BRCA2, the new gene included into the updated version of OMIM for the glioma of brain phenotype, achieved the first rank of genes functionally related to the disease.
Bell, whose life has since been made into a film, directed by Werner Herzog and starring Nicole Kidman, was Georgina's heroine: an early feminist, the first woman to gain a first in modern history at Oxford, the first to achieve senior rank in British military intelligence and the first to win respect and to be treated as an equal by the establishment in Britain and rulers in the Middle East.
In 1875 Pearson won a scholarship to King's College, University of Cambridge, where he worked with the famous mathematics tutor Edward Routh to achieve the rank of third wrangler in the highly competitive Mathematical Tripos of 1879.
Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument in Ohio commemorates a distinguished African American army officer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who was the third African American to graduate from West Point and the first to achieve the rank of colonel.
Chauvel became the first Australian to command a corps, as well as the first to achieve the rank of lieutenant-general.
When he retired from the PHS Commissioned Corps in 1971, Dr Steele was an Assistant Surgeon General, the first veterinarian to achieve this rank.
Walter Pidgeon, a shining example of the studio system, never achieved stardom of the first rank, but typecast as the "dignified but not stuffy handsome older man," he exhibited what Ms. Basinger calls generic flexibility: "He could be the romantic lead, the villain, the father, the best friend, the husband, the romantic rival, a historical figure, a sage older counselor — Pidgeon could even sing".
Albers, the first student there to achieve the rank of master, had called the piece "City" and viewed it as an expression of his enthusiasm for dense urbanism.
Walter Tsukamoto, who was first commissioned in 1927 and entered active duty in 1943, was sent from occupation duty in Japan to Korea in 1950 and was promoted to lieutenant colonel, the first Asian American to achieve that rank in the Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, served as the senior ranking judge advocate for X Corps and was awarded two Bronze Star Medals for his service in Korea.
He was the first in his graduating class to achieve the rank of general.
Interestingly, second rank is achieved by O2 channel (associated with the occipital region with the visual cortex underneath).
