* Walter Benz ( b. 1931 ), German mathematician known for his work on geometric planes

Also, Ditka, Dick Butkus, Walter Payton, Jim McMahon, William " Refrigerator " Perry and Brian Urlacher are among Bears figures known for their appearances in TV commercials.

Walter Camp, known as the " Father of American Football ", is credited with changing the game from a variation of rugby into a unique sport.

Other influential DJs and remixers who helped to establish what became known as the " disco sound " included David Mancuso, Nicky Siano, Shep Pettibone, Larry Levan, Walter Gibbons, and Chicago-based " Godfather of House " Frankie Knuckles.

Kaye starred in several movies with actress Virginia Mayo in the 1940s, and is well known for his roles in films such as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ( 1947 ), The Inspector General ( 1949 ), On the Riviera ( 1951 ) co-starring Gene Tierney, Knock on Wood ( 1954 ), White Christmas ( 1954, in a role originally intended for Fred Astaire, then Donald O ' Connor ), The Court Jester ( 1956 ), and Merry Andrew ( 1958 ).

In Germany, the term was used mainly by proponents of closer adaptation to US policies, chiefly Franz Josef Strauss, but was initially coined in scholarly debate, and made known by the German political scientists Walter Hallstein and Richard Löwenthal, reflecting feared effects of withdrawal of US troops from Germany.

An article by Martin Gardner revealed that Dr. Walter Siegmeister used the pseudonym ` Bernard ', but not until the publishing of Walter Kafton-Minkel's Subterranean Worlds: 100, 000 years of dragons, dwarves, the dead, lost races & UFOs from inside the Earth, in 1989, did the full story of Bernard / Siegmeister become well known.

* Walter Richard Sickert and Philip Wilson Steer were well known Impressionist painters from the United Kingdom.

Frank Costello helped encourage this view by feeding Hoover, " an inveterate horseplayer " known to send Special Agents to place $ 100 bets for him, tips on sure winners through their mutual friend, gossip columnist Walter Winchell.

Early folk song collectors also often collected ( what were now known as ) nursery rhymes, including in Scotland Sir Walter Scott and in Germany Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim in Des Knaben Wunderhorn ( 1806 – 1808 ).

File: Bardeen. jpg | John Bardeen ( 1908 – 1991 ): awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor and again in 1972 with Leon Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory.

In December 1873, Major Walter Clopton Wingfield designed and patented a similar game – which he called sphairistike (, from ancient Greek meaning " skill at playing at ball "), and was soon known simply as " sticky " — for the amusement of his guests at a garden party on his estate of Nantclwyd, in Llanelidan, Wales.

Walter Elias " Walt " Disney ( December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966 ) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century.

He also played Walter Hotenhoffer ( formerly known as Augustus Gloop ) in the Simpsons episode The Scorpion's Tale which aired in March 2011.

Walter had known for months, but kept it from Gretzky so as not to upset him.

Also in 1919 sodium nitrate ( NaNO < sub > 3 </ sub >) and caesium dichloroiodide ( CsICl < sub > 2 </ sub >) were determined by Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff, and the wurtzite ( hexagonal ZnS ) structure became known in 1920.

* December – Major Walter Clopton Wingfield designs and patents a racquet sport which he calls sphairistike ( Greek σφάίρίστική, " skill at playing at ball "), soon known simply as Stické, for the amusement of his guests at a garden party on his estate of Nantclwyd, in Llanelidan, Wales.

Walter Yeo, a British sailor, is often cited as the first known person to have benefited from plastic surgery.

The 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act ( better known as the McCarran – Walter Act ), lifted racial restrictions, but kept the quotas in place.

Two of Grace Kelly's uncles were prominent in the arts ; her father's eldest brother, Walter C. Kelly ( 1873 – 1939 ), was a vaudeville star whose nationally known act The Virginia Judge was filmed as a 1930 MGM short and a 1935 Paramount feature, and another older brother, George Kelly ( 1887 – 1974 ), estranged from the family due to his homosexuality, became renowned in the 1920s as a dramatist, screenwriter and director with a hit comedy-drama, The Show Off in 1924 – 25, and was awarded the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his next play, Craig's Wife.

Among some of the better known polka ( and waltzes ) artists and composers include Happy Louie and Julie, Frankie Yankovic, Walter Ostanek ( Canada ), Verne Meisner, Mike Schneider, Tom Brusky, Walt Groller, Joey Miskulin, Jimmy Sturr, Kyle Redman Polka Band, and ( in combination with more modern styles ) " Weird Al " Yankovic ( no known relation to Frankie Yankovic ) and The Our Gang Orchestra.

During the campaign the leading Conservative Walter Long had asked Knollys for permission to state that the King did not favour Irish Home Rule, but Knollys refused, as it was not appropriate for the monarch's views to be known in public.

In general, officers who were in some way critical of Hitler's military, if not necessarily political leadership, such as Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt and Admiral Raeder, received ( and accepted ) larger bribes than officers who were well known to be convinced National Socialists, such as General Walter Model, Admiral Karl Dönitz and Field Marshal Ferdinand Schörner.

