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Robert Maxwell
Robert Maxwell (Ian Robert Maxwell), 1923-91, British business executive, b. Czechoslovakia as Jan Ludwik Hoch. He grew up in a tight-knit Jewish community. After fleeing the Nazis in 1939, Maxwell fought with the British during World War II. In 1951, he purchased Pergamon Press, a publisher of tex...
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George Francis Fitzgerald
George Francis Fitzgerald 1851-1901, Irish physicist. Fitzgerald was born in Dublin and studied and taught at Trinity College there. He is best known for suggesting how the ether , by causing the contraction of bodies moving through it, could account for the null results of the Michelson-Morley ex...
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Taiping
Taiping , city (1991 pop. 186,791), Perak, Malaysia, central Malay Peninsula. Once the leading tin-mining center of Malaya, it has been supplanted by the Kinta Valley. The city is picturesquely situated at the foot of Bukit Maxwell (formerly Maxwell's Hill; alt. c.3,400 ft/1,040 m), a noted hill sta...
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William Keepers Maxwell, Jr.
William Keepers Maxwell, Jr. 1908-2000, American novelist, short-story writer, and editor, b. Lincoln, Ill. Educated at the Univ. of Illinois and Harvard, he began his career as a teacher, but soon turned to writing. In his fiction the discreet and courtly Maxwell often handled such traditional the...
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Maxwell Bodenheim
Maxwell Bodenheim , 1893-1954, American novelist and poet, b. Hermanville, Miss. His poetry, which incorporates many techniques of the imagists , is cynical and often dwells on the grotesque. Important volumes of his verse are Minna and Myself (1918), Against This Age (1925), and Selected Poem...
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Walter Percy Chrysler
Walter Percy Chrysler , 1875-1940, American industrialist, founder of the Chrysler Corp., b. Wamego, Kans. He began as a machinist's apprentice and rose within the industry to become vice president in charge of operations at General Motors in 1919. In 1920 he undertook the reorganization of the Will...
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electrodynamics
electrodynamics study of phenomena associated with charged bodies in motion and varying electric and magnetic fields (see charge ; electricity ); since a moving charge produces a magnetic field , electrodynamics is concerned with effects such as magnetism , electromagnetic radiation , and elec...
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ether
ether or aether, in physics and astronomy, a hypothetical medium for transmitting light and heat (radiation), filling all unoccupied space; it is also called luminiferous ether. In Newtonian physics all waves are propagated through a medium, e.g., water waves through water, sound waves through ...
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Maxwell Davenport Taylor
Maxwell Davenport Taylor 1901-87, U.S. general, b. Keytesville, Mo., grad. West Point, 1922. In World War II he served in Europe with the 82d Airborne Division and as commander of the 101st Airborne Division. After serving as superintendent of West Point (1945-49) and U.S. commander in Berlin (1949...
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Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz , 1857-94, German physicist. He confirmed J. C. Maxwell's electromagnetic theory and in the course of experiments (1886-89) produced and studied electromagnetic waves (known also as hertzian waves, or radio waves). He demonstrated that these are long, transverse waves that trav...
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