Biography Category
(kär´st n n ´b r) (KEY) , 1733–1815, German traveler in Arabia. He was sole survivor of a party of five (of whom the best known was Peter Forskal...
(bär´´t l m ´ d ´ sh) (KEY) , d. 1500, Portuguese navigator. He was the first European to round (1488) the Cape of Good Hope, which he called Ca...
1928–, American biologist and educator, b. Chicago, Ill., grad. Univ. of Chicago, 1947, Ph.D. Univ. of Indiana, 1950. With F. H. C. Crick he began (...
(sä´l môn ou´g st ändr ´) (KEY) , 1854–97, Swedish polar explorer. An aeronautical engineer, he was the first to attempt arctic exploration by...
(z nôb´ t ôf l´ gräm) (KEY) , 1826–1901, Belgian electrical engineer. While working as a model maker for a Parisian manufacturer of electrical ...
(v r´n r zôm´bärt) (KEY) , 1863–1941, German economist. In 1917 he became professor of economics at the Univ. of Berlin. Influenced by Marx’s ...