Nationality: Italian Known For: Nerve growth studies Rita Levi-Montalcini was a neurologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1986 for her findings in nerve growth factor (NGF). She was the first Nobel laureate to live past her 100th birthday. Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994...
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In 1946-48, he won two consecutive Guggenheim Fellowships and photographed African-Americans in the northern states. Wayne Miller taught photography at the Institute of Design in Chicago, then in 1949 moved to Orinda, California, and worked for LIFE until 1953. For the next two years he was ...
formal, conceptual and linguistic devices to link the photographs. UnlikePeru, in which the order of pictures was not firmly established,The Americansdisplays a deliberate structure, an emphatic narrator, and what Frank called a “distinct and intense order...
Ferenc himself fought on the Italian front during World War I, but subsequently made his home in Paris. He returned to Hungary in 1940 where he died in 1986. Birthplace: Hungary Nationality: Hungary Art Forms: Painting Rezső Bálint Rezső Bálint may refer to: Rezső Bálint ...
Actually a song written by Piero Umiliani for an Italian movie, it contains nothing both nonsense words and scat singing. It just goes to show that sometimes successful lyrics simply need to sound good, becoming musical instruments in their own right, rather than holding any special...
Jerry Lee Lewis, famously known as "The Killer," is an iconic figure in the annals of rock and roll history. Born on September 29, 1935, in Ferriday, Louisiana, his passion for music was evident from an early age. Raised in a poor farming family, Lewis's parents...
John Hope Franklin was a trailblazing American historian whose seminal 1947 work, "From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans," has sold more than three million copies. He earned a bachelor's degree from Fisk University in Tennessee in 1935 as well as a master's degree and a ...
The Rhode Island musician and his gravity-defying coif gained mainstream prominence in late 2009 when he appeared on the reality TV hit "Jersey Shore" (MTV, 2009-12), a series that documented young Italian-Americans living together in a New Jersey beach house. "J...
The house was designed for the great-grandfather of songwriter and singer Johnny Mercer and last used as a private residence by uber-preservationist Jim Williams, a central figure in “Midnight.” Even without the fascinating history, the Italianate villa-style house is a standout in Savannah,...