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Science and technology, A to Z

The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 5th Edn.

Edited by Sybil P. Parker. 15 volumes, pp. 12,700. ISBN 0-07-079280-1. (McGraw-Hill: 1982.) £495, $850.

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  1. editor of the Macmillan Encyclopedia, the Penguin Dictionary of Science, Longman's New Dictionary of Physics, and science editor of Collins English Dictionary. He has contributed to many other dictionaries and encyclopaedias.

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Isaacs, A. Science and technology, A to Z. Nature 299, 283–284 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1038/299283a0

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