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Donnellys , The (work by Reaney)
Reaney’s celebrated and experimental trilogy of plays, The Donnellys (1975–77), tells the story of an Irish immigrant family murdered in Lucan, Ont., in 1880. His Fourteen Barrels from Sea to Sea (1977) is a commentary on the production, reception, and countrywide tours of The Donnellys, written in the form of a travel di...
Donner, Georg Raphael (Austrian sculptor)
sculptor whose works marked the transition from the Baroque to the Neoclassical style....
Donner, Jacob (American pioneer)
sculptor whose works marked the transition from the Baroque to the Neoclassical style.......
Donner party (American pioneer group)
group of American pioneers stranded en route to California. In late 1846, 87 immigrants led by George and Jacob Donner were trapped by heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada. Fifteen of the group set out to find help. When the others’ food ran out, they reportedly resorted to cannibalism of those already dead. (After examining remains from the campsite, researchers in 2010 announced that they had ...
Donner Pass (pass, California, United States)
pass, in the Sierra Nevada of northern California, U.S., that is the most important transmontane route (rail and highway) connecting San Francisco with Reno, Nev. Rising to an elevation of more than 7,000 feet (2,100 metres), it lies 35 miles (55 km) west-southwest of Reno. During the winter of 1846–47, George and Jacob Donner lost ne...
"Donnie Brasco" (film by Newell [1997])
...Woman (1992). Pacino’s other notable films of the 1990s include Carlito’s Way (1993); Heat (1995), a crime drama in which he played a detective hunting a thief (Robert De Niro); Donnie Brasco (1997), in which he starred as a low-level mobster who unknowingly befriends an FBI agent (Johnny Depp); and Oliver Stone’s Any Given Sunday (1999). ...
Dono, Paolo di (Italian painter)
Florentine painter whose work attempted uniquely to reconcile two distinct artistic styles—the essentially decorative late Gothic and the new heroic style of the early Renaissance. Probably his most famous paintings are three panels representing “The Battle of San Romano” (c. 1456). His careful and sophisticated perspective studies are clearly evident in “The Flo...
donor bond (chemistry)
...an adduct in which the two species are joined by a covalent bond; proton transfers are not normally involved. If both the Lewis acid and base are uncharged, the resulting bond is termed semipolar or coordinate, as in the reaction of boron trifluoride with ammonia:...
donor portrait (Christian art)
...of this late work while still in Rogier’s studio. He also imitated Rogier’s compositions in numerous representations of the half-length Madonna with the Child, often including a pendant with the donor’s portrait (the “Madonna and Martin van Nieuwenhove”; Memling-Museum, Brugge). Many devotional diptychs (two-panel paintings) such as this were painted in 15th-c...
donor’s portrait (Christian art)
...of this late work while still in Rogier’s studio. He also imitated Rogier’s compositions in numerous representations of the half-length Madonna with the Child, often including a pendant with the donor’s portrait (the “Madonna and Martin van Nieuwenhove”; Memling-Museum, Brugge). Many devotional diptychs (two-panel paintings) such as this were painted in 15th-c...
Donoso, José (Chilean author)
Chilean novelist and short-story writer who was important in the development of the Latin American new novel. He used dark surrealism, black comedy, and social satire to explore the lives of decaying aristocrats in a morally disintegrating society....
Donostia (Spain)
city, capital of Guipúzcoa provincia (province), northeastern Basque Country comunidad autónoma(autonomous community), north-central Spain. It is a fashionable seaside resort at the mouth of the canalized Urumea River on the ...
Donostia–San Sebastián (Spain)
city, capital of Guipúzcoa provincia (province), northeastern Basque Country comunidad autónoma(autonomous community), north-central Spain. It is a fashionable seaside resort at the mouth of the canalized Urumea River on the ...
Donoughmore Commission (British commission)
committee sent by the British government to Ceylon in 1927 to examine the Ceylonese constitution and to make recommendations for its revision. The commission’s recommendations, reluctantly accepted by Ceylonese political leaders, served as the basis for the new constitution of 1931....
