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28137bb6938f2a13fbd0eae6e916c864 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Moorcroft | William Moorcroft | William Moorcroft
…travelers such as the Englishmen William Moorcroft, George Trebeck, and Godfrey Thomas Vigne plotted the locations of major rivers, glaciers, and mountains. The extraordinary topography, along with protracted military tensions in the Karakorams between Russia and Britain and more recently between Chi... |
131b44ce5469871631351276fd471001 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Morgan-Shuster | William Morgan Shuster | William Morgan Shuster
William Morgan Shuster, (born February 23, 1877, Washington, D.C., U.S.—died May 26, 1960, New York, New York), U.S. lawyer, civil servant, financial expert, and publisher, who served as treasurer general to the Iranian government (1911).
Shuster entered the Cuban customs service in 1899 but re... |
61c7da5022764e30b0be9a6ba546d357 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Moulton-Marston | William Moulton Marston | William Moulton Marston
…for DC Comics by psychologist William Moulton Marston (under the pseudonym Charles Moulton) and artist Harry G. Peter. Wonder Woman first appeared in a backup story in All Star Comics no. 8 (December 1941) before receiving fuller treatment in Sensation Comics no. 1 (January 1942) and Wonder Wom... |
0552e4b33da416c3377cc446c963f429 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Nicholson-English-chemist-and-inventor | William Nicholson | William Nicholson
William Nicholson, (born 1753, London, England—died May 21, 1815, Bloomsbury, London), English chemist, discoverer of the electrolysis of water, which has become a basic process in both chemical research and industry.
Nicholson was at various times a hydraulic engineer, inventor, translator, and scie... |
8f2f76aa76fa7bb3156a938ddcc12fe7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-OBrien | William O'Brien | William O'Brien
William O’Brien, (born October 2, 1852, Mallow, County Cork, Ireland—died February 25, 1928, London, England), Irish journalist and politician who was for several years second only to Charles Stewart Parnell (1846–91) among Irish Nationalist leaders. He was perhaps most important for his “plan of campa... |
f474b1852d7fa430c6dc8b6c5e20134f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-of-Auvergne | William of Auvergne | William of Auvergne
William of Auvergne, also called William of Paris or William of Alvernia, French Guillaume d’Auvergne or Guillaume de Paris, (born after 1180, Aurillac, Aquitaine, France—died 1249, Paris), the most prominent French philosopher-theologian of the early 13th century and one of the first Western scho... |
190e1653ea3b8e1fbe15494aa1015aff | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-of-Champeaux | William of Champeaux | William of Champeaux
William of Champeaux, French Guillaume de Champeaux, Latin Guglielmus de Campellis, (born c. 1070, Champeaux, Fr.—died 1121, Châlons-sur-Marne), French bishop, logician, theologian, and philosopher who was prominent in the Scholastic controversy on the nature of universals (i.e., words that can be... |
da801b3ebbafe2ead315288c925fe8e0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-of-Ockham | William of Ockham | William of Ockham
William of Ockham, also called William Ockham, Ockham also spelled Occam, byname Venerabilis Inceptor (Latin: “Venerable Enterpriser”), or Doctor Invincibilis (“Invincible Doctor”), (born c. 1285, Ockham, Surrey?, Eng.—died 1347/49, Munich, Bavaria [now in Germany]), Franciscan philosopher, theologia... |
2645c48fd5616e6bcbb2c32ffbed6fb1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-of-Saint-Amour | William Of Saint-amour | William Of Saint-amour
William Of Saint-amour, French Guillaume De Saint-amour, (born c. 1200, Saint-Amour, Kingdom of Arles—died September 1272, Saint-Amour), French philosopher and theologian who led the opposition at the University of Paris to the 13th-century rise of the newly formed mendicant religious orders.
A... |
dd128060cb15bfc60588205b95bbf94a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-of-Saint-Carilef | William Of Saint Carilef | William Of Saint Carilef
William Of Saint Carilef, also called William Of Saint Calais, orBishop William, (died Jan. 2, 1096, Windsor, Eng.), Norman-French bishop of Durham (1081–96), adviser to William I the Conqueror, and chief minister to William II Rufus (1088).
Bishop William distinguished himself in his early ye... |
4bbaf4d9fe8666d3b1ead4f81ac8099d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-of-Sherwood | William of Sherwood | William of Sherwood
…1253 and 1257; and (3) William of Sherwood, who produced Introductiones in logicam (Introduction to Logic) and other logical works sometime about the mid-century.
