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Yves Chauvin was a French chemist who was corecipient, with Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock, of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2005 for developing metathesis, an important chemical reaction used in organic chemistry. Chauvin offered a detailed
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” She returned later in the year with the confidently sensuous and expressiveBeyoncé, which boasts brand-name producers and appearances from, among others, the Nigerian authorChimamanda Ngozi Adichieand the singer’s toddler daughter, Blue Ivy. The record, initially offered exclusively oniTunes, ...
Brian Dennehy, American actor whose extensive body of work included film, television, and stage productions. He appeared on the TV series M*A*S*H and in the Rambo movies, but he was perhaps best known for his portrayal of Willy Loman in the Broadway revi
Nancy Pelosi is an American Democratic politician who is a congresswoman from California in the U.S. House of Representatives (1987– ). In 2007 she became the first woman to serve as speaker of the House (2007–11 and 2019–23). Her other posts have inc
Isocrates, ancient Athenian orator, rhetorician, and teacher whose writings are an important source on the intellectual and political life of the Athens of his day. The school he founded differed in its aims from the Academy of Plato and numbered among i
Professor of English, University of Kansas, Lawrence. Author ofThe Art of Biography; Richard the Third;and others. Paul Murray Kendall Fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from ...
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