Biography Category
(v l´h lm h f´m ´´st r) (KEY) , 1824–77, German botanist. Although self-taught, he made such valuable studies of the reproduction and developmen...
1870–1927, American chemist and physicist, b. Amherst, Mass., grad. Sheffield Scientific School, Yale, 1892. After graduate study at Leipzig and Yal...
(j ´ t) (KEY) , 1816–68, American librarian, b. Lebanon, Maine. Jewett prepared his first catalog of books as librarian of Andover Theological Semi...
1867–1933, American banker and philanthropist, b. New York City; son of Solomon Loeb. He entered (1888) Kuhn, Loeb and Company and retired from busi...
1830–1906, American hat manufacturer, b. Orange, N.J. Stetson, who had learned hatmaking, traveled to the West in the 1860s to improve his health. H...
(b r´tôlt shvärts) (KEY) , fl. 14th cent., German Franciscan monk and alchemist. It was formerly widely believed, especially in Germany, that he in...