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Sprague, Frank Julian

(Encyclopedia) Sprague, Frank JulianSprague, Frank Juliansprāg [key], 1857–1934, American electrical engineer, b. Milford, Conn., grad. Annapolis, 1878. He was an assistant to Thomas Edison in 1883…

Steinmeier, Frank-Walter

(Encyclopedia) Steinmeier, Frank-Walter, 1956–, German politician. A member of the center-left Social Democratic party, he worked for the Lower Saxony chancellery when Gerhard Schröder was premier…

Zappa, Frank Vincent

(Encyclopedia) Zappa, Frank Vincent, 1940-1993, American guitarist, bandleader, and composer, b. Baltimore, Md. Zappa's family relocated several…

Burns, Arthur Frank

(Encyclopedia) Burns, Arthur Frank, 1904–87, American economist, b. Austria, grad. Columbia Univ. (A.B., 1925; A.M., 1925; Ph.D., 1934). He taught economics at Rutgers Univ. (1927–44), and then…

Whittle, Sir Frank

(Encyclopedia) Whittle, Sir Frank, 1907–96, English aeronautical engineer. Whittle was one of the first persons to associate the gas turbine with jet propulsion. Previously the gas turbine had been…

Wilczek, Frank Anthony

(Encyclopedia) Wilczek, Frank Anthony, 1951–, American physicist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Princeton, 1974. Wilczek was a professor at Princeton (1974–80, 1989–2000) and at the Univ. of California,…

Samoa, country, SW Pacific Ocean

(Encyclopedia) Samoa, formerly Western Samoa, officially Independent State of Samoa, constitutional monarchy (2015 est. pop. 194,000), South Pacific, comprising the western half of the Samoa island…

Frank GUINTA, Congress, NH (1970)

GUINTA, Frank, a Representative from New Hampshire; born in Edison, Middlesex County, N.J., September 26, 1970; graduated from Canterbury School, New Milford, Conn., 1989; B.A., Assumption…

Barney FRANK, Congress, MA (1940)

FRANK, Barney, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Bayonne, Hudson County, N.J., March 31, 1940; graduated from Bayonne High School, Bayonne, N.J., 1957; A.B., Harvard University, Cambridge…

Trent FRANKS, Congress, AZ (1957)

FRANKS, Trent, a Representative from Arizona; born in Uravan, Montrose County, Colo., June 19, 1957; attended Ottawa University, Ottawa, Kans.; business owner; member of the Arizona state…