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1848–1909, American railroad executive, b. Hempstead, N.Y.; father of William Averell Harriman. He became a stockbroker in New York City and soon en...
(v l´h lm h f´m ´´st r) (KEY) , 1824–77, German botanist. Although self-taught, he made such valuable studies of the reproduction and developmen...
(trüg´v hävelm ) (KEY) , 1911–99, Norwegian economist. In the 1940s, he was a pioneer in the field of econometrics, using mathematics and statis...
(fr ´dr kh oug st´ fôn h ´ k) (KEY) , 1899–1992, British economist, b. Vienna. He was raised and educated in Austria and taught at the London Sc...
1795–1852, American chairmaker, b. Cheshire, Conn. In 1818 in Barkhamsted, Conn., Hitchcock established a factory whose employees came to number abo...
(h ´b r) (KEY) , 1937–, German biochemist. After receiving his doctorate at Munich Technical Univ., he worked both there and at the Max Planck Inst...