maurice

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Definition of maurice in English English dictionary

A male given name

For some reason I am a man known by his surname; I might never have been christened for all the use my friends make of the rather affected Maurice my literary parents gave me.

Barrès Auguste Maurice Baudot Jean Maurice Émile Béjart Maurice Maurice Jean Berger Chevalier Maurice Dirac Paul Adrien Maurice Edelman Gerald Maurice Evans Maurice Herbert Ewing William Maurice Falconet Étienne Maurice Gamelin Maurice Gustave John Maurice of Nassau Merleau Ponty Maurice Mitterrand François Maurice Marie Prendergast Maurice Brazil Ravel Joseph Maurice Richard Joseph Henri Maurice Joan Violet Maurice Jean Marie Maurice Scherer Saint Maurice River Saxe Hermann Maurice count de Sendak Maurice Bernard Talleyrand Périgord Charles Maurice de Thorez Maurice Tocqueville Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clérel de Utrillo Maurice Vlaminck Maurice de Wilkes Maurice Vincent Wilkins Maurice Hugh Frederick Mac Mahon Marie Edme Patrice Maurice count de Maurice Harold Macmillan 1st earl of Stockton Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden Maeterlinck Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maurice of Nassau

given name, male

{i} male first name

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Maurice -Gustave Gamelin

born Sept. 20, 1872, Paris, France died April 18, 1958, Paris French army commander. He entered the army in 1893 and rose to division command in World War I and army chief of staff in 1931. He supported the defensive strategy based on the Maginot Line and, as commander of Allied forces when World War II broke out, took no offensive action during the Phony War. Surprised by the German assault in the Ardennes (May 1940), he was dismissed and replaced by Maxime Weygand, but France collapsed the next month. He was tried by the Vichy government and interned in Germany in 1943-45

Maurice Barrès

born Aug. 19, 1862, Charmes-sur-Moselle, France died Dec. 5, 1923, Paris French writer and politician. He served in the Chamber of Deputies (1889-93) and became a strong nationalist. With Charles Maurras, he expounded the doctrines of the French Nationalist Party in two newspapers, and in his novels he expressed an individualism that included a deep-rooted attachment to one's native region. His series of novels titled Les Bastions de l'Est earned success as French propaganda during World War I

Maurice Bernard Sendak

born June 10, 1928, New York, N.Y., U.S. U.S. artist and writer. Sendak studied at the Art Students League. He illustrated more than 80 children's books by other writers before writing one himself. His Kenny's Window (1956) was followed by the innovative trilogy Where the Wild Things Are (1963), In the Night Kitchen (1970), and Outside over There (1981). He collaborated with Carole King on the musical Really Rosie (1978) and designed stage productions of The Magic Flute (1980) and The Nutcracker (1983)

Maurice Brazil Prendergast

born Oct. 10, 1859, St. John's, Nfd., Can. died Feb. 1, 1924, New York, N.Y., U.S. Canadian-born U.S. painter. He moved with his family to Boston in 1868. After study in Paris (1891-94), he spent much of his career traveling and painting abroad. He was the first U.S. artist to fully absorb French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. His lively street scenes feature floating geometric areas of brilliant decorative colour with a mosaiclike effect. He produced his most outstanding works in watercolour. In his later years he lived in New York City and exhibited with The Eight and in the 1913 Armory Show

Maurice Chevalier

born Sept. 12, 1888, Paris, France died Jan. 1, 1972, Paris French singer and actor. He first appeared as a singer and comedian at the Folies-Bergère in 1909. He spent two years in a German prison camp during World War I. Known for his jaunty straw hat and bow tie and his lively, roguish manner, he went to Hollywood in 1929, where he appeared in movies that helped establish the musical as a film genre, including The Love Parade (1929) and The Merry Widow (1934). He was criticized for entertaining the Germans during the wartime occupation of France. His later films include Gigi (1958) and Fanny (1961). In 1958 he was presented with an honorary Academy Award

