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The Game of Life, by John Horton Conway
By: Julia Damerow
| Published: Jun 24, 2010
The Game of Life, or just Life, is a one-person game that was created by the English mathematician John Horton Conway in the late 1960s. It is a…
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Michael D. West (1953- )
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: Jun 23, 2010
Michael D. West is a biomedical entrepreneur and investigator whose aim has been to extend human longevity with biomedical interventions. His focus…
PeopleStem CellsBiographyRegeneration
Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren (1927-2007)
By: Aroob Khokhar
| Published: Jun 23, 2010
Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren was a developmental biologist known for her work with embryology in the twentieth century. McLaren was the first…
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Pope Gregory XIV (1535-1591)
By: Angel Lopez
| Published: Jun 22, 2010
Pope Gregory XIV, born Nicolo Sfondrati, reversed the bull of Pope Sixtus V, Effraenatum, under which an abortion at any time of gestation can be…
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Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954)
By: Julia Damerow
| Published: Jun 22, 2010
Alan Mathison Turing was a British mathematician and computer scientist who lived in the early twentieth century. Among important contributions in…
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John von Neumann (1903-1957)
By: Julia Damerow
| Published: Jun 22, 2010
John von Neumann was a Hungarian mathematician who made important contributions to mathematics, physics, computer science, and the area of artificial…
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Nettie Maria Stevens (1861-1912)
By: Kaitlin Smith
| Published: Jun 20, 2010
Multiple theories about what determines sex were tested at the turn of the twentieth century. By experimenting on germ cells, cytologist Nettie Maria…
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Form and Function (1916), by Edward Stuart Russell
By: Mark A. Ulett
| Published: Jun 20, 2010
In 1916, at the age of twenty-nine, Edward Stuart Russell published his first major work, Form and Function: a Contribution to the History of Animal…
LiteratureRussell, E. S. (Edward Stuart), 1887-1954PublicationsMorphology
Endoscopy
By: Olivia Conley
| Published: Jun 19, 2010
Endoscopy is a medical procedure that enables the viewing and biopsy of, and surgery on, internal tissues and organs. Endoscopic examinations are…
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Laparoscopy
By: Olivia Conley
| Published: Jun 19, 2010
Laparoscopy, a subfield of endoscopy, is a minimally invasive surgical procedure used to examine and operate on the internal organs of the abdomen…
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