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  • taximetrics (biological classification)
    Some biologists believe that “numerical taxonomy,” a system of quantifying characteristics of taxa and subjecting the results to multivariate analysis, may eventually produce quantitative measures of overall differences among groups, and that agreement can be achieved so as to establish the maximal difference allowed each taxonomic level. Although such agreement may be possible,......
  • taxis (behaviour)
    In taxis, an animal orients itself in a specific spatial relationship to a stimulus. The orientation may be simply an alteration of body position or it may be an alteration of locomotor direction so that the animal moves toward, away from, or at a fixed angle to the source of the stimulus. Sources that elicit a taxis response, which may cause a modification of speed, direction, or both, seem to......
  • Taxis, Franz von (Italian noble)
    ...At least two early ancestors of the family, then called Tassis, had operated courier services in the Italian city-states from about 1290, but the family’s important postal activities began with Franz von Taxis, who served as postmaster to the Holy Roman emperor Maximilian I from 1489 and to Philip I of Spain from 1504. Von Taxis secured the right to carry both government and private mail...
  • Taxis postal system (European history)
    imperial and, after 1806, private postal system operated in western and central Europe by the noble house of Thurn and Taxis. At least two early ancestors of the family, then called Tassis, had operated courier services in the Italian city-states from about 1290, but the family’s important postal activities began with Franz von Taxis, who served as postmaster to the Holy Roman emperor Maxi...
  • Taxissche Post (European history)
    imperial and, after 1806, private postal system operated in western and central Europe by the noble house of Thurn and Taxis. At least two early ancestors of the family, then called Tassis, had operated courier services in the Italian city-states from about 1290, but the family’s important postal activities began with Franz von Taxis, who served as postmaster to the Holy Roman emperor Maxi...
  • taxiway (aviation)
    ...by white lights that shine toward the maneuvering aircraft at regular intervals. The pilot is warned of the approaching runway end by a line of red lights at the end of the usable pavement. Taxiways are delineated by blue edge lights and by green centreline lights that also appear at regular intervals....
  • Taxodiaceae (former conifer family)
    Modern families of conifers began to appear in the Mesozoic Era. Members of the Taxodiaceae, the family to which redwoods and bald cypress are assigned, appeared first in the Jurassic Period. Metasequoia, the dawn redwood, is also a member of this family. Discovered first as fossils in Miocene (23.7 to 5.3 million years ago) deposits, it was assumed to have become extinct until it was......
  • Taxodium (genus)
    ...of this family are traditionally divided between two families, Cupressaceae for the cypresses (Cupressus) and similar genera and Taxodiaceae for the much more varied genera allied to the bald cypress (Taxodium) and redwood (Sequoia), present evidence shows that all belong to a single family containing 30 genera and 133 species; scales of seed cone intimately fused to......
  • Taxodium ascendens (plant)
    The smaller pond, or upland, cypress of the southeastern U.S., a variety (T. distichum, variety imbricatum) of the bald cypress, sometimes is considered to be a separate species (T. ascendens). It has erect branches and shorter, more scalelike leaves....
  • Taxodium distichum (species)
    either of two species of ornamental and timber conifers constituting the genus Taxodium (family Cupressaceae), native to swampy areas of southern North America. The name bald cypress, or swamp cypress, is used most frequently as the common name for T. distichum, economically the most important species....
  • Taxodium mucronatum (plant)
    The closely related Montezuma or Mexican cypress (T. mucronatum) is native to the southwestern U.S., Mexico, and Guatemala. It is distinguished from the bald cypress by its shorter, persistent leaves and larger cones. It rarely produces knees....
  • Taxol® (drug)
    As a member of the yew family, Taxaceae, the Pacific yew (Taxus brevifolia) has flat, evergreen needles and produces red, berrylike fruits. The toxicity of members of the yew family was described in ancient Greek literature. Indeed, the genus name Taxus derives from the Greek word toxon, which can be......
