Haworth

Haworth
/hah"weuhrth, haw"-/, n.
Sir Walter Norman, 1883-1950, English chemist: Nobel prize 1937.

* * *

      town, Bradford metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of West Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, northern England, overlooking the River Worth and adjoining the town of Keighley. In 1820 the Reverend Patrick Brontë brought his wife and six children—including Charlotte (Brontë, Charlotte), Emily (Brontë, Emily), and Anne (Brontë, Anne), later of international literary fame—to Haworth. The Church of St. Michael contains their family memorials, and the adjacent parsonage (1779) has since 1928 housed the museum of the Brontë Society (founded 1893). The fictional manor houses of Wuthering Heights, Thrushcross Grange, and Ferndean Manor as depicted in the Brontë sisters' novels are all associated with buildings in the locality. Pop. (2001) 6,078.

* * *


Universalium. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Haworth — heißen die Orte: Haworth (West Yorkshire) in Großbritannien Haworth (New Jersey) in den USA Haworth (Oklahoma) in den USA Haworth ist der Familienname folgender Personen: Adrian Hardy Haworth (1768–1833), britischer Entomologe und Botaniker Alan… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Haworth — es un pueblo situado en el condado inglés de West Yorkshire. Tradicionalmente asociado con las hermanas Brontë (Emily,Charlotte y Anne) Haworth es también un centro turístico. Haworth. Situado sobre el Worth Valley entre los desolados páramos… …   Wikipedia Español

  • HAWORTH (W. N.) — HAWORTH sir WALTER NORMAN (1883 1950) Chimiste anglais, né à Chorley (Lancashire) et mort à Birmingham, lauréat, avec le Suisse Paul Karrer, du prix Nobel de chimie, en 1937, pour son travail sur la détermination des structures chimiques des… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Haworth — Haworth, NJ U.S. borough in New Jersey Population (2000): 3390 Housing Units (2000): 1146 Land area (2000): 1.956928 sq. miles (5.068419 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.402688 sq. miles (1.042956 sq. km) Total area (2000): 2.359616 sq. miles… …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • Haworth, NJ — U.S. borough in New Jersey Population (2000): 3390 Housing Units (2000): 1146 Land area (2000): 1.956928 sq. miles (5.068419 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.402688 sq. miles (1.042956 sq. km) Total area (2000): 2.359616 sq. miles (6.111375 sq. km)… …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • Haworth, OK — U.S. town in Oklahoma Population (2000): 354 Housing Units (2000): 160 Land area (2000): 1.634518 sq. miles (4.233383 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.634518 sq. miles (4.233383 sq. km) FIPS… …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • Haworth —   [ hɔːəθ], Sir (seit 1947) Walter Norman, britischer Chemiker, * White Coppice (bei Chorley) 19. 3. 1883, ✝ Birmingham 19. 3. 1950; 1920 25 Professor am Armstrong College in Newcastle upon Tyne, 1925 48 an der Universität Birmingham. Haworth war …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Haworth [1] — Haworth (spr. hē ŭörth), Stadt im Westbezirk der engl. Grafschaft Yorkshire, bei Keighley, mit (1901) 7492 Einw.; Wohn und Sterbeort der Schriftstellerin Charlotte Bronté …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Haworth [2] — Haworth, Adrian Hardy, s. Haw …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Haworth — Sir (Walter) Norman …   Scientists

  • Haworth — Haworth, Walter Norman …   Enciclopedia Universal

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”