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5878db8b147b6d8fce15a6214bfd835c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walerian-Borowczyk | Walerian Borowczyk | Walerian Borowczyk
…efforts of Jan Lenica and Walerian Borowczyk foresaw the bleak themes and absurdist trends of the Polish school of the 1960s; such films as Był sobie raz… (1957; Once Upon a Time…), Nagrodzone uczucie (1957; Love Rewarded), and Dom (1958; The House) are surreal, pessimistic, plotless, and characteri... |
5bd2b1ec32123111cb766d46c27a3730 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wallace-Edward-Rowling | Sir Wallace Edward Rowling | Sir Wallace Edward Rowling
Sir Wallace Edward Rowling, byname Bill Rowling, (born Nov. 15, 1927, Motueka, N.Z.—died Oct. 31, 1995, Nelson), educator and politician who upon the death of Prime Minister Norman Kirk was elected premier of New Zealand (1974–75).
Rowling was a lecturer in economics when he entered politic... |
559a6b2f129e3d24d62bc2a677fb914d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wallace-Shawn | Wallace Shawn | Wallace Shawn
Wallace Shawn, (born November 12, 1943, New York, New York, U.S.), American playwright and character actor whose oft-surreal probing plays found favour in the British theatre and led some to call him the leading contemporary dramatist in the United States.
Shawn was exposed to New York City’s literary cu... |
06b7efbcefa9385d143b1a36ac51d6f4 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wally-Westmore | Wally Westmore | Wally Westmore
Walter James Westmore (1906–73), known as “Wally,” headed the makeup department at Paramount Studios for 41 years (1926–67). Hamilton Adolph Westmore (1918–73), known as “Bud,” worked at Paramount and 20th Century-Fox and then was makeup chief at Universal Studios for almost 24 years (1946–70). Frank…
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5c6daf2a7a0671ff091e2c5cf5f882a8 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walt-Whitman/Later-life | Later life | Later life
The fourth edition of Leaves of Grass, published in 1867, contained much revision and rearrangement. Apart from the poems collected in Drum-Taps, it contained eight new poems, and some poems had been omitted. In the late 1860s Whitman’s work began to receive greater recognition. O’Connor’s The Good Gray Poet... |
26fd839e257cd1290645c11d623ee55e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walt-Whitman/Reputation | Reputation | Reputation
At the time of his death Whitman was more respected in Europe than in his own country. It was not as a poet, indeed, but as a symbol of American democracy that he first won recognition. In the late 19th century his poems exercised a strong fascination on English readers who found his championing of the commo... |
cb0326e6292447b52c5ef24c8b429bde | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Abish | Walter Abish | Walter Abish
Walter Abish, (born December 24, 1931, Vienna, Austria), Austrian-born American writer of experimental novels and short stories whose fiction takes as its subject language itself.
Abish spent his childhood in Shanghai, where his family were refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe. In 1949 they moved to Israel,... |
743cc53b6668594fb1106950a45610fd | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Alston | Walter Alston | Walter Alston
Walter Alston, in full Walter Emmons Alston, byname Smokey, (born December 1, 1911, Venice, Ohio, U.S.—died October 1, 1984, Oxford, Ohio), professional National League baseball manager whose career with the Los Angeles (formerly Brooklyn) Dodgers was the third longest for managers, after Connie Mack and... |
b454d52dd35d07f81e98a9733f9e376f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Alvarez | Walter Alvarez | Walter Alvarez
…helped his son, the geologist Walter Alvarez, publicize Walter’s discovery of a worldwide layer of clay that has a high iridium content and which occupies rock strata at the geochronological boundary between the Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras (i.e., about 65.5 million years ago). They postulated that the ir... |
37fb0ca8937116b376069b27f498ec08 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Baader | Walter Baader | Walter Baader
In 1934, in collaboration with Walter Baade, he proposed that supernovas are a class of stellar explosion completely different from the ordinary novas and occur less often (two or three times every 1,000 years in the Milky Way Galaxy). Zwicky began conducting an extensive search of neighbouring galaxies f... |
24a833e3e2572b4d29ebb1f0250243e7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Bedell-Smith | Walter Bedell Smith | Walter Bedell Smith
Walter Bedell Smith, (born October 5, 1895, Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.—died August 9, 1961, Washington, D.C.), U.S. Army general, diplomat, and administrator who served as chief of staff for U.S. forces in Europe during World War II.
Smith began his military career as an enlisted man in the Indian... |
b5ed3f364e5f04f626d8ae63b93f7fac | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Benjamin | Walter Benjamin | Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin, (born July 15, 1892, Berlin, Ger.—died Sept. 27?, 1940, near Port-Bou, Spain), man of letters and aesthetician, now considered to have been the most important German literary critic in the first half of the 20th century.
