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Seton, Ernest Thompson

(Encyclopedia) Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860–1946, American writer and artist, b. England. His name was originally Ernest Seton Thompson. His stories and paintings of wildlife, especially Wild Animals…

Polhem, Christopher

(Encyclopedia) Polhem, ChristopherPolhem, Christopherp&oomacr;lˈhĕm [key], 1661–1751, Swedish inventor and industrialist. After studying engineering techniques used in Germany, the Netherlands,…

Ernest Gross Biography

Ernest GrossAge: 92 influential American diplomat and lawyer. He held key positions in the State Department and the U.N. during the Cold War and took significant actions against genocide and…

Ernest Gallo Biography

vinterDied: March 6, 2007 (Modesto, California) Best Known as: vintner With little more than a high-school education, Gallo created one of the world's…

Brewer's: Duke Ernest

(See Ernest.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Duke HumphreyDuke Coombe A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Related…

Ernest Hemingway Biography

Ernest HemingwaynovelistBorn: 7/21/1899Birthplace: Oak Park, Illinois Nobel Prize-winning novelist and short-story writer considered spokesman of the “lost generation.” His works, which…

Ernest Borgnine Biography

Ernest Borgnine(Ermes Effron Borgnine)actorBorn: 1/24/1917Birthplace: Hamden, Connecticut A heavy-set veteran character actor with more than 70 movies to his credit, he earned acclaim as the lonely…

Ernest H. Volwiler

Ernest H. Volwiler Born: 1893 Birthplace: Hamilton, Ohio Thio-barbituric acid derivatives—Volwiler and Tabern came up…

Ernest Orlando Lawrence

Ernest Orlando LawrenceBorn: 1901Birthplace: Canton, So. Dakota Method and apparatus for the acceleration of ions—Lawrence's cyclotron enabled him to study the structure of the atom, transmute…

Ernest O. Lawrence

American physicist Ernest Orlando Lawrence was the father of "big science" -- the collaborative, big-scale (and spendy) projects that led to the discovery of so many subatomic particles in the 1950s…