Congreve

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Dan Congreve and colleagues at Stanford University are working on LEDs made with perovskite crystals, a material often used in solar cells.

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2023

The Way of the World, written and directed by Theresa Rebeck, adapted from the play by William Congreve.

From Washington Post • Jan. 16, 2018

The quote about Alexander the Great that they use in Die Hard is actually bastardised from dramatist William Congreve.

From The Guardian • Oct. 9, 2017

Also on hand is a model of a British Congreve rocket used in the assault.

From Reuters • Jul. 1, 2012

Edmund Gosse has sent me his clever little life of Congreve, just out, and I have read it—but it isn't so good as his Raleigh.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry