actor, directorBorn: 7/22/1947Birthplace: San Francisco Involved with civil rights groups as a teen, Glover got involved in the dramatic arts as a way to spread the message. An alumnus of the Black…
(Encyclopedia) Glover, JoseGlover, Joseglŭvˈər [key], d. 1638, English nonconformist minister, generally considered the father of printing in the English colonies of North America. He visited New…
(Encyclopedia) Barkla, Charles GloverBarkla, Charles Gloverglŭˈvər bärˈklə [key], 1877–1944, English physicist. He was professor of natural philosophy at Edinburgh from 1913. For his discovery of the…
chemistBorn: 4/22/1919Birthplace: Chester, Vt. chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in chemistry for “synthesizing three-dimensional molecules that could mimic the functioning of natural…
George W. Bush's secretary of Commerce, first termBorn: 7/26/1946Birthplace: Houston, Tex. President Bush's best friend, this was Evans's first position in government. The Commerce Department has…
Born: 1941Birthplace: Lansing, Mich. Fused silica optical waveguide—The inventors, Maurer, Keck, and Schultz. designed and produced the first optical fiber with light loss during transmission low…
actorBorn: 7/17/1934Birthplace: St. John, New Brunswick, Canada Film actor who struggled for years as a supporting actor before establishing himself as a lead in M*A*S*H (1970). His other films…
Born: July 18, 1948Baseball labor leader protégé of Marvin Miller; executive director and general counsel of Major League Players Assn. since 1983; led players in 1994 “salary cap” strike that…
actorBorn: 2/26/1928Birthplace: Newmarket, Ontario, Canada Best-known for his work in New York and Canadian theater from the 1950s to the 1990s, he also occasionally appeared in feature films and…
(Encyclopedia) McKay, DonaldMcKay, Donaldməkāˈ, məkīˈ [key], 1810–80, American shipbuilder, b. Nova Scotia. He opened his own shipyard in Newburyport, Mass., in 1841, then moved to Boston in 1845. He…
