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- (from the article "Swimming") German women set a trio of world records at the European championships, held July 31-August 6 in Budapest. On the opening day Petra Dallmann, Daniela Gotz, Britta Steffen, and Annika Liebs clocked 3 min 35.22 sec for the 4 × 100-m freestyle relay. Steffen's split of 52.66 sec, history's fastest, raised expectations ...
- Steffens, Henrik
- philosopher and physicist, who combined scientific ideas with German Idealist metaphysics. [1 Related Articles]
- Steffens, Lincoln
- U.S. journalist, lecturer, and political philosopher, a leading figure among the writers whom Theodore Roosevelt called muckrakers. [1 Related Articles]
- steganography
- (from the article "cybercrime") ...terrorists may also use cryptographic means to conceal their plans. Law-enforcement officials report that some terrorist groups embed instructions and information in images via a process known as steganography, a sophisticated method of hiding information in plain sight. Even recognizing that something is concealed in this fashion often requires considerable ...
- Steger, Will
- (from the article "Antarctica") ...again was crossed in 1989-90, on a 3,741-mile trek by ski and dog team, supported by aircraft, on the privately financed international Trans-Antarctica Expedition led by the American Will Steger.
- Stegner, Wallace
- American author of fiction and historical nonfiction set mainly in the western United States. All of his writings are informed by a deep sense of the American experience and the potential, which he termed "the geography of promise," that the West symbolizes. [1 Related Articles]
- Stegoceras
- (from the article "dinosaur") Stegoceras and Pachycephalosaurus of the North American Cretaceous were, respectively, the smallest and largest members of the group, the former attaining a length of about 2.5 metres (8 feet) and the latter twice that. Pachycephalosaurs are known almost entirely from the Late Cretaceous (although ...
- stegosaur
- (from the article "dinosaur") The Thyreophora consist mainly of the well-known Stegosauria, the plated dinosaurs, and Ankylosauria, the armoured dinosaurs, as well as their more basal relatives, including Scutellosaurus and Scelidosaurus. Scutellosaurus was a small bipedal dinosaur, only about a metre (3.3 feet ) in ...
- Stegosaurus
- one of the various plated dinosaurs (Stegosauria) of the Late Jurassic Period (159 million to 144 million years ago) recognizable by its spiked tail and series of large triangular bony plates along the back. Stegosaurus usually grew to a length of about 6.5 metres (21 feet), but some reached 9 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Steichen, Edward
- American photographer who achieved distinction in a remarkably broad range of roles. In his youth he was perhaps the most talented and inventive photographer among those working to win public acceptance of photography as a fine art. He went on to gain fame as a commercial photographer in the 1920s ... [5 Related Articles]
- Steiermark
- Bundesland (federal state), southeastern and central Austria, bordering Slovenia on the south and bounded by Bundeslander Karnten (Carinthia) on the south, Salzburg on the west, Oberosterreich and Niederosterreich (Upper and Lower Austria) on the north, and Burgenland on the east. It has an area of 6,327 square miles (16,387 square ... [4 Related Articles]
- Steig, William
- American cartoonist and writer (b. Nov. 14, 1907, Brooklyn, N.Y.-d. Oct. 3, 2003, Boston, Mass.), over a period of more than 60 years, created over 1,600 drawings and 117 covers for The New Yorker magazine and became known as the "king of cartoons." At the age of 60, he also ...
- Steiger, Niklaus Friedrich von
- Swiss statesman, Schultheiss (chief magistrate) of the canton of Bern, and the most prominent political figure during the last years of the old Swiss Confederation.
- Steiger, Rodney Stephen
- American actor (b. April 14, 1925, Westhampton, N.Y.-d. July 9, 2002, Los Angeles, Calif.), used the techniques of method acting-enhanced by his powerful delivery and intensity-to inhabit a wide variety of complex characters during a half-century-long career as a performer. He was nominated for an Academy Award three times and ... [2 Related Articles]
- Stein, Charlotte von
- German writer and an intimate friend of and important influence on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; she was the inspiration for the female figures Iphigenie in his Iphigenie auf Tauris and Natalie in Wilhelm Meister. She remained for Goethe an unattainable feminine ideal and should not be confused with the warm ... [1 Related Articles]
- Stein, Edith
- Roman Catholic convert from Judaism, Carmelite nun, philosopher, and spiritual writer who was executed by the Nazis because of her Jewish ancestry and who is regarded as a modern martyr. She was declared a saint by the Roman Catholic church in 1998. [1 Related Articles]
- Stein, Gertrude
- avant-garde American writer, eccentric, and self-styled genius whose Paris home was a salon for the leading artists and writers of the period between World Wars I and II. [5 Related Articles]
- Stein, Herbert
- American economist and government official who in the 1940s, early in his 22 years on the Committee for Economic Development, gained the support of the business community for the then radical idea of regulating the economy by running deficits in the federal budget; he served on the Council of Economic ...
