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  • Wallace, Alfred Russel (British naturalist)
    British humanist, naturalist, geographer, and social critic. He became a public figure in England during the second half of the 19th century, known for his courageous views on scientific, social, and spiritualist subjects. His formulation of the theory of evolution by natural selection, which predated Charles Darwin’s published contri...
  • Wallace and Gromit (fictional characters)
    British animator and director of stop-motion films that often feature his characters Wallace and Gromit....
  • Wallace, Anthony F. C. (Canadian-American anthropologist)
    Canadian-born American psychological anthropologist and historian known for his analysis of acculturation under the influence of technological change....
  • Wallace, Anthony Francis Clarke (Canadian-American anthropologist)
    Canadian-born American psychological anthropologist and historian known for his analysis of acculturation under the influence of technological change....
  • Wallace, Christopher (American rapper)
    ), American rap singer whose transformation from drug dealer and street hustler to one of hip-hop’s premier artists was chronicled in his platinum-selling debut album, Ready to Die (1994); weeks before the release of his second album, Life After Death, he was killed during a drive-by shooting (b. May 21, 1973--d. March 9, 1997)....
  • Wallace Collection (art collection, Hertford House, London, United Kingdom)
    in London, England, a collection of fine and decorative artworks bequeathed to the British government in 1897. It is housed in Hertford House at Manchester Square, in Westminster....
  • Wallace, David Foster (American author)
    American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist whose dense works provide a dark, often satirical analysis of American culture....
  • Wallace, Dewitt (American publisher and philanthropist)
    American publisher and philanthropist who, with his wife, Lila Bell Acheson, created and published Reader’s Digest, one of the most widely circulated magazines in the world....
  • Wallace, Earl W. (American author and screenwriter)
    Original Screenplay: Earl W. Wallace, William Kelley, Pamela Wallace for WitnessAdapted Screenplay: Kurt Luedtke for Out of AfricaCinematography: David Watkin for Out of AfricaArt Direction: Stephen Grimes for Out of......
  • Wallace, Edgar (British writer)
    British novelist, playwright, and journalist who was an enormously popular writer of detective and suspense stories....
  • Wallace, Elizabeth Virginia (American first lady)
    American first lady (1945–53), the wife of Harry S. Truman, 33rd president of the United States....
  • Wallace, George C. (American politician)
    U.S. Democratic Party politician and four-time governor of Alabama who led the South’s fight against federally ordered racial integration in the 1960s....
  • Wallace, George Corley (American politician)
    U.S. Democratic Party politician and four-time governor of Alabama who led the South’s fight against federally ordered racial integration in the 1960s....
  • Wallace, Henry A. (vice president of United States)
    33rd vice president of the United States (1941–45) in the Democratic administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who epitomized the “common man” philosophy of the New Deal Democratic Party. He shaped the administration’s controversial farm policy throughout the 1930s but broke with the party in 194...
  • Wallace, Henry Agard (vice president of United States)
    33rd vice president of the United States (1941–45) in the Democratic administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who epitomized the “common man” philosophy of the New Deal Democratic Party. He shaped the administration’s controversial farm policy throughout the 1930s but broke with the party in 194...
  • Wallace, John M. (American meteorologist)
    ...anomalies as a potential cause for the temperature anomalies of the atmosphere in succeeding seasons and at distant locations. At the same time, other American meteorologists, most notably John M. Wallace, showed how certain repetitive patterns of atmospheric flow were related to each other in different parts of the world. With satellite-based observations available, investigators......
  • Wallace, Lew (American author)
    American soldier, lawyer, diplomat, and author who is principally remembered for his historical novel Ben-Hur....
  • Wallace, Lewis (American author)
    American soldier, lawyer, diplomat, and author who is principally remembered for his historical novel Ben-Hur....
  • Wallace, Lila (American publisher and philanthropist)
    American publisher and philanthropist who, with her husband, DeWitt Wallace, created and published Reader’s Digest, one of the most widely circulated magazines in the world....
  • Wallace, Oliver (British-American composer)
    ...Cedric Gibbons and Urie McCleary for Blossoms in the DustMusic Score of a Dramatic Picture: Bernard Herrmann for All That Money Can BuyScoring of a Musical Picture: Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace for DumboSong: “The Last Time I Saw Paris” from Lady Be Good; music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by......
