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(kr stôf´ pläNt N´) (KEY) , 1514–89, printer. Plantin left his native France for Belgium because of religious persecution. In Antwerp his work, ...
(äNr ´ lw l shät ly ´) (KEY) , 1850–1936, French industrial chemist. He made many contributions to industrial chemistry, but is best known for...
(t l´b rt) (KEY) , 1844–1913, American inventor, b. Troy, Ohio. Lanston spent his youth on an Iowa farm and served in the military throughout the C...
(kr ng´kw st, kr n´–) (KEY) , 1919–92, American systematic botanist. He was the author of two introductory botanical textbooks, with Henry Allan...
( t´´tävyä´n d ´ p tr t´ch ) (KEY) , 1466–1539, Venetian printer. Petrucci was the inventor of printing music by movable metal type. His pa...
1780–1845, English prison reformer and philanthropist. Deeply religious, she was recognized as a minister by the Society of Friends (Quakers). From ...