Biography Category
(än´t n fr ´dr kh büsh´ ng) (KEY) , 1724–93, German geographer and educator. He was professor of philosophy in Göttingen, was a Protestant min...
(ändr s´ b ´y ) (KEY) , 1781–1865, South American intellectual leader, b. Venezuela. In 1810 he was sent with Bolívar on a mission to London, wh...
(bôl´t môr, –m r) (KEY) , 1938–, American microbiologist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Rockefeller Univ., 1964. He conducted (1965–68) virology re...
(y hän´ b rn´härt bä´z d ) (KEY) , 1723–90, German educator, b. Hamburg, educated in Hamburg and at the Univ. of Leipzig. Later he taught in D...
1795–1852, English sea captain and antarctic explorer. In 1820, Bransfield sailed from Chile to the South Shetland Islands off the N Antarctic Penin...
(both: v ´l m bä´r nts) (KEY) , d. 1597, Dutch navigator. He made three voyages (1594, 1595, 1596–97) in search of the Northeast Passage to Asia....