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The S-matrix is a quantity related to the probability of events occurring in quantum mechanical scattering processes. In scattering, two or more particles collide, and the resulting mass-energy can be converted to other particles. The part...
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S. by John Updike
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S. E. Hinton's young adult novels are among the best-selling books of all time and continue to be popular with adolescent readers a generation after she wrote them. Her books, especially The Outsiders (1967), continue to be assigned readin...
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Myriad-minded: to those who knew S. Foster Damon as a friend and colleague, that felicitous Coleridgean adjective best describes a man whose kaleidoscopic talents and interests--William Blake, cooking, Punch and Judy, fencing, book collect...
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S. J. Perelman (1904-1979) was probably the funniest American writer of the 20th century. He was a master of word-play and a cultural parodist without equal. S. J. Perelman was once described in these graphic terms: Under a forehead roughl...
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Samuel Nathaniel Behrman ranks as one of the most distinguished writers of sophisticated comedy at a time when the American theatre reached its highest point of urbanity and productivity. With only two solo efforts mounted for Broadway, Be...
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The pH scale, invented by Soren Peter Lauritz Sorensen, "has become so much a part of scientific literature and its influence so important a factor in considering biological problems that one wonders how theories of acidity and alkalinity ...
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S. R. Ranganathan is considered by many to be the foremost theorist in the field of classification because of his contributions to the theory of facet analysis. In addition to being known as the "Father of Library Science" in...
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Samuel Sidney McClure (1857-1949) created the first literary syndicate and developed "muckraking," which established him as one of America's notable editors. Born in County Antrim, Ireland, on Feb. 17, 1857, S. S. McClure was taken to the ...
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The "Golden Age" of the detective novel is generally considered to have been the years between World Wars I and II. S. S. Van Dine's first Philo Vance detective novel, The Benson Murder Case (1926), is often cited as t...
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Since his first novel was published in 1985, S. M. Stirling has established himself as an author adept at writing along the broad generic spectrum that includes science fiction and fantasy. With significant works in fantasy, military scien...
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Saad Zaghlul Pasha (1859-1927), Egyptian political leader, founded the country's most important political party, the Wafd. Saad Zaghlul was born in Ibyana, a village in the province of Gharbiyyah in the Egyptian Delta, of pure Egyptian par...
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(1912–1955), Indian writer. Saadat Hasan Manto, the much acclaimed and controversial South Asian Muslim literary figure, was born in Sambrala, in the Ludhiana district of the Punjab. As a young man, Manto began his literary career ...
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The Persian poet Sa'di (ca. 1200-ca. 1291) was the author of the classic literary works Bustan (translated as The Orchard) and Gulistan (translated as The Rose Garden). Moralistic books that contain teachings and stories on love, religion,...
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The Jewish scholar Saadia ben Joseph al-Fayumi (882-942) ranks as the most important medieval Jewish scholar of literature and history. Little is known of the early life of Saadia ben Joseph except that he was born in Egypt, lived for some...
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SAʿADYAH GAON (882–942), properly Saʿadyah ben Yosef al-Fayyumī, was a Jewish theologian, jurist, scholar, and gaon ("head, eminence") of the rabbinic academy at Sura, Babylonia. Saʿadyah wa...
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SOURCE: Ward, Thomas. “Nature and Civilization in Sab and the Nineteenth-Century Novel in Latin America.” Hispanofila 126 (May 1999): 25-40. In the following essay, Ward posits connections between the depictions of nature and the charac...
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(2000 est. pop. 2.4 million). Sabah is a Malaysian state on the northern part of the island of Borneo, bordered by Indonesia in the south, Sarawak in the west, and the Philippines in the east. Its coastline includes the South China Sea, th...
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The Sabah Dispute was a twenty-five-year territorial wrangle between the Republic of the Philippines and the Federation of Malaysia over territory in the northern part of the island of Borneo. The Philippines' claim was based on a h...
