n. A mass of floating or stationary ice; an iceberg. [Short for ICEBERG.] |
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American biochemist. He shared a 1980 Nobel Prize for developing a way to construct recombinant DNA molecules. |
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Austrian composer. A pupil of Arnold Schoenberg, he applied atonal methods to classical forms in works such as the opera Wozzeck (1925). |
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