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Manship, Paul Howard

(Encyclopedia) Manship, Paul Howard, 1885–1966, American sculptor, b. St. Paul, Minn., studied at St. Paul Institute of Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the American Academy at Rome.…

McBain, Howard Lee

(Encyclopedia) McBain, Howard Lee, 1880–1936, American political scientist, b. Toronto, Ont., grad. Richmond (Va.) College, 1900, Ph.D. Columbia, 1907. After teaching at George Washington and…

Temin, Howard Martin

(Encyclopedia) Temin, Howard Martin, 1934–94, American virologist, b. Philadelphia, Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 1959. A professor at the Univ. of Wisconsin in Madison, Temin began his…

Westmorland, Charles Neville, 6th earl of

(Encyclopedia) Westmorland, Charles Neville, 6th earl ofWestmorland, Charles Neville, 6th earl ofnĕvˈĭl, wĕstˈmərlənd [key], 1543–1601, English nobleman. A Roman Catholic by birth and connected with…

Harris, Patricia Roberts

(Encyclopedia) Harris, Patricia Roberts, 1924–85, U.S. government official, b. Mattoon, Ill. A lawyer who was active in the Democratic party, she was a law professor and dean at Howard Univ. during…

Lloyd, Seton Howard Frederick

(Encyclopedia) Lloyd, Seton Howard Frederick, 1902–96, English archaeologist. Trained originally as an architect, he gained his first archaeological experience in 1928 as a member of the Egypt…

Deisenhofer, Johann

(Encyclopedia) Deisenhofer, JohannDeisenhofer, Johanndīˈzənhōˌfər [key], 1943–, German chemist, Ph.D. Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, 1974. He was a researcher at the Max Planck Institute…

Droste-Hülshoff, Annette Elisabeth, Freiin von

(Encyclopedia) Droste-Hülshoff, Annette Elisabeth, Freiin or Baroness vonDroste-Hülshoff, Annette Elisabeth, Freiin or Baroness vonänĕtˈə ālēˈzäbĕt frīˈĭn fən drôsˈtə-hülsˈhôf [key], 1797–1848,…

Biographies of Famous African Americans

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