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Warner, H. B.

(Henry Bryan Warner Lickford) actorBirthplace: LondonBorn: 1876Died: 1958

Erikson, Erik H.

psychoanalystBirthplace: Frankfurt, GermanyBorn: 1902Died: 1994

Walter H. Brattain

Walter H. Brattain Born: 1902 Birthplace: Amoy, China Transistor—Bardeen, Shockley and Brattain shared the 1956 Nobel…

Ernest H. Volwiler

Ernest H. Volwiler Born: 1893 Birthplace: Hamilton, Ohio Thio-barbituric acid derivatives—Volwiler and Tabern came up…

Joseph H. Burckhalter

Joseph H. BurckhalterBorn: 1912Birthplace: Columbia, S.C. Dyes for diagnosing infectious diseases—Burckhalter and Seiwald synthesized fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC), an antibody labeling…

Lloyd H. Conover

Lloyd H. Conover Born: 1923Birthplace: Orange, N.J. Tetracycline—Conover's invention of tetracycline in 1952 was the first creation of an antibiotic made by chemically modifying a naturally-…

Kenneth H. Olsen

Kenneth H. OlsenBorn: 1926Birthplace: Stratford, Conn. Magnetic core memory—Olsen and his Digital Equipment Corporation developed the first successful minicomputer. Digital also developed the…

Robert H. Rines

Robert H. RinesBorn: 1922Birthplace: Boston, Mass. High resolution-image-scanning radar and sonar—Rines' radar and sonar inventions have been used by the military in the Persian Gulf War. In…

George H. Babcock

George H. BabcockBorn: 1832 Water tube steam boiler—Thomas Edison once proclaimed it to be “…the best boiler God has permitted man yet to make.” Even today, nearly half of the electricity…

Jordan, David Starr

(Encyclopedia) Jordan, David Starr, 1851–1931, American scientist and educator, b. Gainesville, N.Y., M.S. Cornell, 1872, M.D. Indiana Medical College, 1875, and studied under Louis Agassiz at…