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

Any woman of a certain age in anything by Shakespeare, Dickens, Congreve, Dryden or Sheridan.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2021

The Restoration saw Britain’s first-ever professional actresses, and both Otway and Congreve helped them shine.

From The Guardian • May 21, 2019

“It’s got that same kind of cruelty,” says Rebeck, who looked at an obscure 17th-century suggestion Rickman made before settling on the Congreve staple.

From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2018

Cicely was shaking hands now with little Lady Congreve, who had taken no part in the conversation, beyond giving occasional utterance to a faint ejaculation, or a timid laugh.

From Christina by Moberly, L. G.