[stahyn for 1, 3; shtahyn for 2] 
| 1. | Gertrude, 1874–1946, U.S. author in France. |
| 2. | Hein⋅rich Frie⋅drich Karl [hahyn-rikh free-drikh kahrl] , Baron vom und zum [fawm oo nt tsoom] , 1757–1831, German statesman. |
| 3. | William Howard, 1911–80, U.S. biochemist: Nobel prize for chemistry 1972. |
| Stein (stīn) American writer of experimental novels, poetry, essays, operas, and plays. In Paris during the 1920s she was a central member of a group of American expatriates that included Ernest Hemingway. Her works include Three Lives (1908), Tender Buttons (1914), and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933). |
A twentieth-century American author who lived most of her life in France. She wrote her life story as The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Toklas was her companion), and she is said to have introduced the phrase “lost generation” to describe the Americans who wandered about Europe after World War I. Her works also include poems and the story collection Three Lives; the most famous line from her poetry is “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.”
Stein (stīn), William Howard. 1911-1980.
American biochemist. He shared a 1972 Nobel Prize for pioneering studies of ribonuclease.