Maurice Evans

born June 3, 1901, Dorchester, Dorset, Eng. died March 12, 1989, Rottingdean, East Sussex British-born U.S. actor. He made his professional stage debut in 1926 and achieved his first success in Journey's End (1929). He moved to the U.S. in 1935 and triumphed in Shakespearean roles on Broadway. During World War II he entertained U.S. troops with a short version of Hamlet. He later starred in Broadway revivals of four George Bernard Shaw comedies, notably Man and Superman (1947). His greatest Broadway hit was Dial M for Murder (1952). He starred in a television production of Macbeth (1961, Emmy Award) and appeared in 17 films, including Rosemary's Baby (1968)

Maurice Ewing

born May 12, 1906, Lockney, Texas, U.S. died May 4, 1974, Galveston, Texas U.S. geophysicist. He taught many years at Columbia University (1944-74) and also directed the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory (1949-74). Studying the structure of the Earth's crust and mantle, he made seismic refraction measurements in the Atlantic basins, along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and in the Mediterranean and Norwegian seas. In 1935 he took the first seismic measurements in open seas. He was among those who proposed that earthquakes are associated with the central oceanic rifts that encircle the globe, suggesting that seafloor spreading may be worldwide and episodic in nature. In 1939 he took the first deep-sea photographs

Maurice Gamelin

born Sept. 20, 1872, Paris, France died April 18, 1958, Paris French army commander. He entered the army in 1893 and rose to division command in World War I and army chief of staff in 1931. He supported the defensive strategy based on the Maginot Line and, as commander of Allied forces when World War II broke out, took no offensive action during the Phony War. Surprised by the German assault in the Ardennes (May 1940), he was dismissed and replaced by Maxime Weygand, but France collapsed the next month. He was tried by the Vichy government and interned in Germany in 1943-45

Maurice Herbert Evans

born June 3, 1901, Dorchester, Dorset, Eng. died March 12, 1989, Rottingdean, East Sussex British-born U.S. actor. He made his professional stage debut in 1926 and achieved his first success in Journey's End (1929). He moved to the U.S. in 1935 and triumphed in Shakespearean roles on Broadway. During World War II he entertained U.S. troops with a short version of Hamlet. He later starred in Broadway revivals of four George Bernard Shaw comedies, notably Man and Superman (1947). His greatest Broadway hit was Dial M for Murder (1952). He starred in a television production of Macbeth (1961, Emmy Award) and appeared in 17 films, including Rosemary's Baby (1968)

Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins

born Dec. 15, 1916, Pongaroa, N.Z. died Oct. 6, 2004, London, Eng. New Zealand-born British biophysicist. Educated in Birmingham and Cambridge, he participated in the Manhattan Project, working on the separation of uranium isotopes for use in the atomic bomb. On his return to Britain, he began a series of investigations that led ultimately to his studies of DNA. His X-ray diffraction studies of DNA proved crucial to the determination of DNA's molecular structure by James D. Watson and Francis Crick, for which the three were awarded a 1962 Nobel Prize. He later applied X-ray diffraction techniques to the study of RNA. See also Rosalind Franklin

Maurice Klippel

{i} (1858-1942) French neurologist who in 1912 independently of Andre Feil described a syndrome (now called the Klippel-Feil syndrome)

Maurice Leblanc

{i} (1864-1941) French author and journalist

Maurice Maeterlinck

later Comte Maeterlinck born Aug. 29, 1862, Ghent, Belg. died May 6, 1949, Nice, France Belgian playwright and poet. He studied law in Ghent but soon turned to writing poems and plays. His Pelléas et Mélisande (1892), considered the masterpiece of Symbolist drama (see Symbolist movement), was the basis of Claude Debussy's opera (1902). In his Symbolist plays, Maeterlinck used poetic speech, gesture, lighting, setting, and ritual to create images that reflect his protagonists' moods and dilemmas. His other writings include a collection of Symbolist poems (Hothouses, 1899) and plays such as Monna Vanna (1902), The Blue Bird (1908), and The Burgomaster of Stilmonde (1918). He was also noted for his popular treatments of scientific subjects, including The Life of the Bee (1901) and The Intelligence of Flowers (1907). Maeterlinck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911

Maurice Maeterlinck

{i} (1862-1949) Belgium playwright and poet and winner of the 1911 Nobel prize for literature

