Biography Category
(y ´hän r ´dôlf glou´b r) (KEY) , 1604–70, German alchemist. A forerunner of scientific chemists, Glauber made many practical advances in analy...
(j k´) (KEY) , 1895–1982, American chemist, b. Niagara Falls, Ont., Canada, grad. Univ. of California (B.S., 1920; Ph.D., 1922). A member of the f...
1805–69, Scottish chemist, best known for research in diffusion in both gases and liquids that led to his formulation of Graham’s law. His discove...
(f rd nän´d gälyä´n ) (KEY) , 1728–87, Italian economist, educated for the church. As a very young man he wrote Della moneta [on money] (1750)...
(g g´ nh m) (KEY) , family of American industrialists and philanthropists. Meyer Guggenheim, 1828–1905, b. Aargau canton, Switzerland, emigrated (1...
(gl v´ r) (KEY) , d. 1638, English nonconformist minister, generally considered the father of printing in the English colonies of North America. He v...