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Sep 19, 2010 · When Ben Affleck needed to add some brawn to his shoot-’em-up flick “The Town,” he hired real-life Townie Dennis McLaughlin. McLaughlin, a 6-foot-2, 300-pound, fourth-generation longshoreman from the square mile, plays Rusty, henchman to actor Pete Postlethwaite’s (“In the Name of the Father”) villain Fergus Colm.
Dennis McLaughlin is known for They Live (1988), A Few Good Men (1992) and The American President (1995).
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May 11, 2012 · Born in 1948 with spina bifida, Dennis McLaughlin was missing several vertebrae and unable to use his legs. His mother, Theresa, was a single mom, working in a paper mill near Portland,...
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B.S.E.E. 1966, Purdue UniversityM.S.E. 1967, Princeton UniversityPh.D. 1985, Princeton UniversityEstimation and control, data assimilationSurface and groundwater hydrologyWater resources systemsEcology II: Engineering for SustainabilityWater Resource SystemsMoore, S. and D. McLaughlin, Design of field experiments to determine the ecological effects of petroleum in intertidal ecosystems”, Water Resources Research, 12(12), 1091-1099, 1978.McLaughlin, D. and W. Johnson, Comparison of three groundwater modeling studies, ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 113(3), 405-421, 1987.Moughamian, M., D. McLaughlin, and R.L. Bras, Estimation of flood frequency: A comparison of physically based procedures, Water Resources Research, 23(7), 1309-1319, 1987.McLaughlin, D. and E.F. Wood, A distributed parameter approach for evaluating the accuracy of groundwater predictions, 1. Theory, Water Resources Research, 24(7), 1037-1047, 1988Principal Fields of Interest: Ground Water Hydrology, Water Resource Systems, Environmental Data Assimilation. Positions Held: H.M. King Bhumibol Professor of Water Resource Management. 1984-present. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, MA. Visiting Professor.
Dennis McLaughlin is an American engineer, currently the H.M. King Bhumibol Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Education. B.S.E.E. 1966, Purdue University; M.S.E. 1967, Princeton University; Ph.D. 1985, Princeton University; References