Donovan (Scottish singer-songwriter)
Scottish singer-songwriter who had consistent commercial success with his playful pop songs in the mid- to late 1960s....
Donovan body (bacilli)
...occurring predominantly in tropical areas and characterized by deep purulent ulcers on or near the genital organs. Encapsulated bacilli called Donovan bodies (Calymmatobacterium granulomatis) occur in smears from the lesions or in biopsy material and are thought to be the cause of the disease. Granuloma......
Donovan, Landon (American soccer player)
American professional football (soccer) player, widely regarded as the greatest American male player in the history of the sport....
Donovan, P. (American athlete)
...a throw of 10.46 metres (34 feet 4 inches), and Pat MacDonald (United States) won in 1920 with a heave of 11.26 metres (36.93 feet). In 1914 P. Donovan (United States) set a world record for throwing the 56-pound weight for height with a distance of 5.17 metres (16.96 feet). By the......
Donovan, Shaun (American architect and urban planner)
American architect and urban planner who led New York City’s department of housing preservation and development (2004–09) before serving as U.S. secretary of housing and urban development (HUD; 2009– ) in the administration of Pres. Barack Obama....
Donovan, Terence Daniel (British photographer)
British photographer who in the 1960s helped revolutionize fashion photography and redefine the relationship between photographer and model; he also directed more than 3,000 rock videos and television commercials (b. Sept. 14, 1936--d. Nov. 22, 1996)....
Donovan, Wild Bill (United States diplomat and general)
American lawyer, soldier, and diplomat who directed (1942–45) the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II....
Donovan, William J. (United States diplomat and general)
American lawyer, soldier, and diplomat who directed (1942–45) the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II....
Donovan, William Joseph (United States diplomat and general)
American lawyer, soldier, and diplomat who directed (1942–45) the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II....
Donovania granulomatis (bacillum)
...in tropical areas and characterized by deep purulent ulcers on or near the genital organs. Encapsulated bacilli called Donovan bodies (Calymmatobacterium granulomatis) occur in smears from the lesions or in biopsy material and are thought to be the cause of the disease. Granuloma inguinale is treated......
Don’s Party (work by Williamson)
Williamson first earned acclaim with The Removalists (1972; filmed 1975), an absurdist look at authority, violence, and sexuality; and Don’s Party (1973; filmed 1976), about a group of frustrated former radicals. He examines the social dynamics of bureaucracies in The Department (1975) and The Club (1978; filmed 1980). The Perfectionist (1983; filmed 1987)...
Donskoy, Mark (Russian motion-picture writer and director)
motion-picture writer and director best known for a trilogy based on the autobiography of the Russian proletarian novelist Maksim Gorky....
Donskoy, Mark Semyonovich (Russian motion-picture writer and director)
motion-picture writer and director best known for a trilogy based on the autobiography of the Russian proletarian novelist Maksim Gorky....
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (United States policy)
byname for the official U.S. policy regarding the service of homosexuals in the military. The term was coined after Pres. Bill Clinton in 1993 signed a law (consisting of statute, regulations, and policy memoranda) directing that military personnel “don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t pursue, and don’t harass.” When it went i...
Don’t Ask Me How the Time Goes By (work by Pacheco)
...and the novel Morirás lejos (1967; “You Will Die Far Away”) documents the purges of Jews throughout history. No me preguntes cómo pasa el tiempo (1969; Don’t Ask Me How the Time Goes By, 1978) includes poems in which there is a nostalgic desire to relive the past, sometimes coupled with a fine sense of irony. The short stories in El pri...
Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope (work by Carroll and Grant)
She based her first play, Trumpets of the Lord (1963), a musical revue, on the work of poet James Weldon Johnson. The hit gospel revue Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope, conceived by Carroll and with music and lyrics by Micki Grant, opened on Broadway in 1972 with Carroll as director and was nominated for four ......