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340739c1a1de55f276f3e98718d0fae8 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-of-Tripoli | William of Tripoli | William of Tripoli
The Dominican William of Tripoli had some success, presumably within the Crusaders’ area; he and his colleague Riccoldo di Monte Croce both wrote perceptive treatises on Islamic faith and law. Other missionaries usually failed, and many suffered martyrdom. In the 14th century the Franciscans were fin... |
ff856e58e2ce472209f7b012acd38a33 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-P-Lear | William P. Lear | William P. Lear
William P. Lear, (born June 26, 1902, Hannibal, Mo., U.S.—died May 14, 1978, Reno, Nev.), self-taught American electrical engineer and industrialist whose Lear Jet Corporation was the first mass-manufacturer of business jet aircraft in the world. Lear also developed the automobile radio, the eight-tra... |
3c4a02992b2a6f62602dd54171e86050 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Paats | William Paats | William Paats
In Paraguay, Dutchman William Paats introduced the game at a school where he taught physical education, but the country’s first (and still leading) club, Olimpia, was formed by a local man who became enthusiastic after seeing the game in Buenos Aires in 1902. In Bolivia the first footballers…
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8b47406f9b1712bc1e595a1d22563e08 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Paterson-United-States-statesman | William Paterson | William Paterson
William Paterson, (born December 24, 1745, County Antrim, Ireland—died September 9, 1806, Albany, New York, U.S.), Irish-born American jurist, one of the framers of the U.S. Constitution, U.S. senator (1789–90), and governor of New Jersey (1790–93). He also served as an associate justice of the U.S. S... |
951b7f9208e7409a7331935681ccbe85 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Patterson | William Patterson | William Patterson
William Patterson, in full William Allan Patterson, (born October 1, 1899, Honolulu, Hawaii—died June 13, 1980, Glenview, Illinois, U.S.), American airline executive who played a major role in shaping the history of aviation as the pioneering first president of United Airlines (1934–63), which became... |
1b60f915f3c40172e8d7459469f006f8 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Pinkney | William Pinkney | William Pinkney
William Pinkney, (born March 17, 1764, Annapolis, Md.—died Feb. 25, 1822, Washington, D.C.), U.S. statesman and diplomat, considered one of the foremost lawyers of his day.
A member of the Maryland convention that ratified the federal Constitution in 1788, Pinkney himself voted against ratification. H... |
06bd902d9db4cd02a1e2ecb966f9e6ff | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Platt | William Platt | William Platt
…frontier directly into Ethiopia, General William Platt and the Indian divisions invaded Eritrea on January 19, 1941 (the Italians had already abandoned Kassala); and, almost simultaneously, British troops from Kenya, under General Alan Cunningham, advanced into Italian Somaliland.
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ae2808b77d4ca7c42c4a098812b78141 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Playfair | William Playfair | William Playfair
…crowned by the 19th-century architect William Playfair’s City Observatory (1818) and a charming Gothic house by Craig, built for the astronomer royal. Behind this rise 12 columns of an intended replica of the Parthenon that was designed by Playfair in 1822 as a memorial to the Scots who died in…
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77d9431140b7580f2e8c5c8096f34808 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-R-Bascom | William R. Bascom | William R. Bascom
William R. Bascom, in full William Russell Bascom, (born May 23, 1912, Princeton, Ill., U.S.—died Sept. 11, 1981, San Francisco, Calif.), American anthropologist who was one of the first to do extensive fieldwork in West Africa. He served as chairman (1956–57) of the anthropology department and acti... |
8bcda3054b7efb2a07e446afb38753f5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-R-Wilde | William R. Wilde | William R. Wilde
…specialty was first formulated by William R. Wilde of Dublin, who in 1853 published Practical Observations on Aural Surgery, and the Nature and Treatment of Diseases of the Ear. Further advances were made with the development of the otoscope, an instrument that enabled visual examination of the tympan... |
776cd0ffb989e8301c4affd77cebd81e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Rainey-Harper | William Rainey Harper | William Rainey Harper
William Rainey Harper, (born July 24, 1856, New Concord, Ohio, U.S.—died January 10, 1906, Chicago, Illinois), American Hebraist who served as leader of the Chautauqua Institution and as the first president of the University of Chicago.
Harper’s interest in Hebraic studies began in Muskingum Coll... |
0938d6def45cf474826ed805f95db080 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Robert-Grove | Sir William Robert Grove | Sir William Robert Grove
Sir William Robert Grove, (born July 11, 1811, Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales—died August 1, 1896, London), British physicist and a justice of Britain’s High Court (from 1880), who built the first fuel cell in 1842 and first offered proof of the thermal dissociation of atoms within a molecule.
Grov... |
44e8e99b1472f393a67167f331ee7dc3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Robert-Shepherd | William Robert Shepherd | William Robert Shepherd
William Robert Shepherd, (born June 12, 1871, Charleston, S.C., U.S.—died June 7, 1934, Berlin, Ger.), American historian known as an authority on Latin America and on European overseas expansion.
Shepherd was educated at Columbia University, where he earned his Ph.D. (1896). He studied in Ber... |
ed7e90d66548c391a0c2b80326df14aa | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Robertson-Smith | William Robertson Smith | William Robertson Smith
William Robertson Smith, (born Nov. 8, 1846, Keig, Aberdeenshire, Scot.—died March 31, 1894, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng.), Scottish Semitic scholar, encyclopaedist, and student of comparative religion and social anthropology.
