Biography Category
(k mär´ j v ) (KEY) , 344–413, Buddhist scholar and missionary, b. Kucha, in what is now Xinjiang, China. When his mother, a Kuchean princess, bec...
1797–1872, American merchant and transcontinental railroad projector, b. North Groton, Conn. He entered the mercantile business in New York City, ac...
1858–1940, English economist and journalist. He achieved wide popularity as a lecturer and writer. Criticizing classical economics, which centered o...
1885–1972, American economist, b. McLean County, Ill., Ph.D. Cornell Univ., 1916. He taught economics at the Univ. of Chicago (1927–62). Knight’...
1780–1845, English prison reformer and philanthropist. Deeply religious, she was recognized as a minister by the Society of Friends (Quakers). From ...
( t´´tävyä´n d ´ p tr t´ch ) (KEY) , 1466–1539, Venetian printer. Petrucci was the inventor of printing music by movable metal type. His pa...