Biography Category
( p sh´ s) (KEY) , 1st cent., Roman gourmet. He squandered most of his large fortune on feasts and then, anticipating a need to economize, committed ...
(t ´ dôr sv d´b ry , t ) (KEY) , 1884–1971, Swedish chemist. He was professor of physical chemistry from 1912 to 1949 at the Univ. of Uppsala. Fo...
(fô´s t) (KEY) , 1833–84, English economist and statesman. A follower of John Stuart Mill, he was professor of political economy at Cambridge, and...
(mäks y ´hän z ´g sm nd sh l´ts ) (KEY) , 1825–74, German biologist, director of the Anatomical Institute at Bonn from 1859. He established tha...
1829–92, American financier and sportsman, b. New York City. The son of William Backhouse Astor (1792–1875), he was a retiring man, notable princi...
1749–1831, American patriot and printer, from Worcester, Mass. Thomas printed outspoken Whig editorials in the Massachusetts Spy, a newspaper that h...