Born into a prosperous Jewish family, Benjamin studied philosoph... |
451e3f644f2141a4e0eb0d434a6ce382 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Bradford-Cannon | Walter Bradford Cannon | Walter Bradford Cannon
Walter Bradford Cannon, (born Oct. 19, 1871, Prairie du Chien, Wis., U.S.—died Oct. 1, 1945, Franklin, N.H.), American neurologist and physiologist who was the first to use X rays in physiological studies. These led to his publication of The Mechanical Factors of Digestion (1911). His investiga... |
f1e8e0717807f24fe4b483f737d7bb7e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Bryan-Emery | Walter Bryan Emery | Walter Bryan Emery
In the 1930s Walter Bryan Emery began the excavations that uncovered the great 1st-dynasty tombs. His work in the archaic cemetery disclosed another huge labyrinth, resembling that of the Serapeum, the precise function of which is as yet undetermined. Beginning in the 1980s, the Egypt Exploration Soc... |
32eaf189bfabed0921b326e3e7ad7af9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Burkert | Walter Burkert | Walter Burkert
…the German historian of religion Walter Burkert. Burkert detected certain recurrent patterns in the actions described in Greek myths, and he related these patterns (and their counterparts in Greek ritual) to basic biologic or cultural “programs of action.” An example of this relation is given in Burkert... |
54b47a8c969f8571ece1f43a1af9d09c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Burley-Griffin | Walter Burley Griffin | Walter Burley Griffin
Walter Burley Griffin, (born Nov. 24, 1876, Maywood, Ill., U.S.—died Feb. 13, 1937, Lucknow, India), American architect, landscape designer, and city planner whose most ambitious work is the Australian capital, Canberra.
After studying at the University of Illinois, Urbana, Griffin worked in Fra... |
60aff5f8b0d7ca720ecff8e7805e1936 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Damrosch | Walter Damrosch | Walter Damrosch
Walter Damrosch, in full Walter Johannes Damrosch, (born Jan. 30, 1862, Breslau, Prussia [now Wrocław, Pol.]—died Dec. 22, 1950, New York, N.Y., U.S.), Prussian-born American orchestral conductor and composer whose activities spanned more than half a century of American musical life.
Damrosch studied w... |
e5be59d052d19b2312f938f9420353c8 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-de-la-Mare | Walter de la Mare | Walter de la Mare
Walter de la Mare, in full Walter John de la Mare, (born April 25, 1873, Charlton, Kent, England—died June 22, 1956, Twickenham, Middlesex), British poet and novelist with an unusual power to evoke the ghostly, evanescent moments in life.
De la Mare was educated at St. Paul’s Cathedral Choir School i... |
2a74250fa907c2020cd177e89301690d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Dorwin-Teague | Walter Dorwin Teague | Walter Dorwin Teague
Walter Dorwin Teague, (born Dec. 18, 1883, Decatur, Ind., U.S.—died Dec. 5, 1960, Flemington, N.J.), industrial designer who pioneered in the establishment of industrial design as a profession in the United States.
After study at the Art Students League of New York (1903–07) and four years with a... |
3f319a9d06277284433dabb486ce1d58 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-E-Fernald | Walter E. Fernald | Walter E. Fernald
Walter E. Fernald, in full Walter Elmore Fernald, (born 1859, Kittery, Maine, U.S.—died November 26, 1924, Waverley, Massachusetts), American doctor and administrator who was known for his work with the intellectually disabled in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
After graduating from the Medic... |
749cabedd05644021556e33fb787147b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Greenwood | Walter Greenwood | Walter Greenwood
Walter Greenwood’s Love on the Dole (1933) is a bleak record, in the manner of Bennett, of the economic depression in a northern working-class community; and Graham Greene’s It’s a Battlefield (1934) and Brighton Rock (1938) are desolate studies, in the manner of Conrad, of…
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1a5c1196bfc891375d28e0a87e531b04 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Hampden | Walter Hampden | Walter Hampden
Walter Hampden, original name Walter Hampden Dougherty, (born June 30, 1879, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died June 11, 1955, Los Angeles, California), American actor, theatre manager, and repertory producer.
Hampden attended Harvard briefly but graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. After a year’s ... |
d0b8de62a56b19e1169322b411d6327e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Lantz | Walter Lantz | Walter Lantz
Walter Lantz, (born April 27, 1899, New Rochelle, New York, U.S.—died March 22, 1994, Burbank, California), American motion-picture animator, cartoon producer, and creator of the cartoon character Woody Woodpecker.
At age 16, Lantz worked as a newspaper cartoonist and began experimenting with animation th... |
b2c480309586c03f75dc73686b13e6b2 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Layton | Sir Walter Layton | Sir Walter Layton
…socially and politically prominent editor Sir Walter Layton (1922–38) was influential in establishing the publication as an authority. By 1938 half The Economist’s sales were overseas. Layton’s successor, Geoffrey Crowther (1938–56), thus continued to expand its foreign affairs and business coverage.... |
32219c4ea5229327022370d81c95f9d8 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Lewis | Walter Lewis | Walter Lewis
…Cambridge University Press, whose printer, Walter Lewis, had begun a complete reform of its typographic resources. Cambridge stocked most of the types Morison commissioned for Monotype and demonstrated by their intelligent use that mechanical composition could be used to produce books at once handsome and... |
9d2f1f45507db388ee1a39a460f19079 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Lippmann | Walter Lippmann | Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann, (born Sept. 23, 1889, New York City—died Dec. 14, 1974, New York City), American newspaper commentator and author who in a 60-year career made himself one of the most widely respected political columnists in the world.
While studying at Harvard (B.A., 1909), Lippmann was influenced by... |
5858ad92f1de8b7b5266e49908f5a294 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-M-Elsasser | Walter M. Elsasser | Walter M. Elsasser
Walter M. Elsasser, in full Walter Maurice Elsasser, (born March 20, 1904, Mannheim, Ger.—died Oct. 14, 1991, Baltimore, Md., U.S.), German-born American physicist notable for a variety of contributions to science.
Elsasser received the Ph.D. from the University of Göttingen in 1927, then accepted ... |
889180ea335039ac1b59d94a9318a255 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Mosley | Walter Mosley | Walter Mosley
Walter Mosley, (born January 12, 1952, Los Angeles, California, U.S.), American author of mystery stories noted for their realistic portrayals of segregated inner-city life.
Mosley attended Goddard College and Johnson State College, and he became a computer programmer before publishing his first novel, D... |
97fc88dd6fec0cd7338578c6beb91e0a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Pater | Walter Pater | Walter Pater
Walter Pater, in full Walter Horatio Pater, (born August 4, 1839, Shadwell, London, England—died July 30, 1894, Oxford, Oxfordshire), English critic, essayist, and humanist whose advocacy of “art for art’s sake” became a cardinal doctrine of the movement known as Aestheticism.
Pater was educated at King’s... |
c14a2d63445121518db742f1d8008eaf | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Pitts | Walter Pitts | Walter Pitts
…of Illinois and the mathematician Walter Pitts of the University of Chicago published an influential treatise on neural networks and automatons, according to which each neuron in the brain is a simple digital processor and the brain as a whole is a form of computing machine. As McCulloch put it…
McCulloch... |
be518970270139fd659b0c13f506c7c2 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Ray-Williams-Jr | Walter Ray Williams, Jr. | Walter Ray Williams, Jr.
Walter Ray Williams, Jr., (born October 6, 1959, San Jose, California, U.S.), American professional bowler who was the first person to earn more than $2 million, $3 million, and then $4 million in prize money from bowling. He was also a champion horseshoe pitcher.
Williams joined the Professio... |
f3889dcc6197033b15755689cd3861fd | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Reuther | Walter Reuther | Walter Reuther
Walter Reuther, in full Walter Philip Reuther, (born September 1, 1907, Wheeling, West Virginia, U.S.—died May 9, 1970, Pellston, Michigan), American labour leader who was president of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) and of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and was active in national an... |
ac4cf9837b771423e77b1466b6a76025 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Runciman-1st-Viscount-Runciman-of-Doxford | Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford | Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford
…to the mission of Lord Runciman, whose avowed purpose was to observe and report on conditions within the country.
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67315670c5c39efadaf5b0f2687e9671 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Scott-Lenox | Walter Scott Lenox | Walter Scott Lenox
…in the late 19th century Walter Scott Lenox developed an international reputation with the fine china his firm made in Trenton. The railroad, trucking, rubber, plastics, metalworking, electrical, automobile parts, glass, and textile industries are now among the city’s foremost enterprises.
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416b899da5772228f931b1cfbad7d3c1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-William-Rouse-Ball | Walter William Rouse Ball | Walter William Rouse Ball
The first edition of W.W. Rouse Ball’s Mathematical Recreations and Essays appeared in 1892; it soon became a classic, largely because of its scholarly approach. After passing through 10 editions it was revised by the British professor H.S.M. Coxeter in 1938; it is still a standard reference.
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839b3e16fe68815995f32957c0ccaddd | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walther-Bothe | Walther Bothe | Walther Bothe
Walther Bothe, in full Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe, (born Jan. 8, 1891, Oranienburg, Ger.—died Feb. 8, 1957, Heidelberg, W.Ger.), German physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1954 with Max Born for his invention of a new method of detecting subatomic particles and for other resulting disc... |
4a3c051df2568b20d9b49f105c4eb1ad | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walther-Model | Walther Model | Walther Model
Walther Model, (born Jan. 24, 1891, Genthin, near Magdeburg, Ger.—died April 21, 1945, near Lintorf), German field marshal during World War II.
