Biography Category
(fôn läb´än) (KEY) , 1879–1958, Slovakian dancer, choreographer, and dance theorist. After studying in Paris and performing in N Africa, Germany...
(l n´ ks) (KEY) , 1800–1880, American bibliophile and philanthropist, b. New York City. Lenox was a founder of the Presbyterian Hospital, New York ...
(f rd näN´ mär ´ v kôNt´ d l s ps´) (KEY) , 1805–94, French diplomat and engineer. He entered the consular service in 1825 and was minister ...
1875–1946, American chemist, b. Weymouth, Mass., grad. Harvard (B.A., 1896; Ph.D., 1899). He taught at Harvard and at the Massachusetts Institute of...
(y -än´ dzû´ l ´) (KEY) , 1936–, Taiwanese-American chemist, Ph.D. Univ. of California at Berkeley, 1965. In 1986, Lee shared the Nobel Prize i...
(y s´t s bärôn´ f n l ´b kh) (KEY) , 1803–73, German chemist. As professor at Giessen (1824–52), he was among the first to establish a chemic...