Biography Category
(zhäN´ s rv ´ stäs) (KEY) , 1813–91, Belgian chemist. He was assistant to J. B. A. Dumas and professor (1840–65) at the École royale militair...
(äntô´ny mälyäb ´k ) (KEY) , 1633–1714, Italian librarian, b. Florence. Magliabechi was a trained goldsmith who devoted his life to learning,...
1775–1817, pioneer American cotton manufacturer, b. Newburyport, Mass.; son of John Lowell (1743–1802). A merchant in Boston, he traveled (1810) t...
1795–1852, American chairmaker, b. Cheshire, Conn. In 1818 in Barkhamsted, Conn., Hitchcock established a factory whose employees came to number abo...
(k gz´w l, –w l) (KEY) , 1786–1871, American librarian and bibliographer, b. Ipswich, Mass. After studying abroad, Cogswell taught mineralogy and...
1879–1963, British economist, b. India, grad. Oxford, 1902. His fame as an authority on social problems was gained through investigations and writin...