Biography Category
1821–94, American librarian, bibliographer, and historian, b. Essex co., Mass. Poole was librarian of the Boston Athenaeum (1856–69), of the publi...
1918–, American biologist. He and fellow Univ. of Washington professor Edmond Fischer discovered a biological regulatory mechanism, reversable prote...
1909–87, English choreographer and dancer. Tudor went to the United States at the invitation of the Ballet Theatre, New York City (1939); he danced ...
(d l ´n s) (KEY) , 1687–1747, English botanist, of German birth. He published catalogs of the plants of Eltham, Kent, and of Geissen, Germany, and...
1800–1867, American industrialist, known as the “father of Southern cotton manufacture,” b. Monongalia co., Va. (now W.Va.). He devoted his life...
(gäly ´n lä´n v ) (KEY) , 1910–98, Russian ballerina, b. St. Petersburg. Ulanova made her debut at the Kirov Ballet (1928), where she danced u...