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1925–, American biochemist, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., B.S. Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., 1946, M.D. Columbia, 1951, Ph.D. Oxford, 1957. From 1957 to 19...
(fr d´r kh v l´h lm b s´ l) (KEY) , 1784–1846, German astronomer and mathematician. He became (1810) director of the new observatory at Königsbe...
1857–1923, American astronomer, b. Nashville, Tenn., grad. Vanderbilt Univ., 1887. From 1887 to 1895 he was astronomer at Lick Observatory in Califo...
( r ´stärkh p lôn´ v ch by l pôl´sk ) (KEY) , 1854–1934, Russian astrophysicist, grad. Univ. of Moscow (1877). He worked at the Moscow Observ...
1825–65, American astronomer, b. near Boston, grad. Harvard, 1845. He became the assistant of his father, William Cranch Bond, and in 1859 succeeded...
(lw bl r ´) (KEY) , 1872–1936, French aviator and inventor. He devoted the fortune acquired by his invention of an automobile searchlight to the ...