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(ts ´gl r) (KEY) , 1898–1973, German chemist. Educated at the Univ. of Marburg, he taught at Heidelberg and Halle and for a short period at the Uni...
1827–1920, American penologist, b. Lyme, Conn. As superintendent of the House of Correction in Detroit, he tried to introduce in 1869 the indetermin...
(gl v´ r) (KEY) , d. 1638, English nonconformist minister, generally considered the father of printing in the English colonies of North America. He v...
(Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer) (ä´dôlf f n b ´y r; y hän´ fr ´dr kh v l´h lm) (KEY) , 1835–1917, German chemist. He taught at B...
(Robert Louis Fosse) (fô´s , f s´ ) (KEY) , 1927–87, American choreographer and director, b. Chicago. Fosse first appeared on Broadway in Dance M...
(v ´l m yän´s n blou) (KEY) , 1571–1638, Dutch cartographer and printer. He studied astronomy and instrument making under the Danish astronomer T...