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861a49572ca682736b0e6a514f68a387 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/T-V-Soong | T.V. Soong | T.V. Soong
T.V. Soong, in full Soong Tzu-wen, Chinese (Pinyin) Song Ziwen or (Wade-Giles romanization) Sung Tzu-wen, (born Dec. 4, 1894, Shanghai, China—died April 24, 1971, San Francisco, Calif., U.S.), financier and official of the Chinese Nationalist government between 1927 and 1949, once reputed to have been the r... |
e02cf6fcdc12f3aa2602e55825fb671f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tacitus-Roman-emperor | Tacitus | Tacitus
Tacitus, in full Marcus Claudius Tacitus, (born c. 200—died c. June 276, Tyana, Cappadocia [near modern Niğde, Tur.]), Roman emperor in 275–276.
In the 40 years before Tacitus assumed power the empire was ruled by a succession of usurpers and emperors who had been career army officers. On the murder of the emp... |
00feabad97a2add7ccf79691a6cf34b7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Taddasa-Liban | Tāddasa Lībān | Tāddasa Lībān
Taddasa Liban wrote short stories that examine the relationship between the old and the new in Ethiopian society. Asras Asfa Wasan wrote poetry and historical novels about political events, including the military coup attempted against Emperor Haile Selassie I in December 1960. Writers such as…
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e7360defca321b9a4e4744aeea0451c3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Taddeo-Gaddi | Taddeo Gaddi | Taddeo Gaddi
Taddeo Gaddi, (born c. 1300, Florence [Italy]—died 1366?, Florence), pupil and most faithful follower of the Florentine master Giotto. A capable artist, although lacking his teacher’s comprehensive aesthetic vision, he was, after Giotto’s death, the leading Florentine painter for three decades.
His earli... |
f37b1f53eac9161286e0f42bdd0abbd0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tadeusz-BorKomorowski | Tadeusz Bór―Komorowski | Tadeusz Bór―Komorowski
Commanded by General Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, the Warsaw corps of 50,000 troops attacked the relatively weak German force on August 1 and within three days gained control of most of the city. The Germans sent in reinforcements, however, and forced the Poles into a defensive position, bombarding th... |
254339bc7262c90ce655e1167b72438c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tadeusz-Rozewicz | Tadeusz Różewicz | Tadeusz Różewicz
Tadeusz Różewicz, (born October 9, 1921, Radomsko, Poland—died April 24, 2014, Wrocław), Polish poet and playwright, one of the leading writers of the post-World War II period.
Having seen service during World War II in the underground Polish Home Army, Różewicz used his experiences as inspiration for... |
ba1aa81095a996a99b4285d486393321 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Takahashi-Hisako | Takahashi Hisako | Takahashi Hisako
Takahashi Hisako, (born September 21, 1927, Yokohama, Japan—died December 21, 2013), Japanese economist and government official who became the first female member of the Supreme Court of Japan (1994–97).
After graduating from Ochanomizu University, Takahashi did postgraduate work in economics at the U... |
30ae292a4b4474df7ba8acc27dc584ae | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Takahata-Isao | Takahata Isao | Takahata Isao
…Tōei, he met fellow animators Takahata Isao and Ōta Akemi. The former became a lifelong friend, collaborator, and business partner, and the latter, after a one-year courtship, became his wife. Miyazaki moved through the ranks at Tōei, working on such projects as the television series Ōkami shōnen Ken (“W... |
8c8e70e3bf932bb59d13d661de06d9b1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Takdir-Alisjahbana | Takdir Alisjahbana | Takdir Alisjahbana
…journal under the editorship of Takdir Alisjahbana appeared, containing poems and essays written by various authors in the new Malay, which they now called Indonesian. The editor himself later wrote in Indonesian a number of popular novels containing social criticism, which were imitated by other wr... |
662d4fdd399b769d741b5ba44d640537 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Takeshita-Noboru | Takeshita Noboru | Takeshita Noboru
Takeshita Noboru, (born Feb. 26, 1924, Kakeya, Shimane prefecture, Japan—died June 19, 2000, Tokyo), prime minister of Japan from November 1987 to June 1989, at which time he resigned because of his involvement in an influence-peddling scandal. A behind-the-scenes power broker, he continued to shape a... |
6084d0bac829f46afdfd857cd6fd588b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tallulah-Bankhead | Tallulah Bankhead | Tallulah Bankhead
Tallulah Bankhead, in full Tallulah Brockman Bankhead, (born January 31, 1902, Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.—died December 12, 1968, New York, New York), American actress who was as famous for her personal life as for her theatrical achievements.
Bankhead, the daughter of Alabama congressman and future s... |
3afa9c60d065a36c1d3e6276b947bcad | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tamara-Press | Tamara Press | Tamara Press
Tamara Press , (born May 10, 1937, Kharkov, Ukraine, U.S.S.R. [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]), Soviet athlete who won three track-and-field Olympic gold medals and set 12 world records.
Press won her first gold medal at the 1960 Olympics in Rome, setting an Olympic record with a shot put of 17.32 metres (56 feet ... |
a02ebe3a4e74d2e593884232f0cda5ba | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tamas-Bakocz | Tamás Bakócz | Tamás Bakócz
Tamás Bakócz, Hungarian form Bakócz Tamás, Bakócz also spelled Bakaas, Bakocs, Bakác, or Bakáts, (born 1442, Erdod, Hung.—died June 15, 1521, Esztergom), archbishop who led a Crusade against the Ottoman Turks in 1514.
