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Duane, William (1760–1835)| US journalist. He joined Benjamin Franklin Bache's anti-Federalist Aurora, which he edited 1798–1822. Tried and acquitted of sedition in 1799, he was charged a second time, but the charges were dropped after Thomas Jefferson's election in 1800. |
| He was born near Lake Champlain, New York. He lived in Ireland, where he learned printing, and in India, where he founded an outspoken paper that led to his deportation. |
Duane, William (1872–1935)| US physicist. He taught at Harvard and the University of Colorado, then became a researcher at the Curie Radium Laboratory, Paris, before returning to Harvard. A pioneer in biophysics, he made major contributions to the use of X-rays in treating cancer. |
| He was born in Philadelphia. |
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