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Gilbert was a skyscraper pioneer ; when designing the Woolworth Building he moved into unproven ground — though he certainly was aware of the ground-breaking work done by Chicago architects on skyscrapers and once discussed merging firms with the legendary Daniel Burnham — and his technique of cladding a steel frame became the model for decades.
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The artist was born in Gilbert Mills, New York, in 1886, and until two years ago when he and his wife moved to California, he lived in western New York, in Batavia.
A third concept was proposed in 1923 by Gilbert N. Lewis which includes reactions with acid-base characteristics that do not involve a proton transfer.
In his third theological textbook, Regulae Caelestis Iuris, he presents a set of what seems to be theological rules ; this was typical of the followers of Gilbert of Poitiers, of which Alan could be associated.
In 1929 a new church in Bath was dedicated to Saint Ælfheah, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in homage to the ancient Roman church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin.
A full version was presented at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1974, with Gilbert Price as Jimmy and Stephanie Cotsirilos as Jenny.
He was a younger son of Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, brother of Gilbert Arthur à Beckett and educated at Felsted School.
Their relationship was complicated by Trintignant's frequent absence due to military service and Bardot's affair with musician Gilbert Bécaud, and they eventually separated.
The 44-metre tall monument to Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert was built in 1857 by the townspeople of Bodmin to honour the soldier's life and work in India.
The first was the 1923 textbook Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Substances by Gilbert N. Lewis and Merle Randall.
The curve was studied 1826 by Davies Gilbert and, apparently independently, by Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis in 1836.
It was reportedly anchored in the river Dart for more than a year and the crew were used as labourers on the nearby Greenway Estate which was the home of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and his half-brother Sir Walter Raleigh.
In 1965, he received his Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy from the University of Oxford, where he studied under Gilbert Ryle and was a member of Hertford College.
The tale was highlighted by the Lord Mayor of London, Gilbert Inglefield, at the bicentennial of the Britannica.
The first electrical engineer was probably William Gilbert who designed the versorium: a device that detected the presence of statically charged objects.
The term exon derives from the expressed region and was coined by American biochemist Walter Gilbert in 1978: " The notion of the cistron … must be replaced by that of a transcription unit containing regions which will be lost from the mature messengerwhich I suggest we call introns ( for intragenic regions ) alternating with regions which will be expressedexons.
A similar device is used in the plot of Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 comic opera The Pirates of Penzance: As a child, Frederic was apprenticed to a band of pirates until his 21st birthday.
The book was a collaboration with Philéas Gilbert, E. Fetu, A. Suzanne, B. Reboul, Ch.
The new calendar was created by a commission under the direction of the politician Charles Gilbert Romme seconded by Claude Joseph Ferry and Charles-François Dupuis.
Gilbert Cesbron ( 13 January 1913, Paris – 13 August 1979, Paris ) was a French novelist.
Gilbert Arthur à Beckett ( 1837 – October 15, 1891 ) was an English writer.
Beckett was born at Hammersmith, United Kingdom, the eldest son of Gilbert Abbott à Beckett and the brother of Arthur William à Beckett.
The Happy Land ( Court Theatre, 1873 ), a daring political satire and burlesque of W. S. Gilbert's The Wicked World, was written in collaboration with Gilbert, who wrote under the pseudonym F. L. Tomline.
The townsite was named for Gilbert Ross, a Métis man who was living in the region when the first European settler, Glenlyon Campbell, arrived.
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Gilbert wrote to a colleague, " I sometimes wish I had never built the Woolworth Building because I fear it may be regarded as my only work and you and I both know that whatever it may be in dimension and in certain lines it is after all only skyscraper.
A pioneering early skyscraper, it was designed by American architect Cass Gilbert, a graduate of the MIT architecture school.
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Walter Gilbert ( born March 21, 1932 ) is an American physicist, biochemist, molecular biology pioneer, and Nobel laureate.
* William Gilbert ( 1544 – 1603 ) – scientist, pioneer in the field of magnetism and court physician to Elizabeth I and James I
" The critic Alan Blyth described him as an expert on authenticity in performing Handel, a pioneer of Janáček, " a scholarly Mozartian ... a sure advocate of French opera, a strong, no-nonsense interpreter of the Viennese classics, an expert in early 19th-century operas by Donizetti and others, and an abiding admirer of Gilbert and Sullivan ".
