Biography Category
( r´l nm ´´ r) (KEY) , 1825–1909, German chemist. He studied at Giessen under Justus von Liebig and at Heidelberg under Friedrich Kekulé, both G...
1843–1932, British artist, landscape gardener, and crafts artist. She was associated with William Robinson and Edwin Lutyens in developing an inform...
( ng´ lm n) (KEY) , 1809–84, American physician and botanist, b. Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, educated at the universities of Heidelberg and Würzbu...
1812–86, English library pioneer. As assistant from 1839 in the British Museum, he helped Sir Anthony Panizzi draw up the rules for the catalog. Edw...
(m sh l´ f k n´, Rus. fô´ky n) (KEY) , 1880–1942, Russian-American choreographer and ballet dancer, b. Russia. He studied at the Imperial Ballet...
American family of financiers and philanthropists.
Junius Spencer Morgan, 1813–90, b. West Springfield, Mass., prospered at investment banking. As a...