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 >>From 1987 until 2006, Alan Greenspan was the chairman of the United States Federal Reserve Board, which oversees the Federal Reserve Bank, a private corporation chartered in 1913 by Congress and President Woodrow Wilson to service the nation's banks.
Continue reading >>His wife, Shih-ning Cheng(Chinese: 鄭士寧; pinyin: Zheng Shining), whom he married in 1939, died in 2000. He also had a daughter, May Chu (Chinese: 陳璞; pinyin: Chen Pu), wife of the physicist Chu Ching-wu, and a son named Paul (pinyin: Chen Bolong).
Continue reading >>In 1942, Chien-Shiung Wu married Chia Liu Yuan (also known as Luke). They had met in graduate school at Berkeley. Yuan obtained work with radar devices with RCA in Princeton, New Jersey, and Wu began a year of teaching at Smith College.
Continue reading >>Robert Kho-Seng Lim (simplified Chinese: 林可胜; traditional Chinese: 林可勝; pinyin: Lín Kěshèng; 15 October 1897-8 July 1969) was a Chinese doctor.
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