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Our international board of 80 consulting editors ensures that the Encyclopedia includes the highest quality material in all major fields of science and technology. We carefully select each of the 5,000 contributors who write for the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. They are the leaders in their fields and recognized by fellow scientists with a number of honors including election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and awarded Nobel Prizes (36 in all).
Contributors hail from countries all over the world in 6 of the 7 continents-including:
Japan, Australia, Italy, Canada, Sweden, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, and China.
Nobel Prize Winners:
| Contributor |
Field |
Articles |
| Bethe, Hans Albrecht (deceased) |
Physics |
Theoretical physics |
| Blobel, Günter |
Phys/Med |
Endoplasmic reticulum |
| Bridgman, Percy William (deceased) |
Physics Empirical method |
Hypothesis; Postulate; other articles |
| Brockhouse, Bertram N. |
Physics |
Slow neutron spectroscopy |
| Brown, Herbert C. |
Chemistry |
Hydroboration |
| Chu, Steven |
Physics |
Particle trap |
| Ciechanover, Aaron |
Chemistry |
Protein |
| Dehmelt, Hans G. |
Physics |
Nuclear quadrupole resonance |
| Esaki, Leo |
Physics |
Tunneling in solids |
| Fitch, Val L. |
Physics |
CPT theorem; Flavor |
| Gross, David J. |
Physics |
Quantum field theory |
| Hänsch, Theodor W. |
Physics |
Laser spectroscopy; Rydberg constant |
| Hofstadter, Robert (deceased) |
Physics |
Scintillation counter |
| Ketterle, Wolfgang |
Physics |
Atom laser; Bose-Einstein condensation |
| Kroto, Sir Harold W. |
Chemistry |
Fullerene |
| Kusch, Polykarp (deceased) |
Physics |
Atomic beam |
| Lee, David M. |
Physics |
Absolute zero |
| Leggett, Anthony J. |
Physics |
Quantum theory of measurement |
| Lehn, Jean-Marie |
Chemistry |
Supramolecular chemistry |
| Lewis, Edward B. |
Phys/Med |
Allele |
| Mulliken, Robert S. (deceased) |
Chemistry |
Molecular structure and spectra; Molecule |
| Perl, Martin M. |
Physics |
Lepton |
| Phillips, William D. |
Physics |
Laser cooling |
| Ramsey, Norman F. |
Physics |
Negative temperature |
| Roberts, Richard J. |
Phys/Med |
Restriction enzyme |
| Salam, Abdus (deceased) |
Physics |
Fundamental interactions |
| Schawlow, Arthur L. (deceased) |
Physics |
Laser |
| Seaborg, Glenn, T. (deceased) |
Chemistry |
Actinide elements; 8 other articles |
| Siegbahn, Kai M. |
Physics |
Electron spectroscopy |
| Taube, Henry |
Chemistry |
Oxidation-reduction |
| Temin, Howard Martin (deceased) |
Phys/Med |
Reverse transcriptase |
| Ting, Samuel C. C. |
Physics |
J/psi particle |
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