Biography Category
(n kôlä´ lw d läkä´y ) (KEY) , 1713–62, French astronomer. As a result of his success in making meridional measurements in France under the ...
(r k´ m) (KEY) , 1867–1939, English illustrator and watercolorist. He is known for imaginative, delicately colored, and cheerful pen drawings, espe...
(än´d rs s l´s s) (KEY) , 1701–44, Swedish astronomer. While professor of astronomy at the Univ. of Uppsala (1730–44), he traveled through Ger...
1928–, American organic chemist and educator, b. Methuen, Mass., grad. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S. 1948, Ph.D. 1951). He has taught ...
( rnst h n´r kh h ´k l) (KEY) , 1834–1919, German biologist and philosopher. He taught (1862–1909) at the Univ. of Jena. An early exponent of Da...
(py ´r d kô´z m ) (KEY) , 1462–1521, Florentine painter, whose name was Piero di Lorenzo. He adopted the name of his master, Cosimo Rosselli, w...