Don’t Call Me by My Right Name and Other Stories (work by Purdy)
...educated at the Universities of Chicago and Puebla (Mexico). He served as an interpreter and taught for a few years before turning to writing full-time. His first two works—Don’t Call Me by My Right Name and Other Stories and 63: Dream Palace, a novella (both 1956)—were rejected by a number of American publishing houses and ...
Don’t Fall off the Mountain (work by MacLaine)
In 1970 MacLaine published Don’t Fall off the Mountain, which turned out to be the first in a series of best-selling memoirs describing not only her life in movies and her relationships (including that with her younger brother, actor-director Warren Beatty) but also her search for spiritual fulfillment. In 1987 she cowrote, produced, directed, and starred in a......
Don’t Look Back (film by Pennebaker)
...the Dylan songbook and joining the juggernaut. As Dylan’s mainstream audience increased geometrically, his purist folk fans fell off in droves. The maelstrom that engulfed Dylan is captured in Don’t Look Back (1967), the telling documentary of his 1965 tour of Britain, directed by D.A. Pennebaker....
Don’t Look Now (film by Roeg)
...(1971), she won another Oscar nomination for her portrait of a tough, unflappable madam. In Roeg’s disturbing psychological thriller, Don’t Look Now (1973)—a film that has become something of a cult classic—Christie turned in what was perhaps her most emotionally layered performance to date as a woman haun...
Don’t Worry, Be Happy (vocal recording by McFerrin)
...Spontaneous Inventions (1985), which featured music by Herbie Hancock and Manhattan Transfer; and Simple Pleasures (1988), which featured the hit song Don’t Worry, Be Happy. He also recorded television commercials and the theme song for The Cosby Show (1984–92); improvised music for actor Jack Nicholson...
Donus (pope)
pope from 676 to 678. Elected (August 676) to succeed Adeodatus II, Donus ended a schism created by Archbishop Maurus of Ravenna (whose plan was to make Ravenna ecclesiastically independent) by receiving the obedience of Maurus’ successor Reparatus. Donus is said to have dispersed the Monasterium Boetianum, a monastery ...
donzel (noble)
...close ranks against the intrusion of new men or creditors. They insisted on noble birth as a condition for knighthood, reserving the designation of “squire” (or donzel, in the south) for those of noble birth awaiting or postponing the expensive dubbing (adoubement). At the upper extreme, a noble elite, the...
“Donzoko” (film by Kurosawa)
...(Throne of Blood ) was adapted from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and Donzoko (1957; The Lower Depths) was from Maksim Gorky’s drama: each of these films is skillfully Japanized. Throne of Blood, which reflects the style of the sets and acting of the......
Doo-Bop (album by Davis)
...with an orchestra conducted by Quincy Jones to perform some of the classic Gil Evans arrangements of the late 1950s. Davis died less than three months later. His final album, Doo-Bop (1992), was released posthumously....
doo-wop (music)
style of rhythm-and-blues and rock-and-roll vocal music popular in the 1950s and ’60s. The structure of doo-wop music generally featured a tenor lead vocalist singing the melody of the song with a trio or quartet singing background harmony. The term doo-wop is derived from ...
Dooars (region, India)
region of northeastern India, at the foot of the east-central Himalayas. It is divided by the Sankosh River into the Western and Eastern Duars. Both were ceded by Bhutan to the British at the end of the Bhutan War (1864–65). The Eastern Duars, in western Assam state, comprises a level plain intersected by numerous rivers and only slig...
