nikolaus

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m Noel baba
l. n. pr. Nikola
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{i} male first name
Nikolaus August Otto
born June 10, 1832, Holzhausen, Nassau died Jan. 26, 1891, Cologne, Ger. German engineer who developed the four-stroke internal-combustion engine. He built his first gasoline-powered engine in 1861, and in 1876 he built an internal-combustion engine using the four-stroke cycle (four strokes of the piston for each explosion), which offered the first practical alternative to the steam engine as a power source. Though the four-stroke cycle was patented in 1862 by Alphonse Beau de Rochas (1815-93), it is commonly known as the Otto cycle since Otto was the first to build such an engine
Nikolaus Copernicus
{i} (1473-1543) Polish astronomer, developer of the Copernican System (theory that the planets revolve around the sun)
Sir Nikolaus Pevsner
born Jan. 30, 1902, Leipzig, Ger. died Aug. 18, 1983, London, Eng. German-born British art historian. He studied at various German universities and taught at Göttingen University (1929-33) before moving to England to escape Nazism. There he taught at the Universities of London, Oxford, and Cambridge. He is best known for his writings on architecture, especially his 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, The Buildings of England (1951-74), one of the great achievements of 20th-century art scholarship. He conceived and edited the Pelican History of Art series (1953- ); many of these individual volumes have become classics