Biography Category
1689–1759, English bibliographer. He compiled Typographical Antiquities (1749), a valuable list of English books printed before 1600....
(stän slä´ kän-n t-tsä´r ) (KEY) , 1826–1910, Italian chemist. From 1861 he was professor at Palermo and from 1871 at Rome, where he was also...
1722–91, American Revolutionary printer and patriot; grandson of William Bradford (1663–1752). He learned printing from his uncle, Andrew Bradford...
1804–84, Italian ballerina, b. Stockholm. Taglioni is considered the first and foremost ballerina of the romantic period. She made her debut in Vien...
(sp f´ rd) (KEY) , 1825–1908, librarian of Congress of the United States, b. Belknap co., N.H. In 1861 he became chief assistant librarian of Congr...
(h ´b r) (KEY) , 1937–, German biochemist. After receiving his doctorate at Munich Technical Univ., he worked both there and at the Max Planck Inst...