Doob, Joseph Leo (American mathematician)
region of northeastern India, at the foot of the east-central Himalayas. It is divided by the Sankosh River into the Western and Eastern Duars. Both were ceded by Bhutan to the British at the end of the Bhutan War (1864–65). The Eastern Duars, in western Assam state, comprises a level plain intersected by numerous rivers and only slig...
doodle (drawing)
absent-minded scrawl or scribble, usually executed in some unexpected place, such as the margin of a book or manuscript or a blotting pad when the doodler is preoccupied with some other activity, such as attending a meeting or lecture. The word is supposed to have gained currency because of its use in the film Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), though the practice of course is much older, doodl...
doodlebug (military technology)
German jet-propelled missile of World War II, the forerunner of modern cruise missiles....
doodlebug (insect)
any of a group of insects (order Neuroptera) that are named for the predatory nature of the larvae, which trap ants and other small insects in pits dug into the ground. Antlions are found throughout the world, primarily in dry, sandy regions....
Doogie Howser, M.D. (American television program)
...executive producer. L.A. Law won the Emmy Award for outstanding drama series four of the years Kelley worked on the show. In 1989 he helped create Doogie Howser, M.D., a dramedy about a teenaged doctor, and he wrote many of its early scripts....
Doohan, James Montgomery (American actor)
Canadian-born actor (b. March 3, 1920, Vancouver, B.C.—d. July 20, 2005, Redmond, Wash.), performed in character roles in hundreds of radio and television programs and in a number of movies before endearing himself to the TV-viewing public with his portrayal of the chief engineer, Montgomery (“Scotty”) Scott, on the TV series Star Trek during its three seasons (1966...
Dooley, Martin (fictional character)
American journalist and humorist who created the homely philosopher Mr. Dooley....
Dooley, Mr. (fictional character)
American journalist and humorist who created the homely philosopher Mr. Dooley....
Dooley, Thomas Anthony (American physician)
“jungle doctor” whose lectures and books recounted his efforts to supply medical aid to peoples of less developed countries, mainly in Southeast Asia....
Doolin, Bill (American outlaw)
Western outlaw who led a gang through robberies in Oklahoma and east Texas, 1892–95....
Doolin, William (American outlaw)
Western outlaw who led a gang through robberies in Oklahoma and east Texas, 1892–95....
Doolittle, Eliza (fictional character)
fictional character, a Cockney flower girl who is transformed into a woman of poise and polish in George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion (performed 1913; filmed 1938; adapted as the stage musical My Fair Lady, 1956; filmed 1964)....
Doolittle, Hilda (American poet)
American poet, known initially as an Imagist. She was also a translator, novelist-playwright, and self-proclaimed “pagan mystic.”...
Doolittle, James H. (United States general)
American aviator and army general who led an air raid on Tokyo and other Japanese cities four months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor....
Doolittle, James Harold (United States general)
American aviator and army general who led an air raid on Tokyo and other Japanese cities four months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor....
Doolittle, Jimmy (United States general)
American aviator and army general who led an air raid on Tokyo and other Japanese cities four months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor....
Doom (electronic game)
first-person shooter electronic game released in December 1993 that changed the direction of almost every aspect of personal computer (PC) games, from graphics and networking technology to styles of play, notions of authorship, and p...
Doomes-day, or, The Great Day of the Lords Judgement (work by Stirling)
...his cousin, for collecting debts owed to the crown in Scotland during the period 1547–88, retaining a 50 percent reward. He was knighted that same year. His last important poetical work, Doomes-day, or, The Great Day of the Lords Judgement (1614), caused King James to choose him to collaborate in translating the Psalms....
doomsday (mythological concept)
...Gate, Solar Temple, Aum Shinrikyo ("Supreme Truth"), and People’s Temple, or Jonestown, are shorthand terms often used to recall places, movements, and events associated with groups known as doomsday cults. Hearing predictions that there are likely to be more such cults as the year 2000 approaches, many who do not belong to them are trying to make sense of these movements, which they......
