Biography Category
(kl d gärämôN´) (KEY) , 1480–1561, Parisian designer and maker of printing types. According to tradition he learned his art from Geofroy Tory. T...
(gou´d ) (KEY) , 1865–1947, American type designer, b. Bloomington, Ill. Goudy is celebrated as one of the finest and most prolific type designers ...
1926–, American economist, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (1987–), b. New York City. Influenced by the philosophy of Ayn Rand, Greenspan is...
(v ktôr´ gr nyär´) (KEY) , 1871–1935, French chemist. He shared the 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in organic synthesis based on his...
(g m´b l) (KEY) , family of American merchants and philanthropists. Adam Gimbel, 1815–96, b. Bavaria, emigrated (1835) to the United States and tra...
(shärl zh d) (KEY) , 1847–1932, French economist. A professor at the universities of Bordeaux, Montpellier, and Paris, Gide was an expert on intern...