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  2. Cypro-Minoan syllabary - Wikipedia

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    The Cypro-Minoan syllabary (CM), more commonly called the Cypro-Minoan Script, is an undeciphered syllabary used on the island of Cyprus and at its trading partners during the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age (c. 1550–1050 BC).

  3. Edward Stone (natural philosopher) - Wikipedia

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    Edward Stone was born in Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, England, in 1702.His parents were Edward Stone, a gentleman farmer, and his first wife Elizabeth Reynolds. His mother having died, his father took a second wife, Elizabeth Grubb, in 1707; the Grubb family was to play a major role in Stone's li

  4. Discovery and development of cephalosporins - Wikipedia

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    The majority of third generation cephalosporins have the aminothiazole group at position C-7. Different groups are found at the 7-α-position like 7-α-iminohydroxy and 7-α-iminomethoxy groups. Ceftibuten however possesses a 7-α-ethylidene group. This group gives ceftibuten higher resistance to enhanced spectrum β-lactamases.

  5. Cypriot syllabary - Wikipedia

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    Line drawing rendering, bronze Idalion Tablet, 5th century BCE, Idalion, Cyprus.. The Cypriot or Cypriote syllabary (also Classical Cypriot Syllabary) is a syllabic script used in Iron Age Cyprus, from about the 11th to the 4th centuries BCE, when it was replaced by the Greek alphabet.

  6. Linear A - Wikipedia

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    A Linear A inscription was said to have been found in southeast Bulgaria. [70] Another, somewhat more solid, find was at Tel Lachish. [71] A Minoan graffito found at Tel Haror on a vessel fragment is either Linear A or Cretan hieroglyphs. [72] Several tablets inscribed in signs similar to Linear A were found at Troy in northwestern Anatolia ...

  7. Stewart Adams (chemist) - Wikipedia

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    Stewart Sanders Adams OBE (16 April 1923 – 30 January 2019) was an English pharmacist, and bioengineer who was part of a team from Boots which developed the painkiller ibuprofen in 1961.

  8. Abelardo Aguilar - Wikipedia

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    [4] Aguilar discovered a method to formulate Erythromycin while testing soil samples from his backyard [5] Dr. Abelardo Aguilar isolated a strain of bacteria which lead to the development of erythromycin , a broad-spectrum antibiotic used to treat and prevent a wide range of infections.

  9. James Young Simpson - Wikipedia

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    Sir James Young Simpson, 1st Baronet FRSE FRCPE FSA Scot (7 June 1811 – 6 May 1870) was a Scottish obstetrician and a significant figure in the history of medicine.He was the first physician to demonstrate the anaesthetic properties of chloroform in humans and helped to popularize its use in medicine.