Mr. Franklin contributed his knowledge of making sporting goods from leather; Schmidt gave a player's view, as he continually criticized and tweaked designs.
With Mr. DeMarco contributing his knowledge of hockey's language, rules and culture, they established "an unlikely pairing of writers," said Mr. Wilson, 46, who is gay and a musical theater enthusiast.
Mr. Dorgan also contributed his knowledge of Washington's energy bureaucracy and the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, or Arpa-e, a new organization that finances high-risk energy projects and is modeled after the better-known Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa.
"So he has been in this community contributing his knowledge and love to the place that's been his home his whole life," said the Rev. Spencer Lamar Booker of St .Paul AME Church.
Reidel, who had done deals with both, got invited to lunch, only to discover that his hosts were determined to goad him into contributing his knowledge and experience to the group.
It is also believed that Aris Makris was invited to contribute his knowledge of Pankration Paul Cartledge, Professor of Greek History at Cambridge University, advised the filmmakers on the pronunciation of Greek names, and said they "made good use" of his published work on Sparta.
NG dug up the "ancient" data on putrescine carbamoyltransferase, contributed his knowledge about carbamoyltransferases and made important additions to the manuscript.
Jack continued work as a scholar during his finance career, contributing his deep knowledge of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) thethe Cambridge History of China, presenting academic papers, and teaching a course at Princeton University.