Bakócz was born into a serf family, but he benefited from the fact that his older brothe... |
7779010b91f1e65437d00b3c8e0edc94 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tammy-Duckworth | Tammy Duckworth | Tammy Duckworth
Tammy Duckworth, (born March 12, 1968, Bangkok, Thailand), American politician who was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat in 2016 and began representing Illinois the following year. She previously was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (2013–17).
Duckworth was born in Bangkok, the daug... |
dbe4dabf249ef70dd799a20b3f8de947 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tanaka-Kakuei | Tanaka Kakuei | Tanaka Kakuei
Tanaka Kakuei, (born May 4, 1918, Kariwa, Niigata prefecture, Japan—died Dec. 16, 1993, Tokyo), politician who was prime minister of Japan from 1972 to 1974 and who subsequently became the central figure in a major political scandal.
Tanaka was the only son of a bankrupt cattle dealer. He dropped out of... |
48ee92a39741212db6ab68082d3d78bb | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tanaquil-LeClercq | Tanaquil LeClercq | Tanaquil LeClercq
Tanaquil LeClercq, (born October 2, 1929, Paris, France—died December 31, 2000, New York City, New York, U.S.), versatile American ballet dancer, remembered largely for her work in association with George Balanchine, to whom she was married from 1952 to 1969.
LeClercq grew up in New York City and beg... |
43285faaeb859e187633793f5eb618d6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tancred-Borenius | Tancred Borenius | Tancred Borenius
Tancred Borenius, (born July 14, 1885, Vyborg, Russia—died Sept. 2, 1948, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, Eng.), Finnish art historian who had a profound knowledge of Italian painting.
After studying at Helsinki and in Italy, Borenius was appointed in 1914 lecturer and in 1922 professor of art history at ... |
2c25bbec39b04fd386eb44e83700ff8b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tancredo-de-Almeida-Neves | Tancredo de Almeida Neves | Tancredo de Almeida Neves
…museums and a memorial to Tancredo de Almeida Neves, a popular statesman who was born in the city. Pop. (2010) 84,404.
…to support the election of Tancredo de Almeida Neves as president and of José Sarney as vice president. (Sarney was inaugurated as president after Neves died before his term... |
84377b737d08576720bba2f905b30642 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tansar | Tansar | Tansar
…and he and his priest Tosar are credited with collecting the holy texts and establishing a unified doctrine. Two treatises, The Testament of Ardashīr and The Letter of Tosar, are attributed to them. As patron of the church, Ardashīr appears in Zoroastrian tradition as a sage. As founder of the…
…of a high pries... |
f66ca89ff5189d7314f966e62b82c708 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tansu-Ciller | Tansu Çiller | Tansu Çiller
Tansu Çiller, (born 1946, Istanbul, Turkey), Turkish economist and politician, who was Turkey’s first female prime minister (1993–96).
Çiller was born to an affluent family in Istanbul. After graduating from the University of the Bosporus with a degree in economics, she continued her studies in the United... |
c98d0fcb77d4a61a8b7aa3141cd054ed | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tao-Qian | Tao Qian | Tao Qian
Tao Qian, Wade-Giles romanization T’ao Ch’ien, also called Tao Yuanming, courtesy name (zi) Yuanliang, (born 365, Xunyang [now Jiujiang, Jiangxi province], China—died 427, Xunyang), one of China’s greatest poets and a noted recluse.
Born into an impoverished aristocratic family, Tao Qian took a minor official... |
385cc51898378142b4c438b3d2c0475e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tarja-Halonen | Tarja Halonen | Tarja Halonen
Tarja Halonen, (born December 24, 1943, Helsinki, Finland), Finnish politician who served as president of Finland (2000–12), the first woman elected to that office.
As a student at the University of Helsinki, Halonen served (1969–70) as social affairs secretary and general secretary of the National Union... |
1795f8e69fdbca649b7de6fbc557244a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Taryn-Simon | Taryn Simon | Taryn Simon
Taryn Simon, (born February 4, 1975, New York City, New York, U.S.), American photographer known for her formal, richly textured images, usually captured with an antique large-format camera. She typically assembled her photographs around a predetermined theme or concept and drew the often disparate results... |
a2db9a860b78a7ef9ebbd9ce5e281086 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tasker-Howard-Bliss | Tasker Howard Bliss | Tasker Howard Bliss
Tasker Howard Bliss, (born Dec. 31, 1853, Lewisburg, Pa., U.S.—died Nov. 9, 1930, Washington, D.C.), U.S. military commander and statesman who directed the mobilization effort upon the United States’ entry into World War I.
