Well-loved and popular pediatrician, T. Berry Brazelton was born on May 10, 1918 in Waco, Texas, to Thomas Berry Brazelton and Pauline (Battle) Brazelton. His first experiences with babies and children were during his own childhood, when h...

A pioneering political journalist, T. H. White (1915-1986) gained prominence for his indepth coverage of American political campaigns. His book The Making of the President--1960 helped to alter the style and character of presidential campa...

Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (839-923) was a Moslem historian and religious scholar whose annals are the most important source for the early history of Islam. He is also a renowned author of a monumental commentary on the Koran. Al-Tabari ...

Cornelius Tacitus was perhaps the greatest historian that the Roman world produced. Though his Annales (Annals, after A.D. 116) and Historiae (Histories, ca. A.D. 100-110) are among the most remarkable works of Latin prose, their extraordi...

Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kosciuszko (1746-1817) was a Polish patriot and a hero in the American Revolution. Tadeusz Kosciuszko was born on Feb. 12, 1746, in the grand duchy of Lithuania, Poland. A member of the small-gentry class, Kosci...

Wang Kon (877-943) was the founder of the Korean Koryo dynasty and a descendant of a powerful clan at Songdo which controlled maritime trade on the Yesong River. The legends of his ancestors and his rise to power bespeak the clan's intimat...

Hungsn Taewn'gun (1820-1898) was a Korean imperial regent and the father of king Kojong. Even after the personal rule by Kojong was inaugurated, Taewn'gun was one of the most powerful figures in the last decades of the Yi dynasty. Hungsn T...

Taharqa (reigned ca. 688-ca. 663 BC) was a Nubian pharaoh of Egypt. He was the last ruler of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty, the so-called Ethiopian Dynasty, and was driven out of Lower Egypt by the Assyrians as they began to conquer Egypt. When...

Josef Tal (born 1910), Israeli composer, pianist, and professor of music, allowed Middle Eastern music to influence him, but stayed in the mainstream of contemporary European music, in which tradition he had been trained. Josef Tal (former...

Known primarily as a novelist, the Transylvanian writer Áron Tamási was also an accomplished short-story writer, dramatist, essayist, and literary historian. Influenced by historical folk ballads, Tamási captured in hi...

Rudolph Emile Tanzi, Unit director of the Genetics and Aging Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and professor of neurology (neuroscience) at Harvard Medical School, specializes in the genetic causes of Alzheimer's disease (AD), a...

Tao-an (312-385) was the first native Chinese Buddhist monk of major importance. He inspired his disciples to seek the word of the Buddha in the best translations of texts from India and to interpret them in a critical, almost "scientific,...

Tapping Reeve (1744-1823), an American jurist and founder of the Litchfield Law School, helped bring order to the law through systematic and integrated instruction. Tapping Reeve, the son of a Presbyterian minister, was born in Brookhaven,...

Taslim Olawale Elias (1914-1991), Nigerian academic and jurist, was the president of the International Court of Justice. He also modernized and extensively revised the laws of Nigeria. Taslim Olawale Elias was born in Lagos, the capital of...

The American Indian Tecumseh (ca. 1768-1813), Shawnee chief, originated and led an Indian confederation against the encroaching white settlers in the old Northwest Territory. He was an ally of the British during the War of 1812. According ...

Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was an eminent English poet who led a resurgence of English poetic innovation starting in the late 1950s. He was named poet laureate in 1985. Ted Hughes was born in 1930 in the Yorkshire town of Mytholmroyd in Englan...

Frederick J. Teggart (1870-1946) was a comparative historian, librarian, sociologist, and educator who was responsible for initiating sociology at the University of California. He was a pioneer in advocating the fruitful interchange betwee...

Maria Telkes devoted most of her life to solar energy research, investigating and designing solar ovens, solar stills, and solar electric generators. She was responsible for the heating system installed in the first solar-heated home, loca...

American political economist and businessman Tench Coxe (1755-1824) vigorously defended the development of a balanced national economy in which agriculture, manufacturing, and commerce would all contribute to the general prosperity of the ...

Literary historian F. L. Patee has described Tabitha Tenney's Female Quixotism (1801) as the most popular novel written in America prior to the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Although Patee's statement is something of an exaggera...

Prime minister of Northern Ireland from 1963 to 1969, Terence O'Neill (1914-1990) strived to achieve a reconciliation between Catholics and Protestants. However, his efforts proved ineffectual and he resigned from office. Captain Terence M...

The Spanish nun St. Theresa (1515-1582) was the reformer of the Carmelite order and one of the most important mystical writers of all times. St. Theresa, originally Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, was born on March 28, 1515, to a gentry family...

Terry McMillan (born 1951), an African American novelist and short story writer, profiled in her works the urban experiences of African American women and men. The oldest of five children, Terry McMillan was born on October 18, 1951, in Po...

Born in East Windsor, Connecticut, Terry was apprenticed to a master clockmaker at the age of fourteen. At that time, clocks were considered to be a status item of little practical value, for the rigors of daily life were regulated by the ...

Giuliana Cavaglieri Tesoro has built an international reputation as an expert on polymers, compounds consisting of large molecules formed by repeating units of smaller molecules. In a productive career during which she has been granted abo...