Biography Category
(ôl´k t, l–, –k t) (KEY) , 1799–1888, American educational and social reformer, b. near Wolcott, Conn., as Amos Bronson Alcox. His meager for...
1890–1954, American engineer and radio inventor, b. New York City, grad. Columbia (E.E. 1913). He was associated in research with Michael I. Pupin a...
1851–1933, American educator and leader in social welfare, founder of the Ethical Culture movement, b. Germany. He was brought to the United States ...
( ly kh´ n) (KEY) , 1892–1946, Russian-French chess player, b. Moscow. He became a naturalized French citizen after the Russian Revolution. At the ...
( m´ n kw g´y r g´r ) (KEY) , 1875–1927, African educator and missionary, b. Anamabu, Gold Coast (now Ghana). Educated at Livingstone College, h...
(sä´l môn ou´g st ändr ´) (KEY) , 1854–97, Swedish polar explorer. An aeronautical engineer, he was the first to attempt arctic exploration by...