Biography Category
1856–1943, American educator, president of Harvard (1909–33), b. Boston, grad. Harvard (B.A., 1877; LL.B., 1880); brother of Percival Lowell and A...
1906–98, U.S. banker, chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (1951–70), b. St. Louis. After an early career as a stockbr...
(p l-l gr ´n t bäl´d ) (KEY) , 1527–96, Italian baroque painter and architect, whose real name was Pellegrino di Tibaldo de’ Pellegrini. He st...
(zhäN bät st´ shärk ´) (KEY) , 1867–1936, French neurologist and explorer in the antarctic region; son of Jean Martin Charcot. He became (1896)...
1807–74, American financier and founder of Cornell Univ., b. Westchester Landing, N.Y. Cornell, who began life as a laborer, was of an ingenious mec...
(s l´ gm n) (KEY) , 1861–1939, American economist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Columbia, 1885. As professor (1885–1931) at Columbia, he edited the â€...