Macmillan
Harold, 1894–1986, British statesman: prime minister 1957–63.
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Donald Bax·ter [bak-ster], /ˈbæk stər/, 1874–1970, U.S. Arctic explorer.
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List’s and Macmillan’s work prompted others to seek out more organic catalysts and to study how they might be used.
Chemists win Nobel Prize for faster, cleaner way of making molecules | Jonathan Lambert | October 7, 2021 | Science News For StudentsSo Macmillan designed small carbon-based molecules — organic molecules — that mimicked the metals’ catalytic action.
Chemists win Nobel Prize for faster, cleaner way of making molecules | Jonathan Lambert | October 7, 2021 | Science News For StudentsMacmillan saw an incoming call from Sweden and ignored it, thinking it was a student playing a Nobel-day prank.
Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to duo who made a tool to build molecules in an environmentally friendly way | Frances Stead Sellers | October 6, 2021 | Washington PostGreg Scholes, a friend of Macmillan’s and chair of the department of chemistry at Princeton, said Macmillan’s wife woke Wednesday morning and told him to turn his phone off because it kept buzzing.
Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to duo who made a tool to build molecules in an environmentally friendly way | Frances Stead Sellers | October 6, 2021 | Washington PostMacmillan designed small organic molecules that mimicked the catalytic action of metals in a simpler way, while also favoring the production of one of two possible mirror images of the final product.
An easier, greener way to build molecules wins the chemistry Nobel Prize | Jonathan Lambert | October 6, 2021 | Science News
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The GOP’s Last Identity Crisis Remade U.S. Politics | Michael Wolraich | July 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThen she shoves Macmillan in the chest and exits stage left.
‘Halt and Catch Fire’ and AMC’s Push to Reset Dramas | Andrew Romano | May 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTInstead, Macmillan has the temerity to issue a caveat mid-thrust.
‘Halt and Catch Fire’ and AMC’s Push to Reset Dramas | Andrew Romano | May 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt merged into what was then called Macmillan, and disappeared, as did the imprint it merged into.
The Victims of the Penguin & Random House Merger: Literary Agents | Ella Delany | November 28, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTJohn Sargent, the CEO of Macmillan, today published a letter insisting that he did not act illegally, and there was no collusion.
Amazon Is the Big Winner in Justice Dept. Suit Against Apple and 5 Publishers | Jimmy So | April 11, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTOrdered South appeared in Macmillan for that same April, and in its very beauty there is a most painful pathos.
Robert Louis Stevenson | Margaret Moyes Black(Macmillan & Bowles), has just come from the press, it is fashionable to say that he follows after Calverley, at some distance.
Adventures in Criticism | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-CouchMacmillan's Magazine (Nov., 1870), "Sad-colored costumes," ii.
Arrows of the Chace, v. 2 | John RuskinThe ease and grace of style common to all Dr. Macmillan's writings are palpable in this volume.
Roman Mosaics | Hugh MacmillanI have to thank both him and Mr. Macmillan for the obliging promptness with which my request was granted.
Hours of Exercise in the Alps | John Tyndall
British Dictionary definitions for Macmillan (1 of 2)
/ (məkˈmɪlən) /
(Maurice) Harold, 1st Earl of Stockton. 1894–1986, British statesman; Conservative prime minister (1957–63)
British Dictionary definitions for MacMillan (2 of 2)
James (Loy). born 1959, Scottish composer and conductor; his works include two symphonies, the orchestral work Confession of Isobel Gowdie (1990), and the operas Ines de Castro (1996) and The Sacrifice (2007)
Sir Kenneth. 1929–92, British choreographer, dancer, and ballet director; chief choreographer for the Royal Ballet from 1970
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