- Schack Gallery (museum, Munich, Germany)
Bavarian State Picture Galleries: The Schack Gallery collection of 19th-century, late Romantic German painting was acquired by the state in 1940 and represents the private collection of Count Adolf Friedrich von Schack. It is housed in the former Prussian Embassy, built in 1907–09.
- Schadaeus, Oseas (German writer)
Western architecture: Germany and central Europe: …most excellent of buildings, and Oseas Schadaeus’s guide to the cathedral, Summum Argentoratensium Templum (1617; “Strasbourg’s Finest Church”) was the first illustrated guidebook ever devoted to a single medieval building and, in spite of its Latin title, was written in German. Other 17th- and early 18th-century histories and guides—and there…
- Schadde, Jozef (Belgian architect)
Western architecture: The Low Countries: …its counterpart in that of Jozef Schadde, architect of the Antwerp stock exchange (1858–80) and the station in Brugge.
- schadenfreude
schadenfreude, the emotional experience of pleasure in response to another’s misfortune. Schadenfreude is a German word that combines Schaden, which means “damage,” and Freude, which means “joy.” The concept is common to people across cultures, but some languages do have comparable words. It has
- Schadow, Gottfried (German sculptor)
Gottfried Schadow was a German sculptor, regarded as the founder of the modern Berlin school of sculptors. Schadow was trained under the court sculptor Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert and in Rome (1785–87), where he studied under Antonio Canova. In 1788 he succeeded Tassaert as director of the
- Schadow, Johann Gottfried (German sculptor)
Gottfried Schadow was a German sculptor, regarded as the founder of the modern Berlin school of sculptors. Schadow was trained under the court sculptor Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert and in Rome (1785–87), where he studied under Antonio Canova. In 1788 he succeeded Tassaert as director of the
- Schadow, Wilhelm von (German artist)
Nazarene: …joined by Peter von Cornelius, Wilhelm von Schadow, and others who at various times were associated with the movement. They soon acquired the originally derisive nickname Nazarenes because of their affectation of biblical style of hair and dress. The major project of the Nazarenes was to revive the medieval art…
- Schaefer, Kurt (geographer)
geography: Geography as a science: a new research agenda: ” Kurt Schaefer, a German-trained geographer at the University of Iowa, argued that science is characterized by its explanations. These involve laws, or generalized statements of observed regularities, that identify cause-and-effect relationships. According to Schaefer, “to explain the phenomena one has described means always to recognize…
- Schaefer, Vincent Joseph (American chemist and meteorologist)
Vincent Joseph Schaefer was an American research chemist and meteorologist who in 1946 carried out the first systematic series of experiments to investigate the physics of precipitation. From an aircraft over Massachusetts, he seeded clouds with pellets of dry ice (solid carbon dioxide) and
- Schaefer-Langmuir experiments (atmospheric science)
weather modification: General considerations: The Schaefer-Langmuir experiments in the laboratory and the atmosphere demonstrated that so-called supercooled clouds—namely those composed of water droplets at temperatures below freezing—could be dissipated. When the supercooled clouds were seeded with grains of dry ice, ice crystals formed and grew large enough to fall out…
- Schaeffer, Claude-Frédéric-Armand (French archaeologist)
Claude-Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer was a French archaeologist whose excavation of the ancient city of Ugarit at Ras Shamra, Syria, disclosed a succession of cultures from the 7th or 6th millennium bc to about 1195 bc. Moreover, the resulting knowledge of northern Canaanite civilization helped to
- Schaeffer, Jonathan (Canadian computer scientist)
checkers: …for the proof belongs to Jonathan Schaeffer, a Canadian computer scientist, who had earlier developed the first computer program, named Chinook, to win a world championship from a human at any game. Chinook lost its first championship challenge match in 1990 to the American mathematician Marion Tinsley, with two wins…
