Famous People with Name Carl

Carl Ortwin Sauer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Carl Ortwin Sauer: was an American geographer. He was born in Warrenton, Missouri and graduated from the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. in 1915. Sauer was a professor of geography at the University of California, Berkeley from 1923 until becoming professor emeritus in 1957 and was instrumental in the early development of the geography graduate school at Berkeley. One of his most well known works was Agricultural Origins and Dispersals (1952). In 1927, Carl Sauer wrote the article "Recent Developments in Cultural Geography," which considered how cultural landscapes are made up of "the forms superimposed on the physical landscape."

Carl Robert Holty            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Carl Robert Holty: was an abstract painter who was born in Freiburg, Germany and came to the United States as an infant. He grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Holty studied at the Art Institute of Chicago (1919), the National Academy of Design in New York (1920-21), and at the Hans Hofmann School in Munich (1926).The Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, MA), the Allen R Hite Art Institute (University of Louisville, Louisville, KY), the Arkansas Arts Center (Little Rock, AR), the Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, New York), the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA), the Columbus Museum (Columbus, GA), the Columbus Museum of Art (Columbus, OH), the Cress Gallery of Art (University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN), the Elvehjem Museum of Art (Madison, WI),

Carl Beam            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Carl Beam: made Canadian art history as the first artist of Native Ancestry (Ojibwe), to have his work purchased by the National Gallery of Canada as Contemporary Art. He worked in various photographic mediums, mixed media, oil, acrylic, spontaneously scripted text on canvas, works on paper, Plexiglas, stone, cement, wood, and found objects, in addition to etching, lithography, and screen process.

Carl Jesse Pollard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Carl Jesse Pollard: a Professor of Linguistics at the Ohio State University. He is the inventor of Higher-order grammar, as well as co-inventor of Head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG). He is currently also working on Convergent Grammar (CVG). He has written numerous books and articles on formal syntax and semantics. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford.He is a founding member of Hell's Tunas Motorcycle Club.[1]

Carl Henry Eckart            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Carl Henry Eckart: was an American physicist, physical oceanographer, geophysicist, and administrator. He co-developed the Wigner-Eckart theorem and is also known for the Eckart conditions in quantum mechanics.[1] Returning to the United States in 1928, Eckart was appointed Assistant Professor in the Physics Department at the University of Chicago, where he continued his work on quantum mechanics for another 14 years. Noteworthy was a paper co-authored with Helmut Hönl, who received his doctorate under Sommerfeld in 1926; the paper, on the foundations of quantum mechanics, dealt with the role of group theory in quantum dynamics in monatomic systems and comparisons of the nuclear theories of Werner Heisenberg and Eugene Wigner. During this period,

Howard Hershey Carl            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Howard Hershey Carl: was an American basketball player.He played for the Packers (1961-62) in the NBA for 31 games.