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Bradbury, Ray

(Encyclopedia) Bradbury, Ray (Raymond Douglas Bradbury)Bradbury, Ray (Raymond Douglas Bradbury)brădˈbĕrˌē, –bərē [key], 1920–2012, American writer, b. Waukegan, Ill. A popular and prolific writer of…

Ray Bradbury

Name at birth: Raymond Douglas BradburyRay Bradbury wrote the 1953 science fiction classic Fahrenheit 451, a tale of a futuristic society where reading is outlawed and books are burned at the title…

Ray Harryhausen

Ray Harryhausen was one of the great pioneers of stop-motion animation in the movies. Harryhausen always said he was inspired by animation in the 1933 movie King Kong, and got his start working on…

Bradbury, William Batchelder

(Encyclopedia) Bradbury, William BatchelderBradbury, William Batchelderbăchˈəldər [key], 1816–68, American hymn composer and music editor, b. York, Maine; pupil of Lowell Mason. He organized the…

Theodore Sturgeon

Name at birth: Edward Hamilton WaldoScience fiction author Theodore Sturgeon wrote hundreds of short stories and a handful of novels, but he's recognized more for his influence on the development of…

Michael B. Jordan

Name at birth: Michael Bakari JordanBefore he was Adonis Johnson of Creed, Michael B. Jordan was known to TV viewers as Wallace, a sensitive, troubled teen and drug dealer on The Wire, back in 2002…

science fiction

(Encyclopedia) science fiction, literary genre in which a background of science or pseudoscience is an integral part of the story. Although science fiction is a form of fantastic literature, many of…

X-ray crystallography

(Encyclopedia) X-ray crystallography, the study of crystal structures through X-ray diffraction techniques. When an X-ray beam bombards a crystalline lattice in a given orientation, the beam is…

Ray, John

(Encyclopedia) Ray or Wray, John, 1627–1705, English naturalist. He was extremely influential in laying the foundations of systematic biology. With his pupil Francis Willughby, he planned a complete…

X-ray astronomy

(Encyclopedia) X-ray astronomy, study of celestial objects by means of the X rays they emit, in the wavelength range from 0.01 to 10 nanometers. X-ray astronomy dates to 1949 with the discovery that…