Biography Category
(r z f l p n´ düsh n´) (KEY) , 1769–1852, French educator in the United States, a Roman Catholic nun, b. Grenoble, France. She entered the order ...
1850–1934, American geographer, geologist, and teacher, b. Philadelphia; B.S. Harvard, 1869. He founded (1904) the Association of American Geographe...
(Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth), 1858–1935, Australian geologist and explorer, b. near Cardiff, Wales. David came to Australia in 1882 as an assista...
(d mäNzh N´) (KEY) , 1872–1940, French geographer, specializing in the study of regional and economic geography. His best-known works include Le D...
(d r nt´, dy –) (KEY) , 1822–81, American lawyer and educator, b. Hanover, N.H., grad. Harvard, 1841. Christened Henry Welles Smith, he adopted t...
1873–1961, American inventor, b. Council Bluffs, Iowa, grad. Yale, 1896. He was a pioneer in the development of wireless telegraphy, sound pictures,...