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Duflo, Esther

(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…

Reber, Gröte

(Encyclopedia) Reber, Gröte, 1911–2002, American radio engineer, b. Chicago, Ill. After graduating from the Armour Institute of Technology (now the Illinois Institute of Technology) in 1933, Reber…

Terre Haute

(Encyclopedia) Terre HauteTerre Hautetĕrˈə hōt, tĕrˈē hŭt [key], city (1990 pop. 51,483), seat of Vigo co., W Ind., on the Wabash River; inc. 1816. The commercial and trade center of a farm and coal-…

Shockley, William Bradford

(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…

electronics

(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…

Khan, Abdul Qadeer

(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…

DK Science: Organic Chemistry

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…

DK Society & Beliefs: Media

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…

Samuel Augustus NUNN, Congress, GA (1938)

Senate Years of Service: 1972-1997Party: DemocratNUNN, Samuel Augustus, (grandnephew of Carl Vinson), a Senator from Georgia; born in Macon, Bibb County, Ga., September 8, 1938; educated in…