Woodward
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C(omer) Vann, 1908–99, U.S. historian.
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Robert Burns, 1917–79, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1965.
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a town in northwestern Oklahoma.
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Sir Clive . born 1956, English Rugby Union player and subsequently (1997–2004) coach of the England team that won the Rugby World Cup in 2003.
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R ( obert ) B ( urns ). 1917–79, US chemist. For his work on the synthesis of quinine, strychnine, cholesterol, and other organic compounds he won the Nobel prize for chemistry 1965
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In an email exchange from 2009, Ghislaine Maxwell - who is serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for her role in Epstein's crimes - tells Epstein she was intending to have dinner with Woodward.
From BBC
Aylin Woodward is the reporter covering anthropology, space, climate change and other areas of science for The Wall Street Journal’s National Affairs team in New York.
“If he had to move down the table out of the chairman’s seat, he felt that there was enough respect for his views that he could still have some influence,” Woodward wrote.
This week, Aylin Woodward reports on a new method to track objects in orbit that fall back to Earth.
It was to prove fruitless in any case as Revie put an end to the rumours with a phone call from his holiday to Leeds director Percy Woodward.
From BBC
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