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

born March 14, 1908, Rochefort, France died May 4, 1961, Paris French philosopher. With Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir he founded the journal Les Temps Modernes in 1945. From 1949 he taught at the Sorbonne. He was the leading exponent of phenomenology in France. Though greatly influenced by Edmund Husserl, he rejected Husserl's theory of our knowledge of other persons, grounding his own view instead in bodily behaviour and perception. He defended Soviet communism until the Korean War, when he became disillusioned

Maurice Polydore-Marie-Bernard Maeterlinck

later Comte Maeterlinck born Aug. 29, 1862, Ghent, Belg. died May 6, 1949, Nice, France Belgian playwright and poet. He studied law in Ghent but soon turned to writing poems and plays. His Pelléas et Mélisande (1892), considered the masterpiece of Symbolist drama (see Symbolist movement), was the basis of Claude Debussy's opera (1902). In his Symbolist plays, Maeterlinck used poetic speech, gesture, lighting, setting, and ritual to create images that reflect his protagonists' moods and dilemmas. His other writings include a collection of Symbolist poems (Hothouses, 1899) and plays such as Monna Vanna (1902), The Blue Bird (1908), and The Burgomaster of Stilmonde (1918). He was also noted for his popular treatments of scientific subjects, including The Life of the Bee (1901) and The Intelligence of Flowers (1907). Maeterlinck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911

Maurice Prendergast

born Oct. 10, 1859, St. John's, Nfd., Can. died Feb. 1, 1924, New York, N.Y., U.S. Canadian-born U.S. painter. He moved with his family to Boston in 1868. After study in Paris (1891-94), he spent much of his career traveling and painting abroad. He was the first U.S. artist to fully absorb French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. His lively street scenes feature floating geometric areas of brilliant decorative colour with a mosaiclike effect. He produced his most outstanding works in watercolour. In his later years he lived in New York City and exhibited with The Eight and in the 1913 Armory Show

Maurice Ravel

a French composer whose most famous work is his Boléro (1875-1937). born March 7, 1875, Ciboure, France died Dec. 28, 1937, Paris French composer. At age 14 he was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire. Completing his piano studies, he returned to study composition with Gabriel Fauré, writing the important piano piece Jeux d'eau (completed 1901) and a string quartet. In the next decade he produced some of his best-known music, including Pavane pour une infante défunte (1899), the String Quartet (1903), and the Sonatine for piano (1905). His great ballet Daphnis et Chloé (1912) was commissioned by the impresario Sergey Diaghilev. Other works include the opera L'Enfant et les sortileges (1925), the suite Le Tombeau de Couperin (1917), and the orchestral works La Valse (1920) and Boléro (1928). Careful and precise, Ravel possessed great gifts as an orchestrator, and his works are universally admired for their superb craftsmanship; he has remained the most widely popular of all French composers

Maurice Raynaud

{i} (1834-1881) French physician who first discovered and described the condition known as Raynaud's syndrome in 1862

Maurice Richard

a Canadian ice hockey player, who some people think was the best in the history of the sport. He was known as "Rocket", and played for the Montreal Canadiens. He scored more goals than any other player in the National Hockey League ( NHL) in 1945, 1947, 1950, 1954, and 1955. In 1945 he became the first player to score 50 goals in a 50-game season (1921-2000). born Aug. 4, 1921, Montreal, Que., Can. died May 27, 2000, Montreal Canadian ice-hockey player. He played right wing for the Montreal Canadiens (1942-60) and became the first National Hockey League player to score 50 goals in a regular (50-game) season (1943-44). His nickname, "Rocket," reflected his speed and aggressive play. He was also noted for his clutch scoring and fiery temper

Maurice Sendak

born June 10, 1928, New York, N.Y., U.S. U.S. artist and writer. Sendak studied at the Art Students League. He illustrated more than 80 children's books by other writers before writing one himself. His Kenny's Window (1956) was followed by the innovative trilogy Where the Wild Things Are (1963), In the Night Kitchen (1970), and Outside over There (1981). He collaborated with Carole King on the musical Really Rosie (1978) and designed stage productions of The Magic Flute (1980) and The Nutcracker (1983)

Maurice Thorez

born April 28, 1900, Noyelles-Godault, France died July 11, 1964, at sea en route to Yalta French communist politician. He began working as a coal miner at age

