Word: bohdan
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...Bohdan Pomahac, the associate director of Brigham and Women’s burn unit and the head of the hospital’s face transplant program, told the Globe that he has performed dozens of facial surgeries using skin grafted from elsewhere on the patient’s body, leaving the patient still looking disfigured...
...world ofastronomy, the venerated Polish-born theoretical astrophysicist Bohdan Paczynski was a renegade, forever proposing ideas dubbed outlandish by colleagues. Yet Paczynski changed the way we look at the sky. In the 1980s he refined a technique called microlensing, allowing scientists a more textured view of the galaxy. In the '90s he and a team of Polish researchers established a sweeping--and ongoing--project to capture all celestial activity and record rare events like killer asteroids. He was 67 and had brain cancer...
...BOHDAN A. ORYSHKEVICH...
...family of a prominent Ukrainian icon has donated to Harvard a collection of almost 900 maps thought to be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, the University announced this week. Bohdan Krawciw, who died in 1975, was an activist for Ukrainian independence, as well as a poet, translator, journalist, and to top it all off, a collector of maps of Ukraine. Marika L. Whaley, the publications manager at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI), described the collection as “monumental.” “I don’t know how this guy had the spare...
...Bohdan A. Oryshkevich