Meaning of GILBERT
Pronunciation: | | 'gilburt, 'gilburt
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- [n] United States architect who influenced the development of the skyscraper (1859-1934)
- [n] English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America (1539-1583)
- [n] English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603)
- [n] a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911)
- [n] a unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns
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| Synonyms: | | Cass Gilbert, Gb, Gi, Humphrey Gilbert, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Sir William Gilbert, William Gilbert, William Schwenk Gilbert |
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| See Also: | | architect, designer, doc, doctor, Dr., librettist, magnetomotive force unit, MD, medico, navigator, physician, physicist, poet | |
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| Definition: | | The coinventor of Maxam-Gilbert sequencing, which is a lab technique used to find the sequence of nucleotide bases of a nucleic acid (DNA or RNA). He is also known for his research on the intron-exon gene structure of eukaryotes. In 1980, he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Paul Berg, a biochemist. |
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