US Famous Peoples Famous Persons of the Past and the Present: There are literally millions of famous Americans, but here are the most noteworthy ones of the US most famous people and greatest achievers. Read the biographies of some of the most influential people whose achievements have helped sh...
1. Direct links to biographies published by others, most notably the remarkable collection of MacTutor biographies edited by J.J. O'Connor and E.F. Robertson at the School of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of St Andrews (Scotland). 2. 50-word biographies within Numericana itsel...
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Camilla Jandus, MD, PhD, is Assistant Professor and Head of the “Targeting of cytokine secreting cell group” at the Department of Oncology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She is also Adjunct Scientist at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne, Switzerland. Camilla Jand...
This unsparing record of place, of the people who shaped the land and the rhythm of their lives, is intensely moving and unrelentingly honest, and today — recognized by the New York Public Library as one of the most influential books of the 20th century — it stands as a poetic tract ...
Osceola (1804 - January 30, 1838), born as Billy Powell, became an influential leader of the Seminole in Florida. Of mixed parentage, Creek, Scots-Irish, and English, he was raised as a Creek by his mother, as the tribe had a matrilineal kinship system. They migrated to Florida when ...
Note that unlike Pantheon, HA may classify an individual into multiple domains, with a different score for each one: e.g., Galileo Galilei is classified as an astronomer (with a score of 100 that puts him as the most influential astronomer of all time) as well a physicist (ranking fifth...
15 Life-Changing Biographies of Successful People - These are the life stories of some of the most extraordinary people that ever lived
It's about time a book looked at the culinary world from a biographical perspective. This volume is an eclectic dictionary of influential people in the culinary fields throughout history, from the sixth century B.C.E. to the twenty-first century. Among the subjects are famous characters, for...
Not cheap, eh, but it is a significant collection about, as the back cover artwork says, “arguably one of the most significant and influential Australian women of her time.” Hmm, there are a lot of qualifications here –“arguably”, “one of the most”, “Australian”, “women” and...