  • taxon (biology)
    any unit used in the science of biological classification, or taxonomy. Taxa are arranged in a hierarchy from kingdom to subspecies, a given taxon ordinarily including several taxa of lower rank. In the classification of protists, plants, and animals, certain taxonomic categories are universally recognized; in descending order, these are kingdom, phylum (in plants, division), class, order, family,...
  • taxon cycle (biology)
    ...through the transmission of chemical substances known as pheromones. In the course of revising the classification of ants native to the South Pacific, he formulated the concept of the “taxon cycle,” in which speciation and species dispersal are linked to the varying habitats that organisms encounter as their populations expand. In 1971 he published The......
  • taxonomy (biology)
    in a broad sense, the science of classification, but more strictly the classification of living and extinct organisms—i.e., biological classification. The term is derived from the Greek taxis (“arrangement”) and nomos (“law”). Taxonomy is, therefore, the methodology and principles of systematic botany and zoology and sets up arrangem...
  • Taxopsida (gymnosperm class)
    ...bearing woody ovuliferous scales derived from flattened dwarf branches; seeds borne on the upper surface; 6 living families, with 62 genera and 515 species.Class TaxopsidaTriassic to the present; trees or shrubs; leaves needlelike; microstrobili with microsporophylls bearing abaxial microsporangia; seeds not in megastrobi...
  • Taxus (plant)
    any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus (family Taxaceae), approximately eight species of ornamental evergreens, distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Other trees called yew but not in this genus are the plum-yew, Prince Albert yew (see Podocarpaceae), and stinking yew. Two species are always shrubby, but the others may ...
  • Taxus baccata (plant)
    (all three are lumber trade names), an ornamental evergreen tree or shrub of the yew family (Taxaceae), widely distributed throughout Europe and Asia as far east as the Himalayas. Some botanists consider the Himalayan form to be a separate species, called Himalayan yew. Rising to a height of 10 to 30 metres (about 35 to 100 feet), the tree has spreading branches and slightly drooping branchlets. T...
  • Taxus brevifolia (plant)
    (Taxus brevifolia), an evergreen timber tree of the yew family (Taxaceae). It is the only commercially important yew native to North America, where it is found from Alaska to California. Usually between 5 and 15 metres (about 15 to 50 feet) tall, it sometimes reaches 25 metres. See also yew....
  • Taxus canadensis (Taxus canadensis)
    (Taxus canadensis), a prostrate, straggling evergreen shrub of the family Taxaceae, found in northeastern North America. American yew also is a lumber trade name for the Pacific yew. The American yew, the hardiest of the yew species, provides excellent ground cover in forested areas. Usually growing about 1 metre (3 feet) high, it has small yellowish green leaves that taper abruptly to a ti...
  • Taxus celebica (plant)
    (Taxus celebica), a large, ornamental evergreen shrub or tree of the yew family (Taxaceae), widespread in China at elevations up to 900 metres (3,000 feet). The tree is up to 14 m (46 ft) tall and wide and bushy when cultivated. The leaves are up to 4 centimetres (1 12 inches) long—broader than those of most other yews—and often end in a ver...
  • Taxus cuspidata (plant)
    an ornamental evergreen shrub or tree of the yew family (Taxaceae), native to Japan and widely cultivated in the Northern Hemisphere. Rising to a height of 16 m (about 52 feet), it resembles the English yew but is hardier and faster-growing. Each leaf has two distinct, yellowish bands on its underside. There are many horticultural varieties of Japanese yew. Plants propagated from cuttings of later...
  • Tay (people)
    Chu Van Tan became chieftain of the Tho, a tribal ethnic minority in the mountainous regions of northern Vietnam near the China border. Before World War II, Chu Van Tan organized his people into a revolutionary militia to resist the French. By 1940–41 he had formed an effective fighting force, the Vietnam National Salvation Army, and won a victory over French-directed troops in the Red......
