Biography Category
1843–1916, American educator, b. St. Louis. After study in New York City under a disciple of Froebel, she opened in Carondelet (now in St. Louis) th...
1855–1932, American geographer, b. Perry, N.Y., grad. Colgate Univ., 1879, M. A. Harvard, 1892. After nine years in the Baptist ministry (1882–91)...
(fäb´ n gôt´l p fôn b l´ ngzhou´´z n) (KEY) , 1778–1852, Russian explorer, b. Sarema, Estonia. A graduate of the naval academy at Kronstadt...
(v n´ v r) (KEY) , 1890–1974, American electrical engineer and physicist, b. Everett, Mass., grad. Tufts College (B.S., 1913). He went to Massachus...
(br l, Fr. lw br ´y ) (KEY) , 1809?–1852, French inventor of the Braille system of printing and writing for the blind. Having become blind from an...
(brün) (KEY) , 1869–1932, French geographer. He was a leading exponent of French systematic, as opposed to regional, geography. He studied human ar...