Biography Category
(g ´ôrkh f n h ´v sh ) (KEY) , 1885–1966, Hungarian physicist and chemist. He received the 1943 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the use ...
(tyäl´ ng, k p´mäns, –m nz) (KEY) , 1910–85, American economist, b. Graveland, the Netherlands. Raised and educated in the Netherlands, he cam...
1766–1828, English scientist, M.D. Cambridge, 1793. His wide-ranging scientific achievements include the discovery (1802) of the dark lines (Fraunho...
1904–89, British economist, grad. Balliol College, Oxford, 1931. He was a professor at the Univ. of Manchester (1938–46) before joining the facult...
1810–88, one of America’s leading botanists and taxonomists, b. Oneida co., N.Y. As professor of natural history at Harvard from 1842, he was the ...
(m l´k n) (KEY) , 1946–, American financial executive, b. Van Nuys, Calif. Nicknamed the “junk bond king,” he was an executive at Drexel Burnha...