Franklin retired from editing and publishing at the age of 42, and for the next forty-two years devoted himself to public, scientific, and philanthropic interests.

While Hans devoted himself to the sciences of medicine, physics, and astronomy, his brother studied law.

A strong temperance advocate, through the influence of a favorite teacher, Charles Stewart, another Finney convert, he devoted himself to the anti-slavery cause.

Nobel and his parents returned to Sweden from Russia and Nobel devoted himself to the study of explosives, and especially to the safe manufacture and use of nitroglycerine ( discovered in 1847 by Ascanio Sobrero, one of his fellow students under Théophile-Jules Pelouze at the University of Turin ).

In the year 1712, the Mughal Emperor Jahandar Shah, a grandson of Aurangzeb sent gifts to the Ottoman Sultan Ahmad III and refereed to himself as the Ottoman Sultan's devoted admirer.

From 1901 forward, public attention was turned from the shrewd business acumen which had enabled Carnegie to accumulate such a fortune, to the public-spirited way in which he devoted himself to utilizing it on philanthropic projects.

The descendant of men learned in rabbinic lore, Abba Mari devoted himself to the study of theology and philosophy, and made himself acquainted with the writings of Moses Maimonides and Nachmanides as well as with the Talmud.

Following a mystical experience in late 1654, he had his " second conversion ", abandoned his scientific work, and devoted himself to philosophy and theology.

Bernard had a great taste for literature and devoted himself for some time to poetry.

When his quest to keep the team in Milwaukee finally failed after the 1965 season, he changed the group's name to Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Inc., after the minor league baseball team he grew up watching, and devoted himself to returning Major League Baseball to Milwaukee.

Educated as a lawyer, and holding lucrative positions as secretary and counsellor, he seemed, indeed, at one time to have settled down to the practice of law, but following an unexpected summons to Venice, after an absence of several years, he changed his career, and thenceforth he devoted himself to writing plays and managing theatres.

Though opposed to the government of King Louis-Philippe I, he took no part in politics, but devoted himself to his pastoral work.

He retired in 1889, and devoted himself to literary and theological pursuits.

Imam Malik was attracted to the study of law, and devoted himself to the study of fiqh.

Subsequently the disgraced viscount devoted himself to study and writing.

Here, he also devoted himself to the study of medicine, physics, and chemistry.

During the Nazi period, he devoted himself primarily to cultural-historical work.

Purcell now devoted himself almost entirely to the composition of sacred music, and for six years severed his connection with the theatre.

The defeat of the Liberal government in the following year terminated Lord Aberdare's official political life, and he subsequently devoted himself to social, educational and economic questions.

This Christian savant was identified by Senior Sachs as Michael Scot, who, like Anatoli, devoted himself to scientific work at the court of Frederick.

Thenceforth, his program was twofold, as he devoted himself to his work in astronomy in the mornings, and to logic in the evenings.

Owing to the success of a little work, The Mother at Home, he devoted himself, from 1844 onwards, to literature.

There was a period in his life when he devoted himself exclusively to scholastic philosophy: " when I was still a logician ," he used later to say.

After his dismissal as Mayor of Cologne, Adenauer devoted himself to building a new political party, the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ), which he hoped would embrace both Protestants and Roman Catholics in a single party.

Computational linguistics was born as the name of the new field of study devoted to developing algorithms and software for intelligently processing language data.

The International Mathematical Union ( IMU ) is an international non-governmental organisation devoted to international cooperation in the field of mathematics across the world.

The Roman Catholic tradition has a well-established philosophy for the study of the Immaculate Conception and the veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the field of Mariology, with Pontifical schools such as the Marianum specifically devoted to this.

Rabbits have a remarkably wide field of vision, and a good deal of it is devoted to overhead scanning.

In 1929 the group began publishing its own journal, Studia Mathematica, devoted primarily to Banach's field of study — functional analysis.

Gender studies is a field of interdisciplinary study and academic field devoted to gender, gender identity and gendered representation as central categories of analysis.

* National Association of Parliamentarians and American Institute of Parliamentarians, two organizations in the United States and Canada devoted to the field of parliamentary procedure

Despite occupying about 0. 01 % of the visual field ( less than 2 ° of visual angle ), about 10 % of axons in the optic nerve are devoted to the fovea.

Gender studies is a field of interdisciplinary study and academic field devoted to gender identity and gendered representation as central categories of analysis.

Women's studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to topics concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics.

Men's studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to topics concerning men, masculism, gender, and politics.

Descriptions of him and his actions indicate that he was gifted with great self control and personal courage, John was an excellent strategist and an expert imperator in the field, and through his many campaigns he devoted himself to the preservation of his empire.

A year later, preferring a wider field, he resigned the position and devoted himself to writing.

Thousands of dissertations, articles, and books have since been devoted to the study of Schwarzschild's solutions to the Einstein field equations.

Anna was noted for her education by the medieval scholar, Niketas Choniates who wrote that Anna “ was ardently devoted to philosophy, the queen of all sciences, and was educated in every field.

The field was devoted to themes unique to the subdiscipline — linguistic documentation of languages then seen as doomed to extinction ( these were the languages of native North America on which the first members of the subdiscipline focused ) such as:

Now, the Roman Catholic tradition has a well established philosophy for the veneration of the Virgin Mary via the field of Mariology with Pontifical schools such as the Marianum specifically devoted to this task.

Wind engineering is a field of engineering devoted to the analysis of wind effects on the natural and built environment.

He led a simple life as an independent scholar who was devoted to researching the field of logic and related areas in philosophy, and never held a permanent position, earning a living by temporary teaching assignments at universities and night-schools.

An important figure in this field was Hannes Alfvén, who devoted much of his professional career to investigating plasmas and was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics ( MHD ).

From the 1950s onwards, extensive effort has been devoted to the development of field emission sources for use in electron guns.

His later years have been mostly devoted to origin of life studies, which he admits is still a speculative field ( see thioester ).