MOELLER, Walter Henry, a Representative from Ohio; born on a farm, New Palestine, Hancock County, near Indianapolis, Ind., March 15, 1910; attended local schools; Concordia College and…
by Mark Hughes The American public has always been fascinated by first families. We know much about the lives of the presidents and first ladies, but what about the children in the White…
(Encyclopedia) Frederick, city (2020 pop. 78,171), seat of Frederick co., NW Md.; settled 1745, inc. 1817. The processing center of a fertile farm and…
(Encyclopedia) Kroemer, Herbert, 1928–, German physicist, Ph.D. Univ. of Göttingen, 1952. Kroemer was a researcher at RCA Laboratories in Princeton, N.J. (1954–57), and at Varian Associates in Palo…
(Encyclopedia) Kohn, Walter, 1923–2016, American physicist, b. Vienna, Austria, Ph.D. Harvard, 1948. The son of Austrian Jews, he was transported to England in a rescue convoy after Nazi Germany…
(Madame C. J. Walker)businesswoman, philanthropistBorn: 12/23/1867Birthplace: Delta, La. After a series of bereavements that left her orphaned at 6 and widowed at 20, she and her daughter A'Lelia…
See Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism at Infoplease.com for the full list of winners.Meritorious Public Service1918New York Times; also special award to Minna Kewinson and Henry Beetle Hough1991Des…
