(Encyclopedia) Shockley, William Bradford, 1910–89, American physicist, b. London. He graduated from the California Institute of Technology (B.S., 1932) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…
(Encyclopedia) Duflo, Esther, 1972–, French-American economist, b. Paris, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. She has been a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of…
(Encyclopedia) electronics, science and technology based on and concerned with the controlled flow of electrons or other carriers of electric charge, especially in semiconductor devices. It is one of…
(Encyclopedia) Khan, Abdul Qadeer (A. Q. Khan), 1936–, Pakistani metallurgical engineer, often called the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb, b. Bhopal, India. He moved (1952) to Pakistan and studied…
WHO PAYS FOR THE MEDIA? WHAT EFFECTS DO MASS MEDIA HAVE? IS THE INTERNET DIFFERENT FROM OTHER MEDIA? PRESSBROADCASTADVERTISINGFIND OUT MOREThe media (sometimes called mass media) includes all the…
CARBON IN ALL LIVING THINGSCARBON COMPOUNDSCARBON TECHNOLOGYFIND OUT MOREThe study of all compounds that contain carbon is called organic chemistry. Carbon atoms are unique. They can combine with…
Jerry Yang Chang, Ming E., business leader, rear admiral (retired) Chao, Stephen, movie producer, TV executive Chen, Joyce, chef Chen, Tei Fu, skin care entrepreneur Chuang, John,…
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(Encyclopedia) Saint Helens, metropolitan borough (1991 pop. 114,397), NW England, in the Greater Liverpool metropolitan area. It is a major center of glass manufacture in England. The city also has…