  • Wallace, Pamela (American author and screenwriter)
    Original Screenplay: Earl W. Wallace, William Kelley, Pamela Wallace for WitnessAdapted Screenplay: Kurt Luedtke for Out of AfricaCinematography: David Watkin for Out of AfricaArt Direction: Stephen Grimes for Out of AfricaOriginal Score:......
  • Wallace, Richard Horatio Edgar (British writer)
    British novelist, playwright, and journalist who was an enormously popular writer of detective and suspense stories....
  • Wallace, Robert (British social scientist)
    ...of a human society free of coercive restraints was a mirage, because the capacity for the threat of population growth would always be present. In this, Malthus echoed the much earlier arguments of Robert Wallace in his Various Prospects of Mankind, Nature, and Providence (1761), which posited that the perfection of society carried with it the seeds of its own destruction, in the......
  • Wallace, Ruby Ann (American actress)
    American actress and social activist who was known for her pioneering work in African American theatre and film and for her outspoken civil rights activism. Dee’s artistic partnership with her husband, Ossie Davis, was considered one of the theatre and film world’s most distinguished....
  • Wallace, Sir Donald Mackenzie (British editor)
    ...The Times of London. It added 11 supplementary volumes to those of the ninth, updating much of the material, especially in history. The editors of the 10th edition were Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace, Hugh Chisholm, Arthur T. Hadley, and Franklin H. Hooper, the brother of Horace Hooper....
  • Wallace, Sir Richard, Baronet (British art collector)
    British art collector and philanthropist whose name is perpetuated by the famous art collection, the Wallace Collection, at Hertford House, London....
  • Wallace, Sir William (Scottish hero)
    one of Scotland’s greatest national heroes, leader of the Scottish resistance forces during the first years of the long, and ultimately successful, struggle to free Scotland from English rule....
  • Wallacea (faunal region)
    The famous zoogeographic transition zone called Wallacea is located in central Indonesia. This zone, usually included in the Paleotropical realm, is bounded to the west by Huxley’s Line (or a variation thereof) and to the east by Lydekker’s Line (Figure 5), which runs along the border of Australia’s continental shelf (the Sahul Shelf); it includes a mixture of Oriental and Aus...
  • Wallaceburg (Ontario, Canada)
    municipality, southern Ontario, Canada. It lies at the confluence of the north and east branches of the Sydenham River, 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Detroit, Mich. The town was called The Forks until it was renamed Wallaceburg for Sir William Wallace, a medieval Scottish national hero. Its deepwater connections to Lake St. Clair and Great L...
  • Wallace’s Line (faunal boundary)
    boundary between the Oriental and Australian faunal regions, proposed by the 19th-century British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace. The line extends from the Indian Ocean through the Lombok Strait (between the islands of Bali and Lombok), northward through the Makassar Strait (between Borneo...
  • Wallach, Hans (American psychologist)
    ...be used to shed light on problems in ethics, political behaviour, and the nature of truth. Gestalt psychology’s traditions continued in the perceptual investigations undertaken by Rudolf Arnheim and Hans Wallach in the United States....
  • Wallach, John Paul (American journalist)
    American journalist and peace activist (b. June 18, 1943, Scarsdale, N.Y.—d. July 9, 2002, New York, N.Y.), worked for Hearst Newspapers from 1968 to 1995—the last 26 of those years as foreign editor—and also became (1980) the BBC’s first visiting foreign affairs correspondent. Although he helped break such stories as the Iran-contra affair and a CIA plan to bomb Nicara...
  • Wallach, Otto (German chemist)
    German chemist awarded the 1910 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for analyzing fragrant essential oils and identifying the compounds known as terpenes....
  • Wallachia (historical region, Romania)
    principality on the lower Danube River, which in 1859 joined Moldavia to form the state of Romania. Its name is derived from that of the Vlachs, who constituted the bulk of its population. Walachia was bounded on the north and northeast by the Transylvanian Alps, on the west, south, and east by the Danube River, and on the northeast by the Seret River. Traditionally it is considered to have been f...
  • Wallack, Henry John (American actor)
    leading British-American actor and theatrical manager....
  • Wallack, James William (American actor)
    leading British-American actor and manager of New York theatres, from whose acting company (continued by his son, Lester Wallack) developed many of the important American stage performers of the 19th century....
  • Wallack, James William, II (American actor)
    outstanding British-American actor of tragedy and melodrama, best known for his performances in such Shakespearean roles as Iago in Othello and the title roles in Macbeth and Richard III....
