Biography Category
1904–87, American economist, b. Austria, grad. Columbia Univ. (A.B., 1925; A.M., 1925; Ph.D., 1934). He taught economics at Rutgers Univ. (1927–44...
(g ´t nb rg, Ger. y ´hän g ´t nb rk) (KEY) , c.1397–1468, German inventor and printer, long credited with the invention of a method of printing ...
(äNr ´ v ktôr´ r ny ´) (KEY) , 1810–78, French physicist and chemist. He was professor of chemistry at the École polytechnique, Paris, from 18...
(tw ´l ) (KEY) , 1941–, American dancer and choreographer, b. Portland, Ind. An eclectic, innovative choreographer and dancer, she danced (1963–6...
1793–1879, American economist, b. Philadelphia; son of Mathew Carey. In 1835 he retired from publishing, where he had done notable work, to devote h...
1838–1907, English chemist. In 1856 he discovered the first aniline dye (aniline purple, known as mauve and mauveine); by founding a factory to make...