- Stein, Johann Andreas
- German piano builder, and also a maker of organs and harpsichords, who was the first of a distinguished family of piano makers. [1 Related Articles]
- Stein, Karl, Reichsfreiherr vom und zum
- (imperial baron of)Rhinelander-born Prussian statesman, chief minister of Prussia (1807-08), and personal counselor to the Russian tsar Alexander I (1812-15). He sponsored widespread reforms in Prussia during the Napoleonic Wars and influenced the formation of the last European coalition against Napoleon. [5 Related Articles]
- Stein, Peter
- (from the article "directing") Although aware of the more exotic techniques available to a theatre director in the late 20th century, Peter Stein in West Berlin concentrated in the 1970s and '80s on some particularly fruitful European conventions, including elaborating the traditions of historical research established by the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen's company and Stanislavsky ...
- Stein, Sir Aurel
- Hungarian-British archaeologist and geographer whose travels and research in central Asia, particularly in Chinese Turkistan, revealed much about its strategic role in history. [2 Related Articles]
- Stein, William H.
- American biochemist who, along with Stanford Moore and Christian B. Anfinsen, was a cowinner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1972 for their studies of the composition and functioning of the pancreatic enzyme ribonuclease.
- Stein-Leventhal syndrome
- disorder in women that is characterized by an elevated level of male hormones (androgens) and infrequent or absent ovulation (anovulation). About 5 percent of women are affected by Stein-Leventhal syndrome, which is responsible for a substantial proportion of cases of female infertility. The syndrome was first described in 1935 when ... [1 Related Articles]
- Steinbach
- (from the article "Western architecture") In addition to central architecture, the T-shaped basilica form was frequently employed; fairly well-preserved examples of this can be found at Steinbach and at Seligenstadt in Germany. The walls of the nave at Steinbach (821-827) rest on square masonry pillars. On the east side there are two transept chapels, which ...
- Steinbach, Emil
- Austrian economist, jurist, and statesman noted for his social reforms while serving in the ministries of justice and finance under Eduard, Graf von Taaffe (1879-93). [1 Related Articles]
- Steinbeck, John
- American novelist, best known for The Grapes of Wrath (1939), which summed up the bitterness of the Great Depression decade and aroused widespread sympathy for the plight of migratory farm workers. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1962. [3 Related Articles]
- Steinberg, Leo
- (from the article "art criticism") In the essay Other Criteria (1972), the American scholar and critic Leo Steinberg criticized Greenberg from an art-historical point of view, stating that in Greenberg's "formalist ethic, the ideal critic remains unmoved by the artist's expressive intention, uninfluenced by his culture, deaf to his irony or iconography, ...
- Steinberg, Saul
- Romanian-born American cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his line drawings that suggest elaborate, eclectic doodlings. [2 Related Articles]
- Steinberg, William
- German-born American conductor who directed the Pittsburgh Symphony from 1952 to 1976. [1 Related Articles]
- Steinberger, Jack
- German-born American physicist who, along with Leon M. Lederman and Melvin Schwartz, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1988 for their joint discoveries concerning neutrinos. [3 Related Articles]
- Steinbrenner, George
- (from the article "Martin, Billy") ...policy. He managed the New York Yankees in five separate periods over a number of years, winning the World Series in 1977. Martin's volatility and frequent contretemps with principal Yankee owner George Steinbrenner resulted in his five firings (the last in 1988). From 1980 to 1982 Martin managed the Oakland ...
- Steinem, Gloria
- American feminist, political activist, and editor, an articulate advocate of the women's liberation movement during the late 20th century. [1 Related Articles]
- Steiner House
- (from the article "Loos, Adolf") ...to avoid the use of unnecessary ornament. His first building, the Villa Karma, Clarens, near Montreux, Switz. (1904-06), was notable for its geometric simplicity. It was followed by the Steiner House, Vienna (1910), which has been referred to by some architectural historians as the first completely modern dwelling; the main ...
- Steiner surface
- (from the article "Steiner, Jakob") ...he discovered a transformation of the real projective plane (the set of lines through the origin in ordinary three-dimensional space) that maps each line of the projective plane to one point on the Steiner surface (also known as the Roman surface; see the figure). His other work was primarily on ...
