Nobel Prize winner Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. originated the nonviolence strategy within the activist civil rights movement. King was born on January 15, 1929, in
Atlanta, Georgia. Following graduation from Morehouse… more
Joining the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association in 1979, Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Jr. (born 1959) became one of basketball's most popular stars.
In November 1991,… more
BILL CLINTON
William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton (born 1946) won the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1992 and then
defeated incumbent George Bush to become the 42nd… more
German inventor Carl Benz (1844-1929) is one of the many individuals given credit for the creation of the first automobile. In 1885 he invented the motorized tricycle, which became the first "horseless carriage" to be driven by an internal...
The American political scientist Karl Wolfgang Deutsch (1912-1992) was ranked among the foremost social scientists of the post-World War II era. Few, if any, other thinkers in this field attained his level of intellectual originality, prof...
At the end of World War II, Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz (1891-1980) was hand-picked to succeed Adolph Hitler as reich president and supreme commander of the armed forces. He stood trial at Neuremberg for war crimes, but received the relativ...
Although Karl Emil Franzos has been largely forgotten, during the last two decades of his life he was an imposing figure on the Austro-German and central European literary scenes. His novellas, novels, and travelogues were translated into ...
The Estonian anatomist and embryologist Karl Ernst von Baer (1792-1876) was the first to describe the mammalian ovum. He also developed the germ-layer theory, which became the basis for modern embryology. Karl Ernst von Baer was born in Pi...
The German physicist Ferdinand Braun (1850-1918) received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on wireless telegraphy. Karl Ferdinand Braun was born in Fulda, Germany, on June 6, 1850, the son of Konrad and Franziska (Gohring) Braun. Up...
The German architect, painter, and designer Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841) was one of the most important and influential architects of his time. He was equally at home with the medieval and the classical tradition. Karl Friedrich Schi...
The highly original and combative German historian Karl Lamprecht (1856-1915) stirred up a violent controversy over the nature, methods, and purposes of history. Karl Lamprecht was born in Jessen in Saxony on Feb. 25, 1856, the son of a li...
Karl Jansky was not an astronomer, but a radio engineer who inadvertently made an important contribution to astronomical science. He was born in Oklahoma in 1905 and studied at the University of Wisconsin. He took a job with Bell Telephone...
"Freiheit! Freiheit! Freiheit!" (Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!) chants the crowd to a newly elected pope. This last line from Karl Gutzkow's novel Der Zauberer von Rom (The Magician of Rome, 1858-1861) epitomizes his ideal over almost a half ...
Karl Haushofer (1869-1946) was a German professional soldier who, on his retirement at the age of 50, became a geopolitician whose views were influential in Germany especially under the Hitler regime, from 1933 to 1945. Born in Munich on A...
The German philosopher Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) wrote important works on psychopathology, systematic philosophy, and historical interpretation. Karl Jaspers was born in Oldenburg, close to the North Sea coast, on Feb. 23, 1883. His father ...
The German-Austrian Socialist Karl Johann Kautsky (1854-1938) was the major theoretician of German Social Democracy before World War I and one of the principal figures in the history of the international Socialist movement. Born in Prague,...
Karl Kraus, widely regarded as one of the greatest satirists of the twentieth century, was primarily a prose writer who produced thousands of critical essays and aphorisms. He also wrote a considerable amount of poetry that was collected i...
German-French designer of high fashion Karl Lagerfeld (born 1938) won international fame for his work with several Parisian style houses. Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld was born on September 10, 1938, in Hamburg, Germany. His father was S...
Karl Landsteiner (1868-1943), the Austrian-born American immunologist and Nobel Prize winner, discovered blood groups and helped establish the science of immunochemistry. Karl Landsteiner was born in Vienna on June 14, 1868. In 1891 he was...
The American neuropsychologist Karl Spencer Lashley (1890-1958) demonstrated relationships between animal behavior and the size and location of brain injuries, summarizing his findings in terms of the concepts of equipotentiality and mass ...
In his relatively short life, Karl Immermann was a prolific writer of dramas, fiction, travelogues, memoirs, and poetry. Yet his work suffered from an uneven quality that bore the stamp of his generation, to which he gave the enduring name...
Karl "The Mailman" Malone has been delivering for eight seasons for the Utah Jazz. At six-feet-nine-inches tall and 250 pounds, Malone is one of the most physically powerful players in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Able to bat...
The Hungarian-born sociologist and educator Karl Mannheim (1893-1947) explored the role of the intellectual in political and social reconstruction. He also wrote on the sociology of knowledge. Karl Mannheim was born on March 27, 1893, in B...
Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 2 Summaries, 9 Criticisms, 1 Quotes
The German philosopher, radical economist, and revolutionary leader Karl Marx (1818-1883) founded modern "scientific" socialism. His basic ideas--known as Marxism--form the foundation of socialist and communist movements throughout the wor...
Study Pack: 3 Biographies, 4 Summaries, 7 Essays, 1 Quotes
The work of Karl May is a cultural phenomenon that reflects many aspects of German civilization in the late nineteenth century--and beyond: his works continue to attract mass audiences and scholars alike. In terms of copies sold, May is ea...
One of the foremost mathematicians of the twentieth century, Karl Menger was especially recognized for his work in curve and dimension theory. Menger was born on January 13, 1902 in Vienna, Austria, the son of eminent economist Carl Menger...
The Russian diplomat Count Karl Robert Nesselrode (1780-1862) served as minister of foreign affairs from 1814 to 1856. Karl Robert Nesselrode was born on Dec. 14, 1780, in Lisbon, Portugal, where his father was Russian ambassador. Young Ka...