Maurice Thorez

He joined the French Communist Party 1920 and was arrested several times for agitation. After becoming local party secretary (1923), he rose to secretary-general of the party (1930). He served in the Chamber of Deputies (1932-39, 1945-60) and helped form the Popular Front government in 1936. He lived in the Soviet Union (1943-44), then returned to France and served as a minister of state (1945) and deputy premier (1946, 1947). He remained a dedicated Stalinist even after Nikita Khrushchev denounced Joseph Stalin in 1956

Maurice Utrillo

born Dec. 25, 1883, Paris, Fr. died Nov. 5, 1955, Le Vésinet French painter. When he became an alcoholic in his teens, his mother, the painter and model Suzanne Valadon, encouraged him to take up painting as therapy; it soon became his obsession. He had no formal artistic training and was interested primarily in reproducing what he saw as faithfully as possible. Most of his compositions depict the old, deteriorating houses and streets of the Montmartre district of Paris. His best work is that of his "white period" ( 1908-14), so called for his lavish use of zinc white in heavy layers to build up aging, cracked walls

Maurice Vincent Wilkes

v. born June 26, 1913, Dudley, Staffordshire, Eng. British computer-science pioneer. He helped build the EDSAC computer (1949), invented microprogramming (1950), cowrote the first book on computer programming (1951), wrote the first paper on cache memories (1964), and pioneered client-server architecture computing (1980). He won the Turing Award in 1967 and the Kyoto Prize in 1992. In 1995 he published Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer

Maurice Wilkes

v. born June 26, 1913, Dudley, Staffordshire, Eng. British computer-science pioneer. He helped build the EDSAC computer (1949), invented microprogramming (1950), cowrote the first book on computer programming (1951), wrote the first paper on cache memories (1964), and pioneered client-server architecture computing (1980). He won the Turing Award in 1967 and the Kyoto Prize in 1992. In 1995 he published Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer

Maurice Wilkins

{i} Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins (1916-2004), English physicist and biochemist born in New Zealand developer of the X-ray technique used by Watson and Crick to discover the structure of the DNA molecule, winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine

Maurice Wilkins

born Dec. 15, 1916, Pongaroa, N.Z. died Oct. 6, 2004, London, Eng. New Zealand-born British biophysicist. Educated in Birmingham and Cambridge, he participated in the Manhattan Project, working on the separation of uranium isotopes for use in the atomic bomb. On his return to Britain, he began a series of investigations that led ultimately to his studies of DNA. His X-ray diffraction studies of DNA proved crucial to the determination of DNA's molecular structure by James D. Watson and Francis Crick, for which the three were awarded a 1962 Nobel Prize. He later applied X-ray diffraction techniques to the study of RNA. See also Rosalind Franklin

Maurice count de Mac-Mahon

later duke de Magenta born July 13, 1808, Sully, France died Oct. 17, 1893, Loiret French soldier and second president (1873-79) of the Third Republic. Descended from an Irish Jacobite family, he began his army career in 1827 and distinguished himself in the Crimean War and in the Italian campaign at the Battle of Magenta (1859), after which he was made a marshal of France and duke de Magenta. He was governor-general of Algeria (1864-70) and later a commander in the Franco-Prussian War. He was appointed head of the Versailles Army, which defeated the Paris Commune in 1871. He was elected president after the resignation of Adolphe Thiers. During his term the Constitutional Laws of 1875 were promulgated. Mac-Mahon resigned following a constitutional crisis that was resolved in favour of parliamentary control of the government. Thereafter in the Third Republic, the office of president became largely honorific

Maurice count de Saxe

born Oct. 28, 1696, Goslar, Saxony died Nov. 30, 1750, Chambord, France German-born French general. The illegitimate son of Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, he served under Eugene of Savoy in Flanders and was made count of Saxony (Saxe) in 1711. He commanded a German regiment in the French service (1719) and made innovations in military training, especially in musketry. He served with distinction in the French army against his half brother Augustus III in the War of the Polish Succession and was made a general (1734). He successfully led French forces in the War of the Austrian Succession, capturing Prague (1741) and invading the Austrian Netherlands. There he won the Battle of Fontenoy (1745) and captured Brussels and Antwerp (1746). Appointed marshal general of France by Louis XV, Saxe led the successful invasion of Holland in 1747

