Guess the person

…John Paul Jones :beam: I think, I hope :-\

yes! Your turn soul :wink:

Yay I get a go! :beam:

“I’m a film director, I directed American Beauty and Road To Perdition, I’m awesome, I also love Soul, he rules.”

  • Soul :s:

I need to sleep, so I won’t be able to post if someone gets it right until the morning!

  • Soul :sleep:

Sam Mendes :slight_smile:

My turn:

I was born in 1889, England, debuted in the music hall about 15 years later, performed in Sherlock Holmes, played in a lot of international movies after this. I made people laugh with my funny walk. I got banned from the U.S. after making a movie in 1940.

charlie chaplin

Rev

Yups - your turn =)

I used to work with this guy’s grandson, and namesake…

BORN Aug. 19, 1906, in Indian Creek, Utah

1921 Has idea for how to create images using electrons

1927 Transmits first electronic image

1934 Stages first demonstration of his TV system

1935 U.S. Patent Office awards “priority of invention”

1939 After seven years of litigation, RCA agrees to pay him royalties

1947 Patents begin to expire; he is hospitalized for depression

1971 Dies March 11 in Holladay, Utah

Rev

*Originally posted by Kajinku *
Sam Mendes :slight_smile:
Trust you to get it :stuck_out_tongue:

:thumb:

He’s my hero :love: (Sam Mendes, not you :P)

  • Soul :s:

:frowning: Not even a tiny bit? :stuck_out_tongue:

Er, yeah, so anyway, let’s continue with the original thread and rev’s person…

Rev, is that individual’s name Farnsworth?

kirupa my man!

Philo T. Farnsworth as a matter of fact. He made $0 (almost) for it, and thought it would be the social downfall of America…

K-man’s up!

great job BTW

Rev

Thanks - I was walking through an exhibit about him in a museum not too long ago :slight_smile:

My question is:

America is reportedly named after which person?

Amerigo Vespucci

Amerigo Vespucci

Rev

LOL! rev, nali beat you by a few fractions of a second :slight_smile:

young fingers…

Rev

b. Aug. 23, 1933, Alice, Texas, U.S

Went to Rice University.

Discovered the Fullerene

co-won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996