Essays Tagged: "Arnhem"

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz.

award (jointly with his pupil Pieter Zeeman) of the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics.Lorentz was born in Arnhem, Holland, on 18 July 1853. He was educated at local schools and at the University of Leyden, ... cated at local schools and at the University of Leyden, which he left at the age of 19 to return to Arnhem as a teacher while writing his PhD thesis on the theory of light reflection and refraction. B ...

(8 pages) 34 0 5.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Just 'A Bridge Too Far'.

sion "All American" near Grave and Nijmegen and the 1st British Airborne Division "Red Devils" near Arnhem. For a variety of reasons the operation did not go as planned. The advance of the British arm ... eady 36 hours behind schedule. Bad radio links prevented adequate communications, especially in the Arnhem area. Because of the bad weather, reinforcement troops and supplies could not be dropped in t ...

(7 pages) 31 0 4.5 Dec/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Maurits Cornelius Escher, artist and mathematician

amed Princessehof, which later on became a museum of Escher's works.His family moved to the city of Arnhem in 1903. There he took piano and carpentry lessons until 1912, when he went to a secondary sc ...

(2 pages) 53 1 4.4 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

A Brief Overview of Da Waal's Political Book: Chimpanzee Politics

F. (1982) Chimpanzee politics: power and sex among apes. New York: Harper and Row.Introduction: The Arnhem chimp colony had about 25 individuals housed in an outdoor enclosure of almost two acres. Par ... fencing and dead ones.Over a hundred recurring gestures and recurring signals have been observed in Arnhem, all of which have also been seen in the wild.One of the phenomena that makes aggression, soc ...

(6 pages) 33 0 0.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Marcel Wanders, a product designer

ands, moves unhindered between materials and disciplines. Wanders studied at the Academy of Arts in Arnhem and worked mostly as a freelance designer before founding his first firm, Wanders Wonders, in ...

(4 pages) 58 0 4.7 Jun/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Design Arts

overflowing mistakes

(7 pages) 2 0 0.0 Nov/2014

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists