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William III, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (706 words) |
 | William, however, took an English army to the Spanish Netherlands in 1691 and was constantly involved in campaigning until the conclusion of peace by the Treaty of Ryswick (1697). |
| William and the Whigs were also responsible for the Toleration Act (1689), which lifted some of the disabilities imposed on Protestant nonconformists, and for allowing the Licensing Act to lapse (1695), a great step toward freedom of the press. |
| William sought to maintain royal prerogatives but was unable to prevent passage of the Triennial Act (1694), which required a new Parliament every three years, and the Act of Settlement (1701), which imposed the first statutory limitation on royal control of foreign policy. |
| William H. Stein - definition of William H. Stein in Encyclopedia (98 words) |
| William H. Stein - definition of William H. Stein in Encyclopedia |
| William Howard Stein (1911 - 1980) was a U.S. biochemist. |
| He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972 with Christian Boehmer Anfinsen and Stanford Moore, for their work on ribonuclease and for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the ribonuclease molecule. |
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