  • Tay language (Asian dialect)
    ...as well: older names include Pai-i (Dai); Chuang-chia (Zhuang); Chung-chia, Dioi, Jui, and Yai (Buyei); and Tho, which is still sometimes used for the language or languages now known in Vietnam as Tay. Ahom, an extinct language once spoken in Assam (India), has a considerable amount of literature. The Tai languages are divided into three linguistic groups—the Southwestern, the Central,.....
  • Tay Ninh (Vietnam)
    town, southern Vietnam, situated on a tributary of the Vam Co Tay River, 65 miles (105 km) northwest of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) and 25 miles (40 km) from the border with Kampuchea. Tay Ninh is the seat of the Cao Dai, a militant syncretic religious sect founded in 1926 that controlled and administered the area for several years following World War II....
  • Tay, River (river, Scotland, United Kingdom)
    longest river in Scotland, flowing about 120 miles (193 km) from its source on the north slopes of Ben Lui to the North Sea below Dundee. The river drains 2,400 square miles (6,216 square km), the largest drainage area in Scotland. Before reaching the stretch of Loch Tay (15 miles [24 km] long) at Killin, the headwaters flow under the names Fillan and Dochart. On leaving Loch Tay at Kenmore, the r...
  • Tay Son brothers (Vietnamese rebels)
    Nguyen Nhac (b. c. 1752—d. Dec. 16, 1793), and Nguyen Lu (b. c. 1752—d. 1792); the name was derived from their home village, Tay Son, Vietnam. ...
  • Tay Son rebellion (Vietnamese history)
    ...Europeans were neither ubiquitous nor in a position to rule, even in Java. The most serious circumstances were undoubtedly those of Vietnam, where from 1771 to 1802 there raged a struggle—the Tay Son rebellion—over the very nature of the state. This rebellion threatened to sweep away the entire Confucian establishment of Vietnam, and perhaps would have done so if its leader had no...
  • Tay-Sachs disease (medical disorder)
    hereditary metabolic disorder that causes progressive mental and neurologic deterioration and results in death in early childhood. The disease is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait and occurs most commonly among people of eastern European (Ashkenazic) Jewish origin....
  • Taya, Maaouya Ould Sidi Ahmed (president of Mauritania)
    ...in Western Sahara (formerly Spanish Sahara). In 1978 it was replaced by the military, which concluded peace with the Polisario Front but became embroiled in hostilities with Morocco. In 1984 Colonel Maaouya Ould Sidi Ahmed Taya replaced Colonel Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla in a bloodless coup and restored diplomatic relations with Morocco. Throughout the 1980s the government was plagued by......
  • Tayacian industry (archaeological record)
    primitive flake-tool tradition of France and Israel, believed to be essentially a smaller edition of the Clactonian industry....
  • tayageum (musical instrument)
    large transverse bamboo flute with a distinctive sound, widely used in Korean music. The taegǔm is about 84 cm (33 inches) long. It has a mouthpiece opening and six finger holes, as well as two to five open holes toward the end. A special aperture covered with a reed membrane gives the instrument its characteristic sound. The ...
  • Tayama Katai (Japanese novelist)
    novelist who was a central figure in the development of the Japanese naturalist school of writing....
  • Tayama Rokuya (Japanese novelist)
    novelist who was a central figure in the development of the Japanese naturalist school of writing....
  • Tayassu pecari (mammal)
    The white-lipped peccary (T. pecari) is slightly darker and larger, weighing 25–40 kg (55–88 pounds). Named for the white area around the mouth, its range is limited to Central and South America, where forest and scrub are the primary habitats. These peccaries live in herds of 50 to over 300 and are more severely impacted by habitat destruction....
  • Tayassu tajacu (mammal)
    There are three species. The collared peccary (Tayassu tajacu) is the smallest and the most common, living throughout the entire tayassuid range in a variety of habitats. Distinguished by a pale stripe around the neck, collared peccaries are less than a metre (three feet) long and weigh between 17 and 30 kg (37 and 66 pounds). They live in a variety of habitats, generally roving during......
