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Kydland, Finn Erling

(Encyclopedia)Kydland, Finn Erling, 1943–, Norwegian economist, Ph.D Carnegie Mellon Univ., 1973. He has taught at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (since 1973), Carnegie Mellon Univ....

Lauterbur, Paul Christian

(Encyclopedia)Lauterbur, Paul Christian, 1929–2007, American chemist, b. Sidney, Ohio, Ph.D. Univ. of Pittsburgh, 1962. Lauterbur was (1969–85) a faculty member at the State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook (no...

Lee, Tsung-Dao

(Encyclopedia)Lee, Tsung-Dao dzo͝ongˈ-douˈ lēˈ [key], 1926–, American physicist, b. China, Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1950. He was a member (1951–53) of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; and profes...

Leggett, Sir Anthony James

(Encyclopedia)Leggett, Sir Anthony James, 1938–, British physicist, Ph.D. Oxford, 1964. He was a professor at Sussex Univ., England, from 1967 to 1983, when he joined the faculty at the Univ. of Illinois at Urban...

Koopmans, Tjalling Charles

(Encyclopedia)Koopmans, Tjalling Charles tyälˈĭng, ko͞opˈmäns, –mənz [key], 1910–85, American economist, b. Graveland, the Netherlands. Raised and educated in the Netherlands, he came to the United State...

Krebs, Sir Hans Adolf

(Encyclopedia)Krebs, Sir Hans Adolf krĕbz, krĕps [key], 1900–1981, English biochemist, b. Germany, M.D. Univ. of Hamburg, 1925. He taught at Cambridge and at the Univ. of Sheffield and after 1954 was professor ...

Rous, Francis Peyton

(Encyclopedia)Rous, Francis Peyton, 1879–1970, American pathologist, b. Baltimore, educated at Johns Hopkins (B.A., 1900; M.D., 1905). He taught (1906–8) pathology at the Univ. of Michigan and in 1909 joined th...

Ryle, Sir Martin

(Encyclopedia)Ryle, Sir Martin, 1918–84, British radio astronomer, B.S. Oxford, 1939. Ryle was a researcher and professor at Cambridge from 1945 until his retirement in 1982. Knighted in 1966, he was Britain's As...

Saavedra Lamas, Carlos

(Encyclopedia)Saavedra Lamas, Carlos kärˈlōs sävāˈᵺrä läˈmäs [key], 1880–1959, Argentine statesman, foreign minister (1932–38). An advocate of Pan-Americanism and of the League of Nations (he was pr...

Sakmann, Bert

(Encyclopedia)Sakmann, Bert, 1942–, German biophysicist, M.D. Univ. of Göttingen, Germany, 1974. He has been a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen since 1974. Sakmann r...