Category: Biography
Auguste Piccard Auguste Piccard, (1884-1962). Swiss physicist. A member of a famous family of scholars, scientists, and explorers, he pioneered stratosphere flights in a balloon to observe cosmic rays …
Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso, (1881-1973) Spanish painter and sculptor. After studying in Madrid he moved to Paris, where he painted the Banc clowns, and acrobats of the city in …
Jean Piaget Jean Piaget, (1896-1980). Swiss psychologist. Having first studied biology, he became interested in the development of thought processes in the young. His experiments with his own children …
Edith Piaf Edith Piaf, (1915-63). French singer, born Edith Giovanna Gassion. Her small stature earned her the nick-name Piaf, which is Parisian slang for ‘sparrow’. She toured with her …
Philip II Philip II (1527-98). King of Spain from 1556. Having succeeded to the throne on his father’s abdication, he soon became the most powerful monarch in Europe. He …
Kim Philby Kim Philby, real name Harold Adrian Russell Philby (1912-88). British diplomat and spy, associated with the Russian agents Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean. In 1933 Philby, a …
Phidias Phidias (fl. 5th century BC). Greek sculptor, usually considered the greatest artist of the ancient world. An Athenian, he was commissioned by Pericles to supply a series of …
Petrarch Petrarch, real name Francesco Petrarca (1304-74). Italian humanist poet and scholar. His Canzoniere (begun 1342) is a collection of sonnets and odes addressed to Laura, about whom little …
