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Crane, Stephen

(Encyclopedia) Crane, Stephen, 1871–1900, American novelist, poet, and short-story writer, b. Newark, N.J. Often designated the first modern American writer, Crane is ranked among the authors who…

Mather, Stephen Tyng

(Encyclopedia) Mather, Stephen Tyng, 1867–1930, American industrialist and environmentalist, b. San Francisco, grad. Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1887. He began working for the Pacific Coast Borax…

Ružička, Leopold Stephen

(Encyclopedia) Ružička, Leopold Stephen or Lavoslav Stjepan 1887–1976, Swiss chemist, b. Croatia (then in Austria-Hungary), Dr.Ing. Technische Hochschule, Karlsruhe, Germany, 1910. Ružička was a…

Fauci, Anthony Stephen

(Encyclopedia) Fauci, Anthony Stephen, 1940–, American physician, immunologist, and government official, b. Brooklyn, New York, M.D. Cornell, 1966. A senior investigator in the National Institute of…

Liddy, G. Gordon

(Encyclopedia) Liddy, G. Gordon (George Gordon Battle Liddy), 1930-2021, American political operative and conservative commentator, b. Brooklyn, N.Y…

Stephen HOPKINS, Congress, RI (1707-1785)

HOPKINS, Stephen, a Delegate from Rhode Island; born in Providence, R.I., March 7, 1707; attended the public schools; was raised on a farm in the town of Scituate, Providence County; member of…

Wells, H. G.

(Encyclopedia) Wells, H. G. (Herbert George Wells), 1866–1946, English author. Although he is probably best remembered for his works of science fiction, he was also an imaginative social thinker,…

Mallory, Stephen Russell

(Encyclopedia) Mallory, Stephen Russell, c.1813–73, U.S. Senator, secretary of the navy in the Confederacy, b. Trinidad, West Indies. He was raised in Key West, Fla., where he practiced law and was a…

Stephen COHEN, Congress, TN (1949)

COHEN, Stephen, a Representative from Tennessee; born in Memphis, Shelby County, Tenn., May 24, 1949; B.A., Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., 1971; J.D., Memphis State University, 1973;…