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...
(flä´vy loi´ älfä´r ) (KEY) , 1867–1912, president of Ecuador (1897–1901, 1907–11). Regarded as a champion of liberalism, Alfaro introdu...
1939–, Canadian-American molecular biologist, b. Montreal, Ph.D., Univ. of Colorado, 1967. A professor at Yale Univ. since 1971, he discovered that ...
( stâr´) (KEY) , 1899–1987, American dancer, actor, and singer, b. Omaha, Nebr., as Frederick Austerlitz. After 1911 he and his sister Adele forme...
1851–1921, American economist, b. Davenport, Iowa. He developed an interest in public finance at Johns Hopkins Univ. and pursued this field during l...
1804–73, American manufacturer, railroad promoter, and politician, b. Easton, Mass. With his brother Oliver he managed the family’s well-known sho...