Biography Category
(hûrsh´b k) (KEY) , 1932–, American chemist, b. San Jose, Calif., Ph.D. Harvard, 1958. In 1986, Herschbach shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry wit...
(ô´t hän) (KEY) , 1879–1968, German chemist and physicist. His important contributions in the field of radioactivity include the discovery of se...
1850–1927, American financier, b. Oneonta, N.Y. He was prominent in railroad and other enterprises. Until the death of his uncle, Collis P. Huntingt...
(hä´b r) (KEY) , 1868–1934, German chemist. He was a professor of physical chemistry at Karlsruhe and became director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Instit...
1905–76, U.S. business executive, b. Houston. As a young man he inherited (1925) the patent rights to an oil tool drill, which, manufactured by the ...
(h v´ m ´´y r) (KEY) , 1847–1907, American industrialist, b. New York City. He inherited large family interests in sugar refining and, with his b...