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(äl´fr d b rn´härd n b l´) (KEY) , 1833–96, Swedish chemist and inventor. Educated in St. Petersburg, Russia, he traveled as a youth and return...
1731–1821, American merchant and financier, b. Philadelphia. He studied law in London. Returning to Philadelphia in 1749, he entered his father’s ...
(ôs´kär h rt´v kh) (KEY) , 1849–1922, German embryologist. He studied medicine with Haeckel and Gegenbaur. In 1875 he established the fact that ...
(f nt n´) (KEY) , 1919–91, English ballerina. Fonteyn was for many years prima ballerina assoluta of the Royal Ballet. Her original name was Margar...
1915–, American inorganic chemist, b. Saskatchewan, Canada. He earned his Ph.D. at Berkeley, became a professor of chemistry at Univ. of Chicago (19...
1946–, American business executive, b. New York City. After attending the Wharton business school, he joined the family real estate business. A self...