Biography Category
(pävl ´v , Rus. än´n m tvy ´ vn päv´l v ) (KEY) , 1881–1931, Russian ballerina. In 1892 she entered the Imperial Ballet School, St. Petersb...
(zhôfrwä´ tôr ´) (KEY) , c.1480–1533, Parisian printer, typographer, and author, b. Bourges. After study in Italy, he won distinction as a prof...
(py r ûzh n´ märs l N´ b rt l ´) (KEY) , 1827–1907, French chemist. He was professor at the École Supérieure de Pharmacie (1859) and at the C...
(k r th´ rz) (KEY) , 1896–1937, American chemist, b. Burlington, Iowa. He received his doctorate at the Univ. of Illinois in 1924, then taught orga...
1914–93, American industrialist, b. Dayton, Ohio. The son of Thomas John Watson, Sr., the founder of the International Business Machines Corp. (IBM)...
(w n´ m ´´k r) (KEY) , 1838–1922, American merchant, b. Philadelphia. He went into the men’s clothing business in Philadelphia with Nathan Brow...