WebWilliam Sebastian Cohen (born August 28, 1940) is an American lawyer, author, and politician from the U.S. state of Maine. A Republican, Cohen served as both a member of the United States House of Representatives (1973–1979) and Senate (1979–1997), and as Secretary of Defense (1997–2001) under Democratic President Bill Clinton.

WebWilliam Tanner Vollmann (born July 28, 1959) is an American novelist, journalist, war correspondent, short story writer, and essayist. He won the 2005 National Book Award for Fiction with the novel Europe Central. Biography. William Vollmann was born in Los Angeles and lived there for five years. ...

WebWilliam "Vilim" Feller (July 7, 1906 – January 14, 1970), born Vilibald Srećko Feller, was a Croatian-American mathematician specializing in probability theory. Early life and education. Feller was born in Zagreb to Ida Oemichen-Perc, a Croatian-Austrian Catholic, and ...

WebEarly life. Mickey Cohen was born on September 4, 1913, in New York City to Jewish parents. Cohen's parents immigrated to the USA from Kyiv. He was first raised in New York City, moving with his mother and siblings to the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles at an early age. At 8, he earned money as a newsboy, selling newspapers on the street. …

WebWilliam Pitt Fessenden (October 16, 1806 – September 8, 1869) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Maine.Fessenden was a Whig (later a Republican) and member of the Fessenden political family.He served in the United States House of Representatives and Senate before becoming Secretary of the Treasury under President Abraham Lincoln …

WebSir William Henry Bragg OM KBE PRS (2 July 1862 – 12 March 1942) was an English physicist, chemist, mathematician, and active sportsman who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son Lawrence Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics: "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays". The mineral Braggite is named after him …

WebWilliam Alain André Gabriel Saliba (born 24 March 2001) is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Arsenal and the France national team Club career Saint-Étienne. Saliba began playing football at the age of six, coached by the father of Kylian ...

WebWilliam Pierce Frye (September 2, 1830 – August 8, 1911) was an American politician from Maine.A member of the Republican Party, Frye spent most of his political career as a legislator, serving in the Maine House of Representatives and then U.S. House of Representatives, before being elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served for 30 years …

WebEarly life. Cohen was born in Manhattan, New York City, on July 15, 1936. His sister, Ronni Chasen, was a publicist who worked with him beginning early in his film career.He moved to the Riverdale section of the Bronx in New York City at an early age.. Cohen exhibited a voracious appetite for films as a child, visiting the movie theaters at least twice a week, …

WebPremio Nobel per la fisica 1956. William Bradford Shockley (Londra, 13 febbraio 1910 – Stanford, 12 agosto 1989) è stato un fisico statunitense.. Assieme a John Bardeen e Walter Houser Brattain fu insignito, nel 1956, del Premio Nobel per la Fisica per "le loro ricerche sui semiconduttori e la scoperta dell'effetto transistor".. L'esperimento di Haynes e Shockley, …