- Schaeffer, Pierre (French composer)
Pierre Schaeffer was a French composer, acoustician, and electronics engineer who in 1948, with his staff at Radio-diffusion et Télévision Française, introduced musique concrète. In this genre, sounds of natural origin, animate and inanimate, are recorded and manipulated so that the original sounds
- Schaeffer, Rebecca (American actress)
stalking: History of stalking: In 1989 television actress Rebecca Schaeffer was murdered by a fan, and in 1993 tennis player Monica Seles was stabbed by a deranged supporter of rival player Steffi Graf. Several of those cases involved the harassment of celebrities in California, and the entertainment industry began to press for criminal…
- Schaepman, Hermanus Johannes Aloysius Maria (Dutch statesman)
Hermanus Johannes Aloysius Maria Schaepman was a Dutch statesman, Roman Catholic priest, and author who founded Catholic political clubs (forerunners of the Roman Catholic State Party) and established a Catholic-Calvinist legislative coalition that lasted from 1888 to 1905. Ordained a priest in
- Schaerbeek (Belgium)
Schaerbeek, municipality, Brussels-Capital Region, central Belgium. A village until 1795, it is now an industrial suburb northeast of Brussels and one of the 19 municipalities that make up Greater Brussels. A rail junction with switch and freight yards, it has an electric power station and
- Schafberg (mountain, Austria)
Sankt Wolfgang: …or rack, railway ascends the Schafberg (5,850 feet [1,783 metres]) from the town. The Late Gothic-style Pilgrimage Church (1430–77) has a magnificent carved wooden altar (1481) by the sculptor Michael Pacher. The town’s Zum Weissen Rössl (The White Horse) inn was made famous in the operetta by Ralph Benatzky. Best…
- Schafer method (artificial respiration)
Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer: …physiologist and inventor of the prone-pressure method (Schafer method) of artificial respiration adopted by the Royal Life Saving Society.
- Schäfer, Edward Albert (British physiologist and inventor)
Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer was an English physiologist and inventor of the prone-pressure method (Schafer method) of artificial respiration adopted by the Royal Life Saving Society. The first holder of the Sharpey Scholarship (1871) at University College, London, he studied with William
- Schäfer, Karl (Austrian figure skater)
Karl Schäfer was an Austrian figure skater who was the best performer in his sport during the 1930s and was an innovator in the sport as well. He won two successive gold medals in the Winter Olympics of 1932 and 1936. He was also world champion in figure skating from 1930 to 1936. (Read Scott
- Schaff, Philip (American theologian)
Philip Schaff was a Swiss-born American ecumenical leader and theologian whose works, especially the Creeds of Christendom (1877), helped set standards in the United States for scholarship in church history. Schaff was educated at the universities of Tübingen, Halle, and Berlin and was made a
- Schaffer, Akiva (American writer, producer, comedian, and musician)
Andy Samberg: …childhood friends Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer under the moniker the Lonely Island. He has also starred in several films, including Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016), Palm Springs (2020), and Lee (2023).
- Schäffer, Nicolas (Italian art critic)
Giovanni Morelli was an Italian patriot and art critic whose methods of direct study established the foundation of subsequent art criticism. Morelli was born to Swiss parents and, during his education in Switzerland and at the University of Munich, acquired so great a command of German as to write
- Schaffhausen (Switzerland)
Schaffhausen, capital of Schaffhausen canton, northern Switzerland, on the right bank of the Rhine, west of Lake Constance (Bodensee). The site was first mentioned in 1045 as Villa Scafhusun. About 1049 Count Eberhard III of Nellenburg founded there the Benedictine monastery of All Saints, around
- Schaffhausen (Rhaeto-Romanic dialect)
Swiss literature: Schaffhausen is represented in the novels of Albert Bächtold, and Joseph Reinhart wrote in the dialect of Solothurn.