  • Tayassuidae (mammal)
    any of the three species of piglike mammal found in the southern deserts of the United States southward through the Amazon Basin to Patagonian South America (see Patagonia). Closely resembling the wild pig (see boar), the peccary has dark, coarse hair and a large head with a circular snout. The ears are small, as is the tail, which is generally not visible. It...
  • Taychiut (Mongolian family)
    With Yesügei dead, the remainder of the clan, led by the rival Taychiut family, abandoned his widow, Höelün, and her children, considering them too weak to exercise leadership and seizing the opportunity to usurp power. For a time the small family led a life of extreme poverty, eating roots and fish instead of the normal nomad diet of mutton and mare’s milk. Two anecdot...
  • Taydula (Russia)
    city and administrative centre of Tula oblast (region), western Russia. It lies along the Upa River, which is a tributary of the Oka River. First mentioned in 1146 as Taydula, Tula became the principal stronghold on the southern approaches to Moscow in the 16th century and the centre of a series of defensive lines against Tatar attack. A stone citadel of 1530, restored in 1784 and 1824, sur...
  • Taygete (Greek mythology)
    in Greek mythology, the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas and the Oceanid Pleione: Maia, Electra, Taygete, Celaeno, Alcyone, Sterope, and Merope. They all had children by gods (except Merope, who married Sisyphus)....
  • Taygete (astronomy)
    ...of which six or seven can be seen by the unaided eye and have figured prominently in the myths and literature of many cultures. In Greek mythology the Seven Sisters (Alcyone, Maia, Electra, Merope, Taygete, Celaeno, and Sterope, names now assigned to individual stars), daughters of Atlas and Pleione, were changed into the stars. The heliacal (near dawn) rising of the Pleiades in spring of the.....
  • Taygetus Mountains (mountains, Greece)
    mountain range, southern Peloponnese, Greece. The maximum elevation is approximately 7,905 feet (2,371 m) in the range, which imposes a barrier between the regions of Laconia and Messina. Called the five-fingered mountain by the ancient epic poet Homer, the Taíyetos range, which is the highest mountain chain in the Peloponnese, consists of a narrow ridge of crystalline rock trending north-s...
  • Tayghetus Mountains (mountains, Greece)
    mountain range, southern Peloponnese, Greece. The maximum elevation is approximately 7,905 feet (2,371 m) in the range, which imposes a barrier between the regions of Laconia and Messina. Called the five-fingered mountain by the ancient epic poet Homer, the Taíyetos range, which is the highest mountain chain in the Peloponnese, consists of a narrow ridge of crystalline rock trending north-s...
  • Tayif, aṭ- (Saudi Arabia)
    city, western Saudi Arabia. Lying at an elevation of 6,165 feet (1,879 metres) on a tableland southeast of Mecca, it is the country’s principal summer resort. Once the seat of the pagan goddess Allat, it is revered now as the site of the tomb of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās, a cousin of the Prophet Muḥammad, and for the graves of two infant sons of the Prophet. A...
  • tayil (music genre)
    ...(and part of Paraguay), home to the Mbyá. Only the Mapuche have been extensively studied by music researchers.The most studied genre among this people is known as tayil and is performed only by women. Tayil recall a man’s ancestral lineage and are essential to the healing rituals led by female shamans....
  • Tayler, Doris May (British writer)
    British writer whose novels and short stories are largely concerned with people involved in the social and political upheavals of the 20th century. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007....
  • Taylor, A. J. P. (British historian and journalist)
    British historian and journalist noted for his lectures on history and for his prose style....
  • Taylor, Alan John Percivale (British historian and journalist)
    British historian and journalist noted for his lectures on history and for his prose style....
  • Taylor, Albert Hoyt (American physicist and radio engineer)
    American physicist and radio engineer whose work underlay the development of radar in the United States....
  • Taylor, Ann (British author)
    ...the poetry the young really read or listened to at the opening of the 19th century was not Blake but Original Poems for Infant Minds (1804), by “Several Young Persons,” including Ann and Jane Taylor. The Taylor sisters, though adequately moral, struck a new note of sweetness, of humour, at any rate of nonpriggishness. Their “Twinkle, twinkle, little star,”......
  • Taylor, Art (American musician)
    U.S. jazz drummer and bandleader (b. April 6, 1929--d. Feb. 6, 1995)....
  • Taylor, Bayard (American travel writer)
    American author known primarily for his lively travel narratives and for his translation of J.W. von Goethe’s Faust....
  • Taylor, Brook (British mathematician)
    British mathematician, a proponent of Newtonian mechanics and noted for his contributions to the development of calculus....
  • Taylor, Cecil (American musician)
    American jazz musician and composer, the leading free-jazz pianist....
  • Taylor, Cecil Percival (American musician)
    American jazz musician and composer, the leading free-jazz pianist....
  • Taylor, Charles (Canadian philosopher)
    In 2007 Charles Taylor became the first Canadian to receive the Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries About Spiritual Realities. Announcing the award, the Templeton foundation’s president, John M. Templeton, Jr., said that Taylor “has staked an often lonely position that insists on the inclusion of spiritual dimensions in discussions of public policy, history, l...
  • Taylor, Charles Ghankay (president of Liberia)
    Liberian politician and guerrilla leader, who served as Liberia’s president from 1997 until he was forced into exile in 2003. He was widely held responsible for the country’s devastating civil war during the 1990s....
  • Taylor, Charles H. (American publisher)
    Founded in 1872, the Globe grew slowly at first, reaching a circulation of about 8,000 in 1877, when it was purchased by Charles H. Taylor. Under Taylor as publisher, the Globe began to publish an evening as well as a morning edition, to increase its coverage of New England and local news, and to feature big headlines, especially on......
  • Taylor, Charles Plunket Bourchier (Canadian journalist)
    Canadian journalist, author of five books, and horseman whose career with the Toronto-based Globe and Mail took him to East Asia, where he was responsible for negotiating the reopening of the paper’s Beijing bureau, and also to England, Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia; he later took over the operation of Windfields Farm from his father and became an internationally import...
  • Taylor, Claudia Alta (American first lady)
    American first lady (1963–69), the wife of Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th president of the United States, and an environmentalist noted for her emphasis on beautification....
  • Taylor, Cora (American journalist)
    Unable to get to Cuba, Crane went to Greece to report the Greco-Turkish War for the New York Journal. He was accompanied by Cora Taylor, a former brothel-house proprietor. At the end of the war they settled in England in a villa at Oxted, Surrey, and in April 1898 Crane departed to report the Spanish-American War in Cuba, first for the New York World and then for the New York......
  • Taylor, Dame Elizabeth (American actress)
    American motion picture actress noted for her beauty and her portrayals of emotionally volatile characters....
  • Taylor, David Watson (American naval architect)
    American marine architect who built the first ship-model testing establishment in the United States at the Washington (D.C.) Navy Yard, and formulated basic principles of ship design....
  • Taylor, Drew Hayden (Canadian author)
    ...Cowboy, 2001), Monique Mojica (Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots, 1991), Daniel David Moses (The Indian Medicine Shows, 1995), and Drew Hayden Taylor (Toronto at Dreamer’s Rock, 1990; In a World Created by a Drunken God, 2006) expose the stereotypes and dilemmas of differ...
  • Taylor, Edward (American poet)
    one of the foremost poets in colonial British North America....
  • Taylor, Elizabeth (British author)
    British novelist noted for her precise use of language and scrupulously understated style....
  • Taylor, Elizabeth (American actress)
    American motion picture actress noted for her beauty and her portrayals of emotionally volatile characters....
