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Merrifield, Robert Bruce

(Encyclopedia)Merrifield, Robert Bruce, 1921–2006, American chemist, b. Fort Worth, Tex., Ph.D. Univ. of California at Los Angeles, 1949. As a researcher at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (later R...

Asser, Tobias Michael Carel

(Encyclopedia)Asser, Tobias Michael Carel tōbēˈäs mēˈkhāl käˈrəl äsˈər [key], 1838–1913, Dutch jurist. He was a delegate to many international conferences, including the Hague Conference of 1899, and...

Fosse, Jon

(Encyclopedia)Jon Fosse, 1959– , b. Haugesund, Norway, Norwegian author and playwright, studied at the University of Bergen (B.A.; M.A, 1987). His work is noted for...

Finsen, Niels Ryberg

(Encyclopedia)Finsen, Niels Ryberg nēls rüˈbĕr fĭnˈsən [key], 1860–1904, Danish physician. He established in Copenhagen an institute of light therapy and wrote several books on his work. He received the 19...

von Klitzing, Klaus

(Encyclopedia)von Klitzing, Klaus, 1943–, German physicist, Ph.D. Univ. of Würzburg, 1972. He was a professor at the Technical Univ. of Munich (1980–85) and then director of the Max Planck Institute for Solid ...

Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot

(Encyclopedia)Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot, 1910–94, English chemist and X-ray crystallographer, b. Egypt. She received the 1964 Nobel Prize in chemistry for determining the structure of biochemical compounds (...

Haavelmo, Trygve

(Encyclopedia)Haavelmo, Trygve trügˈvə hävelmō [key], 1911–99, Norwegian economist. In the 1940s, he was a pioneer in the field of econometrics, using mathematics and statistics in the formation of economic ...

Fibiger, Johannes

(Encyclopedia)Fibiger, Johannes yôhäˈnəs fēˈbēgər [key], 1867–1928, Danish pathologist and physician. He served as professor of pathological anatomy at the Univ. of Copenhagen. For his experimental studie...

Wittig, Georg

(Encyclopedia)Wittig, Georg, 1897–1987, German chemist, Ph.D. Univ. of Marburg, 1926. During his career, Wittig was a professor at the universities of Braunschweig, Freiburg, Tübingen, and Heidelberg. He shared ...

Branting, Hjalmar

(Encyclopedia)Branting, Hjalmar yälˈmär bränˈtĭng [key], 1860–1925, Swedish premier. A leader of the Social Democratic party, he was finance minister in 1917. As premier (1920, 1921–23, 1924–25) he was ...