henderson

henderson — noun

1. Arthur Henderson (1863–1935), a British politician who led the Labour Party, ser

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Arthur Henderson (1863–1935), a British politician who led the Labour Party, served as Foreign Secretary, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1934 for his work on international disarmament.

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Arthur Henderson led the Labour Party through the difficult years after the First World War.

political leadership: Labour Party leader

In 1934, Arthur Henderson won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to reduce weapons worldwide.

用法筆記

Arthur Henderson is the only former British cabinet minister to have won the Nobel Peace Prize. He was a key organiser of the Labour Party's early growth and served as Foreign Secretary in the 1920s and again in 1929–1931.

2. Richard Henderson (1945–), a British molecular biologist who shared the 2017 Nob

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Richard Henderson (1945–), a British molecular biologist who shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing cryo-electron microscopy, a technique that lets scientists see the structure of proteins at atomic resolution.

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Richard Henderson developed new ways to see proteins using cryo-electron microscopy at Cambridge.

scientific achievement: cryo-electron microscopy

In 2017, Richard Henderson shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his microscopy breakthroughs.

用法筆記

Richard Henderson was born in Scotland and spent most of his career at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. His research made it possible to image biological molecules at atomic resolution without crystallising them.

3. A city on the Ohio River in northwestern Kentucky, United States, with a populat

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A city on the Ohio River in northwestern Kentucky, United States, with a population of about 29,000, located south of Evansville, Indiana.

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Ilan drove through Henderson to Evansville and saw barges on the Ohio River.

geographic context: Ohio River location

The city of Henderson, Kentucky, has a small historic downtown with 19th-century buildings.

4. A city southeast of Las Vegas in southeastern Nevada, United States, with a popu

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A city southeast of Las Vegas in southeastern Nevada, United States, with a population of about 258,000, known as a fast-growing suburb of the Las Vegas metropolitan area.

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Zayd moved to Henderson, Nevada, for a job at a tech company near Las Vegas.

demographic context: fast-growing Las Vegas suburb

Henderson, Nevada, has grown quickly as more families look for homes outside Las Vegas.