Biography Category
(äl´br kht p ngk) (KEY) , 1858–1945, German geographer and geologist. He was professor at the Univ. of Vienna (1885–1906) and at the Univ. of Be...
(v l´h lm pf ´f r) (KEY) , 1845–1920, German plant physiologist. He was professor of botany successively at the universities of Bonn, Basel, Tübi...
(nätän´ä l pr ngs´h m) (KEY) , 1823–94, German botanist, one of the founders of the scientific study of algae. He made important discoveries in...
(pl ´tärk) (KEY) , A.D. 46?–c.A.D. 120, Greek essayist and biographer, b. Chaeronea, Boeotia. He traveled in Egypt and Italy, visited Rome (where ...
1834–1902, American geologist and ethnologist, b. Mt. Morris (now part of New York City). The family moved to Illinois, where Powell joined the Natu...
(ou´g st h n´r kh p ´t rmän) (KEY) , 1822–78, German geographer, an authority on the geography of Africa and the Arctic. He had (1847–54) a ca...