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Scott, Richard G., 1928-2015

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Personal name headingScott, Richard G., 1928-2015
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Birth date1928-11-07
Death date2015-09-22
Place of birthPocatello (Idaho)
Place of deathSalt Lake City (Utah)
Field of activityEngineering Nuclear engineering
AffiliationGeorge Washington University
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Council of the Twelve Apostles (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Profession or occupationChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--Apostles Authors Religious leaders Nuclear engineers Engineers
Found inSpeeches (Brigham Young University), 2001-2002: p. 173 (Richard G. Scott, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
RLIN, Aug. 27, 2002 (hdg.: Scott, Richard G., 1928-; usage: Richard G. Scott)
Wikipedia, website viewed 10 July 2012 (Richard G. Scott; Richard Gordon Scott; born November 7, 1928, Pocatello, Idaho; B.S. in mechanical engineering, George Washington University; engineer for the U.S. Navy designing nuclear reactor for the Nautilus; completed equivalent of doctorate in nuclear engineering at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee; Author; Apostle, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, October 1, 1988-present; Presidency of the First Quorom of the Seventy, October 1, 1983-October 1, 1988; First Quorum of the Seventy, April 2, 1977-October 1, 1988)
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, via WWW, September 23, 2015 (Elder Richard G. Scott, 1928-2015; Elder Richard G. Scott of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints died Tuesday, September 22, 2015, from causes incident to age at his home in Salt Lake City; he was 86; Elder Scott was sustained as an apostle on October 1, 1988; he was called as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy on April 2, 1977, and served as a member of the presidency of that quorum from October 1983 until he was called as an apostle in 1988; Richard Gordon Scott was born November 7, 1928, in Pocatello, Idaho, to Kenneth Leroy and Mary Whittle Scott; he served a full-time mission to Uruguay and presided over the Argentina North Mission in CoĢrdoba, Argentina, from 1965 to 1969; he graduated from George Washington University as a mechanical engineer and completed post-graduate work in nuclear engineering at Oak Ridge, Tennessee; from 1953 to 1965 he served on the staff of Admiral Hyman Rickover, directing the development of nuclear fuel for a wide variety of naval and land-based power plants; he also worked as a private consultant for nuclear power companies)
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