Biography Category
(r s´k ) (KEY) , 1833–1915, English chemist. He was professor (1857–87) at Owens College, Manchester. He is known for his work, with R. W. Bunsen...
(both: äNdr ´ shärl b l) (KEY) , 1642–1732, French cabinetmaker, the master of a distinctive style of furniture, much imitated, for which his nam...
(v l´h lm r ) (KEY) , 1850–1924, German anatomist, a founder of experimental embryology. He was a pupil of Ernst Haeckel and a professor (1895–19...
(d p nt) (KEY) , family notable in U.S. industrial history. The Du Pont family’s importance began when Eleuthère Irénée Du Pont established a gun...
(mär´t n h n´r kh kläp´r t) (KEY) , 1743–1817, German chemist. He is often referred to as the father of analytic chemistry. He recognized (1789...
1837–1903, American librarian, b. Boston. Cutter cataloged the library of the Harvard Divinity School and in 1860 was appointed as the assistant to ...