Walter Scott
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~ British author of historical novels and ballads (1771-1832)
Walter Elias Disney
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~ United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966)
Sir Walter Norman Haworth
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~ English biochemist who was a pioneer in research on carbohydrates; when he synthesized vitamin C he became the first person to synthesize a vitamin artificially (1883-1950)
Sir Walter Ralegh
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~ English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia; introduced potatoes and tobacco to England (1552-1618)
Sir Howard Walter Florey
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~ British pathologist who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1898-1968)
Sir Walter Raleigh
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~ English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia; introduced potatoes and tobacco to England (1552-1618)
Sir Walter Scott
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~ British author of historical novels and ballads (1771-1832)
Sir Harold Walter Kroto
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~ British chemist who with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1939)
Bruno Walter
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~ German conductor (1876-1962)
Walther Hermann Nernst
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~ German physicist and chemist who formulated the third law of thermodynamics (1864-1941)
Walther Richard Rudolf Hess
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~ Nazi leader who in 1941 flew a solo flight to Scotland in an apparent attempt to negotiate a peace treaty with Great Britain but was imprisoned for life (1894-1987)
Izaak Walton
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~ English writer remember for his treatise on fishing (1593-1683)
Walton
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~ English writer remember for his treatise on fishing (1593-1683)
Walton
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~ English composer (1902-1983)
Walton
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~ Irish physicist who (with Sir John Cockcroft in 1931) first split an atom (1903-1995)
E. T. S. Walton
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~ Irish physicist who (with Sir John Cockcroft in 1931) first split an atom (1903-1995)
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton
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~ Irish physicist who (with Sir John Cockcroft in 1931) first split an atom (1903-1995)
Ernest Walton
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~ Irish physicist who (with Sir John Cockcroft in 1931) first split an atom (1903-1995)
Cockcroft and Walton voltage multiplier
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~ a high-voltage machine in which rectifiers charge capacitors that discharge and drive charged particles through an accelerating tube
Cockcroft-Walton voltage multiplier
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~ a high-voltage machine in which rectifiers charge capacitors that discharge and drive charged particles through an accelerating tube