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Yamasaki, Minoru

(Encyclopedia)Yamasaki, Minoru mĭnōˈro͞o yämäsäˈkē [key], 1912–86, American architect, b. Seattle. Yamasaki worked for prominent architectural firms in New York City from 1937 until 1949, when he formed ...

Taft, Lorado

(Encyclopedia)Taft, Lorado lərāˈdō [key], 1860–1936, American sculptor, lecturer, and writer on art, b. Elmwood, Ill., studied at the École des Beaux-Arts. In 1886 he became instructor at the Art Institute o...

Taganrog

(Encyclopedia)Taganrog təgənrôkˈ [key], city (1989 pop. 292,000), S European Russia, on the Gulf of Taganrog, an arm of the Sea of Azov. It is a port, exporting mainly grains and coal. Metallurgy, combine and a...

Thaler, Richard H.

(Encyclopedia)Thaler, Richard H., 1945–, American economist, b. East Orange, N.J., Ph.D. Univ. of Rochester, 1974. He was a professor at the Univ. of Rochester (1974–78) and at Cornell (1978–95), and has been...

Summit, Pat

(Encyclopedia)Summit, Pat (Patricia Sue Summit), 1952–2016, American basketball player and coach, b. Clarksville, Tenn., as Patricia Sue Head. She played basketball at the Univ. of Tennessee at Martin, and upon g...

Bayonne, city, United States

(Encyclopedia)Bayonne bāyōnˈ [key], city (2020 pop. 71,686), Hudson co., NE N.J., on a 3-mi (4.8-km) pen...

Schelling, Thomas Crombie

(Encyclopedia)Schelling, Thomas Crombie, 1921–2016, American economist and political scientist, b. Oakland, Calif., Ph.D. Harvard, 1951. He worked in the federal government before teaching at Yale (1953–58), Ha...

Scofield, Paul

(Encyclopedia)Scofield, Paul, 1922–2008, English actor, b. Hurstpierpoint, Sussex. Scofield joined the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1945, and had his first major success in King John. At the Stratford Memorial...

Spence, Michael

(Encyclopedia)Spence, Michael (Andrew Michael Spence), 1943–, American economist and educator, b. Montclair, N.J., Ph.D. Harvard, 1972. He has taught at Stanford (1973–75, 1990–99), Harvard (1975–90), and N...

Selten, Reinhard

(Encyclopedia)Selten, Reinhard (Reinhard Justus Reginald Selten), 1930–2016, German mathematician and economist, b. Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), Ph.D. Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Univ., Frankfurt, 1961. He...