Biography Category
1540?–1596, English navigator and admiral, first Englishman to circumnavigate the world (1577–80).
Early Career
He was born in Devonshire, the s...
1807–73, British arctic explorer. He entered the navy and in 1848 accompanied Sir James Clark Ross to the arctic. As a naval captain he was given co...
1932–, American molecular biologist, b. Boston, Ph.D. Cambridge Univ., 1957. In 1968 he became a professor of biophysics at Harvard, where he had ta...
1836–86, American educator and textbook writer, b. Lima, N.Y., grad. Genesee College (now Syracuse Univ.), 1858. While serving as principal of the E...
1864–1945, American educator, b. Hamden, N.Y., grad. Cornell Univ., 1887, Ph.D. Leipzig, 1894. From 1895 to 1897 he was professor of philosophy and ...
1807–77, English educator. She devoted her life to the establishment of schools and institutions and the promotion of educational reforms. In 1835 s...