  • Wallack, John Johnstone (American actor)
    actor, playwright, and manager of the Wallack Theatre Company, the training ground of virtually every important American stage performer of the 19th century....
  • Wallack, Lester (American actor)
    actor, playwright, and manager of the Wallack Theatre Company, the training ground of virtually every important American stage performer of the 19th century....
  • Wallack Theatre Company (American theatre company)
    actor, playwright, and manager of the Wallack Theatre Company, the training ground of virtually every important American stage performer of the 19th century....
  • Walladmor (work by Alexis)
    ...grew up in Berlin. After service as a volunteer in the campaign of 1815, he studied law at Berlin and Breslau but abandoned his legal career for writing after the success of his literary hoax Walladmor (1824), a parody of Scott published as “freely translated from the English of Walter Scott.” The joke, detrimental to Alexis’ literary reputation, was repeated in the ...
  • Wallaman Falls (waterfall, Queensland, Australia)
    ...Dalrymple, the river was named after Sir Robert George Herbert, the state’s first premier. Dense forests along its middle course furnish lumber, while sugarcane is grown on flats near the coast. Wallaman Falls (970 feet [296 m]), on the tributary Stony Creek, forms the second highest single cascade in Australia....
  • wallaroo (marsupial)
    either of two species of kangaroo-like mammals native to Australia and belonging to the genus Macropus. They are closely related to wallabies and kangaroos....
  • Wallas, Graham (British political scientist)
    British educator, public official, and political scientist known for his contributions to the development of an empirical approach to the study of human behaviour....
  • Wallaschek, Richard (Austrian writer)
    ...evidence were advanced. The British writer John Frederick Rowbotham argued that there was originally a drum stage, followed by a pipe stage, and finally a lyre stage. The Austrian writer Richard Wallaschek, on the other hand, maintained that, although rhythm was the primal element, the pipe came first, followed by song, and the drum last. Sachs based his chronology on archaeological......
  • Wallawalla (people)
    Speakers of Sahaptin languages may be subdivided into three main groups: the Nez Percé, the Cayuse and Molala, and the Central Sahaptin, comprising the Yakima, Wallawalla, Tenino, Umatilla, and others (see also Sahaptin)....
  • wallboard (building material)
    any of various large, rigid sheets of finishing material used in drywall construction to face the interior walls of dwellings and other buildings. Drywall construction is the application of walls without the use of mortar or plaster....
  • Wallemiales (order of fungi)
    ...molds that are pathogenic in humans; osmophilic (capable of living on surfaces with highly concentrated solutes, such as salt or sugar); contains one order.Order WallemialesPathogenic in humans, contains known allergens; found in soil, hay, and textiles; spores are typically brown in colour and formed in chains; example genus is......
  • Wallemiomycetes (class of fungi)
    ...(incertae sedis)Includes basidiomycota not placed in a subphylum; contains two classes.Class WallemiomycetesIncludes molds that are pathogenic in humans; osmophilic (capable of living on surfaces with highly concentrated solutes, such as salt or sugar); contains...
  • Wallenberg, Raoul (Swedish diplomat)
    Swedish businessman and diplomat who became legendary through his efforts to rescue Hungarian Jews during World War II and through his disappearance while a prisoner in the Soviet Union....
  • Wallenda, Angel (American acrobat)
    (ELIZABETH PINTYE WALLENDA; b. March 20, 1968--d. May 3, 1996, Sayre, Pa.), Gunther (b. 1927--d. March 16, 1996, Sarasota, Fla.), and Helen Kreis (b. Dec. 11, 1910, Germany--d. May 9, 1996, Sarasota), U.S.- and German-born U.S. high-wire performers, were members of the Great Wallendas, an internationally known daredevil circus act famous for performing death-defying stunts without a safety net....
  • Wallenda, Elizabeth Pintye (American acrobat)
    (ELIZABETH PINTYE WALLENDA; b. March 20, 1968--d. May 3, 1996, Sayre, Pa.), Gunther (b. 1927--d. March 16, 1996, Sarasota, Fla.), and Helen Kreis (b. Dec. 11, 1910, Germany--d. May 9, 1996, Sarasota), U.S.- and German-born U.S. high-wire performers, were members of the Great Wallendas, an internationally known daredevil circus act famous for performing death-defying stunts without a safety net....
  • Wallenda Family, The (acrobatic troupe)
    founder of The Great Wallendas, a circus acrobatic troupe famed for their three-man-high pyramid on the high wire....
  • Wallenda, Gunther (American acrobat)
    (ELIZABETH PINTYE WALLENDA; b. March 20, 1968--d. May 3, 1996, Sayre, Pa.), Gunther (b. 1927--d. March 16, 1996, Sarasota, Fla.), and Helen Kreis (b. Dec. 11, 1910, Germany--d. May 9, 1996, Sarasota), U.S.- and German-born U.S. high-wire performers, were members of the Great Wallendas, an internationally known daredevil circus act famous for performing death-defying stunts without a safety net....
  • Wallenda, Karl (American acrobat)
    founder of The Great Wallendas, a circus acrobatic troupe famed for their three-man-high pyramid on the high wire....
  • Wallenius, Kurt Martti (Finnish army officer)
    ...intimidate the press. The tactics of the movement included mass demonstrations and kidnapping, raids on newspaper offices, and other forms of terror. Military units of the Lapua under General K.M. Wallenius assembled in February 1932 in preparation for a coup d’état. The government took up the challenge, however, and ordered the units to disarm. The rebels complied, Wallenius and ...
  • Wallenstein (work by Schiller)
    ...Krieges (1791–93; “History of the Thirty Years’ War”) further enhanced his prestige as a historian; later it also provided him with the material for his greatest drama, Wallenstein, published in 1800....
  • Wallenstein, Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von, Herzog von Friedland, Herzog von Mecklenburg, Fürst von Sagen (Bohemian military commander)
    Bohemian soldier and statesman, commanding general of the armies of the Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand II during the Thirty Years’ War. His alienation from the Emperor and his political-military conspiracies led to his assassination....
  • waller (fish)
    large, voracious catfish of the family Siluridae, native to large rivers and lakes from central Europe to western Asia. One of the largest catfishes, as well as one of the largest of European freshwater fishes, the wels attains a length of about 4.5 m (15 feet) and a weight of 300 kg (660 pounds)....
  • Waller, Calvin Agustine Hoffman (United States general)
    lieutenant general (ret.), U.S. Army, who was one of the highest-ranking African-Americans in the army and during the Persian Gulf War served under Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf as deputy commander of U.S. forces (b. Dec. 17, 1937--d. May 9, 1996)....
  • Waller, Charles Otis (American musician and songwriter)
    American bluegrass vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter (b. Jan. 19, 1935, Joinerville, Texas—d. Aug. 18, 2004, Gordonsville, Va.), was a founding member (1957) of the Country Gentlemen, a group that began the “new grass revival,” modernizing and taking bluegrass music to wider audiences, especially on college campuses and at urban nightclubs....
  • Waller, Charlie (American musician and songwriter)
    American bluegrass vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter (b. Jan. 19, 1935, Joinerville, Texas—d. Aug. 18, 2004, Gordonsville, Va.), was a founding member (1957) of the Country Gentlemen, a group that began the “new grass revival,” modernizing and taking bluegrass music to wider audiences, especially on college campuses and at urban nightclubs....
  • Waller, Edmund (English poet)
    English poet whose adoption of smooth, regular versification prepared the way for the heroic couplet’s emergence by the end of the century as the dominant form of poetic expression. His importance was fully recognized by his age. “Mr. Waller reformed our numbers,” said John Dryden, who, with Alexander Pope, followed him and raised the couplet to its most concentrated form....
  • Waller, Fats (American musician)
    American pianist and composer who was one of the few outstanding jazz musicians to win wide commercial fame, though this was achieved at a cost of obscuring his purely musical ability under a cloak of broad comedy....
  • Waller, Fred (American photographer and inventor)
    ...France, and Switzerland, the areas in which waterskiing first became popular. Ralph Samuelson, considered the “father” of the sport, was first to water-ski in 1922 at Lake Pepin, Minn. Fred Waller of Long Island, N.Y., received the first patent (1925) on a design for water skis....
  • Waller, Katherine Harwood (American physician)
    American physician who directed the rescue-home movement for unwed mothers in the United States....
  • Waller, Max (Belgian poet)
    Belgian lyric poet who founded the review La Jeune Belgique (1881–97; “Young Belgium”), the leading literary journal of its day....
  • Waller, Sir William (English commander)
    a leading Parliamentary commander in southern England during the first three years of the Civil War (1642–51)....
