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Rhine Research Center
Rhine Research Center The Rhine Research Center is a nonprofit organization devoted to parapsychological research and education. Established as the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man in 1962 by J. B. Rhine and renamed in 1995, the RRC comprises two subsidiaries: The Institute for... Read more |
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Barbara McClintock
Barbara McClintock 1902-92, American geneticist. She discovered that certain genetic material, "transposable elements" or "jumping genes" (now called transposons), shifted its location in the chromosomes from generation to generation. At first ignored, her research was later recognized as a... Read more |
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William David Coolidge
William David Coolidge 1873-1975, American physical chemist, b. Hudson, Mass., grad. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1896. He joined the General Electric Company in 1905 and served as director of its research laboratory (1932-40) and as vice president and director of research (1940-44). He... Read more |
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bohrium
bohrium , artificially produced radioactive chemical element; symbol Bh; at. no. 107; mass number of most stable isotope 262; m.p., b.p., sp. gr., and valence unknown. Situated in Group 7 of the periodic table , it is expected to have properties similar to those of the rare metal rhenium . In... Read more |
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Longitudinal Study
Longitudinal study Research method used to study changes over time. Researchers in such fields as developmental psychology use longitudinal studies to study changes in individual or group behavior over an extended period of time by repeatedly monitoring the same subjects. In longitudinal... Read more |
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Ernest Orlando Lawrence
Ernest Orlando Lawrence 1901-58, American physicist, b. Canton, S. Dak., grad. Univ. of South Dakota, 1922, Ph.D. Yale, 1925. Affiliated with the Univ. of California from 1928 onward, he became a professor in 1930 and director of its radiation laboratory in 1936. For his invention (1930) and... Read more |
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Industrial research
INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH. The emergence and growth of industrial research and development during the twentieth century must rank as one of the most important economic developments in modern American history. There is no doubt that technological innovation is the primary driver of... Read more |
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the lead federal agency for research on improving the quality of health care, reducing its cost, and broadening access to appropriate... Read more |
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