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(v shwän´ät prä´täp s ng) (KEY) , 1931–, Indian politician and prime minister (1989–90). As finance minister under Rajiv Gandhi (1984–87) ...
(py r shärl l môny ´) (KEY) , 1715–99, French astronomer. For many years he was professor of physics at the Collège de France. He studied the mo...
1799–1831, American explorer, one of the greatest of the mountain men, b. near Binghamton, N.Y. Early in 1824, Smith took a party through South Pass...
(fränts s ´g l) (KEY) , 1824–1902, Union general in the American Civil War, b. Sinsheim, Baden, Germany. An officer in the army of Baden, he was a...
1904–89, American chemist, b. Busan, Korea, M.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1927. After finishing his studies, Pedersen began work as a ...
(pô´sh s) (KEY) , fl. 1st half of 4th cent. B.C., Greek painter. He was celebrated for his decorative paintings, particularly in encaustic, a metho...