Biography Category
(py r zhôz f´ p l ty ´) (KEY) , 1788–1842, French chemist. With J. B. Caventou, he was cofounder of alkaloid chemistry and codiscoverer of quinin...
(hwän pä´bl s) (KEY) , d. 1561?, printer in Spanish America. Pablos printed in Mexico City the first book known to have been printed in the Western...
(vlädy ´m r pr ´lôg) (KEY) , 1906–98, Swiss chemist, b. Sarejevo, Austria-Hungary (now in Bosnia and Herzegovina). Educated in Prague, he worked...
(pän t´s ) (KEY) , 1797–1879, British librarian, b. Italy. A political exile, Panizzi settled in England in 1823 and was naturalized in 1832. He w...
1838–1907, English chemist. In 1856 he discovered the first aniline dye (aniline purple, known as mauve and mauveine); by founding a factory to make...
(p n´s n) (KEY) , d. 1530, English printer, b. Normandy. He moved to England c.1482 and in 1491 or 1492 began printing books pertaining to law in Lon...