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(g ´th lz) (KEY) , 1858–1928, U.S. army engineer, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., grad. West Point, 1880. After serving on various inland water projects, he was...
1778–1829, English chemist and physicist. The son of a woodcarver, he received his early education at Truro and was apprenticed (1795) to a surgeon-...
(g l´br th) (KEY) , 1908–, American economist and public official, b. Ont., Canada, grad. Univ. of Toronto (B.S., 1931), Univ. of California (M.S.,...
1823–81, American railroad president, b. Fort Loudon, Pa. He was employed by the Pennsylvania RR as a station agent in 1850 and rose to become gener...
(k n´ ch f k ´ , f k´ - ) (KEY) , 1918–98, Japanese chemist, b. Nara, Japan, Ph.D. Kyoto Univ., 1948. As a professor at Kyoto Univ., Fukui devel...
1792–1875, American financier, b. New York City; son of John Jacob Astor (1763–1848). Educated in Germany, he was associated with his father in bu...