Maurice de Vlaminck

v. born April 4, 1876, Paris, France died Oct. 11, 1958, Rueil-la-Gadelière French painter. Noted for his brash temperament as well as his flair for landscapes, he began in 1900 to share a studio with André Derain, a friend from childhood. In 1905 he first exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants. His experiments with pure, intense colour applied in thick daubs earned him an association with Fauvism, but by 1908 he had turned to painting landscapes of thickly applied whites, grays, and deep blues, and his style moved closer to that of Paul Cézanne. He began 1915 to develop a personal, strongly stated style that placed him solidly in the realm of French Expressionism

Maurice of Nassau

Dutch in full Maurits, prince van Oranje, count van Nassau born Nov. 13, 1567, Dillenburg, Nassau died April 23, 1625, The Hague Dutch general and statesman. The son of William I (the Silent), he was invested in 1585 as stadtholder (chief executive) of the northern provinces of the Netherlands. With political direction from Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Maurice consolidated the power of the provinces against Spain and made them trade and shipping centres. He used military planning and siege warfare to defeat Spanish forces in the north and east but failed to take the southern Netherlands and was forced to conclude a truce with Spain in 1609. His development of military strategy and tactics made the Dutch army the most modern in Europe. In 1618 he consolidated his political power after removing Oldenbarnevelt from office, and as prince of Orange, count of Nassau, he became effectively king of the Netherlands

Marie-Edme-Patrice- Maurice count de Mac-Mahon

later duke de Magenta born July 13, 1808, Sully, France died Oct. 17, 1893, Loiret French soldier and second president (1873-79) of the Third Republic. Descended from an Irish Jacobite family, he began his army career in 1827 and distinguished himself in the Crimean War and in the Italian campaign at the Battle of Magenta (1859), after which he was made a marshal of France and duke de Magenta. He was governor-general of Algeria (1864-70) and later a commander in the Franco-Prussian War. He was appointed head of the Versailles Army, which defeated the Paris Commune in 1871. He was elected president after the resignation of Adolphe Thiers. During his term the Constitutional Laws of 1875 were promulgated. Mac-Mahon resigned following a constitutional crisis that was resolved in favour of parliamentary control of the government. Thereafter in the Third Republic, the office of president became largely honorific

1st earl of Stockton Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden Maurice Harold Macmillan

in full Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st earl of Stockton, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden born Feb. 10, 1894, London, Eng. died Dec. 29, 1986, Birch Grove, Sussex British prime minister (1957-63). He served in the House of Commons (1924-29, 1931-64) and held posts in Winston Churchill's wartime coalition government. After the war he served as minister of housing (1951-54), minister of defense (1954), foreign secretary (1955), and chancellor of the Exchequer (1955-57). In 1957 he became prime minister and leader of the Conservative Party. He worked to improve relations with the U.S. and visited Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in 1959. Domestically, Macmillan supported Britain's postwar social programs. His government began to lose popularity in 1961 because of a wage freeze and other deflationary measures and a Soviet espionage scandal involving John Profumo, secretary of state for war. He championed membership in the European Economic Community, though Britain's membership application was vetoed in 1963 by Charles de Gaulle. Demands for a new party leader led to his resignation in 1963. He wrote a series of memoirs (1966-75) and served as chair (1963-74) of his family's publishing house, Macmillan & Co

Auguste- Maurice Barrès

born Aug. 19, 1862, Charmes-sur-Moselle, France died Dec. 5, 1923, Paris French writer and politician. He served in the Chamber of Deputies (1889-93) and became a strong nationalist. With Charles Maurras, he expounded the doctrines of the French Nationalist Party in two newspapers, and in his novels he expressed an individualism that included a deep-rooted attachment to one's native region. His series of novels titled Les Bastions de l'Est earned success as French propaganda during World War I