The materials for compromise are at hand: The Nation, Walter Lippmann and other sober commentators ( see Alan Clark on p. 367 ) have spelled them out again and again.

The years of his minority featured an embittered struggle for the control of affairs between two rival parties, the one led by Walter Comyn, Earl of Menteith, the other by Alan Durward, Justiciar of Scotia.

Walter Winchell and other writers continued to use the name in the 1940s and 1950s.

However, even Walter Alvarez has acknowledged that there were other major changes on Earth even before the impact, such as a drop in sea level and massive volcanic eruptions that produced the Indian Deccan Traps, and these may have contributed to the extinctions.

Walter of Pontoise was canonized by Hugh de Boves, the Archbishop of Rouen in 1153 ; Walter was the last saint in Western Europe to have been canonized by an authority other than the pope.

Aside from Eugene Onegin, Hofstadter has translated many other poems ( always respecting their formal constraints ), and two other novels ( in prose ): La Chamade ( That Mad Ache ) by French writer Françoise Sagan, and La Scoperta dell ' Alba ( The Discovery of Dawn ) by Walter Veltroni, the then head of the Partito Democratico in Italy.

Overall naval commander was now Colin Keppel with other boats commanded by Horace Hood and Walter Cowan who were to remain friends and colleagues.

Walter Frederick Morrison discovered a market for the modern-day flying disc in 1938 when he and future wife Lucile were offered US25 cents for a cake pan that they were tossing back and forth to each other on the beach in Santa Monica, California.

These recordings are ' race-records ', intended for the black market of the southern states with solo recordings by DeFord Bailey, duo recordings with a guitarist Hammie Nixon, Walter Horton, Sonny Terry, as well as hillbilly styles recorded for white audiences, by Frank Hutchison, Gwen Foster and several other musicians.

The election set against two new parties, the Democratic Party ( founded in October 2007 by the union of the Democrats of the Left and Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy ) led by Walter Veltroni, and The People of Freedom ( federation of Forza Italia, National Alliance and other parties ) led by Silvio Berlusconi.

Critic Georg Lukács points to middling main characters like Ivanhoe in Sir Walter Scott's other novels as one of the primary reasons Scott's historical novels depart from previous historical works and better explore social and cultural history.

Dewey's most significant writings were " The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology " ( 1896 ), a critique of a standard psychological concept and the basis of all his further work ; Democracy and Education ( 1916 ), his celebrated work on progressive education ; Human Nature and Conduct ( 1922 ), a study of the function of habit in human behavior ; The Public and its Problems ( 1927 ), a defense of democracy written in response to Walter Lippmann's The Phantom Public ( 1925 ); Experience and Nature ( 1925 ), Dewey's most " metaphysical " statement ; Art as Experience ( 1934 ), Dewey's major work on aesthetics ; A Common Faith ( 1934 ), a humanistic study of religion originally delivered as the Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale ; Logic: The Theory of Inquiry ( 1938 ), a statement of Dewey's unusual conception of logic ; Freedom and Culture ( 1939 ), a political work examining the roots of fascism ; and Knowing and the Known ( 1949 ), a book written in conjunction with Arthur F. Bentley that systematically outlines the concept of trans-action, which is central to his other works.

In the early 20th century, people like Ordway Tead ( 1891 – 1973 ), Walter Scott and J. Mooney applied the principles of psychology to management, while other writers, such as Elton Mayo ( 1880 – 1949 ), Mary Parker Follett ( 1868 – 1933 ), Chester Barnard ( 1886 – 1961 ), Max Weber ( 1864 – 1920 ), Rensis Likert ( 1903 – 1981 ), and Chris Argyris ( 1923-) approached the phenomenon of management from a sociological perspective.

Walter de Coutances, Archbishop of Rouen, was reluctant to sell the manor as it was one of the diocese's most profitable, and other lands belonging to the diocese had recently been damaged by war.

" Isaac Asimov, Walter Mosley, and other writers incorporate mystery elements in their science fiction, and vice versa.

The image of Saladin they used was the romantic one created by Walter Scott and other Europeans in the West at the time.

Later chronicles written during the reign of Henry II were generally more negative: Walter Map, for example, described Stephen as " a fine knight, but in other respects almost a fool.

In Italy a cycle of Western comedies were initiated 1959 with La Sceriffa and Terrore dell ’ Oklahoma, followed by other films starring comedy specialists like Walter Chiari, Ugo Tognazzi, Raimondo Vianello or Fernandel.

At the instigation of his friend and bowling teammate Walter Sobchak ( Goodman ), The Dude decides to seek compensation for the rug from the other Jeffrey Lebowski.

The character Walter Skinner was played by actor Mitch Pileggi, who had unsuccessfully auditioned for the roles of two or three other characters on The X-Files before getting the part.

In interviews, Gretzky's father Walter has stated that his parents ' ethnicity was Belarusian, while on other occasions he has mentioned his family's Polish ancestry.

Its members also belonged to other art movements and groups during the Weimar Republic era, such as architect Walter Gropius ( founder of Bauhaus ), and Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht ( agitprop theatre ).

Ernst Bloch, Max Horkheimer and Walter Benjamin all wrote about Marxism and politics in addition to other philosophical topics.