(Encyclopedia) Tiffany, Charles LewisTiffany, Charles Lewistĭfˈənē [key], 1812–1902, American merchant, b. Killingly, Conn. He founded the famous jewelry firm of Tiffany and Company, New York City.…
(Encyclopedia) Schwellenbach, Lewis BaxterSchwellenbach, Lewis Baxtershwĕlˈənbäk [key], 1894–1948, American cabinet officer, b. Superior, Wis. After serving (1935–40) in the U.S. Senate, he was…
(Encyclopedia) Rutherfurd, Lewis MorrisRutherfurd, Lewis Morrisrŭᵺˈərfərd [key], 1816–92, American physicist, b. New York City, grad. Williams, 1834. From 1837 to 1849 he practiced law. Rutherfurd…
(Encyclopedia) Preston, Lewis Thompson, 1926–95, American financial executive, b. New York City. After serving as a U.S. Marine during World War II and graduating from Harvard (1951), he joined J. P…
(Encyclopedia) Richardson, Lewis Fry, 1881–1953, British physicist and pioneering meteorologist, grad. Cambridge (1903), Univ. of London (B.Sc. 1929). Richardson worked at the National Physical…
(Encyclopedia) Perl, Martin Lewis, 1927–2014, American physicist, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., Ph.D. Columbia, 1955. He was a professor at the Univ. of Michigan from 1955 to 1963, when he accepted a position…
(Encyclopedia) radiochemistry, chemistry of radioactive substances (see radioactivity). Radioactive isotopes are very useful as tracers to study the mechanisms of complex organic reactions, since…
LEWIS, Abner, a Representative from New York; born in Panama, Chautauqua County, N.Y.; attended the public schools; member of the State assembly in 1838 and 1839; elected as a Whig to the…
LEWIS, Thomas, a Representative from Virginia; born in Augusta County, Va., birth date unknown; attended the common schools; presented credentials as a Federalist Representative-elect to the…
EATON, Lewis, a Representative from New York; born in New York, birth date unknown; sheriff of Schenectady County, 1821 and 1822; resided in Duanesburg; elected as Crawford Republican to the…