- Schaffhausen (canton, Switzerland)
Schaffhausen, most northerly canton of Switzerland. It lies north of the Rhine River and west of Lake Constance (Bodensee) and has an area of 115 square miles (298 square km), of which about 90 percent is classed as productive. It is virtually surrounded on the north, east, and west by Germany,
- Schaffhouse (canton, Switzerland)
Schaffhausen, most northerly canton of Switzerland. It lies north of the Rhine River and west of Lake Constance (Bodensee) and has an area of 115 square miles (298 square km), of which about 90 percent is classed as productive. It is virtually surrounded on the north, east, and west by Germany,
- Schaffhouse (Switzerland)
Schaffhausen, capital of Schaffhausen canton, northern Switzerland, on the right bank of the Rhine, west of Lake Constance (Bodensee). The site was first mentioned in 1045 as Villa Scafhusun. About 1049 Count Eberhard III of Nellenburg founded there the Benedictine monastery of All Saints, around
- Schäffle, Albert (German economist and sociologist)
Albert Schäffle was an economist and sociologist who served briefly as Austrian minister of commerce and agriculture (1871); he was responsible for a major plan of imperial federalization for the Bohemian crownland. Schäffle became a professor of political economy at Tübingen (1860) and later
- Schaffner, Franklin J. (American director)
Franklin J. Schaffner was an American director who worked on a number of well-regarded television programs before launching a successful film career that included such classics as Planet of the Apes (1968) and Patton (1970). Schaffner, whose parents were Protestant missionaries, was raised in Japan
- Schaffner, Franklin James (American director)
Franklin J. Schaffner was an American director who worked on a number of well-regarded television programs before launching a successful film career that included such classics as Planet of the Apes (1968) and Patton (1970). Schaffner, whose parents were Protestant missionaries, was raised in Japan
- Schaffner, Jakob (Swiss writer)
Jakob Schaffner was a Swiss writer who lived in Germany from 1913. He belonged to a new generation of Swiss writers who, searching for uncompromising greatness and believing in life as a boundless adventure, broke away from the saturated tradition of middle-class society. Schaffner was orphaned at
- Schaffrath, Ludwig (German artist)
stained glass: 20th century: Matthew (1964) in Sobernheim; Ludwig Schaffrath’s cycle of modern grisaille windows for the cloister (1962–65) in Aachen, his high triple-gabled window walls for the transepts of St. Peter’s Church (1964) in Birkesdorf, near Düren, and his powerfully iconic and technically innovative slab- and rod-glass sanctuary window in St. Matthew’s…
- Schairer, John Frank (American petrologist)
Norman L. Bowen: Schairer, a young and able experimenter who had joined the laboratory from Yale University. Together they worked on silicate systems containing iron oxide, beginning with ferric oxide and later ferrous oxide.
- Schalit, Gilad (Israeli soldier)
Gilad Shalit is a former Israeli soldier who was captured by Palestinian militants in June 2006. Shalit’s captivity for more than five years became a significant focal point in Israeli politics and society, and the push for his release led in October 2011 to a deal in which Shalit was freed in
- Schall und Rauch (German drama revue)
Max Reinhardt: Discovery of the theatre: …revue, Schall und Rauch (Sound and Smoke), to which Reinhardt contributed sketches. Playing before invited audiences, it was so successful that it was transformed into a serious work and settled into the Kleines Theater in 1902. Reinhardt planned a full season and directed his first play, Oscar Wilde’s Salomé.
- Schall von Bell, Adam (German missionary)
Adam Schall von Bell was a Jesuit missionary and astronomer who became an important adviser to the first emperor of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911/12). Schall arrived in China in 1622, having been trained in Rome in the astronomical system of Galileo. He soon impressed the Chinese with the superiority
- Schaller, George B. (American zoologist)
Margaret Murie: …expedition was German American zoologist George Schaller, who later became a leading figure in wildlife conservation. Their careful study and persistence in promoting legislation led to the establishment in 1960 of the Arctic National Wildlife Range.
- Schally, Andrew V. (American endocrinologist)
Andrew V. Schally was a Polish-born American endocrinologist and corecipient, with Roger Guillemin and Rosalyn Yalow, of the 1977 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. He was noted for isolating and synthesizing three hormones that are produced by the region of the brain known as the
- Schally, Andrew Victor (American endocrinologist)
Andrew V. Schally was a Polish-born American endocrinologist and corecipient, with Roger Guillemin and Rosalyn Yalow, of the 1977 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. He was noted for isolating and synthesizing three hormones that are produced by the region of the brain known as the