After graduating from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1875, Bli... |
cf26f9b432392ce880bc5680b96af334 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tassilo-von-Heydebrand-und-der-Lasa | Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa | Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa
…a flexible system proposed by Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa, a 19th-century German player and author. Lasa proposed that each player be allowed a bank of time in which to play a predetermined number of moves, such as two hours for 30 moves. This principle, adopted for the vast... |
fc52e3941ee16f1d8d7ab3545961f2d7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tay-Garnett | Tay Garnett | Tay Garnett
Tay Garnett, byname of William Taylor Garnett, (born June 13, 1894, Los Angeles, California, U.S.—died October 3, 1977, Los Angeles), American director who, during a career that spanned more than four decades, worked in a variety of genres but was best known for the film-noir classic The Postman Always Rin... |
bfb87f040268cef53d6bfc9b7691ad6d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ted-Hoff | Ted Hoff | Ted Hoff
Three Intel engineers—Federico Faggin, Marcian (“Ted”) Hoff, and Stan Mazor—considered the request of the Japanese firm and proposed a more versatile design.
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59ae937748fbb9fc1f6d73f1cd60fa41 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ted-Hughes | Ted Hughes | Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes, byname of Edward J. Hughes, (born August 17, 1930, Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire, England—died October 28, 1998, London), English poet whose most characteristic verse is without sentimentality, emphasizing the cunning and savagery of animal life in harsh, sometimes disjunctive lines.
At Pembroke Colleg... |
4acf21464fc4da9c44da84d770b8064c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ted-Stevens | Ted Stevens | Ted Stevens
Ted Stevens, in full Theodore F. Stevens, (born Nov. 18, 1923, Indianapolis, Ind., U.S.—found dead Aug. 10, 2010, near Dillingham, Alaska), American politician who served as a Republican U.S. senator from Alaska (1968–2009).
Stevens served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. He graduated from t... |
24b5f5f80a37cc66bea85ed7cf158807 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ted-Turner | Ted Turner | Ted Turner
Ted Turner, byname of Robert Edward Turner III, (born November 19, 1938, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.), American broadcasting entrepreneur, philanthropist, sportsman, and environmentalist who founded a media empire that included several television channels that he created, notably CNN.
Turner grew up in an afflue... |
991d20d9998866692f4589ffe60d8b26 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Teddy-Pendergrass | Teddy Pendergrass | Teddy Pendergrass
Teddy Pendergrass, in full Theodore DeReese Pendergrass, (born March 26, 1950, Kingstree, South Carolina, U.S.—died January 13, 2010, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania), American rhythm-and-blues singer who embodied the smooth, Philly soul sound of the 1970s as lead vocalist for Harold Melvin and the Blue Note... |
bb10989d988df79ae19433d4b4d0e96e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Teddy-Wilson | Teddy Wilson | Teddy Wilson
Teddy Wilson, byname of Theodore Shaw Wilson, (born Nov. 24, 1912, Austin, Texas, U.S.—died July 31, 1986, New Britain, Conn.), American jazz musician who was one of the leading pianists during the big band era of the 1930s and ’40s; he was also considered a major influence on subsequent generations of ja... |
cd8bc29bc1df399f24cb48811e22cde0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Telipinus-king-of-Aleppo | Telipinus | Telipinus
…his capital, leaving his son Telipinus, known as Telipinus the Priest, to arrange the defense of the Syrian provinces. His task may have been complicated by a new situation that had arisen in the remnants of the Mitannian state. The Mitannian king, Tushratta, was assassinated, and his successor, King Artatam... |
a0592cf4145559e6217ac0ec7228cb60 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Teodoro-Obiang-Nguema-Mbasogo | Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo | Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, and executed. Obiang led a Supreme Military Council, to which he added some civilians in 1981. A less authoritarian constitution was instituted in 1982, followed by the election of 41 unopposed candidates to the legislature in 1983. Although another new const... |
59c9ee872e89ec1e3ffcbdae0b9dacbb | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Terence-Rattigan | Sir Terence Rattigan | Sir Terence Rattigan
Sir Terence Rattigan, in full Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan, (born June 10, 1911, London, Eng.—died Nov. 30, 1977, Hamilton, Bermuda), English playwright, a master of the well-made play.
Educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Oxford, Rattigan had early success with two farces, French Without Tears ... |
f15999d74bde5a50ff5c4271a1b11057 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Teresa-Teng | Teresa Teng | Teresa Teng
Teresa Teng, Chinese (Wade-Giles romanization) Teng Li-Chün or (Pinyin) Deng Lijun, (born January 29, 1953, Yün-lin county, Taiwan—died May 8, 1995, Chiang Mai, Thailand), Taiwanese singer who was a superstar throughout East Asia and was especially admired in Taiwan and China. Her clear, sweet voice and he... |
02d3b7758f1cc49f8bc4dd7aba70300e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Terrence-Malick | Terrence Malick | Terrence Malick
Terrence Malick, in full Terrence Frederick Malick, (born November 30, 1943, Ottawa, Illinois, U.S.), American filmmaker whose reclusive, sporadic career was marked by films that were celebrated for their poetic beauty.
Malick was raised in Texas and Oklahoma and graduated with a degree in philosophy f... |
3add48c3f61edbba4c33a343221bee25 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Terry-McGovern | Terry McGovern | Terry McGovern
Terry McGovern, in full John Terrence McGovern, byname Terrible Terry, (born March 9, 1880, Johnstown, Pa., U.S.—died Feb. 26, 1918, Brooklyn, N.Y.), American professional boxer, world bantamweight (118 pounds) champion, 1899–1900, and featherweight (126 pounds) champion, 1900–01.