Model entered the German army in 1909, held various regimental and staff posts during World War I, and transferred to Germany’s postwar armed forces, the Reichsw... |
5bb2811bad0a0d0412ad976d1948ff04 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walther-von-Brauchitsch | Walther von Brauchitsch | Walther von Brauchitsch
Walther von Brauchitsch, in full Heinrich Alfred Walther von Brauchitsch, (born Oct. 4, 1881, Berlin, Ger.—died Oct. 18, 1948, Hamburg, W.Ger.), German field marshal and army commander in chief during the first part of World War II, who was instrumental in planning and carrying out the campaign... |
32758fa16ff3647db2af0474d2653385 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wang-Fuzhi | Wang Fuzhi | Wang Fuzhi
Wang Fuzhi, Wade-Giles romanization Wang Fu-chih, (born Oct. 7, 1619, Hengyang, Hunan province, China—died Feb. 18, 1692, Hengyang), Chinese nationalistic philosopher, historian, and poet in the early years of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), whose works were revived by Chinese nationalists in the middle of th... |
0fadfb41121fa8b1d6bcead910d0cac0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wang-Hui | Wang Hui | Wang Hui
Wang Hui, Wade-Giles romanization Wang Hui, (born 1632, Changsu, Jiangsu province, China—died 1717), probably the paramount member of the group of Chinese painters known as the Four Wangs (including Wang Shimin, 1592–1680, Wang Jian, 1598–1677, and Wang Yuanqi, 1642–1715), who represented the so-called “ortho... |
35fe36b3198378629a5c93b06ef95c95 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wang-Yangming | Wang Yangming | Wang Yangming
Wang Yangming, Wade-Giles romanization Wang Yang-ming, original name Wang Shouren, literary name Bean, canonized as Wencheng, Japanese Ōyō-mei, (born 1472, Yuyao, Zhejiang province, China—died 1529, Nan’an, Jiangxi), Chinese scholar-official whose idealistic interpretation of neo-Confucianism influence... |
a5a106f4acf50829533d793a999f5866 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wareru | Wareru | Wareru
Wareru, also called Mogado or Chao Fa Rua, (flourished 1300), famous king of Hanthawaddy (Hansavadi, or Pegu), who ruled (1287–96) over the Mon people of Lower Burma.
Wareru was a Tai adventurer of humble origins who had married a daughter of King Ramkhamhaeng of Sukhothai and had established himself as overlor... |
06829c36694663382a39e8f5df8ee847 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Warner-Oland | Warner Oland | Warner Oland
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…Rohmer novel, and it starred Warner Oland as the evil genius. In 1930 Lee helmed the sequel The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu, which also featured Oland and Jean Arthur.
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0bf9ab825339063be58dd2ea1312476f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Warren-Hastings | Warren Hastings | Warren Hastings
Warren Hastings, (born December 6, 1732, Churchill, near Daylesford, Oxfordshire, England—died August 22, 1818, Daylesford), the first and most famous of the British governors-general of India, who dominated Indian affairs from 1772 to 1785 and was impeached (though acquitted) on his return to England... |
aa0abec9f1c6924dea8136580042e388 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Warren-Weaver | Warren Weaver | Warren Weaver
Warren Weaver, (born July 17, 1894, Reedsburg, Wisconsin, U.S.—died November 24, 1978), American mathematician. He studied at the University of Wisconsin, taught there (1920–32), and directed the Rockefeller Foundation’s Natural Science Division (1932–55). He is considered the first person to propose usi... |
8aae063360e10185f6d5ade0a79b0af8 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Warren-Wright | Warren Wright | Warren Wright
Warren Wright, (born Sept. 25, 1875, Springfield, Ohio, U.S.—died Dec. 28, 1950, Miami Beach, Fla.), American financier, owner and breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses, and proprietor of Calumet Farm.
Wright was educated in public schools and in business college and, starting in 1890, worked for more than... |
e6cc0568a68a74f6971fdca780396b1e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Washington-Gladden | Washington Gladden | Washington Gladden
Washington Gladden, (born Feb. 11, 1836, Pottsgrove, Pa., U.S.—died July 2, 1918, Columbus, Ohio), American Congregational minister, crusading journalist, author, and prominent early advocate of the Social Gospel movement.
Gladden grew up on a farm, worked in a small-town newspaper office, and att... |
4755daf112706ff1477016ca44b3135e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wasil-ibn-Ata | Wāṣil ibn ʿAṭāʾ | Wāṣil ibn ʿAṭāʾ
Wāṣil ibn ʿAṭāʾ, , in full Wāṣil Ibn ʿaṭāʾ Al-ghazzāl, also called Abū Ḥudhayfah, (born c. 700, Arabia—died 748, Arabia), Muslim theologian considered the founder of the Muʿtazilah sect.
As a young man Wāṣil went to Basra, Iraq, where he studied under the celebrated ascetic Ḥasan al-Baṣrī and met othe... |
51a1ba85c04d3fc97b1f0279e6c115e7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Watsuji-Tetsuro | Watsuji Tetsurō | Watsuji Tetsurō
Watsuji Tetsurō, (born March 1, 1889, Himeji, Japan—died Dec. 26, 1960, Tokyo), Japanese moral philosopher and historian of ideas, outstanding among modern Japanese thinkers who have tried to combine the Eastern moral spirit with Western ethical ideas.
Watsuji studied philosophy at Tokyo University an... |
1c9054b51c0dbfa458a360c526f7bf07 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Waylon-Jennings | Waylon Jennings | Waylon Jennings
Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings. The gap between country and the mainstream of pop music continued to narrow in that decade and the next as electric guitars replaced more traditional instruments and country music became more acceptable to a national urban audience. Country retained its vitality into t... |
19847946e2ade7a9bb23693cbb50a1c9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wayne-Rooney | Wayne Rooney | Wayne Rooney
Wayne Rooney, in full Wayne Mark Rooney, (born October 24, 1985, Liverpool, England), English professional football (soccer) player who rose to international football stardom as a teenager while playing with the English Premier League powerhouse Manchester United.
