Biography Category
one of the Twelve Apostles, called Didymus. According to John, he refused to believe in the resurrection until he saw Jesus’ wounds; hence the expre...
(zhôfrwä´ tôr ´) (KEY) , c.1480–1533, Parisian printer, typographer, and author, b. Bourges. After study in Italy, he won distinction as a prof...
1946–, American business executive, b. New York City. After attending the Wharton business school, he joined the family real estate business. A self...
1915–, American inorganic chemist, b. Saskatchewan, Canada. He earned his Ph.D. at Berkeley, became a professor of chemistry at Univ. of Chicago (19...
1934–94, American virologist, b. Philadelphia, Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 1959. A professor at the Univ. of Wisconsin in Madison, Tem...
1810–64, American publisher. John Reed and James T. Fields became Ticknor’s partners in Boston, and their firm is best known as Ticknor and Fields...