Tag: Biography
George Orwell George Orwell, penname of Eric Blair (1903-50). British novelist and writer. Born in India, he was educated at Eton and served with the police in Burma for …
J.Robert Oppenheimer J.Robert Oppenheimer, (1904-67). US physicist After graduating from Harvard University he did atomic research at the Cavendish Laboratory, cambridge. He was chosen in 1943 to direct a …
Eugene O’Neill Eugene O’Neill, (1888-1953). US dramatist. The s touring actors, he worked as a seaman from 1907 on, of 1912 he developed tuberculosis and spent six months a …
Aristotle Socrates Onassis Aristotle Socrates Onassis, (1906-75). Greek shipping tycoon, who became one of the world’s richest men. Onassis was born in Smyrna (now Izmir in Turkey), the son …
Omar Khayyam Omar Khayyam (c. 1048-1122). Persian poet, astronomer, and mathematician, The son of a tentmaker, he was best known in Persia for his treatise on algebra and metaphysics …
Georg Simon Ohm Georg Simon Ohm, (1787-1854). German physicist. His experiments with electricity, while he was a professor at Cologne, led to his formulation of a rule now known …
Jacques Offenbach Jacques Offenbach, (1819-80). French composer. Of German origin, he studied music in Paris and played in the orchestra, of the Opera-Comique. He later became a conductor at …
Sean O’Casey Sean O’Casey, (1880-1964). Irish dramatist. Born to a poor Protestant family, O’Casey worked as a manual labourer and was entirely self-educated. He joined the paramilitary Irish Citizen …