Doomsday clock (nuclear threat)
...Gate, Solar Temple, Aum Shinrikyo ("Supreme Truth"), and People’s Temple, or Jonestown, are shorthand terms often used to recall places, movements, and events associated with groups known as doomsday cults. Hearing predictions that there are likely to be more such cults as the year 2000 approaches, many who do not belong to them are trying to make sense of these movements, which they.......
doomsday cult: Year In Review 1997
Waco, Heaven’s Gate, Solar Temple, Aum Shinrikyo ("Supreme Truth"), and People’s Temple, or Jonestown, are shorthand terms often used to recall places, movements, and events associated with groups known as doomsday cults. Hearing predictions that there are likely to be more such cults as the year 2000 approaches, many who do not belong to them are trying to make sense of these moveme...
Doon de Mayence (legendary hero)
hero baron of the medieval epic poems in Old French known as chansons de geste, which together form the core of the Charlemagne legends. Doon’s story is told in a chanson belonging to a cycle called Geste de Doon de Mayence. This cycle tells of Charlemagne’s rebellious barons and contains the stories of heroes such as Girart de Rou...
Doone, Lorna (fictional character)
fictional heroine of the historical romance Lorna Doone (1869) by R.D. Blackmore. The novel is set in 17th-century Exmoor, a remote area of Devon, Eng., and concerns a virtuous and somewhat mysterious young woman who has been raised by bandits who abducted her when she was young....
Doonesbury (comic strip by Trudeau)
American newspaper comic strip chronicling the lives of a large group of characters, mostly a set of college friends, over the years. Doonesbury’s humour has been noted for its explicitly political content....
Doopgein Sheptoon (king of Bhutan)
...became the king of Bhutan and acquired the title of dharma raja. Bhutan probably became a distinct political entity about this period. La-Pha was succeeded by Doopgein Sheptoon, who consolidated Bhutan’s administrative organization through the appointment of regional penlops (governors of territories) and ......
door (architecture)
barrier of wood, stone, metal, glass, paper, leaves, hides, or a combination of materials, installed to swing, fold, slide, or roll in order to close an opening to a room or building. Early doors, used throughout Mesopotamia and the ancient world, were merely hides or textiles. Doors of rigid, permanent materials appeared simultaneously with monumental architecture. Doors for important chambers w...
Door into the Dark (work by Heaney)
...out. Born into a Roman Catholic farming family in County Derry, he began by publishing verse—in his collections Death of a Naturalist (1966) and Door into the Dark (1969)—that combines a tangible, tough, sensuous response to rural and agricultural life, reminiscent of that of Ted Hughes, with meditation about the relationship......
Door of Life, The (work by Bagnold)
...steeplechase on a horse bought for only £10; a motion picture of the same title was made from the novel in 1944. Two quite different novels are The Squire (1938; also published as The Door of Life), which conveys the mood of expectancy in a household awaiting the birth of a child, and The Loved and Envied (1951), a study of a woman facing the approach of ......
Door Peninsula (peninsula, Wisconsin, United States)
area of land, eastern Wisconsin, U.S. Lying between Green Bay and Lake Michigan, Door Peninsula is about 80 miles (130 km) long and 25 miles (40 km) wide at its base and tapering northeastward. It is crossed southeast-northwest by a waterway at Sturgeon Bay. The peninsula includes Door county (formed 1851), comprising the ...
door-hinge (metalwork)
...of time, the need for protective barriers ended, there was greater freedom of work and a definite trend toward ornamentation. Throughout England, medieval church doors are found with massive iron hinges, the bands worked in rich ornamental designs of scrollwork, varying from the plain hinge band, with crescent, to the most elaborate filling of the door. Examples exist at Skipwith and......
door-to-door sale (business)
This form of retailing originated several centuries ago and has mushroomed into a $9 billion industry consisting of about 600 companies selling door-to-door, office-to-office, or at private-home sales meetings. The forerunners in the direct-selling industry include The Fuller Brush Company (brushes, brooms, etc.), Electrolux (vacuum......
Doordarshan India (Indian broadcasting company)
...Television was introduced experimentally by Akashvani in 1959, and regular broadcasting commenced in 1965. In 1976 it was made a separate service under the name Doordarshan, later changed to Doordarshan India (“Television India”). Television and educational programming are transmitted via the Indian National Satellite (INSAT) system. The country’s first Hindi-language cable...