Rooney made his professional debut with h... |
eb4f59f81c4cac9ad1b535b548e4868f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Weary-Dunlop | Weary Dunlop | Weary Dunlop
Weary Dunlop, byname of Sir Ernest Edward Dunlop, (born July 12, 1907, Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia—died July 2, 1993, Melbourne), Australian physician, one of the most famous Australian World War II veterans, remembered for the compassionate medical care and leadership he provided for fellow prisoners... |
7ea4225231d02581cea3c6a6b3d7faec | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wen-Jiabao | Wen Jiabao | Wen Jiabao
Wen Jiabao, (born September 1942, Tianjin, China), Chinese official, premier (prime minister) of China from 2003 to 2013.
Wen studied at the Beijing Institute of Geology, where he earned a graduate degree in structural geology in 1968. While a student at the institute, he joined the Chinese Communist Party ... |
b6a7da73ac713d5378ccbcc1886c1a2b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wen-Yiduo | Wen Yiduo | Wen Yiduo
Xu Zhimo and the American-educated Wen Yiduo, were creating new forms based on Western models, introducing the beauty of music and colour into their extremely popular lyrical verse.
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9b926cc9209ac9767117f92c3a454b87 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wenceslas-Cobergher | Wenceslas Cobergher | Wenceslas Cobergher
Wenceslas Cobergher, also called Wensel Coeberger, (born 1557/61, Antwerp [Belgium]—died November 24, 1634, Brussels), Flemish architect, painter, and engraver who was a leader in the development of the Flemish Baroque style of architecture, based on the early Italian Baroque buildings of the Roman... |
e83be3b8761ebfa1376a07d04c011057 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wendy-Wasserstein | Wendy Wasserstein | Wendy Wasserstein
Wendy Wasserstein, (born October 18, 1950, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died January 30, 2006, New York City), American playwright whose work probes, with humour and sensibility, the predicament facing educated women who came of age in the second half of the 20th century. Her drama The Heidi Chronicles (... |
6c310caa5120175c5a98f63ad3087747 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Werner-Bischof | Werner Bischof | Werner Bischof
Werner Bischof, in full Werner Adalbert Bischof, (born April 26, 1916, Zürich, Switzerland—found dead May 16, 1954, Peruvian Andes), Swiss photojournalist whose photographs are notable for their empathy, strong sense of design, and sensitive use of light.
From 1932 to 1936 Bischof attended the Zürich Sc... |
d3d25bd3379628b2e9b169e2f74aae6d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Werner-Egk | Werner Egk | Werner Egk
Werner Egk, original name Werner Mayer, (born May 17, 1901, Auchsesheim, near Donauwörth, Ger.—died July 10, 1983, Inning, W.Ger.), German composer primarily of music for the theatre.
Egk studied composition with Carl Orff in Munich, where he settled and composed music for puppet plays and radio plays. He ... |
2f962eb9c4f0777528b42a582edb99a6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Werner-Forssmann | Werner Forssmann | Werner Forssmann
Werner Forssmann, (born Aug. 20, 1904, Berlin, Ger.—died June 1, 1979, Schopfheim, W. Ger.), German surgeon who shared with André F. Cournand and Dickinson W. Richards the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1956. A pioneer in heart research, Forssmann contributed to the development of cardiac ... |
87ecd5bec89c29fd5af734df337deb99 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Werner-Sombart | Werner Sombart | Werner Sombart
Werner Sombart, (born January 19, 1863, Ermsleben, Saxony, Prussia—died May 18, 1941, Berlin, Germany), German historical economist who incorporated Marxist principles and Nazi theories in his writings on capitalism.
The son of a wealthy landowner and politician, Sombart was educated in Berlin, Pisa, an... |
8f00baaa07f3e9479041159f660cd1d0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wes-Anderson | Wes Anderson | Wes Anderson
Wes Anderson, in full Wesley Wales Anderson, (born May 1, 1969, Houston, Texas, U.S.), American director and screenwriter known for the distinctive visual aesthetic of his quirky comedies and for his collaboration with screenwriter and actor Owen Wilson.
Anderson and Wilson met while both were students at... |
88b4f1f0bd0b3835bc0a1765e80c347a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wes-Montgomery | Wes Montgomery | Wes Montgomery
Wes Montgomery, byname of John Leslie Montgomery, (born March 6, 1923, Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.—died June 15, 1968, Indianapolis), American jazz guitarist who was probably the most influential postwar improviser on his instrument.
Montgomery began playing guitar in his late teens and played in the L... |
630111d7a6896e0dd42078277cb879d5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wesley-A-Clark | Wesley A. Clark | Wesley A. Clark
…after the meeting, computer scientist Wesley Clark persuaded Roberts that the actual networking should be handled by smaller computers called interface message processors (IMPs) rather than the large mainframes that would be the nodes of ARPANET. Roberts modified the ARPANET plan to incorporate Clark’s... |
f4c30b134865f6a960e61b128e38ba2d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wiching | Wiching | Wiching
…headed by a Frankish cleric, Wiching, bishop of Nitra (in Slovakia), strengthened their position in Moravia. During Methodius’s lifetime the Slavic clergy had the upper hand; after his death in 884, though, Wiching banned Methodius’s disciples from Moravia, and most of them moved to Bulgaria. Furthermore, Pope... |
7a4f4fe6c95b3676eca59e0aa1e5708f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wifred | Wifred | Wifred
…Pamplona in Navarre, and Count Wilfred of Barcelona (873–898)—whose descendants were to govern Catalonia until the 15th century—asserted his independence from the Franks by extending his rule over several small Catalan counties.
