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(zhäN bät st´ äNdr ´ dümä´) (KEY) , 1800–1884, French organic chemist. He was distinguished for his researches on atomic weights, esters, va...
1870–1954, American industrialist, b. Wilmington, Del., grad. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1890. Du Pont worked as a chemist with the fami...
1910–2002, English biochemist, educated at Cambridge Univ. From 1938 to 1946 he carried on chemical research in the laboratories of the Wool Industr...
(kr ´sl r) (KEY) , 1875–1940, American industrialist, founder of the Chrysler Corp. (now part of DaimlerChrysler A.G.), b. Wamego, Kans. He began a...
(y ´hän foust) (KEY) , d. 1466?, printer at Mainz. Johann Gutenberg borrowed substantial sums of money from Fust, a goldsmith, lawyer, and money len...
(n kôlä´ l m r ´) (KEY) , 1645–1715, French chemist. He was a pharmacist and lecturer in Paris and was the author of a standard textbook in chem...