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1921–, English inorganic chemist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Ernst Otto Fischer for their independent research on the organome...
(y ´hän vôlf´gäng dö´b r n r) (KEY) , 1780–1849, German chemist. From 1810 he was professor of the Univ. of Jena. He is known especially for ...
(zhäN äNr ´ r z n r´) (KEY) , 1734–1806, French cabinetmaker, one of the major artists who made important contributions to the formation of the ...
(James Buchanan Brady), 1856–1917, American financier and philanthropist, b. New York City. He was a bellboy and messenger and then worked for the N...
1743–1810, American merchant, Indian agent, and land speculator, b. Philadelphia. In 1765 he went as his firm’s representative to engage in the fu...
1919–, American economist, b. Murfreesboro, Tenn., Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1948. A professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1969–83) and Georg...