Biography Category
(mät ´äs äl ksän´d r kästr n´) (KEY) , 1813–52, Finnish philologist, one of the first scholars to study the Finno-Ugric languages. Castrén ...
(k ´p ´´l ) (KEY) , 1939–, American film director, b. Detroit. Coppola began his career directing low-budget films and working on screenplays for...
(Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin), 1889–1977, English film actor, director, producer, writer, and composer, b. London. Chaplin began on the music-hall s...
(äNtwän´ güst N´ k rn ´) (KEY) , 1801–77, French mathematician and economist. He developed mathematical theories of chance and probability an...
(kr s´tôf kl ´v s) (KEY) , 1537–1612, German astronomer and mathematician. He entered the Jesuit order in 1555 and studied at Coimbra and Rome. ...
(m n´ äd-d n häsän´ ch sh´t ) (KEY) , 1142–1236, Indian Muslim saint, b. Sistan, Persia. He founded a Sufi mystic order responsible for sprea...