Biography Category
(k r th´ rz) (KEY) , 1896–1937, American chemist, b. Burlington, Iowa. He received his doctorate at the Univ. of Illinois in 1924, then taught orga...
(py r ûzh n´ märs l N´ b rt l ´) (KEY) , 1827–1907, French chemist. He was professor at the École Supérieure de Pharmacie (1859) and at the C...
(zhôfrwä´ tôr ´) (KEY) , c.1480–1533, Parisian printer, typographer, and author, b. Bourges. After study in Italy, he won distinction as a prof...
(pävl ´v , Rus. än´n m tvy ´ vn päv´l v ) (KEY) , 1881–1931, Russian ballerina. In 1892 she entered the Imperial Ballet School, St. Petersb...
1790–1858, American economist, b. Norwalk, Conn. He advocated a financial scheme to abolish interest, which was often usurious at the time he wrote....
(Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher), 1908–92, American culinary writer. Raised in California, Fisher lived in France for three years, where she was inspir...