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Jonas Edward Salk
Jonas Edward Salk 1914-95, American physician and microbiologist, b. New York City, B.S. College of the City of New York, 1934, M.D. New York Univ. College of Medicine, 1939. He did research on the influenza virus at the Univ. of Michigan, in 1946 became assistant professor of epidemiology there,... Read more |
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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... Read more |
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Louis Isadore Kahn
Louis Isadore Kahn , 1901-74, American architect, b. Estonia. He and his family moved to Philadelphia in 1905, and he later studied at the Univ. of Pennsylvania. From the 1920s through World War II, Kahn worked on numerous housing projects including Carver Court (1944), in Coatesville, Pa. He also... Read more |
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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... Read more |
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ACKROYD, Peter Nationality: British. Born: London, 5 October 1949. Education: St. Benedict's, Ealing, 1960-67; Clare College, Cambridge, 1968-71; Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (Mellon fellow), 1971-73. Career: Literary editor, 1973-77, and joint managing editor, 1978-81, the... Read more |
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Sandy Weill
Sandy Weill 1933– Chairman, Citigroup Nationality: American. Born: March 16, 1933, in Brooklyn, New York. Family: Son of Max Weill (a dressmaking-business owner) and Etta Kalika; married Joan Mosher (1955); children: two. Career: Bear Stearns, 1955, runner; 1955–1956,... Read more |
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University of Quebec
University of Quebec administrative center at Sainte Foy, Que., Canada; provincially supported; French language; founded 1968. Its largest campus is at Montreal and there are also campuses at Trois Rivières, Chicoutimi, Rimouski, Hull, and Rouyn. The university maintains a school of... Read more |
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Ralston Purina Company
Ralston Purina Company Checkerboard SquareSt. Louis, Missouri 63164U.S.A.(314) 982-1000Fax: (314) 982-2134 Public Company Incorporated: 1894 as Robinson-Danforth CommissionCompanyEmployees: 54,099Sales: $5.76 billionStock Exchanges: New York Midwest PacificSICs: 2047 Dog and Cat Food; 3691... Read more |
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Stanley ONeal
E. Stanley O'Neal1951– Chairman, chief executive officer, and president of Merrill Lynch Nationality: American. Born: October 7, 1951, in Roanoke, Alabama. Education: Kettering University, BS, 1974; Harvard University, MBA, Finance, 1978. Family: Married Nancy A. Garvey (economist and former... Read more |
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Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina1954family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">– Chairwoman, chief executive officer, and president, Hewlett-Packard Company Nationality: American. Born: September 6, 1954, in Austin, Texas. Education: Stanford University, BA, 1976; Robert H. Smith School of Business at University of... Read more |
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