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Michel Hazanavicius

Name at birth: Michel HazanaviciusMichel Hazanavicius is the French director who won an Oscar in 2012 for The Artist, his charming silent movie set in the early days of Hollywood. Michel…

Michel Foucault

Name at birth: Paul-Michel FoucaultFrench philosopher Michel Foucault came to prominence in the 1960s as a provocative voice whose academic studies of power and institutions included Madness and…

Michele Bachmann

Michele Bachmann was a Republican congresswoman from Minnesota who came to national attention during the presidential election of 2008, and was a candidate for U.S. president in 2012. Bachmann rose…

Lea Michele

Name at birth: Lea Michele SarfatiLea Michele played the tightly-wound super-student Rachel Berry in the TV series Glee. By the time that series started in 2009, Lea Michele was already a veteran of…

Michel Mirowski

Michel MirowskiBorn: 1924Birthplace: Warsaw, Poland Implantable defibrillator—Heilman, Langer, Mower, and Mirowski: This team of doctors developed the implantable defibrillator, an internal…

Michele BACHMANN, Congress, MN (1956)

BACHMANN Michele , a Representative from Minnesota; born in Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa, April 6, 1956; graduated from Anoka High School, Anoka, Minn., 1974; B.A., Winona State University,…

Roberts, Richard John

(Encyclopedia) Roberts, Richard John, 1943–, British biochemist, Ph.D., Univ. of Sheffield, 1968. Roberts joined James D. Watson's Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York in 1972, becoming…

Roberts, Lawrence Gilman

(Encyclopedia) Roberts, Lawrence Gilman, 1937–2018, American computer scientist, b. Westport, Conn., Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1963. He worked at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, a…

Fra Diavolo

(Encyclopedia) Fra DiavoloFra Diavolofrä dēäˈvōlō [key] [Ital.,=friar devil], 1771–1806, Italian bandit and soldier, whose real name was Michele Pezza. He entered the service of the king of Naples in…

Ventimiglia

(Encyclopedia) VentimigliaVentimigliavāntēmēˈlyä [key], Fr. Vintimille, town (1991 pop. 25,308), Liguria, NW Italy, on the Ligurian Sea and the Italian Riviera, near the French border. It is a…