Biography Category
(fräNswä´ d d ´) (KEY) , 1689–1757, Parisian printer. The son of a printer, Denis Didot, he was the first of the family to win fame in his craft...
(trüg´v hävelm ) (KEY) , 1911–99, Norwegian economist. In the 1940s, he was a pioneer in the field of econometrics, using mathematics and statis...
1879–1952, English engineer and social economist, educated at Cambridge Univ. Author of the economic theory of Social Credit, he became (1935) chief...
(äNtwän´ äl ksäN´dr bärby ´) (KEY) , 1765–1825, French bibliographer and government librarian. Barbier was one of a committee appointed to ...
c.1421–91, English printer, the first to print books in English. He served apprenticeship as a mercer and from 1463 to 1469 was at Bruges as governo...
(st ´v s nt) (KEY) , 1851–1923, American railroad executive, b. New York City; son of Hamilton Fish (1808–93). He became (1877) a director of the...