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1888–1959, American economist, b. Bialystok, Poland. His parents were active in the Zionist and labor movements of Eastern Europe. Perlman emigrated...
(kr m´ n) (KEY) , 1925–91, American educator and historian, b. New York City. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1949 and began teaching at Tea...
(g s´täf näkh´t gäl) (KEY) , 1834–85, German explorer in Africa. He went (1869) on a mission for the king of Prussia to the sultan of Bornu. He...
(zhän lw z äNr t´ käNpäN´) (KEY) , 1752–1822, French educator and author. She served as a reader to Louis XV’s daughters and as lady-in-wai...
1822–1907, American author and educator, b. Boston. In 1850 she married Louis Agassiz, and together they established the pioneering Agassiz School f...
(bôl´t môr, –m r) (KEY) , 1938–, American microbiologist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Rockefeller Univ., 1964. He conducted (1965–68) virology re...