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91Cornelis van Eck — (1662–1732) was a Dutch jurist and poet. Born in Arnhem, he studied literature in Utrecht and law in Leiden, attaining his doctorate under Johannes Voet in 1682. His dissertation, De septem damnatis legibus, saw seven re editions. He was called… …
92Matilda Chaplin Ayrton — Dr. Matilda Chaplin Ayrton MD (c. 1846 19 July 1883) was a British physician. She studied medicine in London, Edinburgh and Paris, pursuing higher studies at the latter s universities. She travelled to Japan, where she opened a school for… …
93Cooper , Leon Neil — (1930–) American physicist Cooper, who was born in New York City, was educated at Columbia where he obtained his PhD in 1954. After brief spells at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, the University of Illinois, and Ohio State University …
94Fermi , Enrico — (1901–1954) Italian–American physicist Fermi was without doubt the greatest Italian scientist since Galileo and in the period 1925–50 was one of the most creative physicists in the world. Unusually in an age of ever growing specialization he… …
95Josephson , Brian David — (1940–) British physicist Josephson was born in Cardiff and educated at Cambridge University, where he obtained his PhD in 1964. He remained at Cambridge and in 1974 was appointed to a professorship of physics. His name is associated with the… …
96Miller , Stanley Lloyd — (1930–) American chemist Born at Oakland in California, Miller was educated at the universities of California and Chicago where, in 1954, he was awarded his PhD. Since 1960 he has taught at the University of California, San Diego, being appointed …
97MICKIEWICZ, ADAM — Polish poet, born in Lithuania, of a noble family; in 1822 published at Kovno a collection of poems instinct with patriotic feeling; was exiled into the interior of Russia, in 1824, for secret intrigues in the interest of his nation; while… …
98Fermium — , FERMION Enrico Fermi (1901 1954), the father of the atomic bomb, showed such intelligence and quickness of mind that he gained admission, in 1918, to the Scuola Normale in Pisa, a school for the intellectual elite of Italy. He obtained a… …
99Kingsley, Charles — (1819 1875) Novelist and historian, s. of a clergyman, was b. at Holne Vicarage near Dartmoor, but passed most of his childhood at Barnack in the Fen country, and Clovelly in Devonshire, ed. at King s Coll., London, and Camb. Intended for the… …
100WARBURG, OTTO — (1859–1938), botanist and the third president of the World Zionist Organization. Born in Hamburg to a wealthy, assimilated family, warburg received an exclusively secular education. He completed his studies in the natural sciences in 1883 and… …
