Biography Category
(äl ´) (KEY) , 1911–, French economist. After working in the French mine administration, he joined the École National Superieure des Mines in Par...
1877–1945, English physicist and chemist. He was affiliated with the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, from 1910. In 1922 he received the Nobel Prize...
(äl´d r) (KEY) , 1902–58, German chemist, educated at Berlin and at Kiel. He was on the research staff of the Bayer Dye Works (1936–40) before b...
1904–88, British choreographer and dancer, b. Guayaquil, Ecuador. He grew up in Peru and was drawn to dance after seeing (1917) a performance by Ann...
(är´m r) (KEY) , 1832–1901, American meatpacker, b. Stockbridge, N.Y. Armour’s Chicago meatpacking plants introduced new principles of large-sca...
1848–1919, American-British financier, b. New York City, educated in Germany and in Italy and at the Columbia law school; son of John Jacob Astor (1...