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(zhäN bät st´ shärk ´) (KEY) , 1867–1936, French neurologist and explorer in the antarctic region; son of Jean Martin Charcot. He became (1896)...
1807–74, American financier and founder of Cornell Univ., b. Westchester Landing, N.Y. Cornell, who began life as a laborer, was of an ingenious mec...
(s l´ gm n) (KEY) , 1861–1939, American economist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Columbia, 1885. As professor (1885–1931) at Columbia, he edited the â€...
1906–71, American inventor, b. Beaver, Utah, grad. Brigham Young Univ., 1925. He demonstrated (1927) a working model of a television system. His “...
(1991 pop. 2,652), Queensland, NE Australia, N of Cape York Peninsula, in Torres Strait. It is the administrative and commercial center of the Torres ...
(v l´h lm fr ´h r f n h m´bôlt) (KEY) , 1767–1835, German statesman and philologist; brother of Alexander von Humboldt. As Prussian minister of ...