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   Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-born American astrophysicist who, with William A. Fowler, won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics for key discoveries that led to the currently accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars. Chandrasekhar was the nephew of Sir Chandrasekhara. list of Summer Olympic athletes. When sports ...

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   1995. "EB Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use EB Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 130,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors."--Secondary page.

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   Encyclopaedia - History of encyclopaedias: The first fragments of an encyclopaedia to have survived are the work of Speusippus (died 339/338 bce), a nephew of Plato’s. Speusippus conveyed his uncle’s ideas in a series of writings on natural history, mathematics, philosophy, and so forth. Aristotle’s wide-ranging lectures at the Lyceum were equally influential, and he and Plato appear to ...

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   Apr 22, 2024 · Henry Ford (born July 30, 1863, Wayne county, Michigan, U.S.—died April 7, 1947, Dearborn, Michigan) was an American industrialist who revolutionized factory production with his assembly-line methods. (Read Henry Ford’s 1926 Britannica essay on mass production.)

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   Britannica’s media editors produce and acquire images, maps, videos, and more for Britannica’s products. Britannica’s World Data editors research and compile statistical information using a variety of authoritative sources. But Britannica is not just its editorial staff. Britannica has long fostered vigorous interaction between its staff ...

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   Britannica’s Professional Trainers offer expert recommendations and guidance. Participants are invited to our 30-minute online training sessions, scheduled throughout the school year. Discover how to easily integrate Britannica School into the library or classroom for inquiry-based teaching and learning. Certificates of attendance are available.

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   The Encyclopædia Britannica ( Latin for "British Encyclopædia"), previously published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a popular encyclopædia which since 2011 is published as an online encyclopædia. It is written in British English. It was originally only printed on paper, but late in the 20th century it expanded to have digital, or ...