Famous People with Name Frederic

Frederic Edward Clements            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Frederic Edward Clements: was an American plant ecologist and pioneer in the study of vegetation succession.In 1905 he was appointed full professor at the University of Nebraska, but left in 1907 to head the botany department at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. From 1917 to 1941 he was employed as an ecologist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, D.C., where he was able to carry out dedicated ecological research.During winter he worked at research stations in Tucson, Arizona and Santa Barbara, California, while in the summer he performed fieldwork at the Carnegie's "Alpine Laboratory," a research station in Angel Canyon on the slopes of Pikes Peak, Colorado

Frédéric Back            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Frédéric Back: an award-winning Canadian animator.In 1952, he joined the graphics department of Radio-Canada and has remained there since.He created a massive stained glass mural entitled L’histoire de la musique à Montréal ("history of music in Montreal") at the Place-des-Arts Metro station in Montreal. Unveiled on December 20, 1967, this stained glass was the first work of art to be commissioned for the Montreal metro system.In 1980, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Animated Short Film for his film Tout rien (All Nothing in English). In 1982, he won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film, for his film, Crac. In 1987, he won his second Academy Award for Animated Short Film for L'Homme qui plantait des arbres (The Man Who Planted Trees). In 1994, he was nominated again for an Academy Award for Animated Short Film, for his film Le fleuve aux grandes eaux (Mighty River in English).

Frederic Edwin Church            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Frederic Edwin Church: was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters. While committed to the natural sciences, he was "always concerned with including a spiritual dimension in h

Frederic Sackrider Remington            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Frederic Sackrider Remington: was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in depictions of the Old American West, specifically concentrating on the last quarter of the 19th century American West and images of cowboys, American Indians, and the U.S. Caval

Frederic Augustus Lucas            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Frederic Augustus Lucas: was an American museum director, born at Plymouth, Massachusetts.