Biography Category
1801–53, English map engraver and the originator of railway guides. Bradshaw’s Railway Time-Tables, first published in 1839, became Bradshaw’s M...
( nz´l ) (KEY) , 1869–1939, American teacher and editor, b. Swedona, near Springfield, Ill., grad. Univ. of Nebraska, 1890. After teaching English ...
(m gläk´l n) (KEY) , 1861–1947, American educator and historian, b. Beardstown, Ill., grad. Univ. of Michigan (B.A., 1882; LL.B., 1885). He taught...
1937–, Soviet chess champion. A child prodigy, he became an international master at the age of 16 and in 1955, at age 18, he became an international...
1866–1945, American zoologist, b. Lexington, Ky., Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, 1890. He was professor of experimental zoology at Columbia (1904–28) and fr...
(h r´män mül´ r) (KEY) , 1876–1931, German statesman. A Social Democrat, he succeeded in 1919 to the post of German foreign minister and signed ...