  • Waller, Stanley (British dancer and ballet teacher)
    British dancer and ballet teacher who combined strong dance technique with a natural sense of fun to create memorable comic characters, notably Pierrot in John Cranko’s Harlequin in April, Dr. Coppelius in Coppélia, and Widow Simone in Sir Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée. The latter travesty character became Holden’s signature, especia...
  • Waller, Thomas Wright (American musician)
    American pianist and composer who was one of the few outstanding jazz musicians to win wide commercial fame, though this was achieved at a cost of obscuring his purely musical ability under a cloak of broad comedy....
  • Waller, Willard Walter (American sociologist and educator)
    U.S. sociologist and educator who did much to establish the fields of sociology of knowledge and sociology of education....
  • Waller’s gazelle (mammal)
    (species Litocranius walleri), slender antelope, family Bovidae (order Artiodactyla), with an unusually long neck and long, slim legs....
  • Waller’s plot (English history)
    ...Waller was at first a champion of religious toleration and an opponent of the bishops. He then drifted to the King’s cause, and in 1643 he was deeply involved in a conspiracy (sometimes known as Waller’s plot) to establish London as a stronghold of the King, leading to the poet’s arrest in May. By wholesale betrayal of his colleagues, and by lavish bribes, he managed to avo...
  • Wallerstein, George (American astronomer)
    ...having a coudé focus arrangement. A curve of growth analysis demonstrated beyond a doubt that the two population types exhibited very different chemistries. In 1959 H. Lawrence Helfer, George Wallerstein, and Jesse L. Greenstein of the United States showed that the giant stars in globular clusters have chemical abundances quite different from those of Population I stars such as......
  • Wallerstein, Immanuel M. (American author)
    ...that paralleled those of the more economically advanced nations, which ultimately would lead to a global convergence of societies. Challenging the theory as a conservative defense of the West, Immanuel Wallerstein’s The Modern World System (1974) proposed a more pessimistic world-system theory of stratification. Wallerstein averred that advanced industrial nation...
  • Walleye (weapon)
    ...vulnerable to anti-aircraft fire than they would be in low-altitude or dive-bombing runs, which would otherwise be necessary for sufficient accuracy. Typical U.S. smart bombs have included the three Walleye models equipped with television-guidance systems and the Paveway series of bombs equipped with laser-guidance systems. Smart bombs or missiles were used in the latter stages of the Vietnam.....
  • walleye (fish)
    fish that is a type of pikeperch....
  • walleyed pike (fish)
    fish that is a type of pikeperch....
  • wallflower (plant)
    any of several plants belonging to the genera Cheiranthus and Erysimum of the mustard family (Brassicaceae), so named for their habit of growing from chinks in walls. Some golden- or brown-flowering species are widely cultivated. The European wallflower (C. cheiri), native to cliffsides and meadows of southern Europe, is naturalized in Great Britain. It is biennial to perennia...
  • Wallia (German king)
    ...win recognition for his people as foederati, or allies, of the empire, he was forced into Tarraconensis, where he was assassinated in 415. Under his successor, Wallia (415–418), the Romans acknowledged the Visigoths as allies and encouraged them to campaign against the other barbarian tribes in the peninsula. Those Alans and Siling Vandals who......
  • Walling, William English (American writer)
    ...disenfranchisement as a means of keeping blacks “in their place.” In a moving account of the riot, called “Race War in the North” (Sept. 3, 1908), Southern white journalist William English Walling called for a revival of the abolitionist spirit to stem the tide of such shocking occurrences. Fearing further degeneration in race relations, white liberals were inspired ...
  • Wallingford (Connecticut, United States)
    urban town (township), New Haven county, south-central Connecticut, U.S. It lies along the Quinnipiac River northeast of New Haven. The land was purchased from Montowese, son of an Indian chief, in 1638 for 12 cloth coats. It was set off from New Haven and opened to white settlers in 1667. Originally called East River, it was incorporated in 1670 and renamed f...
  • Wallingford (England, United Kingdom)
    urban town (township), New Haven county, south-central Connecticut, U.S. It lies along the Quinnipiac River northeast of New Haven. The land was purchased from Montowese, son of an Indian chief, in 1638 for 12 cloth coats. It was set off from New Haven and opened to white settlers in 1667. Originally called East River, it was incorporated in 1670 and renamed f...
  • Wallingford, Treaty of (England [1153])
    ...I through his daughter Adela, claimed the throne. Stephen’s reign (constituting that of the English royal House of Blois) was occupied by his wars with the supporters of Matilda. Finally, by the Treaty of Wallingford (1153), Stephen was allowed to retain his kingship for life, but the succession was designated for Matilda’s son, Henry of Anjou, who in 1154 became Henry II, first o...
