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Smith, George Elwood
(Encyclopedia) Smith, George Elwood, 1930–, American physicist, b. White Plains, N.Y., Ph.D., Univ. of Chicago, 1959. Smith was a researcher at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., from 1959 until…Smith, William
(Encyclopedia) Smith, William, 1769–1839, English geologist. Through direct observation as a canal-site surveyor, Smith made a systematic study of the geological strata of England and identified the…Lisburn
(Encyclopedia) LisburnLisburnlĭzˈbûrnˌ, lĭsˈ– [key], town (1991 pop. 40,391) and district, E Northern Ireland, on the Lagan River. The town's chief industry, linen manufacture, was introduced by the…Easton
(Encyclopedia) Easton, city (2020 pop. 27,087), seat of Northampton co., E. Pa., at the junction of the Delaware and Lehigh rivers; founded 1751 by…Kendall, Henry Way
(Encyclopedia) Kendall, Henry Way, 1926–99, American physicist. A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kendall won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman and Richard…Taylor, Alan John Percivale
(Encyclopedia) Taylor, Alan John Percivale, 1906–90, English historian, primarily interested in diplomatic and Central European history. Educated at Oxford, he became a fellow of Magdalen College in…Bill Talbert Biography
Bill TalbertAge: 80 Hall of Fame tennis champion who won four men's doubles titles with Gardnar Mulloy and four mixed doubles titles with Margaret Osborne duPont at the United States…The Morality of Birth Control
by Margaret Sanger The meeting tonight is a postponement of one which was to have taken place at the Town Hall last Sunday evening. It was to be a culmination of a three day…Cole, Margaret Isabel (Postgate)
(Encyclopedia) Cole, Margaret Isabel (Postgate): see Cole, George Douglas Howard.Smith, Ian Douglas
(Encyclopedia) Smith, Ian Douglas, 1919–2007, Rhodesian political leader. A cattle farmer who was the son of a Scottish immigrant, he served in the Southern Rhodesia legislative assembly from 1948…Trending
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