(Encyclopedia) Ramsey, Norman Foster, Jr., 1915–2011, American physicist, b. Washington, D.C., Ph.D. Columbia, 1940. A member of the faculty at Harvard from 1947 and the Higgins professor of physics…
(Encyclopedia) Wieman, Carl Edwin, 1951–, American physicist, b. Corvallis, Oreg., Ph.D. Stanford, 1977. He was a professor at the Univ. of Colorado from 1984 to 2006. In 2007, he joined the Univ. of…
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(Encyclopedia) Varnhagen von Ense, Karl AugustVarnhagen von Ense, Karl Augustkärl ouˈg&oobreve;st färnˈhägən fən ĕnˈzə [key], 1785–1858, German poet, historian, and journalist. He collaborated…
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