Two years after starti... |
91d4ee3ab7f78bbed043a23b7a2c83f4 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Terry-Melcher | Terry Melcher | Terry Melcher
Out in Los Angeles, Terry Melcher produced the Byrds’ chart-topping version of Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man.” The song launched the West Coast’s version of folk rock, which culminated in the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, where Columbia’s new managing director, Clive Davis, proved willing to pay more than ... |
1907b6bda328e44fbc64b2f3fe9d41e2 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Teuta | Teuta | Teuta
…of his son, his widow, Teuta, acted as regent. Queen Teuta attacked Sicily and the coastal Greek colonies with part of the Illyrian navy. Simultaneously, she antagonized Rome, which finally sent a large fleet to the eastern shores of the Adriatic. Although Teuta submitted in 228, the Illyrian kingdom of…
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380b21790cd4b41bd468306189831ef1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thaksin-Shinawatra | Thaksin Shinawatra | Thaksin Shinawatra
Thaksin Shinawatra, (born July 26, 1949, Chiang Mai, Thailand), Thai politician and businessman who served as prime minister of Thailand (2001–06).
A descendant of Chinese merchants who settled in the area before World War I, Thaksin originally planned for a career in the police force, although his ... |
285529721d465dd10727f13ef80ce131 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thein-Sein | Thein Sein | Thein Sein
Thein Sein, in full U Thein Sein, (born April 20, 1945, Kyonku, Burma [now Myanmar]), military officer and politician of Myanmar who served as president of the country (2011–16).
Few details are known about Thein Sein’s early life. He was born and raised in a small village in southern Myanmar in the western... |
c3cabb97e5d1215921dc3396a623c4ae | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theobald-I-king-of-Navarre | Theobald I | Theobald I
Theobald I, also called Theobald the Troubadour or the Posthumous, French Thibaud le Chansonnier or le Posthume, Spanish Teobaldo el Trovador or el Póstumo, (born May 3, 1201, Troyes, France—died July 8, 1253, Pamplona, Navarre [now in Spain]), count of Troyes and of Champagne (from 1201), as Theobald IV, ... |
72953f156175f0b672014a0e117e0258 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theocritus | Theocritus | Theocritus
Theocritus, (born c. 300 bc, Syracuse, Sicily [Italy]—died after 260 bc), Greek poet, the creator of pastoral poetry. His poems were termed eidyllia (“idylls”), a diminutive of eidos, which may mean “little poems.”
There are no certain facts as to Theocritus’s life beyond those supplied by the idylls thems... |
d9d3573d73782a133ba8c79a5a80450c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodor-Baron-Neuhof | Theodor, Baron Neuhof | Theodor, Baron Neuhof
Theodor, Baron Neuhof, Neuhof also spelled Neuhoff, (born Aug. 24/25, 1694, Cologne—died Dec. 11, 1756, London), German adventurer. An indefatigable intriguer in military, political, and financial affairs throughout Europe, he was for a time (1736–43) the nominal king of Corsica under the style... |
9d9eca0c5f2085612feab16a9b14f67c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodor-Billroth | Theodor Billroth | Theodor Billroth
Theodor Billroth, in full Christian Albert Theodor Billroth, (born April 26, 1829, Bergen auf Rügen, Prussia [Germany]—died Feb. 6, 1894, Abbazia, Austria-Hungary [now Opatija, Croatia]), Viennese surgeon, generally considered to be the founder of modern abdominal surgery.
Billroth’s family was of Sw... |
b5f4fa1b135eaaff4198641b3843b72d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodor-Heinrich-Boveri | Theodor Heinrich Boveri | Theodor Heinrich Boveri
Theodor Heinrich Boveri, (born October 12, 1862, Bamberg, Bavaria [Germany]—died October 15, 1915, Würzburg), German cytologist whose work with roundworm eggs proved that chromosomes are separate, continuous entities within the nucleus of a cell.
Boveri received an M.D. degree (1885) from the U... |
f73f1337e97087f4c95c5bef590fc648 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodor-Svedberg | Theodor H.E. Svedberg | Theodor H.E. Svedberg
Theodor H.E. Svedberg, byname The Svedberg, (born Aug. 30, 1884, Fleräng, near Gävle, Sweden—died Feb. 25, 1971, Örebro), Swedish chemist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1926 for his studies in the chemistry of colloids and for his invention of the ultracentrifuge, an invaluable aid in ... |
e26f65f878e2849446f61d0275146f47 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodore-Baker | Theodore Baker | Theodore Baker
Theodore Baker, (born June 3, 1851, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Oct. 13, 1934, Dresden, Ger.), American music scholar and lexicographer.
Trained as a young man for business, Baker preferred to study music and went to Germany in 1874 for that purpose. He became a pupil of Oskar Paul at the University of L... |
6d7e07c1357b5bb86f8e1dce40787587 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodore-Balsamon | Theodore Balsamon | Theodore Balsamon
Theodore Balsamon, also called Balsamo, (born c. 1130–40, Constantinople, Byzantine Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]—died c. 1195, Constantinople), the principal Byzantine legal scholar of the medieval period and patriarch of Antioch (c. 1185–95).
