Researching William Duane
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 26 people with the Duane surname? In that year Duane was ranked number 3553 for popularity in the UK. |
The name William means "resolute guardian" and is of German origin.
Records of William Duane on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for William Duane and the Duane Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 148 people with the Duane surname in the UK? Duane is now ranked number 3903 for popularity in the UK. |
Duane Family History Databases
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Some Famous People called William Duane
William Duane (physicist)
William Duane (February 17, 1872 – March 7, 1935) was an American physicist who conducted research on radioactivity and X-rays and their usage in the treatment of cancer. He developed the Duane-Hunt Law and Duane's hypothesis. He worked with Pierre and Marie Curie in their University of Paris laboratory for six years and developed a method for generating quantities of radon-222 "seeds" from radium for usage in early forms of brachytherapy.
He was a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, professor-emeritus and chair of biophysics at Harvard University and research fellow of physics at the Harvard Cancer Commission. He received the John Scott Medal and the Comstock Prize in Physics in 1922 and the Leonard Prize of the American Roentgen Ray Society in 1923.
Source: William Duane (physicist), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaWilliam Duane (journalist)
William Duane (May 12, 1760 – November 24, 1835) was an Irish-American journalist and newspaper publisher. He founded the Bengal Journal in Calcutta, British India in 1791 but the newspaper was shut down by John Shore, the Governor-General of India due to libel against the French royalist government in exile. Duane founded a second newspaper, The World, but he was arrested and deported for libel by publishing articles critical of the East India Company.
Duane emigrated to the United States and began working at the Philadelphia Aurora and helped elect Thomas Jefferson as the 3rd president of the United States through his newspaper support. He was rewarded for his support of Jefferson with an assignment as adjutant general of the U.S. Army.
Source: William Duane (journalist), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Duane
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