  • Wallis (canton, Switzerland)
    canton, southern Switzerland. It borders Italy to the south and France to the west and is bounded by the cantons of Vaud and Bern on the north and Uri and Ticino on the east. Its area includes the valley of the upper Rhône River, from its source at the Rhône Glacier to its mouth on Lake Geneva; the valley runs from east to west and then, in a rig...
  • Wallis and Futuna (French overseas collectivity, Pacific Ocean)
    self-governing overseas collectivity of France consisting of two island groups in the west-central Pacific Ocean. The collectivity is geographically part of western Polynesia. It includes the Wallis Islands (Uvea and surrounding islets) and the Horne Islands (Futuna and Alofi). The cap...
  • Wallis and Futuna Islands, Territory of the (French overseas collectivity, Pacific Ocean)
    self-governing overseas collectivity of France consisting of two island groups in the west-central Pacific Ocean. The collectivity is geographically part of western Polynesia. It includes the Wallis Islands (Uvea and surrounding islets) and the Horne Islands (Futuna and Alofi). The cap...
  • Wallis et Futuna, Territoire des îles (French overseas collectivity, Pacific Ocean)
    self-governing overseas collectivity of France consisting of two island groups in the west-central Pacific Ocean. The collectivity is geographically part of western Polynesia. It includes the Wallis Islands (Uvea and surrounding islets) and the Horne Islands (Futuna and Alofi). The cap...
  • Wallis, Hal B. (American film producer)
    American motion-picture producer, associated with more than 400 feature-length films from the late 1920s to the mid-1970s....
  • Wallis, Hal Brent (American film producer)
    American motion-picture producer, associated with more than 400 feature-length films from the late 1920s to the mid-1970s....
  • Wallis, Îles (islands, Wallis and Futuna)
    group of a main island and some 20 islets forming the northeastern part of the French overseas collectivity of Wallis and Futuna, in the west-central Pacific Ocean. The group is composed of the island of Uvea (not to be confused with Ouvéa Island in New Caledonia; also called Wallis Island) and it...
  • Wallis Island (island, Wallis and Futuna)
    ...overseas collectivity of France consisting of two island groups in the west-central Pacific Ocean. The collectivity is geographically part of western Polynesia. It includes the Wallis Islands (Uvea and surrounding islets) and the Horne Islands (Futuna and Alofi). The capital is Matâ’utu, on Uvea. Total land area 54 square miles (140 square km). Pop. (2003) 14,944....
  • Wallis Islands (islands, Wallis and Futuna)
    group of a main island and some 20 islets forming the northeastern part of the French overseas collectivity of Wallis and Futuna, in the west-central Pacific Ocean. The group is composed of the island of Uvea (not to be confused with Ouvéa Island in New Caledonia; also called Wallis Island) and it...
  • Wallis, John (English mathematician)
    English mathematician who contributed substantially to the origins of the calculus and was the most influential English mathematician before Isaac Newton....
  • Wallis’ product (mathematics)
    ...number of terms be infinite, he obtained 1/3 as the limiting value of the expression. With more complicated curves he achieved very impressive results, including the infinite expression now known as Wallis’s product:...
  • Wallis, Samuel (British naval officer)
    ...sighted Pukapuka Atoll in the Tuamotu group in 1521. The southern Marquesas Islands were reached in 1595. The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen in 1722 discovered Makatea, Bora-Bora, and Maupiti. Capt. Samuel Wallis in 1767 reached Tahiti, Moorea, and Maiao Iti. The Society Islands were named for the Royal Society, which had sponsored the expedition under Capt. James Cook that observed from Tahiti...
  • Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville (British military engineer)
    British aeronautical designer and military engineer who invented the innovative “dambuster” bombs used in World War II....
  • Wallis, Wilson D. (American anthropologist)
    American anthropologist noted for his explorations of science and religion in small-scale societies....
  • Wallis, Wilson Dallam (American anthropologist)
    American anthropologist noted for his explorations of science and religion in small-scale societies....
  • Wallone (region, Belgium)
    region that constitutes the southern half of Belgium. The self-governing Walloon Region was created during the federalization of Belgium, largely along ethnolinguistic lines, in the 1980s and ’90s. (The two other political regions created during this process were Flanders and the Brussels-Capital Region.) Wallonia consists of the Fren...
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