Woodward

[ woo d-werd ]
/ ˈwʊd wərd /

noun

C(omer) Vann,1908–99, U.S. historian.
Robert Burns,1917–79, U.S. chemist: Nobel prize 1965.
a town in NW Oklahoma.

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Woodward
/ (ˈwʊdwəd) /

noun

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.
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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