ADOLPHUS WILLIAM WARD
\ɐdˈɒlfəs wˈɪli͡əm wˈɔːd], \ɐdˈɒlfəs wˈɪliəm wˈɔːd], \ɐ_d_ˈɒ_l_f_ə_s w_ˈɪ_l_iə_m w_ˈɔː_d]\
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An English educator, literary historian, and biographer; born at Hampstead, London, Dec. 2, 1837. In addition to being professor of history and principal of Owens College, Manchester, and contributing to the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" and leading English reviews, he is the author of "The House of Austria in the Thirty Years' War" (1869); "Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth" (2 vols., 1875); "Lives" of Chaucer (1879) and Dickens (1882) in the "English Men of Letters" series; translator of Curtius's "History of Greece" (5 vols., 1868-74); and editor of "Pope's Poems" (Globe edition, 1869), and of "Byron's Poems" (Chetham Society's edition); "Great Britain and Hanover" (1899).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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Dopamine Acetyltransferase
- An enzyme that catalyzes the of groups from acetyl-CoA to arylamines. They have wide specificity for aromatic amines, particularly serotonin, and can also catalyze acetyl transfer between arylamines without CoA. EC 2.3.1.5.