After a long tenure as law chancellor to the patriarch o... |
22845ccb3760ed0f0771bb57067fd7e3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodore-Dubois | Théodore Dubois | Théodore Dubois
Théodore Dubois, in full François-Clément-Théodore Dubois, (born Aug. 24, 1837, Rosnay, Fr.—died June 11, 1924, Paris), French composer, organist, and teacher known for his technical treatises on harmony, counterpoint, and sight-reading.
He studied under the cathedral organist at Rheims and at the Par... |
211f4be8a11446fab012148f5fa9220a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodore-Dwight-Woolsey | Theodore Dwight Woolsey | Theodore Dwight Woolsey
Theodore Dwight Woolsey, (born Oct. 31, 1801, New York City—died July 1, 1889, New Haven, Conn., U.S.), American educator and scholar, president of Yale (1846–71), whose many innovations later became common in institutions of higher learning.
Woolsey graduated as head of his class at Yale in 1... |
7f49b07451307ebcf8e63cd3989c19ad | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodore-M-Hesburgh | Theodore M. Hesburgh | Theodore M. Hesburgh
Theodore M. Hesburgh, in full Theodore Martin Hesburgh, (born May 25, 1917, Syracuse, New York, U.S.—died February 26, 2015, South Bend, Indiana), American Roman Catholic priest and educator under whose presidency (1952–87) the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, became as respected f... |
8ddfbc37185d86ec4b9d63acdb88f093 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodore-Maiman | Theodore H. Maiman | Theodore H. Maiman
Theodore H. Maiman, in full Theodore Harold Maiman, (born July 11, 1927, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.—died May 5, 2007, Vancouver, B.C., Can.), American physicist, who constructed the first laser, a device that produces monochromatic coherent light, or light in which the rays are all of the same wavele... |
804ad1c436e54602dfcc123d75955c22 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodore-Metochites | Theodore Metochites | Theodore Metochites
Theodore Metochites, (born c. 1270, Nicaea, Nicaean empire [now İznik, Turkey]—died March 13, 1332, Constantinople, Byzantine Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]), Byzantine prime minister, negotiator for Emperor Andronicus II Palaeologus, and one of the principal literary and philosophical scholars of t... |
13c4a65f42ba8b9d5d9a4637b1aa9c8b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodore-R-Sizer | Theodore R. Sizer | Theodore R. Sizer
Theodore R. Sizer, in full Theodore Ryland Sizer, byname Ted Sizer, (born June 23, 1932, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.—died October 21, 2009, Harvard, Massachusetts), American educator and administrator who was best known for founding (1984) the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES), which advocated gr... |
b714a2aa917321da612b22307a9ccb35 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodore-Roethke | Theodore Roethke | Theodore Roethke
Theodore Roethke, in full Theodore Huebner Roethke, (born May 25, 1908, Saginaw, Mich., U.S.—died Aug. 1, 1963, Bainbridge Island, Wash.), American poet whose verse is characterized by introspection, intense lyricism, and an abiding interest in the natural world.
Roethke was educated at the University... |
18036024eed599b96921b3861866453a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodore-Schultz | Theodore William Schultz | Theodore William Schultz
Theodore William Schultz, (born April 30, 1902, near Arlington, South Dakota, U.S.—died February 26, 1998, Evanston, Illinois), American agricultural economist whose influential studies of the role of “human capital”—education, talent, energy, and will—in economic development won him a share (... |
dfdedfa0b4631ede1bdbe412124838fb | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodoric-I-king-of-Visigoths | Theodoric I | Theodoric I
…agreement with the Visigothic king, Theodoric I, to combine their forces in resisting the Huns. Many legends surround the campaign that followed. It is certain, however, that Attila almost succeeded in occupying Aurelianum (Orléans) before the allies arrived. Indeed, the Huns had already gained a footing i... |
b06f73301449b0b8e3bda45e1e292e39 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodoric-king-of-Italy | Theodoric | Theodoric
Theodoric, Late Latin Theodoricus, byname Theodoric The Great, (born ad 454—died Aug. 30, 526, Ravenna), king of the Ostrogoths (from 471), who invaded Italy in 488 and completed the conquest of virtually the entire peninsula and Sicily by 493, making himself king of Italy (493–526) and establishing his capi... |
e73f625eebdd36072b4b033f023b5cf9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theophile-Bonet | Théophile Bonet | Théophile Bonet
Théophile Bonet of Geneva (1620–89) collated from the literature the observations made in 3,000 autopsies. Many specific clinical and pathologic entities were then defined by various observers, thus opening the door to modern practice.
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ed64569a2bfaaa8b8919e4b6729a8cf2 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Therese-Bonney | Thérèse Bonney | Thérèse Bonney
Thérèse Bonney, in full Mabel Thérèse Bonney, (born 1894?, Syracuse, New York, U.S.—died January 15, 1978, Paris, France), American photographer and writer remembered chiefly for her pictures portraying the ravages of World War II in Europe.
Bonney grew up in New York and California. She graduated from ... |
b830d9a67ad39723b362884a0d5972df | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Therkel-Mathiassen | Therkel Mathiassen | Therkel Mathiassen
Therkel Mathiassen, (born Sept. 5, 1892, Favrbo, Den.—died 1967), Danish archaeologist and ethnographer whose excavations during 1921–23 to the west and north of Hudson Bay revealed the existence of the Thule prehistoric Eskimo culture.
