Biography Category
1928–99, American microbiologist, b. Wilmington, Del., M.D. Washington Univ., St. Louis, 1954. He became a professor at Johns Hopkins Univ. in 1962....
1788–1827, British explorer, b. Annan, Scotland. After serving with the British navy in East India and Canada he made two journeys to W Africa. On t...
1911–91, American economist, b. Renton, Wash., Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1938. A professor at Univ. of Chicago from 1958, Stigler wrote about the econ...
(g ´ôrg m sh´al kâr´shan-sht ´´nûr) (KEY) , 1854–1932, German educational theorist. Educated in Munich, he taught math in Nuremberg and Schw...
(shärl m sh l´ äb ´ d l p ´) (KEY) , 1712–89, French pioneer teacher of deaf-mutes. A Jansenist priest, he developed a manual system of commun...
1866–1942, American educator and philanthropist, b. near Rome, Ga., Ph.D. Univ. of Georgia, 1920. Determined to provide educational opportunities fo...