PORTER, WILLIAM SYDNEY (1862–1910). William Sydney Porter [pseud. O. Henry], writer, was born on September 11, 1862, in Greensboro, North Carolina, the son of Dr. Algernon Sidney and Mary Jane Virginia (Swaim) Porter.His middle name was originally spelled
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Agricultural Economist, Author. Dr. John Lossing Buck, known as Lossing to his friends, graduated from Cornell University in 1914. He later returned to Cornell and received an M.S. in 1925 and PhD in 1933. Lossing went to China in 1915 as an agricultural
Continue reading >>Some ex-wives might have begrudged a former spouse his moment in the sun, but Rita C. Lucas couldn't have been happier when Robert E. Lucas Jr. won the Nobel Prize for economics last week.
Continue reading >>Some ex-wives might have begrudged a former spouse his moment in the sun, but Rita C. Lucas couldn't have been happier when Robert E. Lucas Jr. won the Nobel Prize for economics last week.
Continue reading >>Born in Changsha, Hunan, Chu's family was from Taishan, Guangdong Province. He spent his childhood in Taiwan and received his Bachelor of Science degree from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan in 1962. He earned his Master of Science degree from For
Continue reading >>Yuet Wai Kan FRS (Chinese: 簡悅威, also written as Yuet-Wai Kan) (born 11 June 1936), is a Canadian and American medical scientist and physician.[1] He is the current Louis K. Diamond Professor of Hematology and the head of the Division of Molecular Medicine
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