- Schamberg, Morton (artist)
Dada: Duchamp, Man Ray, Morton Schamberg, and Francis Picabia. The Zürich group was concerned with issues surrounding the war, but New York Dadaists largely focused on mocking the art establishment. For instance, Duchamp’s ready-mades—the most famous being Fountain (1917), a porcelain urinal—incited heated debate about the very definition of…
- Schāmil (Muslim leader)
Shāmil was the leader of Muslim Dagestan and Chechen mountaineers, whose fierce resistance delayed Russia’s conquest of the Caucasus for 25 years. The son of a free landlord, Shāmil studied grammar, logic, rhetoric, and Arabic, acquired prestige as a learned man, and in 1830 joined the Murīdīs, a
- Schāmyl (Muslim leader)
Shāmil was the leader of Muslim Dagestan and Chechen mountaineers, whose fierce resistance delayed Russia’s conquest of the Caucasus for 25 years. The son of a free landlord, Shāmil studied grammar, logic, rhetoric, and Arabic, acquired prestige as a learned man, and in 1830 joined the Murīdīs, a
- Schanzkowski, Franziska (Polish-American heiress claimant)
Anastasia: …a woman who called herself Anna Anderson—and whom critics alleged to be one Franziska Schanzkowska, a Pole—who married an American history professor, J.E. Manahan, in 1968 and lived her final years in Virginia, U.S., dying in 1984. In the years up to 1970 she sought to be established as the…
- Schaper, Johann (German artist)
pottery: Tin-glazed ware: …and is the work of Johann Schaper (died 1670), who had been a Nürnberg glass painter, J.L. Faber, and others. Polychrome enamel decoration was developed by another glass painter, Abraham Helmhack (1654–1724), who mastered the technique as early as 1690, many years before it was adopted by the factories. The…
- Schapera, Isaac (South African anthropologist)
Isaac Schapera was a South African social anthropologist known for his detailed ethnographic and typological work on the indigenous peoples of South Africa and Botswana. Schapera received an M.A. from the University of Cape Town and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
- Schardt, Charlotte von (German writer)
Charlotte von Stein was a German writer and an intimate friend of and important influence on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; she was the inspiration for the female figures Iphigenie in his Iphigenie auf Tauris and Natalie in Wilhelm Meister. She remained for Goethe an unattainable feminine ideal and
- Scharf, Kenny (American artist)
Keith Haring: With fellow artists Kenny Scharf and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Haring immersed himself in the punk clubs and street art scene of New York. In 1981 he began drawing graffiti—unauthorized chalk drawings on blank black advertising panels—in the New York subways. These would eventually number in the thousands, and they…
- Scharnhorst (German warship)
Scharnhorst, German battle cruiser completed in 1939. It did great damage to Allied shipping in northern waters during World War II before it was sunk by the British battleship “Duke of York” on Dec. 26, 1943. The “Scharnhorst” was a heavily armed ship of 26,000 tons standard displacement, carrying
- Scharnhorst, Gerhard Johann David von (Prussian general)
Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst was a Prussian general who developed the modern general staff system. With another reformer of army procedures, August von Gneisenau, he devised the “shrinkage system” (Krümpersystem), in which army recruits were quickly trained and sent into the reserves so
- Scharnitz Pass (mountain pass, Bavarian Alps, Europe)
Bavarian Alps: …deposits and are crossed at Scharnitz Pass (3,133 feet [955 metres]) by road and railway and at Achen Pass (3,087 feet [941 metres]) by road. Tourism and winter sports are the region’s main activities. A large national park preserves the original Alpine landscape, plants, and animals from the steady encroachment…
- Scharoun, Hans (German architect)
Hans Scharoun was a German architect who was closely associated with modern architectural movements of the 1920s, much later producing his best known work, the hall for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (1963). Scharoun received his training at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin from 1912 to 1914.
- Schary, Dore (American producer)
Dore Schary was a U.S. motion-picture producer, screenwriter, playwright, and director whose career included work on more than 300 motion pictures. Between 1926 and 1932 Schary worked in the New York City area as a director of amateur theatricals, a publicist, and a newspaper writer and at summer
- Schary, Isidore (American producer)
Dore Schary was a U.S. motion-picture producer, screenwriter, playwright, and director whose career included work on more than 300 motion pictures. Between 1926 and 1932 Schary worked in the New York City area as a director of amateur theatricals, a publicist, and a newspaper writer and at summer
- Schässburg (Romania)
