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Hampshire

(Encyclopedia) Hampshire, county, 1,503 sq mi (3,893 sq km), S central England. Winchester is the county town. The county is divided into the…

Griselda

(Encyclopedia) GriseldaGriseldagrĭzĕlˈdə [key], long-suffering heroine of medieval story, whose husband subjects her to numerous trials in order to test her devotion. The story originated in a…

Abel, Sir Frederick Augustus

(Encyclopedia) Abel, Sir Frederick Augustus, 1826–1902, English chemist, an authority on explosives. He was professor of chemistry at the Royal Military Academy (1851–55) and chemist to the War Dept…

Turing, Alan Mathison

(Encyclopedia) Turing, Alan Mathison, 1912–54, British mathematician and computer theorist. While studying at Cambridge he began work in predicate logic that led to a proof (1937) that some…

Bradley, James

(Encyclopedia) Bradley, James, 1693–1762, English astronomer. His discovery of the aberration of light, announced in 1728, provided an important line of evidence for the motion of the earth around…

Wexler, Nancy

(Encyclopedia) Wexler, Nancy, 1945–, American geneticist and neuropsychologist, b. Washington, D.C., Ph.D. Univ. of Michigan, 1974. After her mother was diagnosed with Huntington's disease in 1968,…

Slidell

(Encyclopedia) SlidellSlidellslīdĕlˈ [key], city (1990 pop. 24,124), St. Tammany parish, SE La., near Lake Pontchartrain, there crossed by a bridge to New Orleans; inc. 1888. Originally a…

blood count

(Encyclopedia) blood count, method for determining the number of red (erythrocytes) and white (leukocytes) blood cells in a certain volume of blood. This test can be used as a preliminary step in…

Kwajalein

(Encyclopedia) KwajaleinKwajaleinkwäˈjälān, –lēn, –lĭn [key], coral atoll, 6.5 sq mi (16.8 sq km), central Pacific, in the Ralik Chain of the Marshall Islands. The largest atoll of the Marshalls,…