Biography Category
(ou´g st v l´h lm kh´l r) (KEY) , 1839–87, German botanist. He worked out the symmetry of the parts of a flower and developed a system of plant ...
( p´d k´´) (KEY) , 1860–1941, American printer and historian of typography, b. Providence, R.I. At the Merrymount Press, which he founded in 1893...
1545–1613, English scholar and diplomat, organizer of the Bodleian Library at Oxford Univ. He was a Greek scholar and teacher at Oxford, and in 1584...
(zhôz f´ n s fôr´ ny ps) (KEY) , 1765–1833, French chemist who originated a process of photography (see photography, still). In 1826 he produced...
in the Bible, mother of Jesus. Christian tradition reckons her the principal saint, naming her variously the Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Lady, and Mother...
(l m nt´) (KEY) , 1870–1948, American banker, b. Claverack, N.Y., grad. Harvard, 1892. Lamont entered (1903) the banking business in New York City ...