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Babbitt, Natalie

(Encyclopedia) Babbitt, Natalie, 1932–2016, American children's book author and illustrator, b. Dayton, Ohio, as Natalie Zane Moore, grad. Smith College, 1954. She illustrated The Forty-Ninth…

Babbitt, Milton

(Encyclopedia) Babbitt, Milton, 1916–2011, American composer, b. Philadelphia. Babbitt turned to music after studying mathematics. He studied composition with Roger Sessions at Princeton, and taught…

Babbitt, Irving

(Encyclopedia) Babbitt, IrvingBabbitt, Irvingbăbˈĭt [key], 1865–1933, American scholar, b. Dayton, Ohio. At Harvard as professor of French literature from 1912 until his death, he was a vigorous…

Goncharova, Natalie Sergeyevna

(Encyclopedia) Goncharova or Gontcharova, Natalie SergeyevnaGoncharova or Gontcharova, Natalie Sergeyevnanətälˈyə sĕrˌgəyāvˈnə gənchərôˈvə [key], 1881–1962, Russian painter and designer. After…

Burlin, Natalie Curtis

(Encyclopedia) Burlin, Natalie CurtisBurlin, Natalie Curtisbûrˈlĭn, bərlĭnˈ [key], 1875–1921, American writer and musician, b. New York City, studied music in France and Germany. She was one of the…

Cole, Natalie

(Encyclopedia) Cole, Natalie: see under Cole, Nat “King.”

Babbitt metal

(Encyclopedia) Babbitt metal, an antifriction metal first produced by Isaac Babbitt in 1839. In present-day usage the term is applied to a whole class of silver-white bearing metals, or “white metals…

white metal

(Encyclopedia) white metal: see Babbitt metal.