His doctoral dissertation for the University of Copenhagen, Ar... |
3d3e55c47ed72c221e350f60abf75683 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thierry | Thierry | Thierry
Thierry, also called Thierry of Alsace, French Thierry d’Alsace, Dutch Diederik (Dirk) van den Elzas, (born 1100—died Jan. 4, 1168, Grevelingen, Flanders), count of Flanders (1128–68), son of Thierry II, duke of Upper Lorraine, and Gertrude, daughter of Robert I the Frisian, count of Flanders. He contested th... |
057f30f58e6120dc939975b0742703f0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thierry-de-Chartres | Thierry de Chartres | Thierry de Chartres
Thierry de Chartres, also called Thierry the Breton, Latin Theodoricus, or Terricus, Carnotensis, or Brito, (born c. 1100, France—died c. 1150, Chartres, Fr.), French theologian, teacher, encyclopaedist, one of the foremost thinkers of the 12th century.
According to Peter Abelard, Thierry attended ... |
b17b5915a461a271963499cef7b384f6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Third-False-Dmitry | Third False Dmitry | Third False Dmitry
In March 1611 a third False Dmitry, who has been identified as a deacon called Sidorka, appeared at Ivangorod. He gained the allegiance of the Cossacks (March 1612), who were ravaging the environs of Moscow, and of the inhabitants of Pskov, thus acquiring the nickname Thief of Pskov. In…
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d9ee8066e50d2c9110607f764c0fa2fd | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thom-Tillis | Thom Tillis | Thom Tillis
Thom Tillis, in full Thomas Roland Tillis, (born August 30, 1960, Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.), American politician who was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate in 2014 and began representing North Carolina in that body the following year.
Tillis’s family struggled financially and moved often, mostly... |
993113a88c13b3053ba1bde4f512dd09 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Addison | Thomas Addison | Thomas Addison
Thomas Addison, (born April 1793, Longbenton, Northumberland, Eng.—died June 29, 1860, Bristol, Gloucestershire), English physician after whom Addison’s disease, a metabolic dysfunction caused by atrophy of the adrenal cortex, and Addison’s (pernicious) anemia were named. He was the first to correlate ... |
ede7a1a61a2a21336cdfd975f132165d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Andrews-Irish-ship-designer | Thomas Andrews | Thomas Andrews
Thomas Andrews, (born February 7, 1873, Comber, near Belfast, Northern Ireland—died April 15, 1912, at sea, northern Atlantic Ocean), Irish shipbuilder who was best known for designing the luxury liners Olympic and Titanic.
Andrews was born into a prominent family; his brother John later became prime mi... |
20b5ba7da8527d65ffd2ea7223722a2d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Arnold | Thomas Arnold | Thomas Arnold
Thomas Arnold, (born June 13, 1795, East Cowes, Isle of Wight, Eng.—died June 12, 1842, Rugby, Warwickshire), educator who, as headmaster of Rugby School, had much influence on public school education in England. He was the father of the poet and critic Matthew Arnold.
Thomas Arnold was educated at Winc... |
f1199fdea2008800fb584496e5ffc06c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Bailey-Aldrich | Thomas Bailey Aldrich | Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, (born Nov. 11, 1836, Portsmouth, N.H., U.S.—died March 19, 1907, Boston), poet, short-story writer, and editor whose use of the surprise ending influenced the development of the short story. He drew upon his childhood experiences in New Hampshire in his popular classic The... |
f1b56cd8a28b99901e33840240b432ed | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Baines | Thomas Baines | Thomas Baines
Thomas Baines, (born 1820, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, Eng.—died May 8, 1875, Durban, Natal [now in South Africa]), English-born artist, explorer, naturalist, and author who spent most of his life in Southern Africa.
Love of adventure took him in 1842 to Cape Colony, where he served as an artist during the Ca... |
e6d538c43641848b89a13d3ebbbaf03d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Ball | Thomas Ball | Thomas Ball
Thomas Ball, (born June 3, 1819, Charlestown, Mass., U.S.—died Dec. 11, 1911, Montclair, N.J.), sculptor whose work had a marked influence on monumental art in the United States, especially in New England.
Ball began his career as a wood engraver and miniaturist. An accomplished musician, he fashioned man... |
cf7f66744acb89086d34923c8c96beae | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Baring | Thomas Baring | Thomas Baring
…the house were managed by Thomas Baring (1799–1873), a grandson of Sir Francis. Thomas Baring was a managing partner of the firm from 1828 and was also a member of Parliament from 1844 until his death. His elder brother, Sir Francis Thornhill Baring (1796–1866), was a member of Parliament from…
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f71e18dfe9078736345b3d997f34fefb | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Bartholin | Thomas Bartholin | Thomas Bartholin
Thomas Bartholin, Latin Bartholinus, (born Oct. 20, 1616, Copenhagen, Den.—died Dec. 4, 1680, Copenhagen), Danish anatomist and mathematician who was first to describe fully the entire human lymphatic system (1652).
