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Analyst generally is a term for a professional whose primary function is a deep examination of a specific, limited area and may mean:

• Accounting analyst, an accounting analyst evaluates and interprets public company financial statements
• Business analyst, an employee who examines the needs and concerns of clients and stakeholders to determine where potential problems and opportunities lie, known also as a Business Systems Analyst in business
• Chemical analyst, a person who performs chemical experiments and analyses
• Color analyst, an individual who, as against a play-by-play announcer, provides analysis and commentary in sports broadcasting
• Cost analyst, an employee who analyzes business operations to determine which courses of action are most efficacious in business
• Financial analyst, an individual who analyzes securities and business equity in economics and finance
• Handwriting analyst, a person who performs a personality assessment through handwriting
• Industry analyst, an individual who performs market research on segments of specific industries toward the identification of trends in business and finance
• Institutional Research Analyst, an individual who analyzes data gathered for an educational institute
• Intelligence analyst, an individual who performs intelligence analysis
• Marketing analyst, a person who analyzes price, customer, competitor and economic data to help companies
• Medical analyst, a person who can interpret medical data for specific analytical purposes
• News analyst, examines, analyses, interprets, and may comment on news received from various sources
• Patent analyst, in the field of intellectual property is an individual who performs patent and non-patent literature searches to determine the patentability of an invention
• Psychoanalyst, a practitioner who acts to facilitate understanding of a patient's unconscious mind
• Public analyst, a qualified chemist appointed by a local authority in the United Kingdom
• Public policy analyst
• Quantitative analyst applies mathematical techniques to investment banking, especially in the fields of risk management, trading and financial derivatives
• Systems analyst or Information analyst, an individual who analyzes technical design and functional design for software development
• Web metrics analyst, an individual who examines trends and patterns in the use and expansion of the World Wide Web in webometrics
• An analyst in mathematics, an individual who focuses in the area of mathematical analysis
• Analyst (software) (or AnalystQS), a mass spectrometry software
• Analyst(tm) (software), fully parallelized high-performance, ultra-high accuracy 3D finite element method (FEM) analysis software for complex Electromagnetic (EM) problems.
• Analyst (journal), a chemistry journal

See also[link]

• The Analyst, a famous criticism by Bishop Berkeley about the study of calculus at the time
• Annalists, history-writers in ancient Rome.
• Category:Mathematical analysts

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Andrew Freeman (10 March 1909 - 17 January 1996), was the inventor of the electric block heater for automobiles.

Freeman first developed a block heater around 1940, and received U.S. Patent #2487326 on 8 November 1949.^[1]

He was born in Upham, North Dakota, and attended the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, North Dakota, where he majored in electrical engineering. He was president of Four Star Manufacturing, the company that made the original block heater, and co-founded and managed Minnkota Power Cooperative from 1940 to 1982. He died in Grand Forks.

References[link]

• "Headbolt Heaters". Dakota Datebook. Prairie Public. February 16, 2004. http://www.prairiepublic.org/radio/dakota-datebook?post=6116. 
• UND Center for Innovation North Dakota Entrepreneur Hall of Fame: http://www.innovators.net/innovators/public_html/about_the_center/entrepreneur_hall.html.

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