Doorman, Karel Willem Frederik Marie (Dutch admiral)
Dutch rear admiral who commanded a combined American, British, Dutch, and Australian naval force against a Japanese invasion fleet in the Java Sea during ...
Doornik (Belgium)
municipality, Wallonia Region, southwestern Belgium. It lies along the Schelde (Scheldt, or Escaut) River, northwest of Mons. Tournai has changed hands many times. As Turnacum, it was important in Roman times. Seized by the Salic Franks in the 5th century, it was the birthplace of the Frankish king Clovis I...
Doors of Perception, The (work by Huxley)
...Devils of Loudun (1952), a brilliantly detailed psychological study of a historical incident in which a group of 17th-century French nuns were allegedly the victims of demonic possession; and The Doors of Perception (1954), a book about Huxley’s experiences with the hallucinogenic drug mescaline. The author’s lifelong preoccupation with the negative and positive impa...
Doors, The (film by Stone [1991])
...and was nominated for his writing. In 1990 he released both JFK, a polarizing investigation of the circumstances surrounding the assassination of Pres. John F. Kennedy, and The Doors, a stylish account of the rise and fall of the titular American rock band. In Heaven and Earth (1993), Stone approached the Vietnam War and...
Doors, The (American rock group)
American band that, with a string of hits in the late 1960s and early 1970s, was the creative vehicle for singer Jim Morrison, one of rock music’s mythic figures. The members were Morrison (in full James Douglas Morrison; b. Dec. 8, 1943Melbourne, Fla., U.S....
doorstop (furniture)
usually decorative and invariably heavy object used to prevent doors from swinging shut. Doorstops came into use about 1775 following the introduction of the rising butt, a type of hinge designed to close a door automatically. Many stops took the form of famous persons, such as Napoleon, Shakespeare, Wellington, Gladstone, and Disraeli. Animal forms were also popular....
Doorway God (pre-Inca figure)
...Its influences are seen especially in the Late Nazca (Ica) culture of the southern coast and at Pachacamac on the central coast. The most distinctive decorative motif on Huari pottery is the Doorway God, a stylized, anthropomorphic figure often represented in front view with a rectangular face and rayed headdress. This motif is also found at Tiwanaku. Huari architecture features large......
Dootson, F. W. (British scientist)
...and independently in 1917 by Sydney Chapman in England, but the validity of their theoretical results was questioned until Chapman (who was an applied mathematician) enlisted the aid of the chemist F.W. Dootson to verify it experimentally....
Dooxo Nugaaleed (river valley, Somalia)
river valley, northeastern Somalia. It is a shallow valley, long and broad, with an extensive network of seasonal watercourses. The valley’s principal watercourses, the Nugaaleed and the more westerly Dheere, fill briefly during and after rainstorms (April to June) and drain into the Indian Ocean. The Nugaaleed Valley...
dopa (chemical compound)
a nitrogen-containing organic compound formed as an intermediate compound from dihydroxyphenylalanine (dopa) during the metabolism of the amino acid tyrosine. It is the precursor of the hormones epinephrine and norepinephrine. Dopamine also functions as a neurotransmitter—primarily.....
dopamine (chemical compound)
a nitrogen-containing organic compound formed as an intermediate compound from dihydroxyphenylalanine (dopa) during the metabolism of the amino acid tyrosine. It is the precursor of the hormones epinephrine and norepinephrine. Dopamin...
dopaminergic receptor (biology)
There are two types of dopaminergic receptors, called the D1 and the D2. The former catalyzes the synthesis of cAMP, and the latter inhibits its synthesis. These reactions then regulate calcium and potassium channels in the postsynaptic membrane. Dopaminergic receptors also exist on the presynaptic membrane. The neurotransmitter is terminated by uptake into the presynaptic......
dopant (electronics)
any impurity deliberately added to a semiconductor for the purpose of modifying its electrical conductivity. The most commonly used elemental semiconductors are silicon and germanium, which form crystalline lattices in which each atom shares one electron with each of its four nearest nei...
doped fullerene (chemical compound)
...carbon atoms are on the surface of a cluster with a spherical or spheroidal crystallographic structure. These compounds, discovered in the 1980s, are called fullerenes (if only carbon is present) or fullerides (if doped). They have superconducting transition temperatures higher than those of the classic superconductors. It is not yet known whether these compounds are fundamentally similar to th...