He and his elder brother, Erasmus Bartholin, were the sons of the eminent anatomist C... |
3eeb63d4bd0d6c38eb7b5bb67ce98c0f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Bernhard | Thomas Bernhard | Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Bernhard, (born Feb. 9/10, 1931, Cloister Heerland, Neth.—died Feb. 12, 1989, Gmunden, Austria), Austrian writer who explored death, social injustice, and human misery in controversial literature that was deeply pessimistic about modern civilization in general and Austrian culture in particular... |
f3084858183c0ab4524f20206c5f3665 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Bilney | Thomas Bilney | Thomas Bilney
Tyndale, Robert Barnes, Thomas Bilney, and, above all, Cranmer, who by 1525 included among his prayers one for the abolition of papal power in England.
…of the group’s spiritual leader, Thomas Bilney. After gaining royal favour by speaking out in support of the efforts of King Henry VIII to obtain an annu... |
0a020a255f5d19713913f01dab48d13e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Blanchard | Thomas Blanchard | Thomas Blanchard
Thomas Blanchard, (born June 24, 1788, Sutton, Mass., U.S.—died April 16, 1864, Boston, Mass.), American inventor who made major contributions to the development of machine tools.
Blanchard began as a self-taught tinkerer. As a boy he invented an apple parer and a tack-making machine for his brother’... |
cceee07d1b871623efdeec34a5650ba2 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Blount | Thomas Blount | Thomas Blount
…fuller than its predecessors was Thomas Blount’s work of 1656, Glossographia; or, A Dictionary Interpreting All Such Hard Words…As Are Now Used in Our Refined English Tongue. He made an important forward step in lexicographical method by collecting words from his own reading that had given him trouble, a... |
dfbf4e30007c5f0f64e448e24d6bc189 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Bodley | Sir Thomas Bodley | Sir Thomas Bodley
…the library was restored by Sir Thomas Bodley (a collector of medieval manuscripts) and reopened in 1602. Bodley added new buildings, surrounding university buildings were taken over, and additions were made at various times up to the 19th century. A new building, connected with the old buildings by ... |
062694e83bf2ebf1fc2e77293c6050af | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Boreman | Thomas Boreman | Thomas Boreman
…start from merchants such as Thomas Boreman, of whom little is known, and especially John Newbery, of whom a great deal more is known. Research has established that at least as early as 1730 Boreman began publishing for children (largely educational works) and that in 1742 he produced what sounds…
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dcf450c1cc1f9830c731f4407c7c5fbe | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Boulsover | Thomas Boulsover | Thomas Boulsover
Thomas Boulsover, Boulsover also spelled Bolsover, (born 1706, Elkington, Derbyshire, Eng.—died September 1788, Sheffield), English inventor of fused plating, or “old Sheffield plate.”
After an apprenticeship in Sheffield, Boulsover became a member of the Cutlers Company, i.e., a full-fledged crafts... |
0e1f3404fb05b8725a76d03842651998 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Bourchier | Thomas Bourchier | Thomas Bourchier
Thomas Bourchier, (born c. 1412—died March 30, 1486, Knole, Kent, Eng.), English cardinal and archbishop of Canterbury who maintained the stability of the English church during the Wars of the Roses (1455–85) between the houses of York and Lancaster.
Bourchier was the son of William Bourchier, made C... |
30b023b0d66a71a2dbd4997d0b34d4dd | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Carew | Thomas Carew | Thomas Carew
Thomas Carew, (born 1594/95, West Wickham, Kent, Eng.—died March 22, 1639/40, London), English poet and first of the Cavalier song writers.
Educated at the University of Oxford and at the Middle Temple, London, Carew served as secretary at embassies in Venice, The Hague, and Paris. In 1630 Carew received... |
05a8590e94567d55a632fbed8ad57cde | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Chandler-Haliburton | Thomas Chandler Haliburton | Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Thomas Chandler Haliburton, (born December 17, 1796, Windsor, Nova Scotia [Canada]—died August 27, 1865, Isleworth, Middlesex, England), Canadian writer best known as the creator of Sam Slick, a resourceful Yankee clock peddler and cracker-barrel philosopher whose encounters with a variety ... |
d4d51b405bb90756c6c639fee08cd103 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Chatterton | Thomas Chatterton | Thomas Chatterton
Thomas Chatterton, (born November 20, 1752, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England—died August 24, 1770, London), chief poet of the 18th-century “Gothic” literary revival, England’s youngest writer of mature verse, and precursor of the Romantic Movement.
At first considered slow in learning, Chatterton ha... |
6c76357486d82564a4c5270a9d03e140 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Chippendale | Thomas Chippendale | Thomas Chippendale
Thomas Chippendale, (baptized June 5, 1718, Otley, Yorkshire, England—buried November 13, 1779, London), one of the leading cabinetmakers of 18th-century England and one of the most perplexing figures in the history of furniture. His name is synonymous with the Anglicized Rococo style.
Nothing is kn... |
e9ff8c996fb5ae997678fc4a9ef4feab | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Chubb | Thomas Chubb | Thomas Chubb
Thomas Chubb, (born Sept. 29, 1679, East Harnham, Wiltshire, Eng.—died Feb. 8, 1747, Salisbury, Wiltshire), self-taught English philosopher and proponent of Deism, regarded by Voltaire as one of the most logical of his school.
