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Sandford Fleming
Sir Sandford Fleming was a Scottish engineer and inventor. Born and raised in Scotland, he immigrated to colonial Canada at the age of 18. He promoted worldwide standard time zones, a prime meridian, and use of the 24-hour clock as key elements to communicating the accurate time, all of which influenced the creation of Coordinated Universal Time. He designed Canada's first postage stamp, produced…
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science · Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor (1827–1915) · postage stamp designer · inventor · engineer · also Sandford Fleming, Sir Sandford Flemin, Sir Sandford Fleming, Fleming
Born 7 January 1827 · Died 22 July 1915 · Q41411
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2026· 5 entries
The Guardian: Appointment of Root and Fleming has been a mess but they could be a good blend | Mark Ramprakash
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The Guardian: ‘He has fire and ice’: Mike Hussey on Fleming’s new England Test era
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The Guardian: Stokes decoded: his concerns for Joe Root and hopes for ‘great man’ Stephen Fleming | Ali Martin
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The Guardian: Key talks up Fleming England reset and an imaginary future for Test team
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2025· 1 entry
Fleming was inducted into the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame
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2021· 1 entry
Published “Integrated analysis of multimodal single-cell data” in Cell — cited 15,255 times.
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2017· 1 entry
Google celebrated Sandford Fleming's 190th birthday with a Google Doodle
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2016· 1 entry
Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015” in The Lancet — cited 5,711 times.
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2015· 2 entries
Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013” in The Lancet — cited 5,008 times.
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Published “The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) pilot analysis: Multitissue gene regulation in humans” in Science — cited 4,866 times.
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2014· 1 entry
Published “Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013” in The Lancet — cited 9,253 times.
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2013· 1 entry
Published “The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project” in Nature Genetics — cited 8,613 times.
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2012· 1 entry
Published “Increased Survival with Enzalutamide in Prostate Cancer after Chemotherapy” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 3,902 times.
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2011· 1 entry
Published “Prevention of HIV-1 Infection with Early Antiretroviral Therapy” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 5,745 times.
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2008· 1 entry
Published “One Hundred Years After “Carcinoid”: Epidemiology of and Prognostic Factors for Neuroendocrine Tumors in 35,825 Cases in the United States” in Journal of Clinical Oncology — cited 3,728 times.
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2002· 1 entry
Reflects his promotion of the Pacific Cable
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2001· 1 entry
Published “Use of Chemotherapy plus a Monoclonal Antibody against HER2 for Metastatic Breast Cancer That Overexpresses HER2” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 9,361 times.
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1967· 1 entry
With additional campuses in Lindsay/Kawartha Lakes, Haliburton, and Cobourg
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1964· 1 entry
And was renamed to John Polanyi Collegiate Institute in 2011
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1950· 1 entry
On the advice of the national Historic Sites and Monuments Board
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1922· 1 entry
Became the International Fixed Calendar League
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1915· 1 entry
Died 1915-07-22.
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1910· 1 entry
This business was captured in a hostile take-over by stock manipulators acting under the name Canada Cement Company, an action which Fleming took as a personal blow
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1906· 1 entry
The modern Alpine Club of Canada was founded in Winnipeg, and the by then Sir Sandford Fleming became the club's first Patron and Honorary President
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1903· 1 entry
The Canadian Encyclopedia, Sir Sandford Fleming Archived October 14, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
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1893· 1 entry
“Essays on the Rectification of Parliament”
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1892· 1 entry
“An Appeal to the Canadian Institute on the Rectification of Parliament”
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1888· 2 entries
Fleming's niece Miss Elsie Smith, daughter of Alexander and Lily Smith, of Kingussie, Scotland, presided over his household at "Winterholme" 213 Chapel Street, Ottawa, Ontario
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Became the first president of the Rideau Curling Club, after leaving the Ottawa Curling Club in protest of its temperance policy
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1884· 1 entry
Became a director of the Canadian Pacific Railway and was present as the last spike was driven
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1883· 1 entry
While surveying the route of the Canadian Pacific Railway with George Monro Grant, he met Major A
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1882· 2 entries
One of the founding owners of the Nova Scotia Cotton Manufacturing Company in Halifax
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Authored a book on the land policy of the HBC
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1881· 1 entry
A meeting of the Geodetic Association at Rome in 1883, and the International Meridian Conference of 1884
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1880· 3 entries
Forced him out of a job with government, he retired from the world of surveying, and took the position of Chancellor of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario
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Served as the vice president of the Ottawa Horticultural Society
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Career landmark: chancellor (1880).
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1879· 1 entry
Fleming revised his system to link with the anti-meridian of Greenwich (the 180th meridian)
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1876· 1 entry
Wrote a memoir "Terrestrial Time" where he proposed a single 24-hour clock for the entire world, conceptually located at the centre of the Earth and not linked to any surface meridian
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1872· 1 entry
Set off with a small party to survey the route, particularly through the Rocky Mountains, finding a practicable route through the Yellowhead Pass
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1871· 1 entry
Career landmark: chief engineer (1871).
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1867· 2 entries
Career landmark: chief engineer (1867).
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Was appointed engineer-in-chief of the Intercolonial Railway which became a federal project and he continued in this post until 1876
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1863· 1 entry
Became the chief government surveyor of Nova Scotia charged with the construction of a line from Truro to Pictou
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1862· 1 entry
Placed before the government a plan for a transcontinental railway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
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1855· 1 entry
Where he advocated the construction of iron bridges instead of wood for safety reasons
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1852· 1 entry
Fleming replaced Cumberland in 1855 but was in turn ousted by him in 1862
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1851· 1 entry
Designed the Threepenny Beaver, the first Canadian postage stamp, for the Province of Canada
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1849· 1 entry
Created the Royal Canadian Institute with several friends, which was formally incorporated on November 4, 1851
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1845· 2 entries
At the age of 18, he emigrated with his older brother David to the Province of Canada (today's southern portions of Ontario and Quebec)
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Fleming became friendly with the family of his future wife, the Halls, and was attracted to Ann Jane (Jeanie) Hall
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1827· 2 entries
Born 1827-01-07.
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Fleming was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland to Andrew and Elizabeth Fleming
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