Biography Category
(k l s´th n z) (KEY) , c.360–c.327 B.C., Greek historian of Olynthus; nephew of Aristotle. He accompanied Alexander the Great into Asia as the hist...
(f r´d nänt k n) (KEY) , 1828–98, German botanist. He is considered a founder of the science of bacteriology. From his early studies of microscopi...
(k m râr´ s, Ger. r ´dôlf yä´kôp käm rä´r s) (KEY) , 1665–1721, German botanist and physician. The first to present a clear and definite...
1843–1928, American geologist, b. Mattoon, Ill., grad. Beloit College, 1866. He was professor of geology at Beloit (1873–82), president of the Uni...
(äl ks s´ kl d kl r ´) (KEY) , 1713–65, French mathematician. He assisted P. L. M. de Maupertuis in measuring (1736) a degree of an arc of a meri...
(r n ´ k dâr´) (KEY) , 1832–1903, American lawyer and public official, b. New York City. He practiced law in New York City and for many years was...