach the top sixteen, but only remained there for one season, before sliding out of the Top 32 after winning just two matches in 1997–98. His 2000 Crucible achievement made him the second player (after Rex Williams) to return to the Top 16 in the rankings after dropping out of the Top 32 in between. He climbed to No. 10 after his 2001 semi-final, but dropped to 16–27–30–40 in the next few years, finishing with a nightmare season in 2004–05. He then bounced back with an impressive and consistent showing in 2005–06 that brought him back into the Top 32. He came close to the Top 16 in 2006/2007, finishing one place short at 17 despite beating Mark Williams in round 1 of the 2007 World Championships from 0–4 down He came from 7–9 behind to beat Judd Trump 10–9 in qualifying for the 2008 World Championship. Swail scored a comprehensive 10–4 victory over Stephen Lee in the first round at the Crucible, before a 12–13 defeat by Liang Wenbo in the second round, after a trademark comeback from 8–12 down, due to a bad miss on the brown in the decider. This caused him to again miss the top 16, finishing the season in 20th place.

He started 2008–09 poorly, with four successive first-round defeats. His first victory of the season was against Liang Wenbo in qualifying for the 2008 UK Snooker Championship. He then reached his first ever ranking final in his 18-year professional career at the 2009 Welsh Open. Swail led the match 5–2, but never won another frame, losing 9–5 to Ali Carter.

After finishing 69th the end of the 2011–12 season, outside of the top 64 that retain their professional status, Swail dropped of the tour after 21 years as a professional.

As an amateur, Swail played in many of the Players Tour Championship events. At the Paul Hunter Classic, Swail defeated players such as Jimmy White, Shaun Murphy and Barry Hawkins en route to the final, doubling the black ball in a final frame decider against Hawkins. In the final, he was defeated 1–4 by Mark Selby. This not only booked his place on the tour for the following season, but also qualified him for the PTC Finals in Galway, Ireland, where he defeated Stephen Maguire 4–3, despite being 0–3 down. He lost 0–4 in the Last 16 to fellow Northern Irishman Mark Allen. At the 2013 World Snooker Championship, Swail entered the pre-qualifying rounds for amateur players, he won 3 of these matches, as well as his Last 96 and Last 80 matches against Pankaj Advani, and Adam Duffy respectively. He lost his Last 64 match against Mark Joyce 7–10, picking up £4,600 for his efforts.

After regaining his professional status due to his performances in the previous season's PTC events, Swail was able to play in ranking events during the season. He lost in the Last 96 of the Wuxi Classic, 2–5 to Ken Doherty, in the qualifiers for the Australian Open, he beat Darren Cook 5–2, before losing 4–5 in the Last 96 to Pankaj Advani.

Playing style
Swail is known for his very unorthodox way of cueing up. Instead of keeping his cue-arm vertical as most players do, Swail cues up with his arm bent at least 45 degrees outwards, and his elbow towards his back. Although it appears to be extremely difficult to actually pot balls when cueing like that it has worked for Swail and provides him with an abundance of cue power.

Personal life
Swail is congenitally hearing-impaired, and his brother Liam is completely deaf. He has told the BBC that he regards this as an advantage for snooker, as he is less likely to be distracted by crowd and other background noise. Swail's nickname, "the Outlaw", is a pun on his name "Joe Swail" and The Outlaw Josey Wales, the 1976 film. He has a son, Joe Jr. and supports Liverpool F.C.

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Playa Girón

 * Note: "Playa Girón" is also the title of a song included in the album "Días y Flores", by Silvio Rodriguez.

Playa Girón ("Girón beach") is a beach and village on the east bank of the Bahia de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs), which is located in the province of Matanzas, on the southern coast of Cuba. It is part of the municipality of Ciénaga de Zapata.

Geography
Playa Girón is located in one of the largest wetlands in the world, the Ciénaga de Zapata (Zapata Swamp). The adjoining village of Girón was named after the notorious French pirate Gilberto Giron (c.1604).

Bay of Pigs Invasion
In April 1961, Playa Girón was one of two landing sites for seaborne forces of about 1,500 armed Cuban exiles in the Bay of Pigs Invasion, an American CIA-sponsored attempt to overthrow the new government of Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro. Over 72 hours, fighting took place in many parts of the Cienaga de Zapata, Playa Girón being the last remaining area occupied by the invaders. Today, the Museo Girón is a small museum dedicated to the historical conflict.

Other
Since 1962 the Campeonato Nacional de Boxeo Playa Girón amateur boxing tournament is held at the beach; winners have included Teófilo Stevenson and Juan Hernández.

Music
The Cuban folk singer Silvio Rodríguez composed a song called Playa Girón, dedicated to the fishermen in a boat with that name in which he worked from 1969 to 1970. This song was later included in the album Dias y Flores (Days & Flowers), published in 1975. However, the Playa Girón theme has a double meaning. It refers to both the boat and the conflict won by Cuban government forces. Not to be confused with Prelude Giron, another song by Silvio Rodríguez that also addresses the issue of the Bay of Pigs invasion. Another possible explanation, suggested by the lyrics themselves, is that the song is a reference to the preludes of the infamous Quinquenio Gris, the Grey Quinquennial.

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