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Steven V. CARTER, Congress, IA (1915-1959)

CARTER, Steven V., a Representative from Iowa; born in Carterville, Utah, October 8, 1915; at the age of 14 years moved with his parents to Lamoni, Decatur County, Iowa, and attended the…

Steven Harvey SCHIFF, Congress, NM (1947-1998)

SCHIFF, Steven Harvey, a Representative from New Mexico; born in Chicago, Ill.; March 18, 1947; B.A., University of Illinois, Chicago, Ill., 1968; J.D., University of New Mexico Law School,…

Glashow, Sheldon Lee

(Encyclopedia) Glashow, Sheldon LeeGlashow, Sheldon Leeglăshˈō [key], 1932–, American physicist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Harvard, 1959. He became a professor at the Univ. of California at Berkeley in…

Phillips, William Daniel

(Encyclopedia) Phillips, William Daniel, 1948–, American physicist, b. Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976. He has been a researcher at the National Institute of…

Cohen-Tannoudji, Claude Nessim

(Encyclopedia) Cohen-Tannoudji, Claude Nessim, 1933–, French physicist, b. Algeria, Ph.D. École Normale Supérieure, Paris, 1962. He has continued his research at the École Normale Supérieure, and was…

Mann, Sally

(Encyclopedia) Mann, Sally, 1951–, American photographer, b. Lexington, Va., as Sally Munger, studied Bennington College, Hollins College (B.A. 1974, M.A. 1975). Interested in older photographic…

White, Patrick

(Encyclopedia) White, Patrick, 1912–90, Australian novelist, b. London. Raised in England and educated at Cambridge, he returned to Australia after World War II, earning his living by farming and…

Brooke, Sir James

(Encyclopedia) Brooke, Sir James, 1803–68, rajah of Sarawak on Borneo, b. India, of English parents. After active service in Burma (1825–26), he retired (1830) from the army of the East India Company…

Biko, Steve

(Encyclopedia) Biko, Steve (Steven Biko) Biko, Steve bēˈkō [key], 1946–77, South African political leader. A medical…