A towering figure in the history of medicine was the physician Hippocrates of Kos ( c. 460 – c. 370 BC ), considered the " father of modern medicine.

Rabindranath Tagore was a towering figure in Indian music.

Gutenberg remains a towering figure in the popular image.

They gained everlasting fame from the exploits of Marcus Claudius Marcellus, one of Rome's finest generals, and a towering figure of the Second Punic War, who was five times consul, and won the spolia opima, defeating and killing the Gallic king, Viridomarus, in single combat.

Called today “ the Father of Connecticut ,” Thomas Hooker was a towering figure in the early development of colonial New England.

Bylsma continues to be a towering figure in the baroque cello movement.

Upon his death in 2010, UNESCO-IHE described him as a " towering figure and pioneer in hydrology " whilst the Chancellor of the NUI, Dr. Maurice Manning, described him as " that rare phenomenon in Irish life, a public intellectual whose life was devoted, without posture, to the public service .” Professor John Sweeney who was one of the scientists as part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 described him as " perhaps one of the most important, prolific and distinguished scientists of the past generation.

Konstantínos G. Karamanlís () ( 8 March 1907 – 23 April 1998 ), commonly anglicised to Constantine Karamanlis or Caramanlis, was a four-time Prime Minister, twice President of the Third Hellenic Republic and a towering figure of Greek politics whose political career spanned much of the latter half of the 20th century.

There, for a short period he was taught Geography by Álvaro Cunhal, who would later became the towering figure of Portuguese Communism and one of Soares ' greatest political rivals.

He was a towering figure of frontier Methodism and one of the most colorful and energetic preachers the church has produced.

The television series character has a recently deceased father, Sir Boniface Fogg, who was a towering figure at the centre of British Intelligence during the latter part of the Napoleonic Wars and became a close confidant of both Horatio Nelson and the Duke of Wellington.

Since Karloff's portrayal, the creature almost always appears as a towering, gruesome figure, often with a flat square-shaped head and bolts to serve as electrical connectors or grotesque electrodes on his neck.

Juanita Craft became a towering historic figure in the Civil Rights Movement in Texas and was given many awards for her efforts, including the NAACP Golden Heritage Life Membership Award in 1978, the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award in 1984, and she was recognized by the NAACP for her fifty years of service shortly before her death at the age of 83 on August 6, 1985.

The Sufi influence, for instance, can be seen clearly not only in the tales concerning Nasreddin but also in the works of Yunus Emre, a towering figure in Turkish literature and a poet who lived at the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century, probably in the Karamanid state in south-central Anatolia.

Peter Hall wrote " Among the great originators in British Theatre ... Guthrie was a towering figure in every sense.

These events were marked by a forceful and unequivocal acknowledgment of Yashpal being the towering figure in the post-Prem Chand era, as well as of the author ’ s importance and his impact on Hindi literature and on the successive generations of young writers.

The San Francisco Chronicle called Helms " a towering figure in the 1960s Bay Area music scene ," and indeed he was a huge contributor.

Shortly after their landing on Malacandra Weston and Devine attempt to drag Ransom to a towering, distant figure making its way across a lake to meet them.

1889-Margaret Evans ' administrative title at Carleton College was changed to “ lady principal ” and in 1898 to “ dean of the women ’ s department .” Known as Dean Evans, she was a towering figure in Carleton history.

He is portrayed as a towering figure wearing a horned helm.

After Wentworth died in 1883, he was replaced by Colonel Francis Wayland Parker, a towering figure in the history of American education.

Organ music in Germany at the end of the 19th century is dominated by the towering figure of Max Reger.

But the towering figure of the line is Julian Hodgson, who popularized it with many dynamic performances.

Furthermore, their spiritual leader and towering figure, Antonio Conselheiro, had died on September 22, probably of dysentery and malnutrition provoked by fasting for penance.

Blenheim Palace (" John Vanbrugh's castle air ") West facade showing the unique severe towering stone belvedere ( structure ) | belvederes ornamenting the skyline.

Kiel also appeared as the towering — and lethal — assistant Voltaire to Dr. Miguelito Loveless in first season episodes of The Wild, Wild West.

From Whitby Town a single track branched up a steep incline to Prospect Hill Junction from which trains could reach Whitby West Cliff station and journey north along the coast to Saltburn and on to Middlesbrough along the WRMU ( Whitby Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway ), or south across the towering red brick Larpool Viaduct towards Scarborough.

West of Horsley is Mount Bong Bong, part of the Illawarra escarpment range and the Dapto cliffs, providing a towering backdrop.

The scenery of rocky headlands, ravines, waterfalls and towering cliffs gained the Exmoor coast recognition as a Heritage Coast in 1991.

