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Paul Boyer (historian) Paul Samuel Boyer (August 2, 1935 [1] –March 17, 2012 [2][3]) was a U.S. cultural and intellectual historian (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1966) and Merle Curti Professor of History Emeritus and former director (1993–2001) of the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Boyer was born in Paris to Louis Noël Boyer, a French confectioner, and his English-born wife Pamela Lockwood (also known as 'Pamilla'). In 1863 in New York City, she married Isaac Merritt Singer, the founder of the Singer sewing machine company, when Singer was 52 and Isabella was only 22. Singer had a previous common-law wife, Mary Ann ...
Paul D. Boyer. Paul Delos Boyer (July 31, 1918 – June 2, 2018) was an American biochemist, analytical chemist, and a professor of chemistry at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research on the " enzymatic mechanism underlying the biosynthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)" (ATP ...
Charles Boyer. . (m. 1934) . Children. 1. Pat Paterson (born Eliza Paterson; 10 April 1910 – 24 August 1978) was an English film actress. Although she made more than 20 films, she is best known as the wife of actor Charles Boyer.
Paul Reubens (/ ˈ r uː b ən z /; né Rubenfeld; August 27, 1952 – July 30, 2023) was an American actor and comedian, widely known for creating and portraying the character Pee-wee Herman. Reubens joined the Los Angeles troupe the Groundlings in the 1970s, and started his career as an improvisational comedian and stage actor.
Betty Joan Perske (September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014), professionally known as Lauren Bacall (/ bəˈkɔːl / bə-KAWL), was an American actress. She was named the 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute. She received an Academy Honorary Award in 2009 in recognition of her contribution to the ...
Born in London in 1923, Lawford was the only child of Lieutenant General Sir Sydney Turing Barlow Lawford, KBE (1865–1953) and May Sommerville Bunny (1883–1972). At the time of his birth, his mother was married to Lieutenant Colonel Dr. Ernest Vaughn Aylen DSO, [4] one of Sir Sydney's officers, while his father was married to Muriel Williams. [5]
The pair married in 1991, two years after Gilda's passing, and Wilder would go on to call Boyer the love of his life. Boyer helped Wilder move on with his life. He once remarked, "For years I have ...