Biography Category
1916–2001, American social scientist and economist, b. Milwaukee, grad. Univ. of Chicago (B.A., 1936, Ph.D., 1943). A professor of computer science ...
(säs´´s f r-rä´t ) (KEY) , 1605–85, Italian painter; pupil of Domenichino. His original name was Giovanni Battista Salvi. He is best known for ...
(mäks p kh´sht n) (KEY) , 1881–1955, German expressionist painter and graphic artist. Early contact with the art of Van Gogh stimulated his develo...
1907–, English aeronautical engineer. Whittle was one of the first men to associate the gas turbine with jet propulsion. Previously the gas turbine ...
(pr ks t´ l z) (KEY) , fl. c.370–c.330 B.C., famous Attic sculptor, probably the son of Cephisodotus. His Hermes with the Infant Dionysus, found in...
c.1580–1631, English colonist in America, b. Willoughby, Lincolnshire, England. A merchant’s apprentice until his father’s death in 1596, he the...