Biography Category
(pl ´tärk) (KEY) , A.D. 46?–c.A.D. 120, Greek essayist and biographer, b. Chaeronea, Boeotia. He traveled in Egypt and Italy, visited Rome (where ...
(mär´k m) (KEY) , 1830–1916, English geographer and writer. While in the navy he served on a British expedition (1850–51) to the Arctic to searc...
1859–1934, American botanist, grad. Columbia School of Mines, 1879. He taught geology and botany at Columbia, 1879–96. He was the New York Botanic...
1906–74, American oceanographer and geologist, b. Lackney, Tex., grad. Rice Institute, now Rice Univ. (B.S., 1926; M.A., 1927; Ph.D., 1931). He taug...
(j rär´d s mûrk ´t r) (KEY) , Latin form of Gerhard Kremer (g r´härt kr ´m r) (KEY) , 1512–94, Flemish geographer, mathematician, and cartogr...
(h s ´ th l st ´n m ´t s) (KEY) , 1732–1808, Spanish naturalist and plant explorer. One of Linnaeus’ first disciples in Spain, he went to Sout...