Smith was ordained a minister in 1870 on his appointment as prof... |
5bcc68c4a6bc35d0ff2858d893edf385 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Rothenstein | Sir William Rothenstein | Sir William Rothenstein
…supporter in the director there, William Rothenstein, who was not unsympathetic to modern artistic tendencies, although he remained a conservative artist himself.
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b99e3e6ed46b80560ad9dd9092a9c5a8 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-S-Knowles | William S. Knowles | William S. Knowles
William S. Knowles, (born June 1, 1917, Taunton, Massachusetts, U.S.—died June 13, 2012, Chesterfield, Missouri), American chemist who, with Noyori Ryōji and K. Barry Sharpless, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2001 for developing the first chiral catalysts.
Knowles earned a Ph.D. from Columbia ... |
079bed22e4ecf2a94d16b6f5a01210fc | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Shakespeare/Romeo-and-Juliet | Romeo and Juliet | Romeo and Juliet
Apart from the early Titus Andronicus, the only other play that Shakespeare wrote prior to 1599 that is classified as a tragedy is Romeo and Juliet (c. 1594–96), which is quite untypical of the tragedies that are to follow. Written more or less at the time when Shakespeare was writing A Midsummer Night... |
6564353e0a06520a556126400caba633 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Shakespeare/Shakespeares-plays-and-poems | Shakespeare’s plays and poems | Shakespeare’s plays and poems
Shakespeare arrived in London probably sometime in the late 1580s. He was in his mid-20s. It is not known how he got started in the theatre or for what acting companies he wrote his early plays, which are not easy to date. Indicating a time of apprenticeship, these plays show a more direct... |
38cd6485c58b7ccffd287df529f16e34 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Shirley | William Shirley | William Shirley
William Shirley, (born December 2, 1694, Preston, Sussex, England—died March 24, 1771, Roxbury, Massachusetts, U.S.), colonial governor of Massachusetts who played an important role in Britain’s struggle against France for control of North America.
In 1731, after 11 years of law practice in England, Sh... |
913c95776533b6246fb43b16d87c4fd7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Shreve-Bailey | William Shreve Bailey | William Shreve Bailey
…was edited in Newport by William Shreve Bailey, who, after a pro-slavery mob threw his presses and type into the street (October 28, 1859), moved to Cincinnati. The city experienced its greatest growth in the 1880s and ’90s with an influx of German settlers and the completion of bridges to…
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85cc87db172f865039367ccae54cf952 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Sidney-Mount | William Sidney Mount | William Sidney Mount
William Sidney Mount, (born November 26, 1807, Setauket, Long Island, New York, U.S.—died November 19, 1868, Setauket), American genre painter who mainly depicted rustic life in his native Long Island. He was one of the first and best 19th-century anecdotal painters in the United States.
A farm bo... |
4ce33e5ea4c4ebd67f49e0041e872d80 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Slavata | William Slavata | William Slavata
…Prague, where the imperial regents, William Slavata and Jaroslav Martinic, were tried and found guilty of violating the Letter of Majesty and, with their secretary, Fabricius, were thrown from the windows of the council room of Hradčany (Prague Castle) on May 23, 1618. Although inflicting no serious in... |
a5c2684cbaece3e731ffb61e88b90d89 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Smellie-Scottish-physician | William Smellie | William Smellie
William Smellie, (born 1697, Lanark, Lanark, Scotland—died March 5, 1763, Lanark), Scottish obstetrician who was the first to teach obstetrics and midwifery on a scientific basis.
After 20 years of village practice, Smellie went to London to give obstetrical lecture-demonstrations to midwives and medic... |
77f63b98c8e841dfd4da4befd63467f6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Sowden-Sims | William Sowden Sims | William Sowden Sims
William Sowden Sims, (born Oct. 15, 1858, Port Hope, Ont., Can.—died Sept. 28, 1936, Boston, Mass., U.S.), admiral whose persistent efforts to improve ship design, fleet tactics, and naval gunnery made him perhaps the most influential officer in the history of the U.S. Navy.
Sims was born in Ontar... |
b82dde09ab2b6d6b12d8b62a45eeba48 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Stewart-Halsted | William Stewart Halsted | William Stewart Halsted
William Stewart Halsted, (born Sept. 23, 1852, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Sept. 7, 1922, Baltimore, Md.), American pioneer of scientific surgery who established at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, the first surgical school in the United States.
After graduating in 1877 from the College of ... |
40d23d36774a23182599b5358ae3abec | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Strong | William Strong | William Strong
William Strong, (born May 6, 1808, Somers, Conn., U.S.—died Aug. 19, 1895, Lake Minnewaska, N.Y.), U.S. Supreme Court justice (1870–80), one of the most respected justices of the 19th-century court.
