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Kendall</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Dec-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Feb-1999</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Verified existence of quarks</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/834/000030744/"><font size=-1>Bill Nye</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>TV Personality</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Nov-1955</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Bill Nye the Science Guy</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/117/000169607/"><font size=-1>Adele Simmons</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Administrator</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jun-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>President, MacArthur Foundation, 1989-99</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/873/000092597/"><font size=-1>Harold C. Urey</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Apr-1893</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jan-1981</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered Deuterium</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/193/000099893/"><font size=-1>Victor Weisskopf</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Sep-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Apr-2002</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Head of CERN, 1961-65</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/004/000025926/"><font size=-1>Herbert S. Zim</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Jul-1909</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Dec-1994</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Golden Guides</i></td> </tr> </table> <br><br><p> <font size=-1>Do you know something we don't?</font><br> <font size=-1><a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=99738" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a></font><br> <p> <br><br><p><font size=-1>Copyright ©2016 Soylent Communications</font><p> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"><b class="b1f"></b><b class="b2f"></b><b class="b3f"></b><b class="b4f"></b><div class="contentf"><center><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a><br><br><a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://mapper.nndb.com/maps/376/000003367/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/376/3367/s3367.jpg" width=128><br><font size="-1" face="trebuchet ms">Dick Cheney</font></a><br><br><font face="Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</font></center></div><b class="b4f"></b><b class="b3f"></b><b class="b2f"></b><b class="b1f"></b><br clear=left><b class="b1f"></b><b class="b2f"></b><b class="b3f"></b><b class="b4f"></b><div class="contentf"><center><b class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">Bibliographies</b><p>NNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. 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