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(k nfy ´sh s) (KEY) , Chinese K’ung Ch’iu or K’ung Fu-tzu [Master K’ung], c.551–479? B.C., Chinese sage. Positive evidence concerning the l...
1844–1919, American botanist, b. Boston, grad. Harvard, 1866. His chief contributions were made in the study of cryptogamic and parasitic plants. Ma...
(both: m lkyôr´r j ´yä) (KEY) , 1767–1829, Italian economist and political theorist. An early advocate of the unification of Italy, he was seve...
(kr ´r r) (KEY) , 1827–89, American capitalist and philanthropist, b. New York City. Crerar was a manufacturer in Chicago, and gave liberally to ma...
(h l´br ´´n r) (KEY) , 1919–2005, American economist, b. New York City, grad. Harvard, 1940, Ph.D., New School for Social Research, 1963. A proli...
(y -än´ dzû´ l ´) (KEY) , 1936–, Taiwanese-American chemist, Ph.D. Univ. of California at Berkeley, 1965. In 1986, Lee shared the Nobel Prize i...