Admitted to the bar in 1832, Strong practiced law in Reading, Pa., and served in the U.S. House of Repre... |
33d94f85288c80346017a64bd5b42ef8 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-the-Aetheling | William the Aetheling | William the Aetheling
William the Aetheling, French Guillaume Aetheling, (born 1103—died November 25, 1120, at sea off Barfleur, France), Anglo-Norman prince, only son of Henry I of England and recognized duke of Normandy (as William IV, or as William III if the earlier claim of his uncle, William Rufus, is not acknow... |
d4fbdb0469066bd7a2c6457c4a1f6e03 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Thomas-Stead | William Thomas Stead | William Thomas Stead
William Thomas Stead, (born July 5, 1849, Embleton, Northumberland, England—died April 15, 1912, at sea, North Atlantic), British journalist, editor, and publisher who founded the noted periodical Review of Reviews (1890).
Stead was educated at home by his father, a clergyman, until he was 12 year... |
9802ff86eaece3ae88677649eaa3f6e5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-V-count-of-Holland | William V | William V
William V of Jülich, through his marriage in 1328 to the daughter of Count William III of Holland, became the brother-in-law of Emperor Louis IV, who made Jülich a margravate in 1336, and of Edward III of England, whom he helped to secure an alliance…
…1037; the victories of Count William V (1351) near the to... |
13b037fcef11c28f0193686cec70bc26 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-V-duke-of-Aquitaine | William V | William V
…and again, more imposingly, under William V (994/5–1029), who was acclaimed as one of the greatest rulers of his day and even offered the imperial crown in 1024. An advocate of religious reform, William sought to strengthen his control over Aquitaine by promoting alliances with the monasteries and imposing h... |
bda40c320bb20780d08cdf2fbd22ad48 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Van-Alen | William Van Alen | William Van Alen
…New York City, designed by William Van Alen and often cited as the epitome of the Art Deco skyscraper. Its sunburst-patterned stainless steel spire remains one of the most striking features of the Manhattan skyline. Built between 1928 and 1930, the Chrysler Building was briefly the tallest in the worl... |
8c6515e110e9a75df687309a73da5547 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Vickrey | William Vickrey | William Vickrey
William Vickrey, in full William Spencer Vickrey, (born June 21, 1914, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada—died October 11, 1996, Harrison, New York, U.S.), Canadian-born American economist who brought innovative analysis to the problems of incomplete, or asymmetrical, information. He shared the 1996 No... |
127825ee28a007f4d1587b1abc5ab554 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Walker | William Walker | William Walker
William Walker, (born May 8, 1824, Nashville, Tenn., U.S.—died Sept. 12, 1860, Trujillo, Honduras), adventurer, filibuster, and revolutionary leader who succeeded in making himself president of Nicaragua (1856–57).
In 1850 he migrated to California, where his interest in a colonization scheme in Lower... |
6da689413281f821416d167bd4c73897 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Wetmore-Story | William Wetmore Story | William Wetmore Story
William Wetmore Story, (born Feb. 12, 1819, Salem, Mass., U.S.—died Oct. 7, 1895, Vallombrosa, Italy), sculptor now remembered as the centre of a circle of literary, theatrical, and social celebrities and for his “Cleopatra.” A description of this work in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Marble Fa... |
76eb237caaf46f2debf7d4857a182809 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Whewell | William Whewell | William Whewell
William Whewell, (born May 24, 1794, Lancaster, Lancashire, England—died March 6, 1866, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire), English philosopher and historian remembered both for his writings on ethics and for his work on the theory of induction, a philosophical analysis of particulars to arrive at a scientific... |
df0e68754fc16caf9ddefcf3ad994ae2 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-White | William White | William White
William White, (born April 4, 1748, Philadelphia, Pa. [U.S.]—died July 17, 1836, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.), first bishop consecrated in England for the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States (also called the Episcopal Church in the United States of America [ECUSA]) and the first presiding bishop... |
631f7ac8aa0d67b2dad1af073bbfc72c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Whittingham | William Whittingham | William Whittingham
…almost certainly be identified as William Whittingham, the brother-in-law of Calvin’s wife, and his assistants Anthony Gilby and Thomas Sampson. The Geneva Bible was not printed in England until 1576, but it was allowed to be imported without hindrance. The accession of Elizabeth in 1558 put an end... |
1cce940dc1642c118b6be081ed6d5304 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Wilkins-British-architect | William Wilkins | William Wilkins
One of the earliest was William Wilkins’s Downing College, Cambridge (1806–11), with details closely copied from the Erechtheum on the Acropolis at Athens. Following this were Sir Robert Smirke’s Covent Garden Theatre (1809), London’s first Greek Doric building; Wilkins’s Grange Park, Hampshire (1809), ... |
e0a20301f072b46c48b090049aa654e2 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Willcocks | Sir William Willcocks | Sir William Willcocks
Sir William Willcocks, (born Sept. 27, 1852, India—died July 28, 1932, Cairo), British civil engineer who proposed and designed the first Aswān (Assuan) Dam and executed major irrigation projects in South Africa and Turkey.
