Biography Category
(f nt n´ môr´ ) (KEY) , 1806–73, American hydrographer and naval officer, b. near Fredericksburg, Va. Appointed a midshipman in 1825, he saw vari...
1882–1958, Australian antarctic explorer and geologist, b. England. His first geographical expedition was to the New Hebrides Islands as a geologist...
(h s ´ t r ´by m th ´nä) (KEY) , 1852–1930, Chilean scholar. He traveled widely in Latin America, Europe, and the United States, collecting doc...
(mäs ´d ) (KEY) , d. 956, Arab historian, geographer, and philosopher, b. Baghdad. He traveled in Spain, Russia, India, Sri Lanka, and China and spe...
1856–1941, British labor leader and socialist. He was an organizer of the 1889 London dock strike, which was an important step in the unionization o...
1927–2002, Anglo-Argentine immunologist, Ph.D. Cambridge Univ., 1960. He worked (1961–63) at the National Institute of Microbiology, Buenos Aires,...