Karl Pearson is considered the founder of the science of statistics. In developing ways to analyze and represent scientific observations, he laid the groundwork for the development of the field of statistics in the twentieth century. Pears...
Hardly any eighteenth-century German writer was as confusingly prolific as Karl Philipp Moritz, the author of novels; poems-he was one of the few Germans to be praised by Frederick II for his poetry; a playlet; psychological and moral work...
Karl Polanyi (1886-1964) was a Hungarian economic historian. His view of laissez-faire capitalism as a fleeting episode in history and of a new world economy as having evolved from it led to better understanding of nonmarket economies. Bor...
The Austrian philosopher Sir Karl Raimund Popper (1902-1994) offered an original analysis of scientific research that he also applied to research in history and philosophy. Karl Popper was born in Vienna on July 28, 1902, the son of a barr...
The Russian Communist leader and publicist Karl Bernardovich Radek (1885-1939) is best known for his brilliant and acerbic polemics. He was an outstanding apostle of internationalism. Karl Radek was born Karl Sobelsohn in Lvov (then in Aus...
The German theologian Karl Rahner (1904-1984) was a major influence on 20th-century Roman Catholic thought. His work is characterized by the attempt to reinterpret traditional Roman Catholic theology in the light of modern philosophical th...
The Austrian statesman and president Karl Renner (1870-1950) provided his nation with vigorous and able leadership after both world wars. Karl Renner was born on Dec. 14, 1870, the eighteenth and last child of impoverished peasants in the ...
In an essay first published in The Writer's Experience (1964) Karl Shapiro recalled a woman who came up to him just before a lecture he was about to give on anarchism and said crisply: "I don't believe a word you are going to say, and I do...
The Austrian zoologist Karl von Frisch (1886-1982) is noted for his studies of insect behavior and sensory physiology. His most famous discovery was that honeybees communicate by waggle dancing. Karl von Frisch was born on November 20, 188...
Karl Wilhelm Theodor Weierstrass was considered one of the greatest mathematical analysts of 19th century Europe. He is well known as a cofounder of the theory of analytic functions and their representation as power series. Weierstrass mad...
The critic and author Friedrich von Schlegel (1772-1829) was one of the chief founders of the German romantic movement. He is best known for his writings in literary theory and cultural history. Friedrich von Schlegel was born in Hanover o...
Karl Wilhelm Ramler is one of the background figures on the literary stage of eighteenth-century Germany. He is known as a fine poetic craftsman, an editor and anthologist, a translator of Horace, and a composer of heroic odes in praise of...
Carl Wilhelm Nägeli, best known in the history of genetics as the scientist whose correspondence with Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) rescued Mendel's important work on inheritance from oblivion, also added to the knowledge of cells, sperm,...
Karl Ziegler was born in Helsa, Germany, on November 26, 1898. At age eighteen he entered the University of Marburg/Lahn to begin advanced courses in chemistry. In 1920 he received his doctorate in organic chemistry. Following a brief stin...
By applying electron and X-ray diffraction to molecular structure problems, Isabella Karle (born 1921) was able to develop procedures for gathering information about the structure of molecules. Isabella Karle is a renowned chemist and phys...
The German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen (born 1928) was one of the most influential composers of the post-World War II period. His works embodied most of the advanced musical tendencies of his time. Karlheinz Stockhausen was born August ...
Whether placed in a ghetto, a nursing home, a hospital room, or a Nazi labor camp, the characters of Polish American writer Ilona Karmel's fiction struggle with the physical confinement and diminished moral choices that the author herself ...
The Polish composer Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) treated national subjects in an original and highly effective manner. On Oct. 6, 1882, Karol Szymanowski was born at Timoshovka in the Ukraine to a wealthy, highly cultured Polish family th...
G. D. Karpetchenko produced the first fertile hybrid of two different genera in 1929 with his cross of a radish and a cabbage. Most interspecies crosses are sterile because of chromosome sorting problems during meiosis. Karpetchenko solved...
Award-winning author Kathleen Karr is noted for her historical novels for young teens that successfully blend humorous and suspenseful plots with boldly drawn characters. Her settings range from New York City to the American West, and she ...
Australian golfer Karrie Webb has taken the Ladies' Professional Golf Association (LPGA) by storm. In 1996 she won rookie of the year honors while becoming the first woman ever to win over $1 million during one season. Webb followed up her...
Anna Louisa Karsch, called "die Karschin" and "die deutsche Sappho" (the German Sappho) by her contemporaries, received international acclaim during her lifetime and was viewed as a social and intellectual phenomenon. Born near Schwiebus, ...
Kary Banks Mullis was born in Lenoir, North Carolina, in 1944, the son of Cecil Banks Mullis and Bernice Alberta (Barker) Fredericks. Upon graduation from Georgia Tech in 1966 with a B.S. degree in chemistry, Mullis entered the doctoral pr...
Hermann Kasack was a poet and, for a brief period late in his life, a novelist. Unwilling or unable to accept the challenges of an era dominated by politics, Kasack responded to the irrationalities of the world as did other writers with st...
Marie Luise Kaschnitz is one of the few women writers to have received considerable respect from the predominantly male West German critical establishment: she was the only woman Horst Bienek apparently thought worthy of including in his 1...
The Silesian nobleman and theologian Kaspar von Schwenckfeld (1489-1561) formulated doctrines concerning the nature of Christ and the Eucharist that caused him to break with Luther and spend much of his life in exile as a religious outlaw....
