Word: inventors
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...Gttingen's scientific star shone in the early 19th century under Astronomer Carl Gauss, one of the key founders of modern mathematical analysis and hence of modern physics. In the 1920s Physicists Max Born and James Franck taught on Gottingen's Bunsenstrasse. named after Alumnus Robert Bunsen, inventor of the burner...
...process called xerography (derived from Greek and meaning dry writing), which showed promise of reproducing papers and documents without the standard need for chemical developing. He bought some of the rights to xerography from Battelle Memorial Institute, a nonprofit industrial research organization that had helped its inventor. New York Patent Attorney Chester Carlson, develop the process...
Womanologist & Mesmerist. His later life, as Biographer William Schack describes it, was a pathetic and half-demented tirade against the way the world had treated him. He was, after all, an "artist, author, composer, dramatist, globetrotter, improvisatore, womanologist, librettist, inventor, mesmerist." He had been, he told the world, the champion of everything, from shooting to pole vaulting; he was one of the world's great lovers, though "a genius gets tired of a girl in two months." As for other painters, he had no use for "this Picasso-basso fellow," or for "Bellini-meaney," or for Michelangelo ("nyeh, nyeh...
Miss Gish is most frequently remembered for her performance in Orphans of the Storm, made in 1921 in Mamaroneck, New York. This sentimental epic of the French Revolution was one of the last independent productions of David Wark Griffith, inventor of the "spectacular" and a pioneer of film direction in America. The actress recalls one scene that was particularly realistic as opposed to the stylized tradition of the time. In her role as a blind country girl, she had to grope along the wall of a cellar in which some revolutionaries had imprisoned her. Suddenly she drew back her outstretched...
...large grant from an anonymous donor, now believed to be Edwin H. Land, inventor of the Polaroid camera, financed the freshman seminar program originally. The donor intended the grant to make the freshman year intellectually more interesting...