Biography Category
(bâr´ n) (KEY) , 1855–1928, American financial editor, b. Boston. He worked on the Boston Daily News, then on the Evening Transcript, and in 1887 ...
(gäspär´ b N´) (KEY) , 1560–1624, Swiss botanist and doctor of medicine, of French descent. His early classification of plants by genus and spe...
(m ´khail bar ´´shn käv´) (KEY) , 1948–, Russian-American dancer and choreographer, b. Riga, Latvia. He studied in Riga and performed with the ...
1827–1920, American penologist, b. Lyme, Conn. As superintendent of the House of Correction in Detroit, he tried to introduce in 1869 the indetermin...
(Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer) (ä´dôlf f n b ´y r; y hän´ fr ´dr kh v l´h lm) (KEY) , 1835–1917, German chemist. He taught at B...
(v ´l m yän´s n blou) (KEY) , 1571–1638, Dutch cartographer and printer. He studied astronomy and instrument making under the Danish astronomer T...