Biography Category
(m sh l´ sh väly ´) (KEY) , 1806–79, French economist. An ardent Saint-Simonian as a youth, he later favored a form of welfare capitalism. He adv...
(gl ´s n) (KEY) , 1882–1975, American botanist, plant geographer, and plant ecologist. His floristic studies of North American vegetation led to hi...
(brôn ´sl v ny zh n´sk ) (KEY) , 1891–1972, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer; sister of Vaslav Nijinsky. She studied at the Imperial Ball...
(ch p´ nd l´´) (KEY) , 1718–79, celebrated English cabinetmaker. His designs were so widely followed that a whole general category of 18th-centur...
1874–1956, American industrialist and philanthropist, b. Campbell, N.Y. After rising from clerk to sales executive in the National Cash Register Co....
1832–1919, English chemist and physicist. After serving at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, and teaching chemistry at Chester Training College, he...