Biography Category
(än´t n k ´b r´´gûr) (KEY) , c.1445–1513, German printer. He established in 1470 the first printery in Nuremberg. In 1483 he produced a German...
(kûr´st n, k r´–) (KEY) , 1907–96, American dance and theater executive and writer, b. Rochester, N.Y. One of the most significant figures in A...
(k mär´ j v ) (KEY) , 344–413, Buddhist scholar and missionary, b. Kucha, in what is now Xinjiang, China. When his mother, a Kuchean princess, bec...
1885–1972, American economist, b. McLean County, Ill., Ph.D. Cornell Univ., 1916. He taught economics at the Univ. of Chicago (1927–62). Knight’...
(k zn ts´, k z´n ts) (KEY) , 1901–85, American economist, b. Kharkiv, Russia (now in Ukraine), grad. Columbia (B.S., 1923; M.A., 1924; Ph.D., 1926...
(mär´t n h n´r kh kläp´r t) (KEY) , 1743–1817, German chemist. He is often referred to as the father of analytic chemistry. He recognized (1789...