11) Henze, Hans Werner. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Henze was a pupil of Wolfgang Fortner and Rene Leibowitz. His early works were influenced by Stravinsky, Hindemith, and Bartok. In his first violin concerto (1947)...
12) Siemens, Sir William. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Sir William, 1823-83, English electrical engineer, b. Germany; brother of Ernst Werner von Siemens. Originally his name was Carl Wilhelm Siemens. After visiting England...
13) uncertainty principle. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Werner Heisenberg in 1927, that places an absolute, theoretical limit on the combined accuracy of certain pairs of simultaneous, related measurements. The accuracy...
14) Nathans, Daniel. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...American microbiologist, b. Wilmington, Del., M.D. Washington Univ., St. Louis, 1954. He became a professor at Johns Hopkins Univ. in 1962. Nathans worked with Werner...
15) Teller, Edward. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Fleeing the Nazis, he came to the United States in 1935 and was naturalized in 1941. He was (1935-41) a professor of physics at George Washington Univ. and during...
16) Buch, Christian Leopold, Freiherr von. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth
Edition. 2001
...German geologist and paleontologist, graduate of the mining academy, Freiberg, Germany, and taught by geologist Abraham G. Werner, who founded the influential Neptunist...
17) Smith, Hamilton Othanel. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Hamilton Othanel, 1931-, American biologist, b. New York City, M.D. Johns Hopkins Univ., 1956. A professor at the Univ. of Michigan and Johns Hopkins Univ., Smith...
18) Richards, Dickinson Woodruff, Jr. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
2001
...American physician and physiologist, b. Orange, N.J., grad. Yale, 1917, M.D. Columbia, 1923. He joined the staff of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia...
19) Planck, Max. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Seeking to explain the experimental spectrum (distribution of electromagnetic energy according to wavelength) of black body radiation, he introduced the hypothesis...
20) Cournand, Andre Frederic. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...American physician and physiologist, b. France, B.A. Sorbonne, 1913, M.D. Univ. of Paris, 1930. He emigrated to the United States in 1930 and was naturalized in 1941....
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