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David Baltimore
David Baltimore , 1938-, American microbiologist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Rockefeller Univ., 1964. He conducted (1965-68) virology research at the Salk Institute before becoming a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972. In 1970 he and his wife Alice Huang discovered a virus cause...
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Howard Martin Temin
Howard Martin Temin 1934-94, American virologist, b. Philadelphia, Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 1959. A professor at the Univ. of Wisconsin in Madison, Temin began his cancer research while still a student, working with his professor Renato Dulbecco and fellow student David Baltimor...
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Maryland
Maryland , one of the Middle Atlantic states of the United States. It is bounded by Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean (E), the District of Columbia (S), Virginia and West Virginia (S, W), and Pennsylvania (N).
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Area, 10,577 sq mi (27,394 sq km). Pop. (2000) 5,296,468, a ...
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Lansdowne
Lansdowne 1 Uninc. town (1990 pop. 15,509), Baltimore co., NE Md., a suburb of Baltimore. 2 Borough (1990 pop. 11,712), Delaware co., SE Pa., a residential suburb of Philadelphia; inc. 1893. Paper products are manufactured.
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Baltimore
Baltimore city (1990 pop. 736,014), N central Md., surrounded by but politically independent of Baltimore co., on the Patapsco River estuary, an arm of Chesapeake Bay; inc. 1745. The largest city in the state, it is a commercial and industrial center, a major railhead, and a seaport with extensive ...
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John Bordley Rawls
John Bordley Rawls 1921-2002, American philosopher and political theorist, b. Baltimore, grad. Princeton (A.B., 1943; Ph.D., 1950). He taught at Princeton (1950-52), Cornell (1953-59), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1960-62) before becoming (1962) professor of philosophy at Harvard....
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George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore
George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore c.1580-1632, colonizer. In 1606 he became private secretary to Sir Robert Cecil, then a secretary of state. His advance was rapid. In 1609 he became a member of Parliament, in 1613 clerk of the privy council, and in 1619 secretary of state and a member of the pri...
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Charles Calvert, 3d Baron Baltimore
Charles Calvert, 3d Baron Baltimore 1637-1715, second proprietor of Maryland. He was sent over as deputy governor of that province in 1661 by his father, Cecilius Calvert, 2d Baron Baltimore, and at his father's death in 1675 succeeded to the proprietorship. A Roman Catholic faced by an overwhelmin...
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Towson
Towson , uninc. city (1990 pop. 49,445), seat of Baltimore co., N Md., a residential and industrial suburb of Baltimore; settled c.1750. An important suburban business and government center, the city has varied manufactures. It is the seat of Goucher College and Towson Univ. Nearby Hampton National ...
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University System of Maryland
University System of Maryland state-supported system of higher education in Maryland, est. 1988 as the University of Maryland System, renamed 1997. It includes all but two of the publicly supported colleges and universities in the state: Bowie State Univ; Coppin State College; Frostburg State Univ....
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