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Peter Weir
WEIR, Peter Nationality: Australian. Born: Peter Lindsay Weir in Sydney, 8 August 1944. Education: Arts/Law coursework at University of Sydney. Family: Married Wendy Stiles, 1966, two children. Career: Worked for family real estate business, then joined television station ATN 7, Sydney,... Read more |
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Donald McAlpine
McALPINE, Donald Cinematographer. Nationality:Australian. Born:1934. Career:Nominated for Australian Film Institute Awards for Best Achievement in Cinematography for Wu ting, 1981 and The Fringe Dwellers, 1986; nominated for Golden Satellite... Read more |
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National Book Awards
National Book Awards, founded (1950) by the American Book Publishers Council, American Booksellers Association, and Book Manufacturers Institute, and after 1976 sponsored by the National Book Committee for the year's most distinguished works in the areas of Arts and Letters, Children's Literature,... Read more |
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Modern Red Schoolhouse
MODERN RED SCHOOLHOUSE The Modern Red Schoolhouse (MRSh) is part of a larger effort in the United States to design schools for the twenty-first century–schools where all students can achieve world-class academic standards. In the early 1990s, during its design and pilot phase, MRSh was... Read more |
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Judy Davis
DAVIS, Judy Nationality:Australian. Born:Perth, Australia, 23 April 1955. Family:Married the actor Colin Friels, 1984, son: Jack. Education:Attended the West Australia Institute of Technology; National Institute of Dramatic Art, Sydney. Career:Joined... Read more |
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Mel Gibson
GIBSON, Mel Nationality:American. Born:Peekskill, New York, 3 January 1956. Education:Attended National Institute of Dramatic Art, 1977. Family:Married Robyn Moore, 1980, seven children. Career:Moved to Australia in 1968; member of the State Theatre ... Read more |
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Tim Burton
BURTON, Tim Nationality:American. Born:Burbank, California, 1958. Education:Studied animation at California Institute of Arts, B.A., 1981. Family:Married Lena Gieseke, February 1989 (divorced). Career:Cartoonist since grade school in Burbank;... Read more |
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Richard Kuhn
Richard Kuhn , 1900-1967, Austrian chemist, director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Heidelberg. For his research on the carotinoids (he prepared eight of them in pure form) and on vitamins (he isolated riboflavin, or B 2 ) he was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. A Nazi decree prevented... Read more |
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National Institutes of Health
National Institutes of Health (NIH), agency of the U.S. Public Health Service, with headquarters in Bethesda, Md. It was established initially in 1887 as a laboratory in the U.S. Marine Hospital on Staten Island in New York City, and was given its present name in 1948. The NIH conducts and supports... Read more |
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The Salk Institute for Biological Studies. (Office of Surgeon General...
* The Salk Institute for Biological Studies...Calif., is being awarded a $7.7 million...cost plus fixed fee contract to produce and store...June 14, 1994. Contract funds will not expire...is a sole source contract initiated on May... |
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AIDS patent dispute settled. (Pasteur Institute, Department of Health and...
...between the Pasteur Institute in Paris and the...which was never awarded, for a test...action, the Pasteur Institute filed suit against...1985 for breach of contract, claiming that...about it.' Jonas Salk, of the Salk Institute in La... |
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GENBANK CELEBRATES 25 YEARS OF SERVICE WITH TWO-DAY CONFERENCE
...Services' National Institutes of Health issued...the National Institutes of Health...professor at the Salk Institute; Francis Collins...Craig Venter Institute. More than...In 1982, NIH awarded a five-year contract for the nucleic... |
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'Tech transfer' in Maine faulted ; Moving ideas from research to...
...facility had won a contract to manufacture clinical...vaccine for The National Institutes of Health. The vaccine...companies Federal grants awarded to Maine schools and...the Maine Technology Institute, she said. But on...Polly Murphy from the Salk Institute in San Diego - touted... |
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