- Steiner, George
- influential European-born American literary critic who studied the relationship between literature and society, particularly in light of modern history. His writings on language and the Holocaust reached a wide, nonacademic audience.
- Steiner, Jakob
- Swiss mathematician who was one of the founders of modern synthetic and projective geometry. [1 Related Articles]
- Steiner, Max
- (from the article "1935: Other Winners") ...Charles MacArthur for The ScoundrelCinematography: Hal Mohr for A Midsummer Night's DreamArt Direction: Richard Day for The Dark AngelScoring: RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Max Steiner, head of department, for The InformerSong: "Lullaby Of Broadway" from Gold Diggers of 1935; music by Harry Warren, lyrics by Al DubinHonorary...best music score ...
- Steiner, Rudolf
- Austrian-born scientist, editor, and founder of anthroposophy, a movement based on the notion that there is a spiritual world comprehensible to pure thought but accessible only to the highest faculties of mental knowledge. [1 Related Articles]
- Steinert, Otto
- German photographer, teacher, and physician, who was the founder of the Fotoform movement of postwar German photographers. [2 Related Articles]
- Steinhart Aquarium
- public aquarium in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, noted for its innovative displays. The facility was opened in 1923 and is administered by the California Academy of Sciences. Besides having about 5,000 specimens of some 350 species of fish, the aquarium maintains a collection of more than 200 kinds of ...
- Steinhart, Paul
- (from the article "quasicrystal") Dov Levine and Paul Steinhardt, physicists at the University of Pennsylvania, proposed a resolution of this apparent conflict. They suggested that the translational order of atoms in quasicrystalline alloys might be quasiperiodic rather than periodic. Quasiperiodic patterns share certain characteristics with periodic patterns. In particular, both are deterministic-that is, rules ...
- Steinhauer, Sherri
- (from the article "Golf") In the women's game, three former leading lights were back on centre stage. Neither Australian Karrie Webb nor South Korean Pak Se Ri had won a major tournament since 2002, and American Sherri Steinhauer had waited 14 years for her second success. Webb's seventh major victory, in the Kraft Nabisco ...
- Steinhausen
- (from the article "Zimmermann, Dominikus") ...("total art works") for which he and his brother designed and executed nearly every aspect of construction and decoration. Both are pilgrimage churches. The first, in Steinhausen, was begun in 1727. The floor plan is an oval, with 10 slender, free-standing piers supporting a vault painted in exemplary style by ...
- Steinheil magnifier
- (from the article "microscope") More-complex magnifiers, such as the Steinheil or Hastings forms, use three or more elements to achieve better correction for chromatic aberrations and distortion. In general, a better approach is the use of aspheric surfaces and fewer elements.
- Steinheil, Karl August
- German physicist who did pioneering work in telegraphy, optics, and photometry. [1 Related Articles]
- Steinheim skull
- human fossil remnant found in 1933 along the Murr River about 20 km (12 miles) north of Stuttgart, Germany. Found in association with bones of elephants and rhinoceroses, the specimen has been dated to approximately 350,000 years ago. The skull is characterized by an estimated cranial capacity of 1,100 cc ...
- Steinheim, Solomon Ludwig
- (from the article "Judaism") Solomon Ludwig Steinheim (1789-1866), the author of Die Offenbarung nach dem Lehrbegriff der Synagoge ("The Revelation According to the Doctrine of the Synagogue"), was apparently influenced by the antirationalism of the German philosopher Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743-1819). His criticism of science is based on Jacobi's work, though ...
- Steinhuder, Lake
- (from the article "Lower Saxony") ...which is noted for its old-fashioned red farmhouses and the ancient megalithic structures known as "graves of giants." In the south-central part of the state are two sizable lakes: Steinhuder Lake (about 12 square miles [30 square km]) and Dummer Lake (about 6 square miles [15 square km]). The highland ...
- Steinitz, Ernst
- (from the article "arithmetic") A method of introducing the positive rational numbers that is free from intuition (that is, with all logical steps included) was given in 1910 by the German mathematician Ernst Steinitz. In considering the set of all number pairs (a, b), (c, d), &elipsis; in which a, b, c, d, &elipsis; are positive ...
- Steinitz, Wilhelm
- Austrian-American chess master who is considered to have been the world champion longer than any other player, winning the championship in 1866 from Adolf Anderssen (although the first official claim to hold the title was not made until 1886) and losing it in 1894 to Emanuel Lasker. [5 Related Articles]
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