Biography Category
1903–97, American educator, b. Jeffersonville, Ohio, grad. Miami Univ., 1924, Ph.D. Univ. of Wisconsin, 1930. He taught at Wisconsin from 1929, then...
(lou´g kôk) (KEY) , 1892–1964, Danish geologist and explorer, noted for his scientific work in Greenland. He accompanied Knud Rasmussen’s secon...
(both: y ´z f gôt´l p köl´roi´´t r) (KEY) , 1733–1806, German botanist. In 1764 he became professor of natural history and director of the bo...
1845–1924, American authority on Siberia, b. Norwalk, Ohio. In 1864 he made the first of his journeys to East Asia as an engineer. His articles on S...
(ä´däm y ´hän f n kr ´z nsht rn) (KEY) , 1770–1846, Russian navigator. From 1803 to 1806 he circumnavigated the globe. Although the voyage was...
(krous´k pf) (KEY) , 1858–1923, American rabbi and humanitarian, b. Prussia. He went to the United States in 1872, enrolling (1875) in the first cl...