Biography Category
(kär ´l s l n ´ s) (KEY) , 1707–78, Swedish botanist and taxonomist, considered the founder of the binomial system of nomenclature and the origin...
(Titus Livius) (l v´ ) (KEY) , 59 B.C.–A.D. 17, Roman historian, b. Patavium (Padua), probably of noble family. He lived most of his life in Rome. ...
(shärl mär ´ d lä kôNdäm n´) (KEY) , 1701–74, French traveler and mathematical geographer. He was one of a group sent to Peru in 1735 to mea...
1799–1865, English botanist and horticulturist. He organized the first flower shows in England and was influential in preserving the Royal Gardens a...
1880–1969, American labor leader, b. Lucas co., Iowa; son of a Welsh immigrant coal miner. He became a miner and after 1906 rose through the union r...
(äNr ´ läfôNt n´) (KEY) , 1854–1943, Belgian jurist and statesman. A senator from 1894 to 1936, he headed the International Peace Bureau from 1...