Biography Category
(kr ng´kw st, kr n´–) (KEY) , 1919–92, American systematic botanist. He was the author of two introductory botanical textbooks, with Henry Allan...
(t l´b rt) (KEY) , 1844–1913, American inventor, b. Troy, Ohio. Lanston spent his youth on an Iowa farm and served in the military throughout the C...
(äNr ´ lw l shät ly ´) (KEY) , 1850–1936, French industrial chemist. He made many contributions to industrial chemistry, but is best known for...
(kr stôf´ pläNt N´) (KEY) , 1514–89, printer. Plantin left his native France for Belgium because of religious persecution. In Antwerp his work, ...
1831–97, American industrialist and developer of the railroad sleeping car, b. Brocton, N.Y. As a young man he became a cabinetmaker, and after he m...
(f l´j r), 1857–1930, American industrialist and collector of Shakespeareana. His connection with Standard Oil companies, beginning in 1879, contin...