In 1872 he entered the Indian Public Works Department and in 1883 began ... |
15ca8a227b95b478ec943ca8d56e3caf | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Willett | William Willett | William Willett
In 1907 an Englishman, William Willett, campaigned for setting the clock ahead by 80 minutes in four moves of 20 minutes each during April and the reverse in September. In 1909 the British House of Commons rejected a bill to advance the clock by one hour in the spring…
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597831d971e63c7e5ce91fa927b11e6d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Williams | William Williams | William Williams
William Williams, also called Williams Pantycelyn, (born 1717, Cefn Coed, Llanfair-ar-y-bryn, Carmarthenshire, Wales—died Jan. 11, 1791, Pantycelyn), leader of the Methodist revival in Wales and its chief hymn writer.
His parents were Nonconformists, and he was educated at a Nonconformist academy at ... |
40813b4eb1d52822775361d3e19f28cc | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Wirt-American-educator | William Wirt | William Wirt
William Wirt, in full William Albert Wirt, (born January 21, 1874, Markle, Indiana, U.S.—died March 11, 1938, Gary, Indiana), innovative American educator best known for his “platoon” system of alternating two groups of students between classroom and recreational or vocational activities.
Wirt graduated f... |
0522ed5d33523c614c76303e9cd5f90f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Wirt-American-politician | William Wirt | William Wirt
, nominated William Wirt for president, and announced a party platform condemning Masonry for its secrecy, exclusivity, and undemocratic character.
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cd2a9f375da4f991608f82a4a888dcec | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Wood-English-ironmaster-circa-1648 | William Wood | William Wood
…was described in 1634 by William Wood in his New England’s Prospect as “fittest for such as can Trade into England, for such commodities as the Country wants, being the chiefe place for shipping and Merchandize.” With the triumph of the Puritan Party in England in 1648, people moved freely…
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02d0fb442d5c2676721964d05375ba24 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Wood-English-ironmaster-circa-1723 | William Wood | William Wood
” William Wood, an English manufacturer, had been authorized to mint coins for Ireland; the outcry against this alleged exploitation by the arbitrary creation of a monopoly became so violent that it could be terminated only by withdrawing the concession from Wood.
…granted to the English entrepreneur Willi... |
85ea0cfa037a4f7371be3999937a8b48 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Woodville | William Woodville | William Woodville
…the doctors George Pearson and William Woodville. Difficulties arose, some of them quite unpleasant; Pearson tried to take credit away from Jenner, and Woodville, a physician in a smallpox hospital, contaminated the cowpox matter with smallpox virus. Vaccination rapidly proved its value, however, and... |
d516dfd31cc11b3325bc9859dbe9a2f1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Woodward | William Woodward | William Woodward
William Woodward, (born April 7, 1876, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Sept. 26, 1953, New York City), American banker and an influential breeder, owner, and racer of horses.
Woodward was educated at Groton School, Groton, Mass., and Harvard College and, upon graduation from Harvard Law School in 1901, bec... |
e1ae24961c566f8b0fa8564455b6b2c2 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Wordsworth-British-administrator | William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth
…president of the Congress, and William Wordsworth, principal of Elphinstone College, both appeared as observers. Most Britons in India, however, either ignored the Congress Party and its resolutions as the action and demands of a “microscopic minority” of India’s diverse millions or considered them ... |
45cff1aa9ca538093a8855735249e1fd | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Wordsworth/The-Recluse-and-The-Prelude | The Recluse and The Prelude | The Recluse and The Prelude
The second consequence of Wordsworth’s partnership with Coleridge was the framing of a vastly ambitious poetic design that teased and haunted him for the rest of his life. Coleridge had projected an enormous poem to be called “The Brook,” in which he proposed to treat all science, philosophy... |
430f75304048e58fc99ce5862fda1c58 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Worrall-Mayo | William Worrall Mayo | William Worrall Mayo
William Worrall Mayo (b. May 31, 1819, near Manchester, Eng.—d. March 6, 1911, Rochester, Minn., U.S.) was the father of the doctors Mayo who developed a large-scale practice of medicine.
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4d84ffcdddc26647907cb73ecab3d480 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Wrede | William Wrede | William Wrede
…interpretation by the German scholar William Wrede (Das Messiasgeheimnis in den Evangelien, 1901) and the medical missionary theologian Albert Schweitzer (The Quest of the Historical Jesus, Eng. trans., 1910), who revolutionized New Testament scholarship with his emphasis on the eschatological orientatio... |
1c17509858761f183e6973386133eeb5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Wyndham-Grenville-Baron-Grenville | William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville | William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville
William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville, (born Oct. 25, 1759—died Jan. 12, 1834, Dropmore Lodge, Buckinghamshire, Eng.), British politician, son of prime minister George Grenville; he was himself head of the coalition “Ministry of all the Talents,” Feb. 11, 1806–March 25,... |
1dcdd513088603dd5dec0132fb19a0b6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-X | William X | William X
William X, (born 1099, Toulouse, Fr.—died April 9, 1137, Santiago de Compostela, Spain), duke of Aquitaine and of Gascony (1127–37), son of William IX.