Gilbert was a planetary science pioneer, correctly identifying lunar craters as caused by impacts, and carrying out early impact-cratering experiments.
The village receives visitors on almost every day of the year because of its links with the world famous naturalist Gilbert White, who was a pioneer of birdwatching.
* Eugene Gilbert ( 1889 – 1918 ), pioneer aviator, WW1 fighter pilot
Although Gilbert's thinking was influenced by the mysticism of his time, Gilbert is regarded as a pioneer of experimental science.
Sir Gilbert Owen Stephenson KBE, CB, CMG, DL ( 13 February 1878 – 27 May 1972 ) was a British Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy, a pioneer of anti-submarine techniques in World War I, and most famous as an important Naval training commandant during World War II.
Both the Gilbert Valley and Gilbert River were named after South Australian pioneer, Thomas Gilbert.
* Gilbert Jerome Perlow was a physicist who was a pioneer in studies of the Mössbauer effect.
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In 1916, chemist Gilbert N. Lewis developed the concept of the electron-pair bond, in which two atoms may share one to six electrons, thus forming the single electron bond, a single bond, a double bond, or a triple bond ; in Lewis's own words, " An electron may form a part of the shell of two different atoms and cannot be said to belong to either one exclusively.
Building on the team he had assembled for The Sorcerer, Gilbert no longer hired stars ; he created them.
His maternal grandfather was General Peter Gansevoort, a hero of the Battle of Saratoga ; in his gold-laced uniform, the general sat for a portrait painted by Gilbert Stuart, which is described in Melville's 1852 novel, Pierre, for Melville wrote out of his familial as well as his nautical background.
Tarquinius Superbus makes himself King ; from The Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott A Beckett ( c. 1850s )
In 1916, Gilbert N. Lewis formulated the octet rule, which concluded an octet of electrons in the outer shell was the most stable arrangement for any atom ; this arrangement caused them to be unreactive with other elements since they did not require any more electrons to complete their outer shell.
A stormy courtship followed ; Scott was not her only suitor — his main rival was would-be novelist Gilbert Cannan — and his absences at sea did not assist his cause.
Some appear only once or twice in a ballad: Will Stutely in Robin Hood Rescuing Will Stutly and Robin Hood and Little John ; David of Doncaster in Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow ; Gilbert with the White Hand in A Gest of Robyn Hode ; and Arthur a Bland in Robin Hood and the Tanner.
* 1988 – Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica ; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula 2 days later, causing an estimated $ 5 billion in damage.
Gilbert consented and offered to write the book ; but Sondheim declined, having already had collaborator John Weidman in mind.
Although the historian Gilbert Burnet claimed that Henry called her a Flanders Mare, there is no evidence that he said this ; in truth, court ambassadors negotiating the marriage praised her beauty.
Gilbert returned to Harvard in 1956 and was appointed assistant professor of physics in 1959 ; in 1964 Gilbert was promoted to associate professor of biophysics and promoted again in 1968 to professor of biochemistry.
Gilbert has also been honored by the National Academy of Sciences ( US Steel Foundation Award, 1968 ); Massachusetts General Hospital ( Warren Triennial Prize, 1977 ); the New York Academy of Sciences ; ( Louis and Bert Freedman Foundation Award, 1977 ), the Academie des Sciences of France ( Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer Award, 1977 ).
* September 12 – Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica ; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula 2 days later, causing an estimated $ 5 billion in damage.
In 1988, Hurricane Gilbert caused great damage to the city ; the Santa Catarina River overflowed, causing about 100 deaths and economic damage.
But the latter work had only a few short runs, and for the next 15 years, Sullivan's sole operatic collaborator was Gilbert ; the two created an additional 12 operas together.
British author Stuart Gilbert first translated L ’ Étranger to English in 1946 ; for more than thirty years his version was read as the standard English translation.
Gilbert consented and offered to write the book ; but Sondheim declined, having already had collaborator John Weidman in mind.
The Pirates of Penzance ; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert.
The Mikado ; or, The Town of Titipu is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, their ninth of fourteen operatic collaborations.
Gilbert and Sullivan's previous opera, Princess Ida, ran for nine months ; a short duration by Savoy opera standards.
Iolanthe ; or, The Peer and the Peri () is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert.
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