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4dca5084dfd5e28c7dd088c43b55a07f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilford-Woodruff | Wilford Woodruff | Wilford Woodruff
Wilford Woodruff, (born March 1, 1807, Farmington, Conn., U.S.—died Sept. 2, 1898, San Francisco, Calif.), fourth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), who issued the proclamation that relinquished the church practice of polygyny, or polygamy as it was popularly call... |
c376e1ea02019062eaf3e30e7d267dbd | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilfredo-Gomez | Wilfredo Gomez | Wilfredo Gomez
…when he faced Puerto Rican Wilfredo Gomez, the WBC junior featherweight (122 pounds; also known as super bantamweight) champion, who had moved up in weight class for the fight. Gomez stepped into the ring unbeaten in 33 fights and flaunting 32 knockouts. Sanchez knocked down Gomez in the first round…
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34fcc7a4f1d139b73e37e8d041cd8595 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilfrid-Scawen-Blunt | Wilfrid Scawen Blunt | Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, (born Aug. 17, 1840, Petworth House, Sussex, Eng.—died Sept. 10, 1922, Newbuildings, Sussex), English poet best known for his elegant erotic verse and his expression of anti-imperialism.
He entered the diplomatic service in 1858 but retired on his marriage with Lady Anne Noe... |
b2e33410bd3aceb98285d0d69bb75826 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilfrid-Sellars | Wilfrid Sellars | Wilfrid Sellars
Wilfrid Sellars, in full Wilfrid Stalker Sellars, (born May 20, 1912, Ann Arbor, Mich., U.S.—died July 2, 1989, Pittsburgh, Pa.), American philosopher best known for his critique of traditional philosophical conceptions of mind and knowledge and for his uncompromising effort to explain how human reason... |
7154e34fec0dd40c14fad256eb4c9edf | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilhelm-August-Streitberg | Wilhelm Streitberg | Wilhelm Streitberg
Wilhelm Streitberg, (born Feb. 23, 1864, Rüdesheim, Nassau [Germany]—died Aug. 19, 1925, Leipzig, Ger.), German historical linguist who, with Karl Brugmann, founded (1891) and edited Indogermanische Forschungen (“Indo-European Researches”), an influential journal in the field of Indo-European lingu... |
dc5faa07cf75358e38ae209b47fb2516 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilhelm-Backhaus | Wilhelm Backhaus | Wilhelm Backhaus
Wilhelm Backhaus, (born March 26, 1884, Leipzig, Ger.—died July 5, 1969, Villach, Austria), German pianist who was best known for his interpretation of the works of Ludwig van Beethoven.
Backhaus studied piano in Leipzig and in Frankfurt am Main. His first concert appearance took place when he was ei... |
20581f7272160da656e7a8bec201c3e2 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilhelm-Bleek | Wilhelm Bleek | Wilhelm Bleek
Wilhelm Bleek, in full Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek, (born March 8, 1827, Berlin—died August 17, 1875, Cape Town), comparative linguist known for his pioneer studies of South African languages as the “Father of Bantu Philology.”
In his doctoral dissertation at the University of Bonn (1851), Bleek atte... |
ec1b237752e4f850dc687fc70402cb0e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilhelm-Bockmann | Wilhelm Böckmann | Wilhelm Böckmann
…German architects Hermann Ende and Wilhelm Böckmann were active in Japan from the late 1880s. Their expertise in the construction of government ministry buildings was applied to the growing complex of such structures in the Kasumigaseki area of Tokyo. The now much-altered Ministry of Justice building ... |
184e4d38ebf3bac1d97878436e4eb216 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilhelm-Bruhn | Wilhelm Bruhn | Wilhelm Bruhn
…taximeter, an instrument invented by Wilhelm Bruhn in 1891 that automatically recorded the distance traveled and/or the time consumed, thus enabling the fare to be accurately measured. The term cab derives from the cabriolet, a two-wheeled, one-horse carriage often let out for hire.
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e3c73209f2f0d36c86a9bf4675d9344a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilhelm-Canaris | Wilhelm Canaris | Wilhelm Canaris
Wilhelm Canaris, in full Wilhelm Franz Canaris, (born January 1, 1887, Aplerbeck, Westphalia, Germany—died April 9, 1945, Flossenbürg concentration camp, Bavaria), German admiral, head of military intelligence (Abwehr) under the Nazi regime and a key participant in the resistance of military officers t... |
0fa3e6e120f0461f941a4d1d0cb13174 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilhelm-Carl-Grimm | Wilhelm Carl Grimm | Wilhelm Carl Grimm
September 20, 1863, Berlin) and Wilhelm Carl Grimm (b. February 24, 1786, Hanau, Hesse-Kassel [Germany]—d. December 16, 1859, Berlin) together compiled other collections of folk music and folk literature, and Jacob in particular did important work in historical linguistics and Germanic philology, whi... |
2e9e05e0101f15bf65fa8d1755fb665a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilhelm-Emmanuel-Freiherr-von-Ketteler | Wilhelm Emmanuel, baron von Ketteler | Wilhelm Emmanuel, baron von Ketteler
Wilhelm Emmanuel, baron von Ketteler, (born Dec. 25, 1811, Münster, Westphalia [Germany]—died July 13, 1877, Burghausen, Bavaria), social reformer who was considered by some to have been Germany’s outstanding 19th-century Roman Catholic bishop.
