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1858–1938, American astronomer, b. Boston, grad. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S., 1879). He taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Tec...
(sk ´k ) (KEY) , village (1990 pop. 59,432), Cook co., NE Ill., an industrial suburb adjacent to Chicago; inc. 1888. Its varied products include comm...
(m ´r n) (KEY) , fl. 5th cent. B.C., Greek sculptor. He is supposed to have been a pupil of Ageladas of Argos, but he worked largely in Athens. Sculp...
(ärt vän d r n r) (KEY) , c.1603–77, Dutch landscape painter. Working mostly in Amsterdam, he excelled in painting unusual light effects, such as ...
1910–94, English chemist and X-ray crystallographer, b. Egypt. She received the 1964 Nobel Prize in chemistry for determining the structure of bioch...
or Raphael Sanzio, Ital. Raffaello Santi or Raffaello Sanzio (räf´´fä l´l sän´t , sän´tsy ) (KEY) , 1483–1520, major Italian Renaissance p...