The son of a maltster, Chubb was apprenticed to a glovemaker and later worked... |
aef828088859c6ff377dfc14d02ff27c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Clarkson | Thomas Clarkson | Thomas Clarkson
Thomas Clarkson, (born March 28, 1760, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, Eng.—died Sept. 26, 1846, Ipswich, Suffolk), abolitionist, one of the first effective publicists of the English movement against the slave trade and against slavery in the colonies.
Clarkson was ordained a deacon, but from 1785 he devoted... |
d5e9acbbc6bd1023ea62c82a4455e076 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Coke | Thomas Coke | Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke, (born Sept. 9, 1747, Brecon, Brecknockshire, Wales—died May 3, 1814, at sea en route from Liverpool to Ceylon), English clergyman, first bishop of the Methodist Church, founder of its missions, and friend of Methodism’s founder, John Wesley, who called Coke his “right hand.”
Coke was ordained... |
dbc817699e08a7c4f79fe767681a5af8 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Cook | Thomas Cook | Thomas Cook
Thomas Cook, (born November 22, 1808, Melbourne, Derbyshire, England—died July 18, 1892, Leicester, Leicestershire), English innovator of the conducted tour and founder of Thomas Cook and Son, a worldwide travel agency. Cook can be said to have invented modern tourism.
Cook left school at the age of 10 and... |
c31f3d2f8fb84e9e2c1bfa496a4c6232 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Cooper-British-writer | Thomas Cooper | Thomas Cooper
Thomas Cooper, (born March 20, 1805, Leicester, Leicestershire, Eng.—died July 15, 1892, Lincoln, Lincolnshire), English writer whose political epic The Purgatory of Suicides (1845) promulgated in verse the principles of Chartism, Britain’s first specifically working-class national movement, for which C... |
4c11c0ca4ed7623c8f780191ef139155 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Cooper-English-bishop-and-author | Thomas Cooper | Thomas Cooper
Thomas Cooper, Cooper also spelled Couper, (born c. 1517, Oxford—died April 29, 1594, Winchester, Hampshire, Eng.), English bishop and author of a famous dictionary.
Educated at the University of Oxford, Cooper became master of Magdalen College school and afterward practiced as a physician in Oxford. I... |
a2f03266b40410e8490a2e91efb39740 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Cranmer-archbishop-of-Canterbury/Archbishop-of-Canterbury | Archbishop of Canterbury | Archbishop of Canterbury
The year 1532 proved to be a critical one altogether, for William Warham, the aged archbishop of Canterbury, died in August. At first the usual practice of extending the vacancy for the benefit of the king’s finances was followed, but by the end of the year it was apparent that the see would ha... |
054802ed0c84fd11a852204ad705e3f1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Crofton-Croker | Thomas Crofton Croker | Thomas Crofton Croker
Thomas Crofton Croker, (born Jan. 15, 1798, Cork, Ire.—died Aug. 8, 1854, London, Eng.), Irish antiquary whose collections of songs and legends formed a storehouse for writers of the Irish literary revival.
The son of an army major, Croker had little school education but did read widely while wo... |
1b191f92f61e9befc87138a2d3ae58a9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Darcy-Lord-Darcy | Thomas Darcy, Lord Darcy | Thomas Darcy, Lord Darcy
Thomas Darcy, Lord Darcy, also called Lord Darcy of Darcy, or Lord Darcy of Temple Hurst, (born c. 1467—died June 30, 1537, London, Eng.), powerful English nobleman who, disliking the separation of England from papal jurisdiction, was implicated in the rebellion in 1536, in the north, against... |
27a0fc5c102675207207ce50642a2dd9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Davidson | Thomas Davidson | Thomas Davidson
Thomas Davidson, (born May 17, 1817, Edinburgh, Scot.—died Oct. 14, 1885, Brighton, Sussex, Eng.), Scottish naturalist and paleontologist who became known as an authority on lamp shells, a phylum of bottom-dwelling marine invertebrates (Brachiopoda) whose fossils are among the oldest found.
Davidson s... |
bccd69bd881c0ba0e18c1c7102439e2c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-de-Keyser | Thomas de Keyser | Thomas de Keyser
Thomas de Keyser, (born c. 1596, Amsterdam, Neth.—buried June 7, 1667, Amsterdam), Dutch Baroque painter and architect, best known for his portraiture of leading civic figures in Amsterdam.
He was the son of the distinguished architect and sculptor Hendrick de Keyser. De Keyser chiefly excelled as a ... |
2590e471dfb8e6decd3ace7d72683128 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Deloney | Thomas Deloney | Thomas Deloney
Thomas Deloney, (born 1543?, Norwich?, Eng.—died 1600), writer of ballads, pamphlets, and prose stories that form the earliest English popular fiction.
By trade a silk weaver, probably of Norwich, Deloney wrote topical ballads and, through his pamphlets, took part in religious controversy. He was prosc... |
f6229e5419a0d72629492c4e2828797d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-E-Watson | Thomas E. Watson | Thomas E. Watson
…separate from the Democrats, nominated Thomas E. Watson as their vice presidential candidate.
Thomas E. Watson, a congressman from Georgia, pushed through legislation for an RFD system in 1893. Local shopkeepers, fearing competition from mail-order merchandisers, sought to delay establishment of the s... |
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