Biography Category
(äsä´dä gôr´y ) (KEY) , 1734–99, Japanese astronomer who helped to introduce modern astronomical instruments and methods into Japan. Asada spe...
(y ´hän gôt´fr t shä´dôf) (KEY) , 1764–1850, German sculptor of the neoclassical school. He studied in Rome. In 1788 he returned to Berlin, w...
(r ´b rn) (KEY) , 1756–1823, Scottish portrait painter, b. near Edinburgh. He was apprenticed to a goldsmith at 15 and he showed considerable talen...
1939–, U.S. government official and business executive, b. Toledo, Ohio. An economist and lawyer, he held Dept. of Transportation posts in the Nixon...
1945–, American educator and college president, b. Grapeland, Tex., grad. Dillard Univ. (B.A., 1967) and Harvard (A.M., 1970; Ph.D., 1973). As a sch...
(hwän d pär ´hä) (KEY) , c.1610–70, Spanish religious and portrait painter, of Moorish origin. Pareja was the lifelong assistant of Velázquez,...