American agricultural economist whose influential studies of the role of "human capital"-education, talent, energy, and will-in economic development won him a share (with Sir Arthur Lewis) of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Economics.
German zoologist and cytologist who defined the cell as a mass of protoplasm with a nucleus (1861) and recognized protoplasm, with its nucleus, as a fundamental substance found in both plants and animals.
German politician and first chairman of the revived Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands; SPD) after World War II.
proposal by French foreign minister Robert Schuman on May 9, 1950, for the creation of a single authority to control the production of steel and coal in France and West Germany (now Germany), to be opened for membership to other ...
French statesman who founded the European Coal and Steel Community and worked for economic and political unity leading to an eventual establishment of a "United States of Europe."
American composer, educator, and administrator whose symphonies, ballets, and chamber music are noted for their adaptation of European models to American themes.
German Romantic composer renowned particularly for his piano music, songs (lieder), and orchestral music. Many of his best-known piano pieces were written for his wife, the pianist Clara Schumann.
German-American political leader, journalist, orator, and dedicated reformer who pressed for high moral standards in government in a period of notorious public laxity.
(German: Republican Defense League), paramilitary socialist organization active in Austria between World Wars I and II. Compared with its chief right-wing opponent force, the Heimwehr, the Schutzbund was tightly organized, having been created in 1923 from the workers' guards by ...
county, west-central New York state, U.S., comprising a hilly upland region. Seneca Lake extends deeply into the county from the north, nearly bisecting it. Other bodies of water are Waneta and Lamoka lakes and Meads and Cayuta creeks. Parklands include ...
American poet, playwright, and novelist, often associated with the New York school of poets, which included Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, and Kenneth Koch. An acute observer of natural landscapes, Schuyler described common experiences with familiar images in compact lines of ...
American soldier, political leader, and member of the Continental Congress. Born into a prominent New York family, Schuyler served in the provincial army during the last French and Indian War (1755-60), rising to the rank of major. After the war ...
county, east-central Pennsylvania, U.S., located west of the city of Allentown and bordered to the south by Blue Mountain. It consists of a rugged ridge-and-valley terrain that includes Mahantango, Broad, Sharp, and Second mountains. The county is drained by the ...
river of southeastern Pennsylvania, U.S. It rises in eastern Schuylkill county in an anthracite-coal region and receives the Little Schuylkill River while flowing through a gap in Blue Mountain at Port Clinton. It then continues generally southeastward for a total ...
entrepreneur of the early steel industry in the United States, who served as president of both the Carnegie Steel Company and United States Steel Corporation and later pioneered Bethlehem Steel into one of the nation's giant steel producers.
amateur German astronomer who discovered that sunspots vary in number in a cycle of about 10 years; he announced his findings in 1843, after 17 years of almost daily observations. Schwabe also made (1831) the first known detailed drawing of ...
city, Baden-Wurttemberg Land (state), southwestern Germany. It lies on the Rems River, east of Stuttgart and just north of the Swabian Alp. The Roman limes (a defensive line of fortifications against the Germanic tribes) ...
city, Baden-Wurttemberg Land (state), southern Germany, on the Kocher River, east of Heilbronn. The centre of the Hohenlohe lands, a free imperial city from 1276 to 1802, it owed both its foundation and its prosperity to its saline springs and ...
extinct genus of fusulinid foraminiferans, small, single-celled protozoans related to the modern amoeba but possessing a hard shell capable of being preserved in the fossil record. Schwagerina is a useful guide, or index, fossil for Early Permian rocks and time ...
American physicist and entrepreneur who, along with Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger, received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1988 for their research concerning neutrinos (subatomic particles that have no electric charge and virtually no mass).
French novelist, author of what is regarded as one of the greatest literary works of the post-World War II period: Le Dernier des justes (1959; The Last of the Just).
either of two sovereign states in Germany before 1918, descended from the Thuringian lands that had been held by the medieval counts of Schwarzburg. Over the centuries the Schwarzburg lands were divided, redivided, or consolidated until the lines of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen ...
right- (east-) bank tributary of the Elbe River, rising in the Lusatian Mountains, about 4 miles (7 km) northwest of Bischofswerda, Ger. Flowing north, it leaves the mountains near Kamenz, where it turns northeast to enter the Upper Lusatia region. ...
Austrian field marshal and diplomat who was one of the most successful Allied commanders in the Napoleonic Wars and who contributed significantly to the French emperor's defeat in 1813-14.
German soprano who performed in the major opera houses of the Western world and is remembered especially for her mastery of German songs known as lieder.
U.S. Army officer who commanded Operation Desert Storm, the American-led coalition that liberated Kuwait from Iraqi occupation in the Persian Gulf War (1991).
comet discovered photographically by the German astronomers Friedrich Carl Arnold Schwassmann and Arthur Arno Wachmann in 1927. It has the most nearly circular orbit of any comet known (eccentricity 0.131) and remains always between the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn. ...
town, Niederosterreich Bundesland (federal state), northeastern Austria. It lies on the west bank of the Danube River near the mouth of the Schwechat River, just southeast of Vienna. The site of a Roman camp, the town was first mentioned in ...
city, Brandenburg Land (state), eastern Germany. It lies along the Westoder River, southwest of Szczecin (German: Stettin), Poland, about 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Berlin. Mentioned as a town in 1265, it was the seat of ...
city, Bavaria Land (state), central Germany. It lies along the canalized Main River, northeast of Wurzburg. First mentioned in 791, the city was the seat of a margrave in the 10th century and became a free imperial city in 1254. ...
German botanist and traveler who explored the region of the upper Nile River basin known as the Bahr al Ghazal and discovered the Uele River, a tributary of the Congo.
Alsatian-German theologian, philosopher, organist, and mission doctor in equatorial Africa, who received the 1952 Nobel Prize for Peace for his efforts in behalf of "the Brotherhood of Nations."
