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Schick, Béla
(b ´l sh k) (KEY) , 1877–1967, American pediatrician, b. Hungary, M.D. Karl Franz Univ., Graz, 1900. After having taught at the Univ. of Vienna (1902–23), he came to the United States. From 1923 he w...
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Senior, Nassau
1790–1864, English economist. A graduate of Oxford, he was called there in 1825 to fill the first chair of political economy in England. In An Outline of the Science of Political Economy (1836) he sou...
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Robinson, Joan Violet
1903–83, British economist, b. Surrey, England. A socialist, she worked with Keynes and taught at Cambridge Univ. (1931–71). Her treatise, The Economics of Imperfect Competition (1933), analyzes the d...
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Hill, Sir Rowland
1795–1879, English educator, inventor, and postal reformer. He introduced the system of self-government in his school at Hazelwood in Birmingham. In his Plans for the Government and Education of Boys ...
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Debreu, Gerard
(d br ´) (KEY) , 1921–2005, French-American economist, b. Calais, France. He studied mathematics in France before coming to the United States in 1950, where he worked with the Chicago-based Cowles Fou...
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Géricault, Jean Louis André Théodore
(zhäN lw äNdr ´ t dôr´ zh r k ´) (KEY) , 1791–1824, French painter. He studied with Antoine Vernet and with Pierre Guérin, in whose studio he met Delacroix. In 1812 he exhibited his Cavalry Officer ...
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Lumière, Louis Jean
(lw zhäN lümy r´) (KEY) , 1864–1948, and Auguste Lumière ( güst´) (KEY) , 1862–1954, French inventors, brothers. They invented the Cinématographe, which was patented and demonstrated in 1895. This me...
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Dreyer, Carl Theodore
(kärl t ´ dôr´´ dr ´ r) (KEY) , 1889–1968, Danish motion picture director. He began making films in Denmark in 1919. His Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), widely regarded as a classic of silent filmmakin...
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Gabin, Jean
(zhäN gäb N´) (KEY) , 1904–76, French film actor, b. Paris; his original name was Alexis Moncourge. Gabin’s work as a cabaret entertainer led to a career in films. He was one of France’s most popular ...
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Eggan, Fred Russell
( g´g n) (KEY) , 1906–91, American anthropologist, b. Seattle, grad. Univ. of Chicago (Ph.B., 1927; A.M., 1928; Ph.D., 1933). A member of the faculty of the Univ. of Chicago from 1935, he served twice...
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Kashka-Darya
(k shkä´-d ryä´) (KEY) , river, c.200 mi (320 km) long, Uzbekistan. It is the basis of a wide network of irrigation canals near the towns of Kitab and Kanshi
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Lysander
(l s n´d r) (KEY) , d. 395 B.C., Spartan naval commander and statesman. Toward the end of the Peloponnesian War he was made admiral and built up the Spartan fleet so that it defeated (407 B.C.) the At...
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Thrasybulus
(thr s´´ by ´l s) (KEY) , d. c.389 B.C., Athenian statesman. A strong supporter of the democratic and anti-Spartan party, he successfully opposed (411 B.C.) the oligarchical Four Hundred and later had...
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Hanno, Carthaginian statesman
fl. 250–200 B.C., Carthaginian statesman, leader of the conservative land-owning party and consistent opponent of the Barca family. His refusal to pay the mercenaries of Hamilcar Barca brought on thei...
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