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1868–1938, American industrialist, manufacturer of rubber products, b. Columbiana co., Ohio. The son of a prosperous farmer, Harvey Firestone began ...
(räf-fä ´l gärô´fäl ) (KEY) , 1851–1934, Italian jurist and criminologist. He studied at the Univ. of Naples, where he later taught law and ...
(hûrsh´b k) (KEY) , 1932–, American chemist, b. San Jose, Calif., Ph.D. Harvard, 1958. In 1986, Herschbach shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry wit...
(foulz) (KEY) , 1712–75, and Robert Foulis, 1707–76, Scottish printers, brothers. They worked in partnership as printers to the Univ. of Glasgow. ...
(zhôz f´ lw g -lüsäk´) (KEY) , 1778–1850, French chemist and physicist. He was professor in Paris at the Sorbonne, at the Polytechnic School, ...
(dr k´s l) (KEY) , 1826–93, American banker and philanthropist, b. Philadelphia. He entered (1838) at an early age the well-known banking firm of D...