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C. Henry Kempe (birth name Karl Heinz Kempe; April 6, 1922 in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) – March 3, 1984 in Hanauma Bay, Hawaii) was an American pediatrician and the first in the medical community to identify and recognize child abuse . In 1962, Kempe and his colleagues, including Brandt F. Steele and Henry Silver, published the ...
American history. Henry William Brands Jr. (born August 7, 1953) is an American historian. He holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his PhD in history in 1985. He has authored more than thirty books on U.S. history.
Died. April 26, 2008. (2008-04-26) (aged 94) Santa Barbara, California, United States. Occupation (s) Composer, orchestrator, instrumentalist. Henry Dreyfuss Brant (September 15, 1913 – April 26, 2008) was a Canadian-born American composer. An expert orchestrator with a flair for experimentation, many of Brant's works featured spatialization ...
Paul Wilson Brand, CBE (17 July 1914 – 8 July 2003) was a pioneer in developing tendon transfer techniques for use in the hands of those with leprosy.He was the first physician to appreciate that leprosy is not a disease of the tissue but of the nerves: it is the loss of the sensation of pain which makes sufferers susceptible to injury and leads to tissue rotting away, especially in the ...
Hank Brandt (born Henry William Haar Jr.; June 4, 1934 – December 4, 2004) was an American film and television actor. [1] [2] He was known for playing Leonard Waggedorn in the American sitcom television series Julia from 1968 to 1971. [3] Brandt was born in East Orange, New Jersey. He began his career in 1961, appearing in an episode of the ...
Aktion T4 Hitler's order for Aktion T4 Also known as T4 Program Location German-occupied Europe Date September 1939 – 1945 Incident type Forced euthanasia Perpetrators SS Participants Psychiatric hospitals Victims 275,000–300,000 [a] Aktion T4 (German) was a campaign of mass murder by involuntary euthanasia in Nazi Germany. The term was first used in post- war trials against doctors who ...
Stanley Freeman Druckenmiller (born June 14, 1953) [1] is an American billionaire investor, philanthropist and former hedge fund manager. He is the former chairman and president of Duquesne Capital, which he founded in 1981. He closed the fund in August 2010, [2] at which time it had over $12 billion in assets.
Hennig Brand. Hennig Brand ( German pronunciation: [ˈhɛnɪç bʁant]; c. 1630 – c. 1692 or c. 1710) was a German alchemist who lived and worked in Hamburg. In 1669, Brand accidentally discovered the chemical element phosphorus while searching for the "philosopher's stone", a substance which was believed to transmute base metals into gold .