Sighișoara, town, Mureș județ (county), central Romania. Situated in the historic region of Transylvania, it is 40 miles (65 km) northeast of Sibiu city and 110 miles (175 km) northwest of Bucharest. The town circles a hill, on the summit of which stands a citadel with a ring of walls, nine extant
- Schattenburg (castle, Austria)
Feldkirch: Schattenburg castle, the Montforts’ seat, houses a local museum. Other historic buildings include the Gothic parish church of Sankt Nikolaus (1478), the town hall (1493), and Sankt Johannes’ Church (1218). The most important of the many old town gates and towers is the Katzenturm (1491–1507).…
- Schattschneider, Elmer Eric (American political scientist)
Elmer Eric Schattschneider was a U.S. political scientist and educator known for the study and advocacy of the political party system of government. Schattschneider earned an A.B. at the University of Wisconsin (1915), an M.A. at the University of Pittsburgh (1927), and a Ph.D. at Columbia
- Schatz, Brian (United States senator)
Brian Schatz is an American politician who was appointed as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate from Hawaii in 2012 and won a special election in 2014. Schatz was born in Michigan and moved with his family to Hawaii at the age of two. After graduating from Punahou School, Pres. Barack Obama’s alma mater,
- Schatz, Brian Emanuel (United States senator)
Brian Schatz is an American politician who was appointed as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate from Hawaii in 2012 and won a special election in 2014. Schatz was born in Michigan and moved with his family to Hawaii at the age of two. After graduating from Punahou School, Pres. Barack Obama’s alma mater,
- Schatz, Der (film by Pabst)
G.W. Pabst: …film was Der Schatz (1923; The Treasure), about the passions aroused during a search for hidden treasure. His first successful film as a director was Die freudlose Gasse (1925; The Joyless Street), which became internationally famous as a grimly authentic portrayal of life in inflation-ridden postwar Vienna. His second successful…
- Schaub, Matt (American football player)
Houston Texans: …Andre Johnson and standout quarterback Matt Schaub, the Texans posted the first winning record (9–7) in franchise history. Houston captured its first division title in 2011 after going 10–6 and won its opening-round playoff game before being eliminated by the Baltimore Ravens in the divisional round of the postseason. Led…
- Schäuble, Wolfgang (German politician)
Christian Democratic Union: History: …Kohl’s successor as party leader, Wolfgang Schäuble, was forced to resign, and the party subsequently elected as its leader someone who was untainted by the scandal—Angela Merkel, a former East German and the first woman to head a major German party. In 2005, under Merkel’s leadership, the CDU-CSU bloc edged…
- Schaubühne (German theatrical company)
directing: Directorial styles: Stein’s work with West Berlin’s Schaubühne company included group visits to Greece for research on Greek tragedy and to England to prepare for productions of Shakespeare; on those occasions the research itself was dramatized by Stein and the company into complementary performances aimed at helping to illuminate the respective plays.…
- Schaubühne (journal)
Carl von Ossietzky: …and became editor of the Weltbühne, a liberal political weekly, in 1927, where in a series of articles he unmasked the Reichswehr (German army) leaders’ secret preparations for rearmament. Accused of treason, Ossietzky was sentenced in November 1931 to 18 months’ imprisonment but was granted amnesty in December 1932.
- Schaudinn, Fritz (German zoologist)
Fritz Schaudinn was a German zoologist who, with the dermatologist Erich Hoffmann, in 1905 discovered the causal organism of syphilis, Spirochaeta pallida, later called Treponema pallidum. He is known for his work in the development of protozoology as an experimental science. He earned his
- Schauffele, Léonard (German painter)
Hans Leonhard Schäuffelein was a German painter and designer of woodcuts whose work bears the strong influence of Albrecht Dürer. An altarpiece for the Church of Ober-Sankt-Veit, near Vienna, believed to be his first work, was drawn by Dürer. In 1509 Schäuffelein worked in the Tirol and later in
- Schäuffelein, Hans Leonhard (German painter)
Hans Leonhard Schäuffelein was a German painter and designer of woodcuts whose work bears the strong influence of Albrecht Dürer. An altarpiece for the Church of Ober-Sankt-Veit, near Vienna, believed to be his first work, was drawn by Dürer. In 1509 Schäuffelein worked in the Tirol and later in
- Schäuffelin, Léonard (German painter)
Hans Leonhard Schäuffelein was a German painter and designer of woodcuts whose work bears the strong influence of Albrecht Dürer. An altarpiece for the Church of Ober-Sankt-Veit, near Vienna, believed to be his first work, was drawn by Dürer. In 1509 Schäuffelein worked in the Tirol and later in
- Schaufuss, Peter (Danish choreographer)
English National Ballet: Peter Schaufuss, Ivan Nagy, Derek Deane, Matz Skoog, and Wayne Eagling. Tamara Rojo was appointed to the position in 2012.
