Biography Category
(s ´v r ) (KEY) , 1721–87, American cabinetmaker. He is believed to have lived in Philadelphia from c.1740. Savery is noted for his artistic and or...
(bär´n b s) (KEY) , Christian apostle. He was a Cypriot and a relative of St. Mark; his forename was Joseph. Several passages in the New Testament r...
1840–1907, English civil engineer. He helped build London’s underground railway, Tower Bridge, and the Blackwall Tunnel, and with Sir John Fowler ...
1839–1909, chemist; father of Alfred Moritz Mond. He was born in Germany and became a naturalized British subject. Mond experimented with alkalies a...
or Jesus Christ (j ´z s kr st, j ´z z) (KEY) , 1st-century Jewish teacher and prophet in whom Christians have traditionally seen the Messiah [Heb.,=...
(fûr´n ld) (KEY) , 1873–1950, American botanist, b. Orono, Maine, grad. Harvard, 1897. He taught at Harvard (1902–49) and was director of the Gr...