Ordained a priest in 1844 and appoi... |
b1ee0bde49264cc893fb405139bb22d8 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilhelm-Freiherr-von-Knyphausen | Wilhelm, baron von Knyphausen | Wilhelm, baron von Knyphausen
Wilhelm, baron von Knyphausen, (born November 4, 1716, Luxembourg—died December 7, 1800, Kassel, Hesse-Kassel [Germany]), German soldier who after 1777 commanded “Hessian” troops on the British side in the American Revolution.
A lieutenant general with 42 years of military service, Knyph... |
f48d32c20099b26ca285768c72db72d4 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilhelm-Friedemann-Bach | Wilhelm Friedemann Bach | Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, (born Nov. 22, 1710, Weimar, Saxe-Weimar—died July 1, 1784, Berlin), eldest son of J.S. and Maria Barbara Bach, composer during the period of transition between Baroque and Rococo styles.
W.F. Bach’s musical instruction was primarily from his father (who wrote for him... |
eeb8b58ce4770ac2f658b70f22fd37f3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilhelm-Johann-Eugen-Blaschke | Wilhelm Johann Eugen Blaschke | Wilhelm Johann Eugen Blaschke
Wilhelm Johann Eugen Blaschke, (born Sept. 13, 1885, Graz, Austria-Hungary—died March 17, 1962, Hamburg), German mathematician whose major contributions to geometry concerned kinematics and differential and integral geometry.
Blaschke became extraordinary professor of mathematics at the D... |
09209beae5aa227cfc88020a77035300 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilhelm-Junker | Wilhelm Junker | Wilhelm Junker
Wilhelm Junker, in full Johann Wilhelm Junker, (born April 6, 1840, Moscow, Russia—died February 13, 1892, St. Petersburg), Russian explorer of the southern Sudan and Central Africa who determined the course of a major Congo River tributary, the Ubangi River, together with one of its branches, the Uele.... |
2871896025d296ab83492e37ecd71328 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilhelm-Lehmbruck | Wilhelm Lehmbruck | Wilhelm Lehmbruck
Wilhelm Lehmbruck, (born January 4, 1881, Meiderich, near Duisburg, Germany—died March 25, 1919, Berlin), German sculptor, printmaker, and painter best known for his melancholy sculptures of elongated nudes.
Lehmbruck studied art in Düsseldorf, Germany, first at the School of Arts and Crafts (1895–19... |
1d1c489dfcc5c12d08e2f97df28a4a98 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilhelm-M-L-de-Wette | Wilhelm M. L. de Wette | Wilhelm M. L. de Wette
Wilhelm M.L. de Wette, a German biblical scholar, in 1805 established the predominant modern view that Deuteronomy (or its nucleus, or main portion) was found in Josiah’s time and was a distinctive book, separate from the Tetrateuch. He also held that it was composed shortly…
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dcd78841fc5f2fce359fc5a9dfa82063 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilhelm-Marx | Wilhelm Marx | Wilhelm Marx
Wilhelm Marx, (born Jan. 15, 1863, Cologne, Prussia [Germany]—died Aug. 5, 1946, Bonn, Ger.), German statesman, leader of the Roman Catholic Centre Party, and twice chancellor during the Weimar Republic.
Marx studied law and rose from a judgeship to the presidency of the senate of the Court of Appeal at ... |
3576e729fa7f6a13e178e8e67839f468 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilhelm-von-Grumbach | Wilhelm von Grumbach | Wilhelm von Grumbach
Wilhelm von Grumbach, (born June 1, 1503, Rimpar, near Würzburg [Germany]—died April 18, 1567, Gotha, Saxony), German knight and adventurer who led several attempts by German imperial knights to destroy the power of Germany’s territorial princes. Chiefly known through his own quarrels, the so-ca... |
7f6d5c5ab8e3a1b71ba3cb9cc4ba9e85 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilhelm-von-Lenz | Wilhelm von Lenz | Wilhelm von Lenz
It was his biographer Wilhelm von Lenz who first divided Beethoven’s output into three periods, omitting the years of his apprenticeship in Bonn. The first period begins with the completion of the Three Trios for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Opus 1, in 1794, and ends about 1800, the year…
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98776e8a03d22cb963ba77d84a3eb24c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilhelm-Wieprecht | Wilhelm Wieprecht | Wilhelm Wieprecht
In 1835 Wilhelm Wieprecht and Johann Gottfried Moritz of Berlin patented the bass tuba in F, with five valves. Subsequent designs were considerably influenced by the French contrabass saxhorn.
