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2008 Academy Awards

2008 Academy Awards | Oscar winners and nomineesThe 2008 Academy Awards were presented on February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre. All of the nominees are listed below; the Oscar winners…

2008 Academy Awards

The 2008 Academy Awards will be presented on February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre. Best Picture The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Frost/Nixon Milk…

Tamm, Igor Yevgenyevich

(Encyclopedia) Tamm, Igor Yevgenyevich, 1895–1971, Soviet physicist, Ph.D. Moscow State Univ., 1933. He was a researcher at the P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow from 1934 until his death in…

Bergen, town, Lower Saxony, Germany

(Encyclopedia) Bergen, town, Lower Saxony, N Germany, 13 mi (21 km) NW of Celle. Building materials are manufactured. A North Atlantic Treaty…

Oxford Group

(Encyclopedia) Oxford Group: see Buchman, Frank Nathan Daniel.

Georgia Institute of Technology

(Encyclopedia) Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, Ga.; coeducational; state supported; chartered 1885, opened 1888. It is a member school in the university system of Georgia. Significant…

Friedlander, Lee

(Encyclopedia) Friedlander, LeeFriedlander, Leefrēdˈlăndər [key], 1934–, American photographer, b. Aberdeen, Wash. Influenced by Walker Evans and Robert Frank, Friedlander is known for dense and…