Biography Category
controversial field that studies how natural selection, previously used only to explain the evolution of physical characteristics, shapes behavior in ...
(käs´pär n ch´ r) (KEY) , 1639–84, Dutch portrait and genre painter, b. Heidelberg. He moved to Holland, where he studied with Ter Borch. Netsch...
( r ´stärkh p lôn´ v ch by l pôl´sk ) (KEY) , 1854–1934, Russian astrophysicist, grad. Univ. of Moscow (1877). He worked at the Moscow Observ...
(yän vän sk ´r l) (KEY) , 1495–1562, Dutch portrait and religious painter, influenced by Gossaert in Utrecht and by Dürer in Nuremberg. About 15...
(p kä´b ä) (KEY) , 1878–1953, French painter. After working in an impressionist style, Picabia was influenced by cubism and later was one of the ...
city (1994 pop. 111,845), North Rhine–Westphalia, W Germany, on the Sieg River. Iron ore is mined nearby, and the city has iron foundries. Other man...