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1860–1947, English evangelist, originally named Rodney Smith, b. Wanstead. His father, a Gypsy, was also an evangelist. When Rodney was still a yout...
(ä´dr än vän ô´städ ) (KEY) , 1610–85, Dutch genre painter, b. Haarlem. Trained in the studio of Frans Hals, he was strongly influenced by hi...
fund established (1934) by automobile executive Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. as a philanthropic institution supporting research in various areas. In its early...
(Pablo Ruiz y Picasso) (pä´bl p kä´s ; r th´ ) (KEY) , 1881–1973, Spanish painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and ceramist, who worked in Fra...
or Raphael Sanzio, Ital. Raffaello Santi or Raffaello Sanzio (räf´´fä l´l sän´t , sän´tsy ) (KEY) , 1483–1520, major Italian Renaissance p...
1910–94, English chemist and X-ray crystallographer, b. Egypt. She received the 1964 Nobel Prize in chemistry for determining the structure of bioch...