Geoffrey Frank Grant
| Geoffrey Frank Grant | |
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Geoffrey Grant, 2002
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| Born |
5 September 1941 Empingham, Rutland, United Kingdom |
| Residence | Fort Worth, Texas, United States |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom (1941–) Canada (1953–) United States (1991–) |
| Fields | Scientist Inventor Sportsman |
| Alma mater |
University of California, San Diego University of British Columbia |
| Doctoral advisor | Melvin Simon Caltech |
| Other academic advisors | Melvin Cohn. Salk Institute |
| Known for |
No-line, multicolored tennis court 1975 electronic line judge tennis 1974 Co-discoverer – the isolation, mode of action and sequence of the brain hypothalamic peptide Somatostatin. 1972. ITF World Senior Tennis Doubles Champion. 2002 |
Geoffrey Frank Grant is a scientist and administrative manager at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth He was born on 5 September 1941 in Empingham, Rutland. He migrated to the United States and currently resides in Fort Worth, Texas.
As a post-doctoral fellow, he continued research at nearby Salk Institute for Biological Studies becoming an assistant research professor in the neuro-endocrinology laboratory of Roger Guillemin. At the Salk, he conducted studies and published with Guillemin on the cell biology and mode of action / structure-activity relationships of hypothalamic hormone analogues and was a co-discoverer of the hypothalamic peptide, Somatostatin. He has articles published in both Nature and Science.
His present interests are as a naturopathic theorist extending the theory he published –"The DOLE – Decline of Life's Energy – Theory of Aging." 2000.
While a researcher at the Salk Institute he designed, developed, and built a computerised electronic line judge computer. During 1974 and 1975 his device was used in the first successful public demonstration of a computerised line-calling device at a professional tennis tournament. This original tennis electronic line judge device was used by the Men's World Championship Tennis and the Ladies' Virginia Slims sponsored tennis tours. The computerised device not only made decisions as to whether the ball landed within the boundaries of the playing zones but also made foot fault and service net-cord decisions.
During the early years 1975-6, of the World TeamTennis (WWT) league it adopted Dr. Grant's creative alternative tennis court design as a 'signature logo'. The original WTT no-line, multi-colored tennis court was a multi-coloured court with eleven separate coloured areas with no segregating lines. A USPTO utility patent was issued in 1977.
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