Biography Category
(py r gäbr l´ dwär´ bôNväl ´) (KEY) , 1853–1933, French explorer and author. In 1880–82 he visited central Asia, explored Kohistan, and r...
(j ´b z) (KEY) , 1825–1903, American educator, b. Lincoln co., Ga., grad. Univ. of Georgia, 1843. He studied law at Harvard and later became a memb...
1878–1958, American zoologist and geneticist, b. Germany, Ph.D. Univ. of Heidelberg, 1902. Goldschmidt taught at the Univ. of Munich (1903–14) and...
1828–1916, American educator, b. Norwich, Conn., grad. Yale, 1849; grandson of Timothy Dwight (1752–1817). Appointed professor of sacred literatur...
(m jel´ n) (KEY) , Port. Fernão de Magalhães, Span. Fernando de Magallanes, c.1480–1521, Portuguese navigator. Born of a noble family, he was rea...
(v lfr ´d pär ´t ) (KEY) , 1848–1923, Italian economist and sociologist, b. Paris, of an exiled noble family that returned to Italy in 1858. He ...