Category: Biography
Indira Gandhi Indira Gandhi (1917-84, Indian stateswoman. The daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, she received a university education and was active in the Congress Part y from 1938. She married …
Vasco da Gama Vasco da Gama (1460-1524), Portuguese navigator. A favourite at the Portuguese court, he was chosen by Manuel I to command an expedition to India. He sailed …
Luigi Galvani Luigi Galvani (1737-98), Italian anatomist. He lectured in medicine at the University of Bologna and was appointed professor of anatomy there in 1775. In 1771 he noticed …
Galileo Galilei Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian astronomer and physicist. From observing a swinging lamp in Pisa Cathedral he made the discovery that a pendulum swings at a constant rate. …
Thomas Gainsborough Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88), British painter of portraits and landscapes. After an apprenticeship in London, he set up as a portrait painter in Ipswich (1752). His moves to …
Muammar Gaddafi Muammar Gaddafi (1942), Libyan soldier and politician. The son of nomads, Gaddafi joined the Libyan army in 1962 and formed a radical Arab nationalist organization among his …
Clark Gable Clark Gable (1901-60), US film actor, for many years the most popular leading man in. Hollywood. He first appeared in major roles in the 1930’s, when his …
Vivian Fuchs Vivian Fuchs (1908), British geologist and explorer. He studied at Cambridge and went on several field trips abroad as a geologist. In 1957 he led the British …
