Biography Category
(kl g) (KEY) , 1926–, British biochemist, b. Lithuania. Raised and educated in South Africa, he moved to England and completed his doctorate at Trin...
(k n´z ) (KEY) , 1894–1956, American biologist, b. Hoboken, N.J., grad. Bowdoin College (B.S., 1916), Harvard (D.Sc., 1920). He was associated with...
(g r´ t p ´t r k ´p r) (KEY) , 1905–73, American astronomer, b. the Netherlands. Kuiper is considered to be the father of modern planetary scienc...
(y hä´n s k p´l r) (KEY) , 1571–1630, German astronomer. From his student days at the Univ. of Tübingen, he was influenced by the Copernican tea...
1857–1900, American astronomer, b. La Salle, Ill. At the age of 21 he went on the Naval Observatory expedition to Colorado to observe the solar ecli...
1888–1969, U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40), b. Boston, grad. Harvard, 1912, father of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Edward M....