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(gr ´gôr y ´hän m n´d l) (KEY) , 1822–84, Austrian monk noted for his experimental work on heredity. He entered the Augustinian monastery in Br...
(m l´ r) (KEY) , 1890–1967, American geneticist and educator, b. New York City, grad. Columbia (B.A., 1910; Ph.D., 1916). A student of Thomas Hunt ...
1842–1924, English economist. At Cambridge, where he taught from 1885 to 1908, he exerted great influence on the development of economic thought of ...
1819–1907, British arctic explorer. As a lieutenant in the navy he was assigned to his first arctic service in 1848, when Sir James Clark Ross went ...
1888–1939, Russian educator. In the 1920s, Makarenko organized the Gorky Colony, a home for children left homeless by the Russian Revolution of Oct....
(h r´män mül´ r) (KEY) , 1876–1931, German statesman. A Social Democrat, he succeeded in 1919 to the post of German foreign minister and signed ...