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Van de Graaff, American physicist and inventor ( d. 1967 )
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* Van de Mieroop, Mark ( 2004 ): A History of the Ancient Near East, Oxford.
* 1971 – Peter Van de Veire, Belgian radio-presenter
Static electricity was the first form discovered and investigated, and the electrostatic generator is still used even in modern devices such as the Van de Graaff generator and MHD generators.
Highlights of modern architecture are the university buildings ( the Boekentoren or Book Tower ) by Henry Van de Velde.
* Gustave Van de Woestijne, painter ( 1881 – 1947 )
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In Japonisme, late-19th-century artists like the Impressionists, Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Whistler admired traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e artists like Hokusai and Hiroshige and their work was influenced by it.
* Van de Graaf generators are another oft-appearing device on the Halfbakery.
* 1979 – Leire Martínez, Basque singer-songwriter ( La Oreja de Van Gogh )
Van de Graaff, American nuclear physicist ( b. 1901 )
The principle most likely finds its origins in similar concepts, such as Occam's razor, Leonardo da Vinci's " Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication ", Mies Van Der Rohe's " Less is more ", or Antoine de Saint Exupéry's " It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away ".
* Van de Mieroop, Marc: A History of the Ancient Near East, 2nd ed., Oxford 2007.
A hall was opened by Le Normant de Tournehem and the Marquis de Marigny for public viewing of the Tableaux du Roy on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and contained Andrea del Sarto's Charity and works by Raphael ; Titian ; Veronese ; Rembrandt ; Poussin or Van Dyck, until its closing in 1780 as a result of the gift of the palace to the comte de Provence by the king in 1778.
Discouraged, Deodati eventually gave up and his replacement would be Abraham Momber Van de Velde.
by Zainab Bahrani and Marc Van de Mieroop, University of Chicago Press: Chicago.
* Van de Mieroop, Marc ; 2004.
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In French, the best introduction may be André Gounelle, Le Dynamisme Créateur de Dieu: Essai sur la Théologie du Process, édition revue, modifiée et augmentee ( Paris: Van Dieren, 2000, ISBN 2-911087-26-7 ).
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A Van de Graaff generator is an electrostatic generator which uses a moving belt to accumulate very high voltages on a hollow metal globe on the top of the stand.
Van de Graaff in 1929.
The potential difference achieved in modern Van de Graaff generators can reach 5 megavolts.
The Van de Graaff generator can be thought of as a constant-current source connected in parallel with a capacitor and a very large electrical resistance.
Another method for building Van de Graaff generators is to use the triboelectric effect.
A Van de Graaff generator terminal doesn't need to be sphere shaped in order to work, and in fact the optimum shape is a sphere with an inward curve around the hole where the belt enters.
Since a Van de Graaff generator can supply the same small current at almost any level of electrical potential, it is an example of a nearly ideal current source.
Van de Graaff generator of the first Hungarian linear particle accelerator.
A Van de Graaff generator integrated with a particle accelerator.
The Van de Graaff generator was developed, starting in 1929, by physicist Robert J.
Van de Graaff at Princeton University with help from colleague Nicholas Burke.
Van de Graaff applied for a patent in in December 1931, which was assigned to MIT in exchange for a share of net income.
In 1933 Van de Graaff built a 40-foot ( 12 m ) model at MIT's Round Hill facility, the use of which was donated by Colonel Edward H. R. Green.
A more recent development is the tandem Van de Graaff accelerator, containing one or more Van de Graaff generators, in which negatively charged ions are accelerated through one potential difference before being stripped of two or more electrons, inside a high voltage terminal, and accelerated again.
* Illustration from Report on Van de Graaff Generator From " Progress Report on the M. I. T.
* Paolo Brenni, The Van de Graaff Generator-An Electrostatic Machine for the 20th Century Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society No. 63 ( 1999 )
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`` As an independent American I considered all who were not for us, and you amongst the rest, as against us, yet be assured that John Jay never ceased to be the friend of Peter Van Schaack ''.
* 1909 – Walter Van Tilburg Clark, American novelist ( d. 1971 )
* 1913 – George Van Eps, American guitarist ( d. 1998 )
* 1965 – Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins – United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
* 1969 – Patrick Van Horn, American actor
* 1932 – Melvin Van Peebles, American actor and screenwriter
* 1916 – Van Johnson, American actor ( d. 2008 )
* 1958 – During the Cold War, American Van Cliburn wins the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
* 1952 – Deborah Van Valkenburgh, American actress
Regional chefs are emerging as localized celebrity chefs with growing broader appeal, such as Peter Merriman ( Hawaii Regional Cuisine ), Jerry Traunfeld, Alan Wong ( Pacific Rim cuisine ), Norman Van Aken ( New World Cuisine-fusion Latin, Caribbean, Asian, African and American ), and Mark Miller ( American Southwest cuisine ).
* 1969 – Steve Van Wormer, American actor
* 1928 – Bobby Van, American singer ( d. 1980 )
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* 1928 – Dick Van Patten, American actor
* 1914 – Jo Van Fleet, American actress ( d. 1996 )
* 1964 – Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer ( b. 1880 )
* 1910 – Van Heflin, American actor ( d. 1971 )
* 1925 – Dick Van Dyke, American actor and comedian
Edward Bellamy ( March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898 ) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, a Rip Van Winkle-like tale set in the distant future of the year 2000.
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Other notable figures in the movement include Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan ( who together initiated the Great Books program at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland ), Mark Van Doren, Alexander Meiklejohn, and Sir Richard Livingstone, an English classicist with an American following.
However, there could still be an even more complex flash-back construction in American films in the case of W. S. Van Dyke ' sThe Lady of the Dugout ( 1918 ).
* 1789 – Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware ( b. 1738 )
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