Duane, William

Duane, William

(1760–1835) journalist; born near Lake Champlain, N.Y. After living in Ireland, where he learned printing, and in India, where he founded an outspoken paper that led to his being deported, he joined Benjamin Franklin Bache's vituperatively anti-Federalist Aurora, which he edited from 1798 to 1822. Tried and acquitted of sedition in 1799, he was charged a second time, but the charges were dropped after Thomas Jefferson's election in 1800.

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Duane, William

(1872–1935) physicist; born in Philadelphia. He taught at Harvard (1893–97) and the University of Colorado (1898–1907), then became a researcher at the Curie Radium Laboratory, Paris, before returning to Harvard (1913–34). A pioneer in biophysics, he made major contributions to the use of X-rays in treating cancer.

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