- Schaumburg-Lippe (historical state, Germany)
Schaumburg-Lippe, one of the smallest of member states of the German Reich prior to the end of World War II. It lay east of the middle bend of the Weser River and was bounded on all sides by Prussian territory from 1866 to 1946. Bückeburg was its capital. Schaumburg, or Schauenburg, northeast of
- Schauspiel (theater)
Schauspiel, any spectacle or public performance. In late 18th-century German literature the word took on the more specific meaning of a play that has characteristics of both a tragedy and a comedy in that it is a serious play with a happy ending and in which the hero does not
- Schauspielhaus (theater, Berlin, Germany)
Western architecture: Germany: His Schauspielhaus (theatre and concert hall) of 1818–26 is essentially a grid of trabeated elements framing glazed openings. The modern flavour of this construction, which, according to Schinkel, derived from the Choragic Monument of Thrasyllus in Athens, has contributed to Schinkel’s popularity as an architect in…
- Schauspielhaus (theater, Zürich, Switzerland)
Switzerland: Theater: …period in Germany (1933–45), Zürich’s Schauspielhaus (German: “Playhouse”) was an important center for, where many refugee writers, directors, and actors performed or staged productions. The country’s two most successful postwar dramatists, Max Frisch and Friedrich Dürrenmatt, staged their debut works at the Schauspielhaus, and contemporary playwrights such as Maja Beutler,…
- Schawlow, Arthur L. (American physicist)
Arthur L. Schawlow was an American physicist and corecipient, with Nicolaas Bloembergen of the United States and Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn of Sweden, of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work in developing the laser and in laser spectroscopy. As a child, Schawlow moved with his family to
- Schawlow, Arthur Leonard (American physicist)
Arthur L. Schawlow was an American physicist and corecipient, with Nicolaas Bloembergen of the United States and Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn of Sweden, of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work in developing the laser and in laser spectroscopy. As a child, Schawlow moved with his family to
- Schayes, Adolph (American basketball player)
Dolph Schayes was an American professional basketball player who was one of the game’s best-known players in the 1950s and who became the first in the history of the National Basketball Association (NBA) to score 15,000 points in a career. An exception to the sports maxim that “nice guys finish
- Schayes, Dolph (American basketball player)
Dolph Schayes was an American professional basketball player who was one of the game’s best-known players in the 1950s and who became the first in the history of the National Basketball Association (NBA) to score 15,000 points in a career. An exception to the sports maxim that “nice guys finish
- Schebesta, Paul (Jesuit missionary)
Ituri Forest: Study and exploration: …the 1930s the Jesuit missionary Paul Schebesta undertook the first anthropological studies of the people of the Ituri. Since then, many aspects of the behaviour, ecology, and growth and demography of the Bambuti and their villager neighbours have been studied by anthropologists from the United States, Europe, and Japan.
- Schechina (Judaism)
Shekhina, (Hebrew: “Dwelling,” or “Presence”), in Jewish theology, the presence of God in the world. The designation was first used in the Aramaic form, shekinta, in the interpretive Aramaic translations of the Old Testament known as Targums, and it was frequently used in the Talmud, Midrash, and
- Schechner, Richard (American theatrical producer)
environmental theatre: Richard Schechner’s environmental productions Dionysus in 69, Makbeth, and Commune were performed in his Performing Garage on Off-Off-Broadway in New York City.
- Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (law case)
Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, case in which on May 27, 1935, the Supreme Court of the United States abolished the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA; see National Recovery Administration), a cornerstone of the New Deal. By unanimous vote, the court held that Congress had exceeded
- Schechter, Solomon (American rabbi and scholar)
Solomon Schechter was an outstanding authority on the Talmud, and a researcher who discovered important ancient documents. He was also a leader of Conservative Judaism in the United States. Schechter studied the Talmud, the authoritative rabbinical compendium of Jewish law, lore, and commentary, in
- Schedula diversarum artium (work by Theophilus)
stained glass: Traditional techniques: …is first described in the Schedula diversarum artium, a compendium of craft information probably written between 1110 and 1140 by the monk Theophilus (tentatively identified as the 12th-century goldsmith Rugerus of Helmarshausen). First, a full-sized cartoon, or line drawing, of the window was painted directly onto the top of a…
- schedular tax (economics)
income tax: The meaning of income: The use of multiple schedules is questionable on grounds of both neutrality and horizontal equity (persons with the same income, under like circumstances, paying the same amount of tax), and countries with schedular taxes frequently supplement them with a progressive rate scale applicable to total income. These schedular income…
- Schedule F (United States government)
