(Encyclopedia) Kohn, Walter, 1923–2016, American physicist, b. Vienna, Austria, Ph.D. Harvard, 1948. The son of Austrian Jews, he was transported to England in a rescue convoy after Nazi Germany…
(Encyclopedia) Dandy, Walter Edward, 1886–1946, American neurosurgeon. Having studied with Harvey Cushing at Johns Hopkins, Dandy soon made himself a notable figure in the developing specialty of…
Cronkite, Walter (Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr.)krŏngˈkĪt, krŏnˈ–, 1916–2009, American news broadcaster, b. St. Joseph, Mo. He left (1935) the Univ. of Texas to write for the Houston Press and later…
(Encyclopedia) Sickert, Walter Richard, 1860–1942, English painter. After a brief career on the stage Sickert was apprenticed to Whistler and later worked with Degas. His preferred subjects were…
(Encyclopedia) Bates, Henry Walter, 1825–92, English naturalist and explorer. In 1848 he went with A. R. Wallace to Brazil, where he explored the upper Amazon, returning in 1859 with some 8,000 new…
(Encyclopedia) Wriston, Walter Bigelow, 1919–2005, American banker, b. Middletown, Conn., grad. Wesleyan (B.A., 1941); Fletcher School, Tufts Univ. (M.A., 1942). Widely considered the most important…
(Encyclopedia) Alvarez, Luis Walter, 1911–88, American physicist, b. San Francisco, grad. Univ. of Chicago, 1932, Ph.D. 1936. He was awarded the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of a…
(Encyclopedia) Kalckreuth, Leopold Karl Walter, Graf vonKalckreuth, Leopold Karl Walter, Graf vonlāˈōpôlt kärl välˈtər gräf fən kälkˈroit [key], 1855–1928, German painter and graphic artist. He…
Career PBA Tour money leader Walter Ray Williams Jr. continued to shine in 1998 with another monster year.PBA Tour He was the PBA Player of the Year in 1996 and 1997. He had 24 titles to his…
(Encyclopedia) Camp, Walter Chauncey, 1859–1925, American athlete, football coach, administrator, b. New Britain, Conn. In his three years as captain at Yale Univ. in the 1880s, Camp shaped the rules…
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