The picture provides a backdrop for a dozen towering totem poles and recreations of six Pacific Coast Aboriginal house facades connected by a boardwalk.

Meanwhile, the Cyborg helped Mongul destroy Coast City, believing he killed the Last Son in the explosion, and captured Superboy, holding him in Engine City, a towering construct erected where Coast City once stood.

This may cause large towering cumuliform clouds to form in the lower half of the troposphere with tops growing into the upper levels.

There is no stratiform type in this group because by definition, even very thick stratiform clouds cannot have towering vertical structure, although they may be accompanied by embedded towering cumuliform or cumulonimbiform types.

It may be vibrating ; it may be vertically extended ( towering ) or horizontally extended ( stooping ).

By this time Woodruff had accurately measured Pike as a man of great personal pride, a man who would fly into a towering rage if his integrity were questioned, and who would be anxious to avenge himself.

As you said in your State of the Union message, `` The problems are towering and unprecedented -- and the response must be towering and unprecedented as well ''.

Overlooking the city is towering triple-peaked Illimani, which is always snow-covered and can be seen from several spots of the city, including from the neighbor city of El Alto.

Although genus types with vertical extent are often considered a single family, the International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO ) further distinguishes towering vertical clouds as a separate group by specifying that these very large cumuliform and cumulonimbiform types must be identified by their standard names or abbreviations in all aviation observations ( METARS ) and forecasts ( TAFS ) to warn pilots of possible severe weather and turbulance.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny said Dr FitzGerald was ; a truly remarkable man who made a truly remarkable contribution to Ireland and that ; his towering intellect and enthusiasm for life will be missed by everybody.

" He envisioned Forest Lawn to be " a great park devoid of misshapen monuments and other signs of earthly death, but filled with towering trees, sweeping lawns, splashing fountains, beautiful statuary, and ... memorial architecture " A number of plaques which state Eaton's intentions are signed " The Builder.

" He envisioned Forest Lawn to be " a great park devoid of misshapen monuments and other signs of earthly death, but filled with towering trees, sweeping lawns, splashing fountains, beautiful statuary, and ... memorial architecture ".

And the mathematician watches with pain the greater part of his towering edifice which he believed to be built of concrete blocks dissolve into mist before his eyes.

One of the biggest moments came in the first inning, when, with two outs, Barry Bonds sent what appeared to be a towering home run to right-center field.

: To be almost towering to the sky "

This proved to be a pivotal show for the group's history, stunning friends and fans alike with their " towering performance " at the festival.

Darkness gathers around, far distant thunder rolls over the trembling hills ; the black clouds with august majesty and power, moves slowly forwards, shading regions of towering hills, and threatening all the destructions of a thunderstorm ; all around is now still as death, not a whisper is heard, but a total inactivity and silence seems to pervade the earth ; the birds afraid to utter a chirrup, and in low tremulous voices take leave of each other, seeking covert and safety ; every insect is silenced, and nothing heard but the roaring of the approaching hurricane ; the mighty cloud now expands its sable wings, extending from North to South, and is driven irresistibly on by the tumultuous winds, spreading his livid wings around the gloomy concave, armed with terrors of thunder and fiery shafts of lightning ; now the lofty forests bend low beneath its fury, their limbs and wavy boughs are tossed about and catch hold of each other ; the mountains tremble and seem to reel about, and the ancient hills to be shaken to their foundations: the furious storm sweeps along, smoaking through the vale and over the resounding hills ; the face of the earth is obscured by the deluge descending from the firmament, and I am deafened by the din of thunder ; the tempestuous scene damps my spirits, and my horse sinks under me at the tremendous peals, as I hasten for the plain.

During the shoot, producers decided their Hulk needed to be muscular rather than just towering, and Kiel was dismissed because he possessed more body fat than the producers deemed necessary.

On top, while Mount Everest is a mere ten kilometres away to the north, the view will be blocked by the massive wall of Lhotse, towering above the summit.

alt = On a stormy sea beneath towering clouds with a central patch of blue sky, at least four sailing warships can be seen within a bank of thick smoke.

In 1929 he had accepted the Germantown ministry, his final one, where, after six years as a pastor, he was memorialized as "... towering in his ability to lift and to lead, yet warmly near in his tender concern for the smallest human suffering ; a man oppressed by the problems of this world's evil, but radiant in his faith in a Kingdom yet to be ".

Described by Victor Hugo as a " gigantic and delicate marvel ", and by Goethe as a " sublimely towering, wide-spreading tree of God ", the cathedral is visible far across the plains of Alsace and can be seen from as far off as the Vosges Mountains or the Black Forest on the other side of the Rhine.