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1927–2004, British pharmacologist, Ph.D. Oxford, 1953. With B. I. Samuelsson and Sune K. Bergström, Vane was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physio...
(g n ´s ) (KEY) , b. 1507, d. after 1564, Indian astronomer. As a boy of 13 in a village N of Bombay, Ganesa wrote a treatise on astronomy, the Graha...
(häns r kh´t r) (KEY) , 1888–1976, American artist, b. Germany. A painter and filmmaker, Richter was influenced by cubism and Dada and was a membe...
(s m´ l ) (KEY) [Lat.,=likeness], in rhetoric, a figure of speech in which an object is explicitly compared to another object. Robert Burns’s poem...
(hûr´sh l) (KEY) , family of distinguished English astronomers.
Sir William Herschel
Sir William Herschel, 1738–1822, born Friedrich Wilhelm He...
( ndr ´ ny k l ´ v ch t p ´l f) (KEY) , 1888–1972, Soviet aeronautical engineer, educated at the Moscow Technical Institute. In 1918 he helped or...