Döpfner, Mathias (German businessman)
German businessman who served as chairman and CEO (2002– ) of the German newspaper and magazine publisher Axel Springer Verlag AG....
doping (drug abuse)
The subject of doping reemerged during the final week of the Tour when the sport’s governing body, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), announced that Italian rider Danilo Di Luca had failed two tests for continuous erythropoietin (EPO) receptor activator (CERA) during......
doping (electronics)
any impurity deliberately added to a semiconductor for the purpose of modifying its electrical conductivity. The most commonly used elemental semiconductors are silicon and germanium, which form crystalline lattices in which each atom shares one electron with each of its four nearest nei...
Doppelfrieskrug (pottery)
...the thin glaze lent it additional sharpness and clarity. Reliefs of biblical subjects appear on tall, tapering tankards (Schnellen), which were provided with pewter or silver mounts. The Doppelfrieskrüge were jugs with two molded friezes (usually portraying classical subjects) around the middle. They and the tankards were made in Raeren brownware by Jan Emens, surnamed......
doppelgänger (folklore)
(German: “double goer”), in German folklore, a wraith or apparition of a living person, as distinguished from a ghost. The concept of the existence of a spirit double, an exact but usually invisible replica of every man, bird, or beast, is an ancient and widespread belief. To meet one’s double is a sign that one’s death is imminent. The doppelgänger became a pop...
Doppelleben (work by Benn)
...and the simultaneous reappearance of his old poems. While busily writing, he remained a practicing physician until he was 68. His gradual loss of cynicism is richly reflected in the autobiography Doppelleben (1950; “Double Life”). A broad selection of his poetry and prose in English translation was published under the title Primal Vision (1961)....
Doppelmonarchie (historical empire, Europe)
the Habsburg empire from the constitutional Compromise (Ausgleich) of 1867 between Austria and Hungary until the empire’s collapse in 1918....
Doppler, Christian (Austrian physicist)
Austrian physicist who first described how the observed frequency of light and sound waves is affected by the relative motion of the source and the detector. This phenomenon became known as the Doppler effect....
Doppler effect (physics)
the apparent difference between the frequency at which sound or light waves leave a source and that at which they reach an observer, caused by relative motion of the observer and the wave source. This phenomenon is used in astronomical measurements, in Mössbauer effect studies, and in radar and mode...
Doppler frequency shift (radar technology)
...echoes. The Doppler frequency shift is the basis for police radar guns. SAR and ISAR imaging radars make use of Doppler frequency to generate high-resolution images of terrain and targets. The Doppler frequency shift also has been used in Doppler-navigation radar to measure the velocity of the aircraft carrying the radar system. The extraction of the Doppler shift in weather radars,......
Doppler radar, pulse (radar technology)
...the echo from the desired moving targets. A form of pulse radar that uses the Doppler frequency shift to eliminate stationary clutter is called either a moving-target indication (MTI) radar or a pulse Doppler radar, depending on the particular parameters of the signal waveform....
Doppler spectroscopy (astronomy)
American astronomer whose use of Doppler shifts to detect extrasolar planets led to the discovery of several hundred planetary bodies in multiple star systems....
Doppler weather radar (radar technology)
For many years radar has been used to provide information about the intensity and extent of rain and other forms of precipitation. This application of radar is well known in the United States from the familiar television weather reports of precipitation observed by the radars of the National Weather Service. A major improvement in the capability of weather radar came about when engineers......

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