In 1131 he recognized the antipope Anaclet and supported him until 1134. In 1136 he ravaged Normandy. The following year he went on a pilgrimage to Santiag... |
de297315a564a5ffe45c840186e6650d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Yarborough | William Yarborough | William Yarborough
William Yarborough, (born May 12, 1912, Seattle, Washington, U.S.—died December 7, 2005, Southern Pines, North Carolina), U.S. Army officer decorated for his service in World War II and highly influential as a special forces pioneer. He is often called the father of the Green Berets.
Yarborough was ... |
7c447adbe27287704db7c7c5906592d1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Willibald-Alexis | Willibald Alexis | Willibald Alexis
Willibald Alexis, pseudonym of Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Häring, (born June 29, 1798, Breslau, Silesia, Prussia [now Wrocław, Pol.]—died Dec. 16, 1871, Arnstadt, Ger.), German writer and critic best known for his historical novels about Brandenburg and Prussia.
Alexis grew up in Berlin. After service as... |
58a0112f89fc69ad1a7f65a06457611b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Willie-Lanier | Willie Lanier | Willie Lanier
Willie Lanier, in full Willie Edward Lanier, (born August 21, 1945, Clover, Virginia, U.S.), American professional gridiron football player who was an outstanding defensive player for the Kansas City Chiefs in the 1960s and ’70s, overturning the stereotype that African Americans could not handle the key ... |
5df961aae1153bee3b3d860c16b6df0e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Willie-McCovey | Willie McCovey | Willie McCovey
Willie McCovey, in full Willie Lee McCovey, byname Stretch, (born January 10, 1938, Mobile, Alabama, U.S.—died October 31, 2018, Stanford, California), American professional baseball player who played 22 years in the major leagues between 1959 and 1980, all but three of which were spent with the San Fra... |
e844da6b6ec312146c62dfc1e4c4dfe6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Willie-Nelson | Willie Nelson | Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson, (born April 29, 1933, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.), American songwriter and guitarist who was one of the most popular country music singers of the late 20th century.
Nelson learned to play guitar from his grandfather and at the age of 10 was performing at local dances. He served in the U.S. Ai... |
ce7ec0b2a4c5bcc41e57ebd09827eb57 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Willis-Rodney-Whitney | Willis Rodney Whitney | Willis Rodney Whitney
Willis Rodney Whitney, (born Aug. 22, 1868, Jamestown, N.Y., U.S.—died Jan. 9, 1958, Schenectady, N.Y.), American chemist and founder of the General Electric Company’s research laboratory, where he directed pioneering work in electrical technology and was credited with setting the pattern for in... |
0a8c535a3ae93b84ed1d97ff5d56fa9b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Willy-Brandt | Willy Brandt | Willy Brandt
Willy Brandt, original name Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm, (born December 18, 1913, Lübeck, Germany—died October 8/9, 1992, Unkel, near Bonn), German statesman, leader of the German Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, or SPD) from 1964 to 1987, and chancellor of the Fed... |
941993f1c15a361d269c937dc4869ee8 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Willy-Claes | Willy Claes | Willy Claes
Willy Claes, (born November 24, 1938, Hasselt, Belgium), Belgian statesman who served as secretary-general (1994–95) of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
After studying at the Free University of Brussels, Claes was elected to the Hasselt City Council in 1964. A Flemish Socialist, Claes was ele... |
dad594981222108d26cd0cf3899bde01 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Willy-Messerschmitt | Willy Messerschmitt | Willy Messerschmitt
Willy Messerschmitt, (born June 26, 1898, Frankfurt am Main—died Sept. 17, 1978, Munich), German aircraft engineer and designer.
Messerschmitt was educated at the Munich Institute of Technology, where he received a degree in engineering in 1923. From 1926 he was employed as chief designer and engi... |
3955b4946259756da778ea832c8293a1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilma-Pearl-Mankiller | Wilma Pearl Mankiller | Wilma Pearl Mankiller
Wilma Pearl Mankiller, (born Nov. 18, 1945, Tahlequah, Okla., U.S.—died April 6, 2010, Adair county, Okla.), Native American leader and activist, the first woman chief of a major tribe.
Mankiller was of Cherokee, Dutch, and Irish descent; the name Mankiller derives from the high military rank ach... |
765660ea7d4e8b22f866e7308f69aa57 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilson-Harris | Wilson Harris | Wilson Harris
Wilson Harris, in full Theodore Wilson Harris, byname Kona Waruk, (born March 24, 1921, New Amsterdam, British Guiana [now Guyana]—died March 8, 2018, Chelmsford, Essex, England), Guyanese author noted for the broad vision and abstract complexity of his novels.
