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Census of Marine Life
Census of Marine Life an international program to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of living organisms in the oceans. A 10-year project involving scientists in more than 70 nations, the census began in 2001 and is directed by an international scientific steering committ...
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Francis Harry Compton Crick
Francis Harry Compton Crick 1916-2004, English scientist, grad. University College, London, and Caius College, Cambridge. Crick was trained as a physicist, and from 1940 to 1947 he served as a scientist in the admiralty, where he designed circuitry for naval mines. At Cambridge after 1947, he train...
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Charles Booth
Charles Booth 1840-1916, English social investigator, pioneer in developing the social survey method. Aided by the notable social scientist Beatrice Potter Webb , he made an exhaustive statistical study of poverty in London, showing its extent, causes, and location. This was published as Life and...
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Christian Science
Christian Science religion founded upon principles of divine healing and laws expressed in the acts and sayings of Jesus, as discovered and set forth by Mary Baker Eddy and practiced by the Church of Christ, Scientist. The church teaches that God is good and the only reality, and that sin, evil, ...
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Sir Francis Galton
Sir Francis Galton , 1822-1911, English scientist, founder of eugenics; cousin of Charles Darwin . He turned from exploration and meteorology (where he introduced the theory of the anticyclone ) to the study of heredity and eugenics (a term that he coined). Galton devised the correlation coeffic...
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Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins 1861-1947, English biochemist, educated at Cambridge and the Univ. of London. He was professor of biochemistry at Cambridge (1914-43). Among his contributions were important studies in carbohydrate metabolism and muscular activity, including the discovery of the relati...
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Quaternary period
Quaternary period , younger of the two geologic periods of the Cenozoic era of geologic time (see Geologic Timescale , table) from 2 millon years ago to the present. Comprising all geologic time from the end of the Tertiary period to the present, it is divided into the Pleistocene and Holoce...
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stigmata
stigmata [plural of stigma, from Gr.,=brand], wounds or marks on a person resembling the five wounds received by Jesus at the crucifixion. Some 300 cases of stigmatization have been attested, nearly all of them being women. St. Francis of Assisi was the first known stigmatic. According to contemp...
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Surtsey
Surtsey volcanic island, c.1.25 sq mi (3.2 sq km), S of Iceland in Vestmannaeyjar (Westman Islands). The island was formed by the eruption (Nov., 1963) of Sutur, an underwater volcano named for a giant of Icelandic legend. For four months the fissure, estimated to be c.1,500 ft (460 m) long, emitte...
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C. P. Snow
C. P. Snow (Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow of Leicester), 1905-80, English author and physicist. Snow had an active, varied career, including several important positions in the British government. He served as technical director of the ministry of labor from 1940 to 1944; as civil service commissio...
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