Biography Category
1893–1953, American anthropologist, b. Philadelphia, B.A. Swarthmore College, 1915, Ph.D. Harvard, 1925. He was (1922–28) assistant curator at the...
(zhôrzh özh n´ bärôN´ smän´) (KEY) , 1809–91, French civic official and city planner. Distinguished for his bold alterations in the layout ...
(k s´ bôm´´, –boum´´) (KEY) , 1932–, U.S. senator from Kansas (1979–97), b. Topeka, Kans. A Republican and the daughter of Kansas governor...
(y ´hän b rn´härt f sh´ r f n r´läkh) (KEY) , 1656–1723, the leading Austrian baroque architect. After studying in Rome he returned to Vienn...
1895–1981, American architect and city planner, b. Worcester, Mass. Harrison designed the Trylon and Perisphere, the structures that came to symboli...
1404–72, Italian architect, musician, painter, and humanist, active at the papal court, Florence, Rimini, and Mantua. Alberti was the first architec...