Harris attended Queen’s College in Georgeto... |
3d08d5d108c387530987fff85e4b049c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wiman | Wiman | Wiman
Wiman, Chinese Wei Man, (flourished c. 190 bc), Chinese general, or possibly a Korean in Chinese service, who took advantage of the confusion that existed around the time of the founding of the Han dynasty in China to usurp the throne of the Korean state of Chosŏn. He moved the capital to the present-day site of... |
632db14395abeb468116b276702ec0be | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wincenty-Witos | Wincenty Witos | Wincenty Witos
Wincenty Witos, (born Jan. 22, 1874, Wierzchosławice, Galicia, Pol., Austria-Hungary—died Oct. 30, 1945, Kraków), Polish statesman and leader of the Peasant Party, who was three times prime minister of Poland (1920–21, 1923, 1926).
Witos sat during 1908–14 in the Galician Sejm (Diet) of Austria-Poland ... |
4e7ccce791a0e60aa6eee07af0046e50 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Winfield-Scott-Hancock | Winfield Scott Hancock | Winfield Scott Hancock
Winfield Scott Hancock, (born Feb. 14, 1824, Montgomery County, Pa., U.S.—died Feb. 9, 1886, Governor’s Island, N.Y.), Union general during the American Civil War (1861–65), whose policies during Reconstruction military service in Louisiana and Texas so endeared him to the Democratic Party that... |
c934701162afa7fb4462543342da4f2c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wipo | Wipo | Wipo
…encouraged studies at the court: Wipo, the preceptor of Henry III, set out a program of education for the laity in his Proverbia. Rediscovering the ancient moralists, chiefly Cicero and Seneca, he praised moderation as opposed to warlike brutality or even the ascetic strength of the monks. The same tendency…
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d7e07c02b2a14b5eb182ca29e4eba89c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Witelo | Witelo | Witelo
Witelo, Latin Vitello, (born 1220, Silesia—died after 1278), Polish natural scientist and philosopher, best known for his Perspectiva (c. 1274). He studied arts at Paris and canon law at Padua and spent some time at the papal court in Viterbo.
One of the first analyses of space perception, the Perspectiva was ... |
54e956ad845ca17506833d0114f3e7b1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wladyslaw-I-Herman | Władysław I Herman | Władysław I Herman
Under Bolesław’s brother and successor, Władysław I Herman, claims to the royal crown and a more ambitious foreign policy were abandoned. Efforts by the palatine, Sieciech, to maintain centralized power clashed with the ambitions of the rising magnate class. Following a period of internal conflict, B... |
5fd2deda5f61cc5db810f526ed94193a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wladyslaw-II-the-Exile | Władysław II the Exile | Władysław II the Exile
…rule of the Piast prince Władysław II (the Exile). Much of the city south of the Oder River was devastated during the Mongol invasion in 1241. At the invitation of Silesian authorities in the 13th century, many Germans migrated to Wrocław. The city received self-governing rights in 1261, when it... |
761466d094aec501e4dfa1e8ab83e47e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/WoduridaR | WoduridaR | WoduridaR
…the runes in memory of WoduridaR. The latter part of the inscription tells how WoduridaR was honoured after his death and that he left three daughters, but no sons or male relatives.
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6cca96233afab853b21147d82606adb9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wodziwob | Wodziwob | Wodziwob
…in 1869 around the dreamer Wodziwob (died c. 1872) and in 1871–73 spread to California and Oregon tribes; it soon died out or was transformed into other cults. The second derived from Wovoka (c. 1856–1932), whose father, Tavibo, had assisted Wodziwob. Wovoka had been influenced by Presbyterians on whose ranch... |
68577e7479b3a2bc317f0fa56d2705ea | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wolf-Huber | Wolf Huber | Wolf Huber
Wolf Huber, (born c. 1485, Feldkirch?, Tirol [Austria]—died 1553, Passau, Bishopric of Passau [Germany]), Austrian painter, draftsman, and printmaker who was one of the principal artists associated with the Danube school of landscape painting.
