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(tä´tä) (KEY) , Parsi family of Indian industrialists, centered at Bombay. The Tata enterprises, which encompass vast holdings in iron and steel, m...
b. 1762 or 1763, d. 1825, Irish chemist. After study at Oxford he became supervisor of the Royal Dublin Society’s mineralogical collection and in 18...
1852–1919, American merchant, b. Rodman, N.Y. He established in 1879 a five-cent store at Utica, N.Y., which failed, and the same year he started a ...
1733–1804, English theologian and scientist. He prepared for the Presbyterian ministry and served several churches in England as pastor but graduall...
(n f´ ld) (KEY) , 1877–1963, English automobile manufacturer and philanthropist. Beginning his career as the proprietor of a bicycle shop, he later...
1877–1945, English physicist and chemist. He was affiliated with the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, from 1910. In 1922 he received the Nobel Prize...