Biography Category
1810–64, American publisher. John Reed and James T. Fields became Ticknor’s partners in Boston, and their firm is best known as Ticknor and Fields...
(b rz ´l s; Swed. yöns yä´kôp b rs ´l s) (KEY) , 1779–1848, Swedish chemist, M.D. Univ. of Uppsala, 1802. He was noted for his work as teach...
1890–1973, American war hero and airline executive, b. Columbus, Ohio. He became a car racing driver at 16 and set numerous speed records. In World ...
(ä´l üs z ´n f l´´d r, ä´lois) (KEY) , 1771–1834, German lithographer, b. Prague. Senefelder invented lithography in Munich c.1796. In 1818 ...
1867–1947, American economist, b. Saugerties, N.Y., Ph.D. Yale, 1891. He began teaching at Yale in 1890 and was active there until 1935. His earlies...
(Lido Anthony Iacocca) ( ´´ k ´k ) (KEY) , 1924–, American business executive, b. Allentown, Pa. In 1946 he joined the Ford Motor Company, where ...