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Daniel Nathans Biography
Daniel NathansAge: 71 geneticist and a pioneer in biotechnology who shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of…Charles Goodyear Biography
Charles Goodyear inventor of vulcanized rubberBorn: 12/29/1800Birthplace: New Haven, Conn. Early failures in business led him to carry on his experiments into finding a way to prevent rubber…Certificate of Need Programs
The Question: Why and when was the Certificate of Need (CON) created? The Answer: Certificate of Need (CON) programs are used today by 37 states…Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Approved and proposed for signature and ratification or accession by General Assembly resolution 260 A (III) of 9 December 1948; entry into force 12 January 1951, in accordance with article…Roe v. Wade (1973)
Historical BackgroundSince the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade, the legal, moral, and political controversy surrounding the abortion issue has polarized the American public. Two camps…Computer Terms: D - F
databaseA collection of similar information stored in a file, such as a database of addresses. This information may be created and stored in a database management system (DBMS). debugSlang.…Robert N. Noyce
Robert N. Noyce Born: 1927Birthplace: Iowa Semiconductor device-and-lead structure—Noyce, as research director of Fairchild Semiconductor, was responsible for the initial development of silicon mesa…Robert Gore Biography
Robert Gore Born: 1937 Birthplace: Salt Lake City, Utah ePTFE—Gore invented a new form of polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) widely known by the…For More Information
There is no “international copyright” that will automatically protect an author's work throughout the entire world. Protection against unauthorized use in a particular country depends basically on…Louis Néel 2000 Deaths
Louis NéelAge: 95 French physicist who won a Nobel Prize in physics in 1970 for “fundamental work and discoveries concerning antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism which have led to important…Trending
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