Famous People with Name Wallace

Wallace Hume Carothers            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Wallace Hume Carothers: was an American chemist, inventor and the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont, credited with the invention of Nylon.[1]Carothers was a group leader in DuPont’s Experimental Station laboratory, near Wilmington, Delaware, where most polymer research was done.[2] Carothers was a brilliant organic chemist who, in addition to first developing nylon, also helped lay the groundwork for Neoprene. After receiving his Ph.D, he taught at several universities before he was hired by the DuPont Company to work on fundamental research.He married the former Helen Sweetman on February 21, 1936. Wallace Carothers had been troubled by periods of mental depression since his youth

Wallace Smith Broecker            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Wallace Smith Broecker: the Newberry Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University and a scientist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.Broecker's areas of research include Pleistocene geochronology, radiocarbon dating and chemical oceanography, including oceanic mixing based on stable and radioisotope distribution. This included research on the biogeochemical cycles of the element carbon and on the record of climate change contained in polar ice and ocean sediments.He attended Wheaton College and interacted with J. Laurence Kulp and Paul Gast. Broecker then transferred to Columbia University. At Columbia, he worked at the Lamont Geological Observatory with W. Maurice Ewing and Walter Bucher.

Wallace Berman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Wallace Berman: was an American West Coast visual /assemblage artist.Instead of pursuing a formal art 'career' he worked in a factory finishing antique furniture. This work gave him the opportunity to salvage reject materials and scraps which he used to make sculptures. He began a mail art publication called SEMINA The format was a letterpress text printed on an assemblage of colored paper, photos, and essentially found material. Contributors included John Altoon, Antonin Artaud, Charles Brittin, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Jean Cocteau, Allen Ginsberg, Marion Grogan, Walter Hopps, Larry Jordan, Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Stuart Perkoff, and John Weiners.

Wallace Stevens            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Wallace Stevens: was a American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and spent most of his life working for an insurance company in Connecticut. His best-known poems include "Anecdote of the Jar," "The Emperor of Ice Cream," "The Idea of Order at Key West

Wallace Maynard Cox            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Wallace Maynard Cox: was an American comedian and actor, particularly associated with the early years of television in the United States.In 1949, Cox appeared on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, but lost to The Chordettes. He appeared in Broadway musical reviews, night clubs,

John E. Wallace, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John E. Wallace, Jr.: was an Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court and was nominated on April 12, 2003. On May 3, 2010, Governor Chris Christie declined to nominate Justice Wallace for tenure and his initial seven-year term expired on May 20, 2010.He served in the

William Henson Wallace            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Henson Wallace: was an important figure in the early histories of two U.S. states, serving as governor and Congressional delegate from both Washington Territory and Idaho Territory.He was elected to the Iowa Territorial Legislature after Iowa Territory was organized the

William Robert Wallace            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Robert Wallace: was a United States federal judge. Born in Troy, Texas, Wallace attended the University of Oklahoma College of Law and read law to enter the bar in 1910. He was in private practice in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma from 1910 to 1925, and then in Oklahoma City, Ok

William Andrew Wallace            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Andrew Wallace: was an American lawyer and Democratic party politician from Clearfield, Pennsylvania. He served in the Pennsylvania State Senate and was its speaker in 1871. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1875 to 1881.

Robert Minor Wallace            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert Minor Wallace: was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar at Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1879 and commenced the practice of law in El Dorado, Arkansas. He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1881 and 1882. Uni