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand

born Feb. 2, 1754, Paris, France died May 17, 1838, Paris French statesman. Ordained a priest, he became bishop of Autun in 1788. Elected to represent the clergy at the Estates-General (1789), he became the "bishop of the Revolution" by calling for confiscation of church property to fund the new government and supporting the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. Excommunicated by the pope in 1790, he was sent to England as an envoy in 1792. He was expelled from France during the Reign of Terror, lived in the U.S. (1794-96), then returned to serve in the Directory as foreign minister (1797-99). He was forced to resign briefly for involvement in bribery scandals, including the XYZ Affair. Adept at political survival, he supported Napoleon and again became foreign minister (1799-1807) and later grand chamberlain (1804-07). He resigned in opposition to Napoleon's policy toward Russia but continued to advise him, arranging his marriage with Marie-Louise of Austria. As Napoleon faced defeat, Talleyrand secretly worked to restore the monarchy; in 1814 he was appointed foreign minister to Louis XVIII and represented France at the Congress of Vienna. Forced by ultraroyalists to resign (1815), he later became involved in the July Revolution of 1830 and served as ambassador to Britain (1830-34)

François -Maurice-Marie Mitterrand

born Oct. 26, 1916, Jarnac, France died Jan. 8, 1996, Paris President of France (1981-95). After serving in World War II, he was elected to the National Assembly (1946) and held cabinet posts in 11 Fourth Republic governments (1947-58). Moving to the political left, he opposed Charles de Gaulle's government and ran unsuccessfully against him in 1965 but won 32% of the vote. In 1971 he became secretary of the French Socialist Party and made it the majority party of the left, which led to his election as president in 1981. With a leftist majority in the National Assembly, he introduced radical economic reforms, which were modified when a right-wing majority regained power in 1986. Reelected president in 1988, he strongly promoted European integration. His domestic policy was less successful, and France experienced high unemployment. In 1991 he appointed Edith Cresson (b. 1934) prime minister, the first French woman to hold that office (1991-92). A defeat for the Socialists in the legislative elections of 1993 further moderated Mitterrand's policies

Gerald Maurice Edelman

born July 1, 1929, New York, N.Y., U.S. U.S. biochemist. He received an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. from Rockefeller University. His work with Rodney Porter (b. 1917 d. 1985) on antibodies won a 1972 Nobel Prize. By modeling an entire antibody molecule, Edelman's team found the molecule had more than 1,300 amino acids in a four-chain structure and identified the locations where antigens bind. Focusing on formation and differentiation of tissues and organs, they discovered cell-adhesion molecules, proteins that attach cells together to make tissues. Edelman's attempt at a general theory of neural development and brain function is discussed in his Neural Darwinism (1987)

Hermann- Maurice count de Saxe

born Oct. 28, 1696, Goslar, Saxony died Nov. 30, 1750, Chambord, France German-born French general. The illegitimate son of Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, he served under Eugene of Savoy in Flanders and was made count of Saxony (Saxe) in 1711. He commanded a German regiment in the French service (1719) and made innovations in military training, especially in musketry. He served with distinction in the French army against his half brother Augustus III in the War of the Polish Succession and was made a general (1734). He successfully led French forces in the War of the Austrian Succession, capturing Prague (1741) and invading the Austrian Netherlands. There he won the Battle of Fontenoy (1745) and captured Brussels and Antwerp (1746). Appointed marshal general of France by Louis XV, Saxe led the successful invasion of Holland in 1747

Joan Maurice

orig. Joan (Violet) Maurice born Oct. 31, 1903, Camberley, Surrey, Eng. died Aug. 5, 1983, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire British economist. A professor at the University of Cambridge (1931-71), she helped develop Keynesian theory, establishing her reputation in 1933 with The Economics of Imperfect Competition, in which she analyzed distribution and allocation, dealing particularly with the concept of exploitation (see monopolistic competition). In the 1940s she began to incorporate aspects of Marxism into her work. Her unorthodox views and sympathy with noncapitalist systems including China's, on which she wrote three books involved her in controversy throughout her career

Joan Violet Maurice

orig. Joan (Violet) Maurice born Oct. 31, 1903, Camberley, Surrey, Eng. died Aug. 5, 1983, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire British economist. A professor at the University of Cambridge (1931-71), she helped develop Keynesian theory, establishing her reputation in 1933 with The Economics of Imperfect Competition, in which she analyzed distribution and allocation, dealing particularly with the concept of exploitation (see monopolistic competition). In the 1940s she began to incorporate aspects of Marxism into her work. Her unorthodox views and sympathy with noncapitalist systems including China's, on which she wrote three books involved her in controversy throughout her career

