Professor Anderson, an early director and guiding figure behind the success of the Space Sciences Laboratory is pictured here.
Mr. Koolhaas, by contrast, has been a guiding figure in architecture since 1978, when he published "Delirious New York," an urban history of the 20th century's capital city.
"Look, the demonstrations don't have a leader, a party or some guiding figure, so we wanted to do this in the most natural way possible".
Although Osama bin Laden, the founder of Al Qaeda, has become the public face of Islamic terrorism, the members of Islamic Jihad and its guiding figure, Ayman al-Zawahiri, have provided the backbone of the larger organization's leadership.
And after Hamas recently captured the Salafists' guiding figure, Abu Walid al-Maqdisi, another group of Salafists declared that foreigners in Gaza were fair game for kidnapping.Where Salafists have greater latitude, they are trying out new methods.
In 1920 she was the guiding figure in the small but distinguished group of dance personalities who worked to establish an organization that would set and enforce standards in ballet teaching.
In the '80s house music became a cornerstone at discos like the Paradise Garage (where Mr. Levan was a D.J). and David Mancuso's Loft, where they mixed with a wide array of styles, contributing to an aural and social diversity that helped invent the concept of modern clubs and the D.J. as the nighttime's guiding figure.
He had been described as a venture capitalist and the guiding figure in the family's charitable giving, much of which goes to educational programs, and was a co-founder of the Children's Scholarship Fund, which helps needy grade-school students afford private school tuition.
After the communist takeover of 1949, Qian Xuesen, who had worked at GALCIT in the 1940s and helped found JPL, returned to China, where he became the guiding figure in the development of Chinese missiles and launch vehicles, both originally derived from a Soviet ICBM.
After the communist takeover of 1949, the Chinese engineer Qian Xuesen, who had helped found the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., U.S., returned to China, where he became the guiding figure in the development of Chinese missiles and launch vehicles, both originally derived from a Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile.