  • Taylor, Elizabeth (American singer)
    American singer whose exceptional voice made her a popular performer in Great Britain....
  • Taylor, Elizabeth Rosemond (American actress)
    American motion picture actress noted for her beauty and her portrayals of emotionally volatile characters....
  • Taylor, Frank B. (American geologist)
    ...fossil plants in both North American and European coal deposits could be explained if the two continents had formerly been connected, a relationship otherwise difficult to account for. In 1908 Frank B. Taylor of the United States invoked the notion of continental collision to explain the formation of some of the world’s mountain ranges....
  • Taylor, Fred (American basketball coach)
    American basketball coach (b. Dec. 3, 1924, Zanesville, Ohio—d. Jan. 6, 2002, Hilliard, Ohio), was the longtime head basketball coach at Ohio State University; during his tenure at the university from 1958 to 1976, Ohio State won the National Collegiate Athletic Association championship in 1960 and reached the title game the following two seasons. Taylor, who had played for the Ohio State t...
  • Taylor, Frederick W. (American inventor and engineer)
    American inventor and engineer who is known as the father of scientific management. His system of industrial management has influenced the development of virtually every country enjoying the benefits of modern industry....
  • Taylor, Frederick Winslow (American inventor and engineer)
    American inventor and engineer who is known as the father of scientific management. His system of industrial management has influenced the development of virtually every country enjoying the benefits of modern industry....
  • Taylor, Geoffrey Ingram (British physicist)
    ...of the cut back together, filling in with material as necessary. The initial status of this work was simply regarded as an interesting way of generating elastic fields, but, in the early 1930s, Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, Egon Orowan, and Michael Polanyi realized that just such a process could be going on in ductile crystals and could provide an explanation of the low plastic shear strength of......
  • Taylor, Griffith (Australian geographer)
    ...nationalistic sentiments that proclaimed “population capacities” of 100 to 500 million in Australia’s “vast empty spaces.” In the interwar period the Australian geographer Griffith Taylor argued that there were stringent environmental limits that would restrict Australia’s population to approximately 20 million people by the end of the 20th century. Tay...
  • Taylor, Henry (American poet)
    ...nationalistic sentiments that proclaimed “population capacities” of 100 to 500 million in Australia’s “vast empty spaces.” In the interwar period the Australian geographer Griffith Taylor argued that there were stringent environmental limits that would restrict Australia’s population to approximately 20 million people by the end of the 20th century. Tay...
  • Taylor, Henry (British athlete)
    British swimmer who won five Olympic medals and was the first man to hold world records in the 400-metre, 880-yard, and 1,500-metre freestyle events....
  • Taylor, James (American musician)
    American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who defined the singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s. Bob Dylan brought confessional poetry to folk rock, but Taylor became the epitome of the troubadour whose life was the subject of his songs....
  • Taylor, James Bayard (American travel writer)
    American author known primarily for his lively travel narratives and for his translation of J.W. von Goethe’s Faust....
  • Taylor, Jane (British author)
    ...the young really read or listened to at the opening of the 19th century was not Blake but Original Poems for Infant Minds (1804), by “Several Young Persons,” including Ann and Jane Taylor. The Taylor sisters, though adequately moral, struck a new note of sweetness, of humour, at any rate of nonpriggishness. Their “Twinkle, twinkle, little star,” included in......
  • Taylor, Jeremy (British author)
    Anglican clergyman and writer....
  • Taylor, Jim (American writer, director, and producer)
    Original Screenplay: Charlie Kaufman; story by Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, and Pierre Bismuth for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor for SidewaysCinematography: Robert Richardson for The AviatorArt Direction: Dante Ferretti (art direction) and Francesca Lo Schiavo (set decoration) for ......
  • Taylor, John (American politician and philosopher)
    one of the leading American philosophers of the liberal agrarian political movement—commonly known as Jeffersonian democracy—during the early national period....
