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(py ´tr än´j l s k´k ) (KEY) , 1818–78, Italian astronomer, a Jesuit priest. He was director of the observatory of the Gregorian Univ., Rome, ...
(lw zhäN mär ´ d bäNtôN´) (KEY) , 1716–1800, French naturalist. He was a professor at the Collège de France from 1778; his work touched many...
1923–, American poet, b. Jamaica, grad. Columbia (B.S., 1948; Ph.D., 1959). He began teaching at the Univ. of California at Berkeley in 1959. Using ...
(r b r´ näNtö´y ) (KEY) , 1623?–1678, French draftsman and engraver. His pastel portraits gained him popularity, and in 1658 Louis XIV made him ...
1936–, American radio astronomer, b. Houston, Tex., Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 1962. In 1964 he and co-researcher Arno Penzias began ...
1897–1987, German chemist, Ph.D. Univ. of Marburg, 1926. During his career, Wittig was a professor at the universities of Braunschweig, Freiburg, TÃ...