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Mayo-Smith, Richmond

(Encyclopedia)Mayo-Smith, Richmond, 1854–1901, American statistician, b. Troy, Ohio, grad. Amherst, 1875. After graduation he studied for two years in Germany. From 1877 to 1901 he taught at Columbia. He is best ...

National Academy of Sciences

(Encyclopedia)National Academy of Sciences, with headquarters in Washington, D.C., a private organization of leading American scientists and engineers devoted to the furtherance of science and its use for the gener...

Queensland, University of

(Encyclopedia)Queensland, University of, at Brisbane, Australia; founded 1909. It has faculties of agriculture, architecture and planning, arts, business studies, commerce and economics, education, social work, app...

Tsukuba

(Encyclopedia)Tsukuba tso͝oko͞oˈbä [key], city (1990 pop. 143,396) Ibaraki prefecture, central Honshu, E central Japan, 31 mi (50 km) S of Mito. The city's products include peanuts, mushrooms, tea, processed fo...

Liverpool, University of

(Encyclopedia)Liverpool, University of, at Liverpool, England; established 1881 as University College, received royal charter in 1903. It has faculties of arts, education, engineering, law, medicine, dentistry, sci...

Lehigh University

(Encyclopedia)Lehigh University, at Bethlehem, Pa.; coeducational; chartered and opened 1866 by Asa Packer. It has undergraduate colleges of arts and science, business and economics, and engineering and applied sci...

Dąbrowska, Marja

(Encyclopedia)Dąbrowska, Marja märˈyä dôNbrôfˈskä [key], 1889–1965, Polish sociologist and novelist. Dąbrowska worked as a militant publicist to further social and economic reform. Her works of fiction, ...

Sandel, Cora

(Encyclopedia)Sandel, Cora kôrˈə sănˈdĕl [key], pseud. of Sara Fabricius, 1880–1974, Norwegian author. Her outstanding work is the Alberta Trilogy (1926–39, tr. 1965), a set of largely autobiographical no...

Reuter, Christian

(Encyclopedia)Reuter, Christian krĭsˈtēän roiˈtər [key], 1665–c.1712, German writer of satiric fiction and drama. Reuter's Schelmuffsky (1696, tr. 1962) was among the first picaresque novels in German. His ...

Barth, John

(Encyclopedia)Barth, John bärth [key], 1930–, American writer, b. Cambridge, Md. He attended Johns Hopkins (B.A. 1951, M.A. 1952), and, beginning in 1973, taught writing at its graduate school for nearly 20 year...