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Louise Bourgeois (French midwife)
Louyse Bourgeois Louyse (or Louise) Bourgeois (c. 1563–1636) was a medical pioneer who paved the way for the modern profession of nurse–midwifery. As royal midwife in the early 16th century to King Henry IV of France and his wife Marie de Médicis, Bourgeois raised.... Read more |
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Edwin Herbert Land
Edwin Herbert Land 1909-91, American inventor and photographic pioneer. While at Harvard, Land became interested in the properties and manipulation of polarized light. He left Harvard and, in 1932, created Polaroid J Sheet, a polarizing material that was inexpensive and easy to fabricate. In... Read more |
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Laila Ali
Laila Ali1977— Boxer From the shadow of her famous father, Muhammad Ali, Laila "She Bee Stingin'" Ali emerged as a pioneer in boxing in her own rite. Ali refused to rely on name-recognition alone; she took the boxing world by storm, using grace, athleticism, and determination to pave the way not... Read more |
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Draper
Draper (1811–82)Englishscientist, father of H.Draper; he moved to the USA in 1832. Draper was a pioneer photographer. In the winter of 1839/40 he obtained the first daguerreotype (early form of photograph) of the Moon, in which the maria were distinctly visible. In 1843 he took what is... Read more |
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Pioneer Electronic Corp
Pioneer Electronic Corporation 4-1, Meguro 1-chomeMeguro-kuTokyo 153-8654Japan(03) 3494-1111Fax: (03) 3495-4428Web site: http://www.pioneer.co.jp Public CompanyIncorporated : 1947 as Fukuin Electric Works, Ltd.Employees : 20,470Sales : |
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William Ellis
William Ellis 1794-1872, English missionary, pioneer of printing in the Pacific. Sent in 1816 to Polynesia as a nonconformist missionary, he set up at Tahiti the first printing press in the South Seas. He developed a form of writing for the Hawaiian language, and included in his works valuable... Read more |
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Pietro Angelo Secchi
Pietro Angelo Secchi , 1818-78, Italian astronomer, a Jesuit priest. He was director of the observatory of the Gregorian Univ., Rome, from 1849. He is known especially for his work in spectroscopy and was a pioneer in classifying stars by their spectra. In 1860 he made some notable solar-eclipse... Read more |
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Abate Filippo Baldinucci
Abate Filippo Baldinucci , 1624-96, Italian art historian and philologist. Baldinucci was a pioneer in research techniques and among the first to emphasize the aesthetic importance of the print. An artistic adviser to the Medici court, he also wrote the first dictionary of art terminology. His... Read more |
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