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Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann ( April 12, 1852 – March 6, 1939 ) was a German mathematician, noted for his proof, published in 1882, that π ( pi ) is a transcendental number, i. e., it is not a root of any polynomial with rational coefficients.
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Carl and Louis
Engelbart was born in Portland, Oregon on January 30, 1925 to Carl Louis Engelbart and Gladys Charlotte Amelia Munson Engelbart.
In 1980, Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray, and Louis Friedman founded the U. S. Planetary Society, partly as a vehicle for SETI studies.
In 1810, Frederick banished the composer Carl Maria von Weber from Württemberg on the pretext that Weber had mismanaged the funds of Frederick's brother, Louis, for whom Weber had served as secretary since 1807.
Louis Calhern, born Carl Henry Vogt, ( February 19, 1895-May 12, 1956 ) was an American stage and screen actor.
The Planetary Society was founded in 1980 by Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray, and Louis Friedman as a champion of public support of space exploration and the search for extraterrestrial.
The silent film pioneer Louis Feuillade directed five Fantômas serials starring René Navarre as Fantômas, Bréon as Juve, Georges Melchior as Fandor, and Renée Carl as Lady Beltham.
The event featured a long list of headline artists ( including Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson, Carl Cox, and Richie Hawtin, and was held at the Joe Louis Arena in downtown Detroit.
Among the earliest notable conductors were Louis Spohr, Carl Maria von Weber, Louis Antoine Jullien and Felix Mendelssohn, all of whom were also composers.
The other eighteen who were awarded this distinction were: Roy Chapman Andrews ; Robert Bartlett ; Frederick Russell Burnham ; George Kruck Cherrie ; James L. Clark ; Merian C. Cooper ; Lincoln Ellsworth ; Louis Agassiz Fuertes ; George Bird Grinnell ; Charles A. Lindbergh ; Donald Baxter MacMillan ; Clifford H. Pope ; George P. Putnam ; Kermit Roosevelt ; Carl Rungius ; Stewart Edward White ; Orville Wright. Byrd Memorial on Mount Victoria, Wellington, New ZealandAlso in 1927, the City of Richmond dedicated the Richard Evelyn Byrd Flying Field, now Richmond International Airport, in Henrico County, Virginia.
His godparents were: King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra ( his paternal grandparents ); the Dowager Empress of Russia ( his paternal grandaunt, for whom his paternal aunt Princess Victoria stood proxy ); Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein ( his paternal grandaunt ); Prince Valdemar of Denmark ( his granduncle, for whom Prince George's uncle Prince Carl of Denmark stood proxy ); and Prince Louis of Battenberg ( his cousin ).
In 1930-1960 research on the geometry of numbers was conducted by many number theorists ( including Louis Mordell, Harold Davenport and Carl Ludwig Siegel ).
In 1931 Carl accepted a position at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri.
All four of Louis Spohr's clarinet concertos and several of his other clarinet works, as well as Carl Maria von Weber's Grand duo concertant, were written with Hermstedt's skills in mind and were dedicated to him.
Hope Loring, Louis D. Lighton and George Marion Jr. ( titles ) wrote the screenplay and Carl Sandburg noted that Glyn's magazine story was " not at all like the film, not like it in any respect.
The key group to emerge during this time were the Objectivist poets, consisting of Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, Basil Bunting and Lorine Niedecker.
The Objectivists Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen and Carl Rakosi were all, at one time or another, committed Marxists and Oppen spent a number of years in Mexico to escape the attention of Joseph McCarthy's United States Senate committee.
Stokes was born in Cleveland to Charles Stokes, a laundryman who died when Carl was three years old, and Louise ( Stone ) Stokes, a cleaning woman who then raised Carl, and his brother, Louis Stokes, in Cleveland's first federally funded housing project for the poor, Outhwaite Homes.
In November 2006, the Western Reserve Historical Society opened an exhibit titled Carl and Louis Stokes: from Projects to Politics.
Two famous Cleveland brothers, Louis Stokes ( US Congressman for over 28 years ) and Carl Stokes ( first black mayor of a major US city 1967 ) were among the first residents of Outhwaite.
Carl and Ferdinand
* 1984 – Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1896 )
** Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1896 )
* December 5 – Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1984 )
Besides Marx and Engels, other frequent contributors to the Neue Rheinische Zeitung included Karl Schapper, Wilhelm Wolff, Ernst Dronke, Peter Nothjung, Heinrich Bürgers, Ferdinand Wolf and Carl Cramer.
* Pfohl, Ferdinand: 5 poems (" Moon-rondels, fantastic scenes from ' Pierrot Lunaire '") for voice and piano ( 1891 ); Marschalk, Max: 5 poems for voice and piano ( 1901 ); Vrieslander, Otto: 50 poems for voice and piano ( 46 in 1905, 4 more in 1911 ); Graener, Paul: 3 poems for voice and piano ( c. 1908 ); Marx, Joseph: 4 poems for voice and piano ( 1909 ; 1 of 4, " Valse de Chopin ", reset for voice, piano, and string quartet in 1917 ); Schoenberg, Arnold: 21 poems for speaking voice, piano, flute ( also piccolo ), clarinet ( also bass clarinet ), violin ( also viola ), and violoncello ( 1912 ); Kowalski, Max: 12 poems for voice and piano ( 1913 ); Prohaska, Carl: 6 poems for voice and piano ( 1920 ); Lothar, Mark: 1 poem for voice and piano ( 1921 ).
He is a brother of Carl Heinrich von Siemens and Carl Wilhelm Siemens, sons of Christian Ferdinand Siemens ( 31 July 1787-16 January 1840 ) and wife Eleonore Deichmann ( 1792-8 July 1839 ).
* Carl Ferdinand von Arlt ( 1812 – 1887 ), the elder ( Austrian ) proved that myopia is largely due to an excessive axial length, published influential textbooks on eye disease, and ran annual eye clinics in needy areas long before the concept of volunteer eye camps became popular.
According to Ferdinand Friedrich Carl Lehmann-Haupt, the language of the Cimmerians could have been a " missing link " between Thracian and Iranian.
The idea of the analogy between the skull, or parts of the skull, and the vertebral column had been previously propounded and ventilated in their lectures by Johann Heinrich Ferdinand von Autenrieth and Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer, and in the writings of Johann Peter Frank.
Carl Ferdinand Cori ForMemRS ( December 5, 1896 – October 20, 1984 ) was a Czech biochemist and pharmacologist born in Prague ( then in Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic ) who, together with his wife Gerty Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay, received a Nobel Prize in 1947 for their discovery of how glycogen ( animal starch ) – a derivative of glucose – is broken down and resynthesized in the body, for use as a store and source of energy.
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