Biography Category
(gr l´y r, Fr. zhäN grôly ´ d s rvy r´ v kôNt´ däg z ´) (KEY) , 1479–1565, French bibliophile. Grolier served Francis I as government trea...
1892–1976, American business executive, one of the richest men in the world during his life, b. Minneapolis, Minn. He inherited his father’s oil b...
(shärl fr d r k´ zh rär´) (KEY) , 1816–56, French chemist, b. Strasbourg. He revived the theory of acid radicals, which he called the theory of ...
1846–1927, American lawyer and industrialist, b. near Wheaton, Ill., grad. Union College of Law, Chicago, 1868. Rising rapidly as a corporation lawy...
(g ´t nb rg, Ger. y ´hän g ´t nb rk) (KEY) , c.1397–1468, German inventor and printer, long credited with the invention of a method of printing ...
(lw b rnär´ bärôN´ g tôN´ d môrv ´) (KEY) , 1737–1816, French chemist and lawyer. He wrote the chemical section of the Encyclopédie mét...