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 (stĕf′ən-sən), Vilhjálmur 1879-1962.
Canadian explorer and ethnologist who studied the language and culture of Eskimoan languages and cultures.
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Stefansson

(ˈstɛfənsən)
n
(Biography) Vilhjalmur (ˈvɪlˌhjaʊmɛr). 1879–1962, Canadian explorer, noted for his books on the Inuit
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Stef•ans•son

(ˈstɛf ən sən)

n.
Vil•hjal•mur (ˈvɪlˌhyaʊl mər) 1879–1962, U.S. arctic explorer and author, born in Canada.
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Summary: New Delhi [India], Jun 23 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar put forth five points he is working on and highlighted India's role in the global arena during the dinner hosted by him here on Saturday, according to the Ambassador of Iceland to India, Gudmundur Arni Stefansson.
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A day after holding Armenian Super GM Levon Aronian--the tournament's highest-rated player with an Elo of 2816--to a truce, Filipino GM Wesley So couldn't gain headway with black and settled for a draw with Iceland's board 1 player GM Hannes Stefansson.
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Stefansson and his colleagues looked for every APP variant that occurred in more than One person, and then imputed these into a database of 72,000 Icelanders who had already been genotyped.
Gunnar Stefansson, Science Institute, University of Iceland, Raykjavik, Iceland.
In a crucial encounter Negi overcame CRG Krishna while Markus defeated GM Hanens Stefansson of Iceland and Ni Hua outwitted former world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta to share the lead with Areshchenko.
The approach allowed Stefansson's team to tell in which parent the mutations that contribute to the conditions had originated.