(Encyclopedia) United Empire Loyalists, in Canadian history, name applied to those settlers who, loyal to the British cause in the American Revolution, migrated from the Thirteen Colonies to Canada.…
(Encyclopedia) Rosset, Barney Lee, Jr., 1922–2012, American publisher, b. Chicago. As head (1951–85) of Grove Press, he published literary works previously deemed too obscene or unconventional for…
(Encyclopedia) Perlmutter, Saul, 1959–, American astrophysicist, b., Champaign-Urbana, Ill., Ph.D. Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1986. He is a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and…
(James Laughlin IV)editor, publisher, poetBorn: 10/30/1914Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Laughlin founded the publishing company New Directions in 1936. Preferring the work of experimental…
GERLACH, Jim, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Ellwood City, Lawrence County, Pa., on February 25, 1955; B.A., Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., 1977; J.D., Dickinson College, Carlisle,…
LAMBORN, Doug, a Representative from Colorado; born in Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kans., May 24, 1954; B.S., University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans., 1978; J.D., University of Kansas, 1985…
MARTIN, Charles, a Representative from Illinois; born near Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., May 20, 1856; moved with his parents to Chicago, Ill., in 1860; attended the public schools;…
chemistBorn: 11/29/1936Birthplace: Hsinchu, Taiwan Yuan T. Lee was one of three who shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Although Lee's childhood in Taiwan was interrupted by World War II,…
musician, visual and conceptual artistBorn: 2/18/1933Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan Though she's long be accused of breaking up the Beatles, Ono has established herself as a talented musician and artist…
physicistBorn: 1948Birthplace: St. Louis, Mo. Steven Chu shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light. Chu's parents had come to the…
