Biography Category
(mäks y ´hän z ´g sm nd sh l´ts ) (KEY) , 1825–74, German biologist, director of the Anatomical Institute at Bonn from 1859. He established tha...
(fô´s t) (KEY) , 1833–84, English economist and statesman. A follower of John Stuart Mill, he was professor of political economy at Cambridge, and...
(t ´ dôr sv d´b ry , t ) (KEY) , 1884–1971, Swedish chemist. He was professor of physical chemistry from 1912 to 1949 at the Univ. of Uppsala. Fo...
( p sh´ s) (KEY) , 1st cent., Roman gourmet. He squandered most of his large fortune on feasts and then, anticipating a need to economize, committed ...
(fûr´n ld) (KEY) , 1873–1950, American botanist, b. Orono, Maine, grad. Harvard, 1897. He taught at Harvard (1902–49) and was director of the Gr...
or Jesus Christ (j ´z s kr st, j ´z z) (KEY) , 1st-century Jewish teacher and prophet in whom Christians have traditionally seen the Messiah [Heb.,=...