Biography Category
(yän vän sk ´r l) (KEY) , 1495–1562, Dutch portrait and religious painter, influenced by Gossaert in Utrecht and by Dürer in Nuremberg. About 15...
( r ´stärkh p lôn´ v ch by l pôl´sk ) (KEY) , 1854–1934, Russian astrophysicist, grad. Univ. of Moscow (1877). He worked at the Moscow Observ...
(käs´pär n ch´ r) (KEY) , 1639–84, Dutch portrait and genre painter, b. Heidelberg. He moved to Holland, where he studied with Ter Borch. Netsch...
controversial field that studies how natural selection, previously used only to explain the evolution of physical characteristics, shapes behavior in ...
(n ´tr t) (KEY) , chemical compound, AgNO3, a colorless crystalline material that is very soluble in water. The most important compound of silver, it...
(v l´h lms p r´v ts) (KEY) , 1872–1945, Latvian landscape painter. He was director of the Latvian Academy of Art at Riga and was director of the c...