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(k ´p r, kou´–) (KEY) , 1731–1800, English poet. Physically and emotionally unfit for the professional life, he was admitted to the bar but neve...
(mäks f n p t´ nk ´´f r) (KEY) , 1818–1901, German chemist and hygienist. He studied medicine at Munich. Pettenkofer is considered a founder of ...
(fr ´dr kh löf´l r) (KEY) , 1852–1915, German bacteriologist. From 1888 he taught hygiene at the Univ. of Greifswald. Among his many contribution...
(b rnär´d b r´´t l t´ch ) (KEY) , 1940–, Italian film director and screenwriter, b. Parma. The son of poet Attilio Bertolucci and himself a pu...
1849–1924, American labor leader, b. Carbondale, Pa. Apprenticed in a machine shop, he joined (1871) the Machinists and Blacksmiths National Union, ...
1780–1853, American jurist, b. Westover Mills, Pa.; nephew of the American frontiersman John Gibson. He studied law, was unsuccessful in practice, a...