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Lee, Yuan Tseh

(Encyclopedia)Lee, Yuan Tseh yo͞o-änˈ dzûˈ lēˈ [key], 1936–, Taiwanese-American chemist, Ph.D. Univ. of California at Berkeley, 1965. In 1986, Lee shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Dudley R. Herschb...

Mansfield, Sir Peter

(Encyclopedia)Mansfield, Sir Peter, 1933–2017, British physicist, Ph.D. Queen Mary College, London, 1962. He was a professor at the Univ. of Nottingham from 1964 to 1994. In 2003 Mansfield shared the Nobel Prize ...

Kovalevsky, Sonya

(Encyclopedia)Kovalevsky, Sonya or Sophie kōˌvəlĕfˈskē [key], 1850–91, Russian mathematician. She studied at the universities of Heidelberg and Berlin (under K. T. Weierstrass) and in 1874 received a Ph.D. ...

Krausz, Ferenc

(Encyclopedia)Ferenc Krausz, 1962– , b. Mór, Hungary, Hungarian physicist, studied at Eötvös Loránd University and Technical University of Budapest in Hungary ...

Krogh, Schack August Steenberg

(Encyclopedia)Krogh, Schack August Steenberg shäk ouˈgo͝ost stānˈbĕrg krôkh [key], 1874–1949, Danish physiologist. He taught at the Univ. of Copenhagen (1916–45) and studied respiration, circulation, and...

Theiler, Max

(Encyclopedia)Theiler, Max mäks tīlˈər [key], 1899–1972, South African–American research physician, b. Pretoria, educated at the Univ. of Cape Town, St. Thomas's Hospital (London), and the London School of ...

Reymont, Władysław Stanisław

(Encyclopedia)Reymont, Władysław Stanisław vlädĭsˈläf stänēsˈläf rāˈmônt [key], 1867?–1925, Polish short-story writer and novelist. Reymont's poverty-stricken farm childhood and his early manhood as...

Richardson, Sir Owen Willans

(Encyclopedia)Richardson, Sir Owen Willans, 1879–1959, British physicist, Ph.D. University College, London, 1904. He was a professor at Princeton from 1906 to 1913 and at King's College London from 1914 until his...

Roentgen, Wilhelm Conrad

(Encyclopedia)Roentgen or Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad both: rĕntˈgĭn, rŭntˈ–, Ger. vĭlˈhĕlm kônˈrät röntˈgən [key], 1845–1923, German physicist. His notable research in many fields of physics, especi...

Siegbahn, Kai Manne Borje

(Encyclopedia)Siegbahn, Kai Manne Borje, 1918–2007, Swedish physicist, son of Karl Siegbahn. He earned his doctorate at the Univ. of Stockholm in 1944 and later taught at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockh...