| John Burdon Sanderson Haldane |
Haldane: Scottish geneticist (son of John Haldane) who contributed to the development of population genetics; a popularizer of science and a Marxist (1892-1964)
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| John Scott Haldane |
Haldane: Scottish physiologist and brother of Richard Haldane and Elizabeth Haldane; noted for research into industrial diseases (1860-1936)
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| johnny |
Rebel: `Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms
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| jigger |
shot glass: a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey jiggermast: any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl harvest mite: larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation
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| Joliot-Curie |
French physicist who (with her husband) synthesized new chemical elements (1897-1956) Joliot: French nuclear physicist who was Marie Curie's assistant and who worked with Marie Curie's daughter who he married (taking the name Joliot-Curie); he and his wife discovered how to synthesize new radioactive elements (1900-1958)
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