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Joyce Chen Biography
Joyce ChenchefBirthplace: China Chen and her husband Thomas fled China in 1949 when the Communists took over. They settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1958 Chen opened a Chinese…Joan Chen Biography
Joan Chenactress, directorBorn: 4/26/1961Birthplace: Shanghai, China Chen has found critical and commercial success in Hollywood, Hong Kong, and China. Her film career began in China, at age 14, when…Ovshinsky, Stanford Robert
(Encyclopedia) Ovshinsky, Stanford Robert, 1922–2012, American inventor and scientist, b. Akron, Ohio. Self-taught, he developed a new type of lathe in the 1940s, the first of many innovations and…Chen-chiang
(Encyclopedia) Chen-chiang: see Zhenjiang, China.Shen-chen
(Encyclopedia) Shen-chen: see Shenzhen, China.Ching-te-chen
(Encyclopedia) Ching-te-chen, China: see Jingdezhen.Roselle
(Encyclopedia) RoselleRosellerōzĕlˈ [key], borough (1990 pop. 20,314), Union co., NE N.J.; set off from Linden 1890 and inc. 1894. Chiefly residential, the borough has some industry. Thomas Edison…Yang, Chen-ning
(Encyclopedia) Yang, Chen-ningYang, Chen-ningchĕn-nĭng yäng [key], 1922–, American physicist, b. China, Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1948. Yang was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at…Sunbury
(Encyclopedia) Sunbury, city (1990 pop. 11,591), seat of Northumberland co., E central Pa., on the Susquehanna River at the confluence of its north and west branches; laid out 1772, inc. 1921. It is…Sprague, Frank Julian
(Encyclopedia) Sprague, Frank JulianSprague, Frank Juliansprāg [key], 1857–1934, American electrical engineer, b. Milford, Conn., grad. Annapolis, 1878. He was an assistant to Thomas Edison in 1883…Trending
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