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SABAZIOS, a god of the Thracians and the Phrygians, is also known from Greek and Latin sources as Sabadios, Sauazios, Saazios, Sabos, Sebazios, Sabadius, and Sebadius. His name is related to the Macedonian word sauâdai, or saû...
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The Jewish mystic and pseudo-Messiah Sabbatai Zevi (1626-1676), or Sebi, was the founder of the Sabbatean sect. Sabbatai Zevi was born in Smyrna (modern Izmir), Turkey, of Spanish-Jewish parentage. At an early age he adopted the mysticism ...
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In the 1943 Goodspeed (Boston) reprint of the first volume of Charles Evans's American Bibliography Lawrence C. Wroth writes that "One notable difference between our day in the book world and the old days of the nineteenth and early twenti...
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Of the many books by Sabine Baring-Gould, only six are collections of short fiction, not counting his volumes of fairy tales and other stories for children. He wrote far more novels (around thirty-five) and more than twenty guide books and...
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Sabine R. Ulibarrí is a short-story writer, a poet, an essayist, a critic, and a university professor who ranks among the best known of today's Chicano writers. He has received both popular and critical recognition for his literary ...
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The Sabri Brothers are a Pakistani qawwali (Sufi devotional music) group founded by brothers Haji Ghulam Farid Sabri (1930–1994) and Haji Maqbool Ahmed Sabri (b. 1945). Descended from a line of qawwali singers in northern India, the...
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No one should expect anyone so cynical as Billy Wilder to tell a simple Cinderella story straight, and he has not done so in Sabrina…. Sabrina has everything light entertainment requires: a pleasant story gently mocking of the rich, whose...
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(b. 1913), Japanese historian. Born in Aichi Prefecture in 1913, Ienaga Saburo graduated from Tokyo Imperial University (now the University of Tokyo) in 1937. He began his career as a high school teacher, later moving to Tokyo University o...
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In the early 1800s, Sacajawea (1784-1812) accompanied Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their historical expedition from St. Louis, Missouri, to the Pacific Ocean. Sacajawea is responsible in large part for the success of the expeditio...
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Saccharin Overview Saccharin (SAK-uh-rin) is a synthetic compound whose water solutions are at least 500 times as sweet as table sugar. It passes through the human digestive system without being absorbed, so it has an effective caloric valu...
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Unicellular Fungi (Yeast Phylum) are one of the most studied single-cell Eukaryotes. Among them, Saccharomyces cerevisiae is perhaps the biological model most utilized for decades in order for scientists to understand the molecular anatomy...
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Nicola Sacco (died 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888-1927), Italian-born anarchists, became the subject of one of America's most celebrated controversies and the focus for much of the liberal and radical protest of the 1920s in the Unite...
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The varied phases of Gottfried Wilhelm Sacer's life as a preceptor and later as a lawyer in the service of the duchy of Brunswick, Lüneburg, and Wolfenbüttel were accompanied by many-sided literary ambitions. His religious poetry...
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1588-c. 1628 Dutch Optician Sacharias Jansen is generally credited with inventing the first compound microscope and may possibly have invented the telescope. A traveling merchant as well as optician, Jansen was a bit of a rogue, involved a...
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Born December 18, 1927, in New York's east Bronx. Sachs grew up in the "railroad" apartment on Jennings Street. "Jennings Street had no trees, birds, or flowers. But it had kids. Every day after school and all day on the weekends, holidays...
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The Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and a Tony--any play which sweeps the three most coveted awards for a given Broadway season secures for its creator a place in twentieth-century theatre history. Such a coup was ...
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Although Edward Sackville-West is probably best remembered as a music critic, he wrote five unusual novels that earned him a place in the history of literature during the 1920s and 1930s. They did not remain in print for long and, with one...
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SACRED SPACE. A sacred place is first of all a defined place, a space distinguished from other spaces. The rituals that a people either practice at a place or direct toward it mark its sacredness and differentiate it from other defined spa...
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Donne's use of sacred and profane imagery in "To His Mistress Going to Bed" can be considered at times reckless, bordering on the boundary of blasphemy. However, it is also an example of Donne's genius, in that he used complex images of exo...
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