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Canby family Einstein, Albert 1879-1955 Germany Intellectual life 20th century National socialism and science Physics Germany History 20th century Planck, Max 1858-1947 Family Planck, Max 1858-1947 Friends and associates SCIENCE / History Science Germany History 20th century World War, 1939-1945 Science GermanyClancy, Tara
Summary: Fifth-generation New Yorker, third-generation bartender, and first-generation author Tara Clancy was raised in three wildly divergent homes: a converted boat shed in working-class Queens, a geriatric commune of feisty Brooklyn-born Italians, and a sprawling Hamptons estate she visited every other weekend. From scheming and gambling with her force-of-nature grandmother, to brawling with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 CLACanby, Henry Seidel
Summary: In 1683, at about the age of 15, Thomas Camby left Thorne in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England for America eventually settling in Abington, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He married Sarah Jarvis and had nine children. When Sarah died he married Mary Oliver and had eight more children. Upon Mary's death, Thomas married Jane Preston. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverside Press 1945
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Summary: "Planck's Law, an equation used by physicists to determine the radiation leaking from any object in the universe, was described by Albert Einstein as 'the basis of all twentieth-century physics.' Max Planck is credited with being the father of quantum theory, and his work laid the foundation for our modern understanding of matter and energetic processes. But Planck's story is not well known,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2015