After 1509 Huber’s career was centred in Passau, Ger., where he... |
25dd6bef154f88771551a94975b7063d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart/Mannheim-and-Paris | Mannheim and Paris | Mannheim and Paris
It must have been abundantly clear by this time to Mozart as well as his father that a small provincial court like that at Salzburg was no place for a genius of his order. In 1777 he petitioned the archbishop for his release and, with his mother to watch over him, set out to find new opportunities. T... |
e74df5ff37a70446fcb1fc40bffa1fb4 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart/Mozarts-place | Mozart’s place | Mozart’s place
At the time of his death Mozart was widely regarded not only as the greatest composer of the time but also as a bold and “difficult” one; Don Giovanni especially was seen as complex and dissonant, and his chamber music as calling for outstanding skill in its interpreters. His surviving manuscripts, which... |
2a3f816a1952c6db0edcb258eb1c55d0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart/The-central-Viennese-period | The central Viennese period | The central Viennese period
Back in Vienna Mozart entered on what was to be the most fruitful and successful period of his life. He had once written to his father that Vienna was “the land of the piano,” and his greatest triumphs there were as a pianist-composer. During one spell of little more than five weeks he appea... |
060b128491bf6ed60758eca86e9d1c12 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart/The-last-travels | The last travels | The last travels
On his return from Prague in mid-November 1787, Mozart was at last appointed to a court post, as Kammermusicus, in place of Gluck, who had died. It was largely a sinecure, the only requirement being that he should supply dance music for court balls, which he did, in abundance and with some distinction,... |
1ea81485b240e61b897f2c5d1395a5d9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart/Vienna-the-early-years | Vienna: the early years | Vienna: the early years
Fresh from his triumphs in Munich, where he had mixed freely with noblemen, Mozart now found himself placed, at table in the lodgings for the archbishop’s entourage, below the valets if above the cooks. Furthermore, the archbishop refused him permission to play at concerts (including one attende... |
df19ae418a0cb3ae5e31dc2cc70ff5e3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wolfgang-Borchert | Wolfgang Borchert | Wolfgang Borchert
Wolfgang Borchert, (born May 20, 1921, Hamburg, Ger.—died Nov. 20, 1947, Basel, Switz.), playwright and short-story writer who gave voice to the anguish of the German soldier after World War II.
As a young man Borchert wrote several plays and a large number of poems, but he was determined to be an a... |
ad6cf97efc5815e4ce359e4ca8e37e25 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wolfman-Jack | Wolfman Jack | Wolfman Jack
…jockeys such as the iconic Wolfman Jack into homes across North America. The outsize personalities that typified the border blasters, combined with playlists that emphasized rock and roll and rhythm and blues, captivated audiences on both sides of the Atlantic.
Possessed of one of the most distinctive voi... |
c0a0fa07f86e5cfe2adb04e5c2f1b4e0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wolfram-von-Eschenbach | Wolfram von Eschenbach | Wolfram von Eschenbach
Wolfram von Eschenbach, (born c. 1170—died c. 1220), German poet whose epic Parzival, distinguished alike by its moral elevation and its imaginative power, is one of the most profound literary works of the Middle Ages.
An impoverished Bavarian knight, Wolfram apparently served a succession of Fr... |
b9c1442e146adaec7436b8d2ba7e35ef | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wols | Wols | Wols
…of the 20th-century German artist Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze), which are sensitive to the slightest stirring of the hand, this theme leads to a new dimension transcending all traditional concepts of a representational art of drawing.
Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze) and also the English artist Graham S... |
fd23e9590596de6dd20285b63ae59c2b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wonhyo | Wŏnhyo | Wŏnhyo
Wŏnhyo, also called Wŏnhyo Taesa or Wonhyo Daesa, (born 617, Korea—died 686, Korea), Buddhist priest who is considered the greatest of the ancient Korean religious teachers.
A renowned theoretician, Wŏnhyo was the first to systematize Korean Buddhism, bringing the various Buddhist doctrines into a unity that wa... |
66d42fb3aa06e2907371fc46b0c629ec | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Woody-Allen/The-1980s | The 1980s | The 1980s
In the 1980s Allen enjoyed the admiration of filmgoers, critics, and film industry professionals alike. Actors almost universally seemed willing to come to New York City at the drop of a hat to work with him for “scale” (the Screen Actors Guild minimum required compensation). Allen’s minimal direction of his ... |
9dbb7fe3368d83739bc35fe8f4ad0bd5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Woody-Strode | Woody Strode | Woody Strode
Woody Strode, byname of Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode, (born July 28, 1914, Los Angeles, California, U.S.—died December 31, 1994, Glendora, California), American character actor who was part of director John Ford’s "family" of actors, appearing in nearly a dozen of Ford’s films. Strode also had a brief c... |
ec5a4f7a90847972c98028111437a229 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Woon-hyung-Lyuh | Woon-hyung Lyuh | Woon-hyung Lyuh
…of Korean Independence, headed by Woon-hyung Lyuh (Yŏ Un-hyŏng), who was closely associated with the leftists. On September 6 the delegates attending a “national assembly” that was called by the committee proclaimed the People’s Republic of Korea. But the U.S. military government, under Lieut. Gen. Joh... |
a72b06018303618f5e53ea0b380138ca | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wovoka | Wovoka | Wovoka
Wovoka, also called Jack Wilson, (born 1858?, Utah Territory—died October 1932, Walker River Indian Reservation, Nevada), Native American religious leader who spawned the second messianic Ghost Dance cult, which spread rapidly through reservation communities about 1890.
Wovoka’s father, Tavibo, was a Paiute sha... |
72e7df139dd5768af83f4947945e92c4 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wright-brothers | Wright brothers | Wright brothers
Wright brothers, American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who achieved the first powered, sustained, and controlled airplane flight (1903). Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867, near Millville, Indiana, U.S.—May 30, 1912, Dayton, Ohio) and his brother Orville Wright (August 19, 1871, Dayton—January... |
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