Biography Category
(fr ´dr kh v l´h lm ou´g st är´g länd r) (KEY) , 1799–1875, German astronomer. He became director of the observatory at the Univ. of Bonn in 1...
(y ´hän fränts ng´k ) (KEY) , 1791–1865, German astronomer. He was assistant (1816–22) and director (1822–25) of the observatory at Seeberg...
(lw bl r ´) (KEY) , 1872–1936, French aviator and inventor. He devoted the fortune acquired by his invention of an automobile searchlight to the ...
(s k´ z m) (KEY) , religion centered in the Indian state of Punjab, numbering worldwide some 19 million. Some 300,000 Sikhs live in Britain, and ther...
1904–90, American psychologist, b. Susquehanna, Pa. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1931, and remained there as an instructor until 1936, when...
(s lv r´ s) (KEY) , d. 537, pope (536–37), an Italian; successor of St. Agapetus I. The son of Pope Hormisdas, who had been married before taking ...