  • Taylor, John (British writer)
    minor English poet, pamphleteer, and journalist who called himself “the Water Poet.”...
  • Taylor, John (British charlatan)
    ...except that it lasted several months and prevented him from finishing The Art of the Fugue. His constitution was undermined by two unsuccessful eye operations performed by John Taylor, the itinerant English quack who numbered Handel among his other failures; and Bach died on July 28, 1750, at Leipzig. His employers proceeded with relief to appoint a successor;......
  • Taylor, John (British adventuress)
    British woman who served in the English army and navy disguised as a man. She was later known as the “British Amazon.”...
  • Taylor, John (British clergyman)
    By 1757 Edwards had finished his Great Christian Doctrine of Original Sin Defended (1758), which was mainly a reply to the English divine John Taylor of Norwich, whose works attacking Calvinism (based on the thought of the 16th-century Protestant Reformer John Calvin) had “made a mighty noise in America.” Edwards defended the doctrine not only by citing biblical statements......
  • Taylor, John Henry (British golfer)
    British professional golfer, a member of the “Great Triumvirate” (with Harry Vardon and James Braid) that won the British Open 16 times between 1894 and 1914, Taylor winning in 1894, 1895, 1900, 1909, and 1913. He was the first English professional to win the Open, which from 1860 through 1893 had been dominated by Scottish golfers....
  • Taylor, Joseph (British actor)
    English actor mentioned in the First Folio of Shakespeare in 1623 as one of the 26 who took principal parts in all of those plays and one of the 10 actors who signed the dedication of the first folio (1647) of Beaumont and Fletcher....
  • Taylor, Joseph H., Jr. (American astronomer)
    American radio astronomer and physicist who, with Russell A. Hulse, was the corecipient of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Physics for their joint discovery of the first binary pulsar....
  • Taylor, Joseph Hooton (American astronomer)
    American radio astronomer and physicist who, with Russell A. Hulse, was the corecipient of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Physics for their joint discovery of the first binary pulsar....
  • Taylor, June (American choreographer)
    American choreographer (b. Dec. 14, 1917, Chicago, Ill.—d. May 17, 2004, Miami, Fla.), began dancing professionally when she was 12, had her career ended by tuberculosis at age 20, and thereupon became a choreographer. Her June Taylor Dancers attained success in nightclubs and then in 1948 began being seen on television, first on Ed Sullivan’s Toast of the Town and on Caval...
  • Taylor, Kamala (Indian author)
    Indian novelist whose works concern the struggles of contemporary Indians with conflicting Eastern and Western values....
  • Taylor, Kenneth (American publisher)
    American publisher (b. May 8, 1917, Portland, Ore.—d. June 10, 2005, Wheaton, Ill.), founded (1962) Tyndale House Publishers, a prominent Christian publisher, but was best known as the creator of The Living Bible (1972), which featured paraphrasing from the King James version of the Bible in an attempt to make readings more accessible to a broader audience. After receiving little enc...
  • Taylor, Laurette (American actress)
    American actress whose stage career spanned more than 30 years....
  • Taylor, Lawrence (American football player)
    American collegiate and professional gridiron football player, considered one of the best linebackers in the history of the game. As a member of the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL), he won Super Bowl championships following the 1986 and 1990 seasons....
  • Taylor, Lawrence Julius (American football player)
    American collegiate and professional gridiron football player, considered one of the best linebackers in the history of the game. As a member of the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL), he won Super Bowl championships following the 1986 and 1990 seasons....
  • Taylor, Lucy Hobbs (American dentist)
    the first American woman to earn a degree in dentistry....
  • Taylor, Margaret (American first lady)
    American first lady (1849–50), the wife of Zachary Taylor, 12th president of the United States....
  • Taylor, Maxwell Davenport (United States army officer)
    U.S. Army officer who became a pioneer in airborne warfare in Europe during World War II....
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