David Douglass

Douglass, David (d. 1786), manager and actor. The Englishman began his theatrical career when, at the last minute, he was selected to supervise a new company to play in Jamaica. By coincidence, a company led by Lewis Hallam Sr. was also playing on the island, so the troupes merged, Hallam died, and Douglass married Mrs. Hallam. The company came to New York in 1758, where it built a new playhouse, and soon was traveling up and down the coast playing in Philadelphia, Annapolis, Newport, and elsewhere. Douglass was not a distinguished actor (by consensus the best member of the troupe was Lewis Hallam Jr.), but he was a tactful politician and forceful businessman. His diplomacy was required because wherever he went he encountered puritanical opposition to the theatre, which he was able to overcome for a while. His business acumen helped him to arrange the construction of proper playhouses in the cities where his company played, including the Southwark in Philadelphia, the John Street in New York, and the Dock Street Theatre in Charleston. Douglass's company adopted the name The American Company as early as 1763. Under his aegis colonists were offered a large repertory of classics and new London successes, as well as the first professional mounting of a play by an American author, The Prince of Parthia (1767). He also brought to America such popular performers as Miss Cheer and John Henry. With the onset of the Revolution he returned to Jamaica, where he became a government official and died leaving an estate of £25,000.

For the eighteenth-century actor, see American Company.

For the political activist of NUM IWW and Class War, see David John Douglass.

David H. Douglass is an American physicist at the University of Rochester. Prof. Douglass received his B.S. in Physics from the University of Maine and his Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After positions at MIT Lincoln Laboratories and MIT, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago. At Chicago, he was promoted to Associate Professor and Professor. Prof. Douglass joined the University of Rochester as a Professor of Physics in 1968. Prof. Douglass was a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Award (junior) for 4 years, the Alfred P. Sloan Award (senior), and the University of Rochester's Bridging Fellowship to the Eastman School of Music. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the New York Academy of Sciences.

Prof. Douglass interests have been in the general area of Experimental Condensed Matter Physics. His work has involved experiments in the areas of liquid helium and superconductivity (both low temperature and high temperature). Significant contributions have also been made in the field of gravitational wave detectors. Prof. Douglass has also worked on chaos and frequency drifts of spectral lines of extended sources. His interests for the last several years have been on climate change, in particular with the fundamental science issues underlying "global warming".

A 2007 study by Douglass and coworkers questioned the reliability of 22 of the most commonly used global climate models used by the IPCC to predict accelerated warming in the troposphere.^[1]

A list of Prof. Douglass' recent publications concerning global climate change may be found here: http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~douglass/recent-publications.html

See also

• Fred Singer
• Global warming controversy

References

1. ^ "New Study Increases Concerns About Climate Model Reliability". Sciencedaily.com. 2007-12-20. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071211101623.htm. Retrieved 2008-04-04. 

External links

• Publications
• Home page
• Home page #2 University of Rochester, Department of Physics & Astronomy

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