Biography Category
(hwän s bästyän´ d l kä´n ) (KEY) , c.1476–1526, Spanish navigator, the first to circumnavigate the globe. Under Magellan he commanded the Con...
1807–74, American financier and founder of Cornell Univ., b. Westchester Landing, N.Y. Cornell, who began life as a laborer, was of an ingenious mec...
(zhäN bät st´ shärk ´) (KEY) , 1867–1936, French neurologist and explorer in the antarctic region; son of Jean Martin Charcot. He became (1896)...
(j ´b z) (KEY) , 1825–1903, American educator, b. Lincoln co., Ga., grad. Univ. of Georgia, 1843. He studied law at Harvard and later became a memb...
1807–77, English educator. She devoted her life to the establishment of schools and institutions and the promotion of educational reforms. In 1835 s...
1914–, American educator and psychologist, b. Panama Canal Zone, grad. Howard (B.A., 1935) and Columbia (Ph.D., 1940). He taught psychology at Howar...