(Encyclopedia) Brooke, Sir James, 1803–68, rajah of Sarawak on Borneo, b. India, of English parents. After active service in Burma (1825–26), he retired (1830) from the army of the East India Company…
(Encyclopedia) White, Patrick, 1912–90, Australian novelist, b. London. Raised in England and educated at Cambridge, he returned to Australia after World War II, earning his living by farming and…
germ-weapons expert, was named a “person of interest” by justice department officials investigating the string of mail-based anthrax attacks that killed five people in 2001. FBI agents…
lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, was charged in April with cruelty and maltreatment, dereliction of duty, lying to investigators, and other violations in connection to the detainee abuse…
(Encyclopedia) Ashkin, Arthur, 1922–2020, American physicist, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., Ph.D. Cornell, 1952. Ashkin worked for four decades at Bell Laboratories, retiring in 1992. Ashkin researched…
(Encyclopedia) Salam, Abdus, 1926–96, Pakistani physicist. After attending Government College at Lahore, he received a Ph.D. from Cambridge (1952). He taught in Lahore for three years before…
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