John Maurice of Nassau

Dutch Johan Maurits van Nassau born June 17, 1604, Dillenburg, Nassau died Dec. 20, 1679, Cleves, Brandenburg Dutch colonial governor and military commander. He fought after 1621 in the campaigns of his cousin Frederick Henry, prince of Orange, against Spain. As colonial governor in Brazil, recently conquered from Portugal, he secured control of vast areas for the Dutch West India Company in 1636-44, bringing the Dutch empire in Latin America to the peak of its power. He also sponsored the seizure of Angola (1641) and of several key ports on the western African coast to supply slaves for Brazilian plantations, and he led a Dutch army in 1665 in the Anglo-Dutch Wars

Joseph Henri Maurice Richard

born Aug. 4, 1921, Montreal, Que., Can. died May 27, 2000, Montreal Canadian ice-hockey player. He played right wing for the Montreal Canadiens (1942-60) and became the first National Hockey League player to score 50 goals in a regular (50-game) season (1943-44). His nickname, "Rocket," reflected his speed and aggressive play. He was also noted for his clutch scoring and fiery temper

Joseph- Maurice Ravel

born March 7, 1875, Ciboure, France died Dec. 28, 1937, Paris French composer. At age 14 he was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire. Completing his piano studies, he returned to study composition with Gabriel Fauré, writing the important piano piece Jeux d'eau (completed 1901) and a string quartet. In the next decade he produced some of his best-known music, including Pavane pour une infante défunte (1899), the String Quartet (1903), and the Sonatine for piano (1905). His great ballet Daphnis et Chloé (1912) was commissioned by the impresario Sergey Diaghilev. Other works include the opera L'Enfant et les sortileges (1925), the suite Le Tombeau de Couperin (1917), and the orchestral works La Valse (1920) and Boléro (1928). Careful and precise, Ravel possessed great gifts as an orchestrator, and his works are universally admired for their superb craftsmanship; he has remained the most widely popular of all French composers

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

born Aug. 8, 1902, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Eng. died Oct. 20, 1984, Tallahassee, Fla., U.S. English mathematician and theoretical physicist. His first major contribution, in 1925-26, was a general and logically simple form of quantum mechanics. About the same time, he developed ideas of Enrico Fermi which led to Fermi-Dirac statistics. He then applied Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity to the quantum mechanics of the electron and showed that the electron must have spin of 1 2 . His theory also revealed new states later identified with the positron. He shared the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics with Erwin Schrödinger. In 1932 Dirac was appointed to the Lucasian mathematics professorship at the University of Cambridge, a chair once occupied by Isaac Newton. He retired from Cambridge in 1968 and became professor emeritus at Florida State University in 1971

Saint-Maurice River

River, southern Quebec, Canada. It is 325 mi (523 km) long and a major tributary of the Saint Lawrence River, flowing south from Gouin Reservoir into the St. Lawrence at Trois Rivières. It is a major logging river, serving large pulp and paper factories at La Tuque, Grand-Mère, Shawinigan, and Trois Rivières. Since 1900 it has also been a major source of hydroelectric power

William Maurice Ewing

born May 12, 1906, Lockney, Texas, U.S. died May 4, 1974, Galveston, Texas U.S. geophysicist. He taught many years at Columbia University (1944-74) and also directed the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory (1949-74). Studying the structure of the Earth's crust and mantle, he made seismic refraction measurements in the Atlantic basins, along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and in the Mediterranean and Norwegian seas. In 1935 he took the first seismic measurements in open seas. He was among those who proposed that earthquakes are associated with the central oceanic rifts that encircle the globe, suggesting that seafloor spreading may be worldwide and episodic in nature. In 1939 he took the first deep-sea photographs

Hyphenation

Mau·rice

Turkish pronunciation

môris

Pronunciation

/môˈrēs/ /mɔːˈriːs/

Etymology

() Saint's name from Late Latin Mauricius, derived from Maurus (“Moor; dark, swarthy”).