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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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Journal of Holistic Health
Journal of Holistic Health A defunct publication that dealt with New Age teachings of a comprehensive and integrated approach to life, combining diet, environmental concern, personal responsibility, and spiritual growth. Contributors included Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, Olga Worrall, Ruth Carter... Read more |
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Frederick Chapman Robbins
Weller, Thomas (1915- ) American physician Thomas Weller was corecipient, with John F. Enders and Frederick Robbins, of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1954. This award was given for the trio's successful growth of the poliomyelitis (polio) virus in a non-neural tissue culture ... 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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San Diego
San Diego , city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. Economy San Diego is the second largest city in California and the seventh largest... 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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Mechanics Institutes
MECHANICS' INSTITUTES MECHANICS' INSTITUTES. Along with lyceums, apprentices' libraries, and other organizations that emphasized self-improvement through education in science, mechanics' institutes grew out of the reform spirit of the early nineteenth century. Many institutes—including the... Read more |
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Pneumatology
Pneumatology Pneumatology refers to either the Christian doctrine of the nature and work of the Holy Spirit, or the study of human beliefs in spiritual beings. The term pneumatology also refers to the scientific study of air or gases. The Greek word pneuma suggests both wind and smell, as well... Read more |
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Antiquities Act
Antiquities act of 1906 Robert H. McLaughlin Signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt, the Antiquities Act of 1906 (P.L. 59-209, 34 Stat. 225) became the first major federal legislation to govern archaeology in the United States. The act prohibits the removal of antiquities from federal lands... Read more |
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