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(Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer) (ä´dôlf f n b ´y r; y hän´ fr ´dr kh v l´h lm) (KEY) , 1835–1917, German chemist. He taught at B...
(gl v´ r) (KEY) , d. 1638, English nonconformist minister, generally considered the father of printing in the English colonies of North America. He v...
1827–1920, American penologist, b. Lyme, Conn. As superintendent of the House of Correction in Detroit, he tried to introduce in 1869 the indetermin...
(ts ´gl r) (KEY) , 1898–1973, German chemist. Educated at the Univ. of Marburg, he taught at Heidelberg and Halle and for a short period at the Uni...
(d m´ ng) (KEY) , 1900–1993, American statistician and quality-control expert, b. Sioux City, Iowa. Deming used statistics to examine industrial pr...
(g g´ nh m) (KEY) , family of American industrialists and philanthropists. Meyer Guggenheim, 1828–1905, b. Aargau canton, Switzerland, emigrated (1...