Biography Category
(m sh l´ özh n´ sh vröl´) (KEY) , 1786–1889, French chemist. He studied under L. N. Vauquelin, was director of the Gobelin tapestry works, and ...
1800–1883, and Robert Chambers, 1802–71, Scottish authors and publishers. Their firm of W. and R. Chambers is best known for Chambers’s Edinburg...
1889–1959, English economist, labor historian, and socialist. Educated at Oxford, he was long associated with the university and held a professorshi...
(kl p´ m) (KEY) , 1873–1946, English economic historian. He was lecturer, professor and administrator at Cambridge from 1908 to 1943. Outstanding a...
(ch ´- ) (KEY) , 538–97, Chinese Buddhist scholar and founder of the T’ien-t’ai (in Japan, called Tendai, or Lotus) school of Buddhism. Chih-i ...
1911–97, American organic chemist and educator, b. St. Paul, Minn., grad. Michigan College of Mining and Technology, 1931, Ph.D. Univ. of Minnesota,...