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7841fed76282236ae5c9a74545bb94df | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilhelm-Windelband | Wilhelm Windelband | Wilhelm Windelband
Its initiator was Wilhelm Windelband, esteemed for his “problems” approach to the history of philosophy. The scholar who systematized this position was his successor Heinrich Rickert, who had come from the tradition of Kuno Fischer. Drawing a parallel between the constraints that logic exerts upon th... |
621c87ddb98021ef385b47eec715a885 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilhelm-Wundt | Wilhelm Wundt | Wilhelm Wundt
Wilhelm Wundt, (born August 16, 1832, Neckarau, near Mannheim, Baden [Germany]—died August 31, 1920, Grossbothen, Germany), German physiologist and psychologist who is generally acknowledged as the founder of experimental psychology.
Wundt earned a medical degree at the University of Heidelberg in 1856. ... |
460e2b0df11c36bd373fde0934d2cf71 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilhelm-zu-Wied | Wilhelm zu Wied | Wilhelm zu Wied
…also appointed a German prince, Wilhelm zu Wied, as ruler of Albania. Wilhelm arrived in Albania in March 1914, but his unfamiliarity with Albania and its problems, compounded by complications arising from the outbreak of World War I, led him to depart from Albania six months later. The war plunged…
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948224625c32a3aa9310b1b39e1588ff | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilhelmina-margravine-of-Bayreuth | Wilhelmina | Wilhelmina
Wilhelmina, German in full Wilhelmine Friederike Sophie, (born July 3, 1709, Berlin, Prussia [Germany]—died Oct. 14, 1758, Bayreuth, Upper Franconia), sister of Frederick the Great of Prussia and margravine of Bayreuth (from 1735).
She shared the unhappy childhood of her brother, whose friend and confidant... |
f5409d73257414824b13c7e7f9e3efb6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Will-Ferrell | Will Ferrell | Will Ferrell
Will Ferrell, in full John William Ferrell, (born July 16, 1967, Irvine, California, U.S.), American comedy actor, writer, and producer known for his impersonations and for his portrayal of dim-witted but endearing characters.
Will Ferrell is an American comedy actor, writer, and producer known for his im... |
155c2a31b7566631b85a69ffacab80b9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Willebrord-Snell | Willebrord Snell | Willebrord Snell
Willebrord Snell, Latin-Dutch Willebrordus Snellius, original name Willebrord Snel van Royen, (born 1580?, Leiden, Netherlands—died October 30, 1626, Leiden), astronomer and mathematician who discovered the law of refraction, which relates the degree of the bending of light to the properties of the re... |
3fa59f401fdc1314bf48fd3c28d19c7e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Willem-Einthoven | Willem Einthoven | Willem Einthoven
Willem Einthoven, (born May 21, 1860, Semarang, Java, Dutch East Indies—died Sept. 29, 1927, Leiden, Neth.), Dutch physiologist who was awarded the 1924 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the electrical properties of the heart through the electrocardiograph, which he develope... |
c68e2b4b4fb1544161049d80d806ea96 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Willem-Frederik-Hermans | Willem Frederik Hermans | Willem Frederik Hermans
Willem Frederik Hermans, (born Sept. 1, 1921, Amsterdam, Neth.—died April 27, 1995), Dutch satirical novelist who vehemently attacked the ills and hypocrisies of society.
Hermans’ early novels and stories are overcast with dark, disillusioned tones. De tranen der acacia’s (1949; “The Tears of t... |
9d4161e518e52d5ee6fe4137bc3b04be | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Willem-van-de-Velde-the-Elder | Willem van de Velde, the Elder | Willem van de Velde, the Elder
Willem van de Velde, the Elder, (born 1611, Leiden, Neth.—died December 1693, London, Eng.), Dutch marine painter. He sailed with the Dutch fleet and painted its engagements with the English. Settling in England in 1672, he continued to paint marine subjects, often in collaboration with ... |
b3c7d0b49e6c331bf23190bf6c83708c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-A-Anders | William A. Anders | William A. Anders
William A. Anders, in full William Alison Anders, (born October 17, 1933, Hong Kong), U.S. astronaut who participated in the Apollo 8 flight (December 21–27, 1968), during which the first crewed voyage around the Moon was made. The astronauts, including Anders, Frank Borman, and James Lovell, remain... |
4c6d1709ad4816d7f27584e92c33293e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-A-Seiter | William A. Seiter | William A. Seiter
William A. Seiter, (born June 10, 1890, New York City, New York, U.S.—died July 26, 1964, Los Angeles, California), American director who made more than 100 feature films and was especially noted for his musicals and light comedies.
Seiter graduated from the Hudson River Military Academy, and by the ... |
be2088600ab420efeb5994f795faea13 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-A-Wheeler | William A. Wheeler | William A. Wheeler
William A. Wheeler, in full William Almon Wheeler, (born June 30, 1819, Malone, New York, U.S.—died June 4, 1887, Malone), 19th vice president of the United States (1877–81) who, with Republican President Rutherford B. Hayes, took office by the decision of an Electoral Commission appointed to rule o... |
3067359c32d090a13ae0d84396bcc970 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Adair | William Adair | William Adair
William Adair of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad fired O.B. Coppage for belonging to a labour union, an action in direct violation of the Erdman Act of 1898, which prohibited railroads engaged in interstate commerce from requiring workers to refrain from union membership as a…
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