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Julius Lothar Meyer
Julius Lothar Meyer 1830-95, German chemist. He taught at Breslau, Karlsruhe, and Tübingen (from 1876) and is known especially for his work in the development of the periodic law , for which, with Mendeleev, he received the Davy medal in 1882. He evolved the atomic volume curve (1869), which ...
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Lothar De Maizière
Lothar De Maizière , 1940-, the first and last freely elected prime minister of the (East) German Democratic Republic. He joined the puppet Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in 1957 and the federal Synod of Protestant Churches, becoming its vice president in 1985. He was minister of religious ...
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Alfred Lothar Wegener
Alfred Lothar Wegener , 1880-1930, German geologist, meteorologist, and Arctic explorer. Early in his life, he was on the staff of the aeronautical observatory at Lindenberg; was a professor of geophysics and meteorology at Hamburg from 1919 to 1924; was professor of meteorology at the Univ. of Graz...
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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev , 1834-1907, Russian chemist. He is famous for his formulation (1869) of the periodic law and the invention of the periodic table , a classification of the elements; with Lothar Meyer , who had independently reached similar conclusions, he was awarded the Davy medal in...
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periodic law
periodic law statement of a periodic recurrence of chemical and physical properties of the elements when the elements are arranged in order of increasing atomic number . Such an arrangement in the form of a table in which the groupings of elements having similar properties are easily identified ...
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Lion Feuchtwanger
Lion Feuchtwanger
Lion Feuchtwanger (1884-1958), a distinguished member of the post-World War I German literary scene, lived and wrote in political exile for the last quarter-century of his life. His masterwork, Success, is one of the great novels of the 20th century.
Lion Feuchtwanger was b...
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Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Johann Nepomuk Hummel , 1778-1837, Hungarian-born pianist and composer. In piano technique and improvisatory ability Hummel was thought to rival Beethoven. His compositions—124 opus numbers, many written for piano and chamber groups—represent a link between the classical and romantic sty...
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Saint John of Nepomuk
Saint John of Nepomuk , d. 1393, patron saint of Bohemia, a martyr. He is also called John Nepomucen. He was vicar general of Bohemia under King Wenceslaus IV (later Holy Roman Emperor Wenceslaus). When the king wished uncanonically to convert an abbey into a cathedral, St. John opposed him, in spit...
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Wenzel Anton Kaunitz, Fürst von
Wenzel Anton Kaunitz, Fürst von , 1711-94, Austrian statesman. He distinguished himself as a negotiator of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748) and was (1750-53) ambassador to Paris. From 1753 until his retirement in 1792 he served the Hapsburg rulers, Maria Theresa, Joseph II, and Leopold II, ...
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Johann Nepomuk Nestroy
Johann Nepomuk Nestroy , 1802-62, Austrian dramatist and actor. A successful performer in comedies and operettas, he later proved himself a brilliant writer of farces and satires. He wrote over 60 plays, including Lumpacivagabundus (1833), a parody of Raimund's Verschwender ; On the Ground Floor...
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