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Robert Paul Kraft (June 16, 1927 – May 26, 2015) was an American astronomer. [1] He performed pioneering work on Cepheid variables, stellar rotation, novae, and the chemical evolution of the Milky Way. His name is also associated with the Kraft break: the abrupt change in the average rotation rate of main sequence stars around spectral type F8.
Herbert C. Kraft. Herbert C. Kraft in the field, c. 1960's. Herbert Clemens Kraft (1927–2000) was an archaeologist from New Jersey, specializing in prehistory. He wrote numerous books about archaeology in New Jersey, the Lenape and the Paleo-indians of New Jersey, as well as over 170 articles in his career.
Kraft–McMillan inequality. In coding theory, the Kraft–McMillan inequality gives a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a prefix code [1] (in Leon G. Kraft's version) or a uniquely decodable code (in Brockway McMillan 's version) for a given set of codeword lengths. Its applications to prefix codes and trees often find ...
Vincent Kraft (born 1888) was a German double agent in South-East Asia during World War I who was extensively involved in British counter-intelligence in the Hindu–German Conspiracy. [1] [2] Biography [ edit ]
Eric Kraft. Eric Kraft (born 1944) is an American novelist. [1] He is known for his series of novels that make up The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences and Observations of Peter Leroy. Each novel tells of some aspect of the fictional Leroy's life. Several are supposed to have been written by Leroy.
Kraft was born in Braunschweig in 1896 to Jewish parents. He spent most of his childhood in Hanover. In 1910 Kraft, already interested in German literature and bibliophile, discovered the work of two contemporary writers; Rudolf Borchardt and Karl Kraus. [1] In addition to Borchardt and Kraus, Kraft was an admirer of Stefan George, Goethe ...
Troms Kraft is a power company that operates twelve hydroelectric power plants and the power grid in fifteen municipalities in Troms, Norway. The retail division has 100,000 customers and traded 5 TWh of electricity in 2006, in addition to 40 GWh of district heating. Upon demerger on 1 January 2009, parts of Troms Kraft Marked AS were merged ...
William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare ( c. 23 [a] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [b] was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. [4] [5] [6] He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon " (or simply "the Bard").