Biography Category
1739–1806, Scottish cotton manufacturer and philanthropist. In 1785 he built New Lanark, a cotton mill and model community that provided his employe...
(hü´g d vr s) (KEY) , 1848–1935, Dutch botanist. He opened a new approach to the study of evolution by using the experimental method to investig...
(vän d k´) (KEY) , 1601–c.1672, German designer and maker of printing type, who worked in Amsterdam. Types that he designed were used by the Elzev...
1841–1900, American copper magnate, b. Ireland. He went to New York City at 15 and later moved to California, where he worked as a miner. He was emp...
(d m´ ng) (KEY) , 1900–1993, American statistician and quality-control expert, b. Sioux City, Iowa. Deming used statistics to examine industrial pr...
1856–1925, American industrialist, processor of tobacco products, b. near Durham, N.C. The Civil War left the Duke family poor, but James and his br...