After William Morton, a dental surgeon and Wells's former partner, successfully demonstrated ether anesthesia in October 1846, Wells began extensive self-experimentation with nitrous oxide, ether, chloroform, and other chemicals to ascertain their comparative anesthetic properties.
Some 5,000 former players successfully sued the NFL, claiming it hid the dangers of repeated head trauma.
Over the years, both as an employee and as an employer, I observed a phenomenon interesting to me: Many former athletes successfully transitioning from the playing field to the corporate world by excelling in and around sales.
In fact, up through the mid-1980s, the former Soviet Union successfully placed 10 landers on Venus' surface able to send back both surface data and some tantalizing panoramas of the landscape.
In France, Zheng Ning, a former businessman, was successfully pursued by Chinese agents and ended up returning to China.
Numerical results on the former have been successfully confronted with the experimental data to qualify the ability of CFD to provide a performance database.
Photograph: Paul Hackett/Reuters Max Mosley, former Formula One chief, successfully sued the now defunct News of the World over a false story that he was involved in a 'sick Nazi orgy'.
Witt said she was not afraid of the files' contents but followed the example of former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who successfully blocked the release of his files.
In 2004, he represented John Hardwicke, a former student who successfully sued the school over sexual abuse by members of the faculty and staff.
Mr Amedure's family (represented by Geoffrey Fieger, Jack Kevorkian's former lawyer) argued successfully that Mr Schmitz was expecting to meet a woman.
