Usually means: Inventor of the vacuum flask.
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  1. James Dewar: Merriam-Webster
  2. Dewar, James: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. Dewar, James, James Dewar: Dictionary.com
  4. James Dewar (baker), James Dewar (disambiguation), James Dewar (musician), James Dewar (rock vocalist), James Dewar: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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noun:  Sir James Dewar (20 September 1842 – 27 March 1923) was a Scottish chemist and physicist.
noun:  (12 October 1942 – 16 May 2002) a Scottish musician best known as the bassist and vocalist for Robin Trower and Stone the Crows, the latter having its beginnings as the resident band at Burns Howff in Glasgow.
noun:  a Scottish chemist and physicist.
noun:  James Alexander Dewar (February 5, 1897 – June 30, 1985) was a Canadian inventor known for inventing the Twinkie in 1930.
noun:  (1797 – 25 November 1830) a British jurist and a chief justice of the Supreme Court of Bombay.
noun:  James William Dewar (9 September 1827 – 19 July 1861) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.

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