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1789–1859, American astronomer, b. Portland, Maine. He early aided his father in the trades of silversmith and clockmaker in Boston. He soon became ...
1937–45, conflict between Japanese and Chinese forces for control of the Chinese mainland. The war sapped the Nationalist government’s strength wh...
(zhôz f´ zh r m´ l fräNs ´ d läläNd´) (KEY) , 1732–1807, French astronomer. Under the direction of the French Academy of Science, he went t...
1757–1842, U.S. government official, b. Lancaster, Pa. Admitted to the bar in 1786, he practiced law in Baltimore before serving in the Maryland sta...
Polycletus, or Polyclitus (p l kl ´t s, –kl ´–, –kl –) (KEY) , two Greek sculptors of the school of Argos. Polykleitos, the elder, fl. c.450...
1939–, Canadian-American molecular biologist, b. Montreal, Ph.D., Univ. of Colorado, 1967. A professor at Yale Univ. since 1971, he discovered that ...