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Laban
Hungarian modern-dance teacher, inventor of the Labanotation system of dance notation. After studying dance in Paris, he opened his Choreographic Institute in Zurich in 1915 and later founded branches in Italy, France, and central Europe. He worked in Germany 1919-37, and was ballet director of the Berlin State Opera 1930-34. In 1928 he published his method for recording all forms of human motion, which enabled choreographers to record the dancer's steps and other body movements, incl. their rhythm. In 1938 he joined his former pupil K. Jooss teaching dance in England, where he later formed the Art of Movement Studio. His system was further developed and maintained at centers in Essen (Germany) and New York.
Saba
Island (pop., 1990: 1,100) of the Netherlands Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. It lies 16 mi (26 km) northwest of St. Eustatius, with which it forms the Lesser Antilles. It has an area of 5 sq mi (13 sq km) and is the peak of an extinct volcano, Mt. Scenery. It was settled by the Dutch in 1632, but its inaccessibility and ruggedness prevented it from achieving economic importance and it was often a buccaneers' stronghold. The economy depends heavily on tourism.
Sabin
U.S. (Polish-born) physician and microbiologist. He emigrated to the U.S. with his parents in 1921 and received an MD from New York Univ. He grew polio virus in human nerve tissue outside the body, showed that it does not enter the body through the respiratory system, and proved that poliomyelitis is primarily an infection of the digestive tract. He postulated that an oral vaccine would work longer than J. Salk's injections of killed virus, and isolated weakened strains of each of the three types of polio virus that would stimulate antibody production but not produce disease. The Sabin oral polio vaccine, approved for use in the U.S. in 1960, became the main defense against polio throughout the world.
Sabine
British (Irish) astronomer and geodesist. He accompanied the expeditions of John Ross (1818) and William Parry (1819) in search of the Northwest Passage. In 1821 he began experiments to determine the earth's shape more precisely by observing the motion of a pendulum. He thereafter devoted most of his efforts to researches on terrestrial magnetism, overseeing the establishment of magnetic observatories throughout the world. In 1852 he discovered that the periodic variation of sunspots is correlated with certain changes in magnetic disturbances. He was president of London's Royal Society 1861-71. Knighted in 1869, he was promoted to the rank of general in 1870.
Sagan
U.S. astronomer and science writer. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he received his PhD from the Univ. of Chicago. At the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (1962-68), he worked on planetary astronomy and on the SETI project. He gained prominence as a popular science writer and commentator noted for his clear writing ...
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