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(vlädy ´m r pr ´lôg) (KEY) , 1906–98, Swiss chemist, b. Sarejevo, Austria-Hungary (now in Bosnia and Herzegovina). Educated in Prague, he worked...
1757–1834, Scottish civil engineer. He greatly improved road building in England and Scotland. He introduced the use of a base of large stones surfa...
(shärl fr d r k´ zh rär´) (KEY) , 1816–56, French chemist, b. Strasbourg. He revived the theory of acid radicals, which he called the theory of ...
(pän t´s ) (KEY) , 1797–1879, British librarian, b. Italy. A political exile, Panizzi settled in England in 1823 and was naturalized in 1832. He w...
(b r´tôlt shvärts) (KEY) , fl. 14th cent., German Franciscan monk and alchemist. It was formerly widely believed, especially in Germany, that he in...
1830–1906, American hat manufacturer, b. Orange, N.J. Stetson, who had learned hatmaking, traveled to the West in the 1860s to improve his health. H...