Dempster
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Dempster can refer to:
- Maple Leaf FoodsMaple Leaf FoodsMaple Leaf Foods Inc. is a major Canadian food processing company, founded in 1927 as a merger of several major Toronto meat packers.-History:The company was originally known as Canada Packers...
Dempster Brand Bread - Dempster Street, a major east-west artery north of Chicago, Illinois, part of which is part of U.S. Route 14 in IllinoisU.S. Route 14 in IllinoisIn the U.S. state of Illinois, U.S. Route 14 is a major arterial that runs southeast from the Wisconsin state line north of Harvard, Illinois to the north side of Chicago at U.S. Route 41....
- Dempster (CTA), stations on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, all named for their location on Dempster Street:
- Dempster (CTA Purple Line)Dempster (CTA Purple Line)Dempster is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, on the Purple Line at 1316 Sherman Avenue in Evanston, Illinois .The current station has been in place since 1910...
- Dempster (CTA Yellow Line)
- Dempster (CTA Purple Line)
- Dempster Brothers, an industrial firm
- Dempster Dinosaur, a garbage-handling vehicle which they made
- Dempster DumpmasterDempster DumpmasterThe Dempster Dumpmaster, introduced in the 1950s, was the first United States commercially successful front loading garbage truck.Built by Dempster Brothers, Inc of Knoxville, Tennessee, they used the Dempster-Dumpster system of mechanically emptying standardised metal containers, which had been...
, a garbage-handling vehicle which they made
- Arthur Jeffrey DempsterArthur Jeffrey DempsterArthur Jeffrey Dempster was a Canadian-American physicist best known for his work in mass spectrometry and his discovery of the uranium isotope 235U.-Biography:...
, American physicist who discovered the 235U uraniumUraniumUranium is a silvery-white metallic chemical element in the actinide series of the periodic table, with atomic number 92. It is assigned the chemical symbol U. A uranium atom has 92 protons and 92 electrons, of which 6 are valence electrons...
isotope - Arthur P. DempsterArthur P. DempsterArthur Pentland Dempster is a Professor Emeritus in the Harvard University Department of Statistics. He was one of four faculty when the department was founded in 1957.He was a Putnam Fellow in 1951. He obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1956...
, American mathematician who, with Glenn Shafer, created the Dempster-Shafer theoryDempster-Shafer theoryThe Dempster–Shafer theory is a mathematical theory of evidence. It allows one to combine evidence from different sources and arrive at a degree of belief that takes into account all the available evidence. The theory was first developed by Arthur P...
of evidence - Nigel DempsterNigel DempsterNigel Richard Patton Dempster was a British journalist, author, broadcaster and diarist. Best known for his celebrity gossip columns in newspapers, his work appeared in the Daily Express and Daily Mail and also in Private Eye magazine...
, British journalist, author and broadcaster - Ryan DempsterRyan DempsterRyan Scott Dempster is a Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. Dempster bats and throws right-handed. He has been both a starter and a reliever in his career.-Professional career:...
, baseball player - Walter DempsterWalter DempsterWalter Dempster, Jr., better known by his alias Walterina Markova was a Filipino gay man who served as a "comfort gay" for Japanese soldiers during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War II....
, Philippine drag queen and World War II sex slave - Dempster surname, a feminine form of DeemerDeemerDeemer—may derive from the occupation of being a 'demere', one tasked with pronouncing the verdict in a court of law.- Notable people bearing the Deemer surname :*Elias Deemer Republican member of the US House of Representatives...
- Dempster HighwayDempster HighwayThe Dempster Highway, also referred to as Yukon Highway 5 and Northwest Territories Highway 8, is a highway that connects the Klondike Highway in Yukon, Canada to Inuvik, Northwest Territories on the Mackenzie River delta...
, also known as the Yukon Highway travels through Canada.