Schedule F, Schedule F is an employment category of federal government workers established in an executive order issued by U.S. Republican Pres. Donald Trump in 2020, near the end of his first term (2017–21). Executive Order 13957 was designed to eliminate standard job protections for thousands of
- Schedule I drug
therapeutics: Indications for use: Schedule I encompasses heroin and other drugs with a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use in the United States. Schedule II drugs, including narcotics such as opium and cocaine and stimulants such as amphetamines, have a high potential for abuse and dependence.…
- Schedule II drug
therapeutics: Indications for use: Schedule II drugs, including narcotics such as opium and cocaine and stimulants such as amphetamines, have a high potential for abuse and dependence. Schedule III includes those drugs such as certain stimulants, depressants, barbiturates, and preparations containing limited amounts of
- Schedule III drug
therapeutics: Indications for use: Schedule III includes those drugs such as certain stimulants, depressants, barbiturates, and preparations containing limited amounts of codeine that cause moderate dependence. Schedule IV contains drugs that have limited potential for abuse or dependence, and includes some sedatives, antianxiety agents, and nonnarcotic
- Schedule IV drug
therapeutics: Indications for use: Schedule IV contains drugs that have limited potential for abuse or dependence, and includes some sedatives, antianxiety agents, and nonnarcotic analgesics. Schedule V drugs have an even lower potential for abuse than do schedule IV substances. Some, such as cough medicines and antidiarrheal agents containing…
- Schedule Policy/Career (United States government)
Schedule F, Schedule F is an employment category of federal government workers established in an executive order issued by U.S. Republican Pres. Donald Trump in 2020, near the end of his first term (2017–21). Executive Order 13957 was designed to eliminate standard job protections for thousands of
- Schedule V drug
therapeutics: Indications for use: Schedule V drugs have an even lower potential for abuse than do schedule IV substances. Some, such as cough medicines and antidiarrheal agents containing limited amounts of codeine, can be purchased without a prescription. Physicians must have a DEA registration number to prescribe any controlled…
- Scheduled Caste (social class, India)
Dalit, term used to refer to any member of a wide range of social groups that were historically marginalized in Hindu caste society. The official designation Scheduled Caste is the most common term now used in India for people in these groups, although members of the Scheduled Castes often prefer
- Scheduled Tribe (ethnic group, India)
Adivasi: …have been known officially as Scheduled Tribes. In the early 21st century the Adivasi population of India was more than 84 million, with the majority living in the northeastern states of Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, and Nagaland. Smaller numbers inhabit the hills and forests of central and southern India as well…
- scheduling (communications)
telecommunications network: Network access: …can be established either by scheduling (a technique in which nodes take turns transmitting in an orderly fashion) or by random access to the channel.
- scheduling program (computer science)
computer program: …or terminated, as when a scheduling program determines which user program is to be executed next. Certain operating-system programs, however, may operate as independent units to facilitate the programming process. These include translators (either assemblers or compilers), which transform an entire program from one language to another; interpreters, which execute…
- scheduling, job (computing)
computer science: Operating systems: , handling sequences of jobs that are compiled and executed one at a time without intervention by the user. Accompanying each job in a batch were instructions to the operating system (OS) detailing the resources needed by the job, such as the amount of CPU time required, the files…
- Scheele, Carl Wilhelm (Swedish chemist)
Carl Wilhelm Scheele was a German Swedish chemist who independently discovered oxygen, chlorine, and manganese. Scheele, the son of a German merchant, was born in a part of Germany that was under Swedish jurisdiction. In 1757 Scheele was apprenticed to a pharmacist in Gothenburg, Sweden. His
- Scheele, Karl Wilhelm (Swedish chemist)
Carl Wilhelm Scheele was a German Swedish chemist who independently discovered oxygen, chlorine, and manganese. Scheele, the son of a German merchant, was born in a part of Germany that was under Swedish jurisdiction. In 1757 Scheele was apprenticed to a pharmacist in Gothenburg, Sweden. His
- scheelite (mineral)
scheelite, calcium tungstate mineral, CaWO4, that is an important ore of tungsten. It acquired commercial value in the 20th century when tungsten became used in alloy steels and electric-light filaments. The mineral is named in honour of the Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, who obtained
- Scheemakers, Peter (Belgian sculptor)
Peter Scheemakers was a Belgian sculptor who was considered a founder of modern sculpture in England. Scheemakers trained with his father, also a sculptor, in Antwerp before arriving in England sometime prior to 1721. He produced tomb monuments and garden statuary in a restrained classical style.