Biography Category
(p ´n boush) (KEY) , 1940–, German dancer and choreographer. After training with Kurt Jooss, she studied in New York with Antony Tudor, Paul Taylo...
1627–91, Anglo-Irish physicist and chemist. The seventh son of the 1st earl of Cork, he was educated at Eton and on the Continent and conducted most...
1728–99, Scottish chemist and physician, b. France. He was professor of chemistry at Glasgow (1756–66) and from 1766 at Edinburgh. He is best know...
(j r´ärd, j rärd´) (KEY) , 1545–1612, English botanist and barber-surgeon. He compiled a catalog (1596) of the plants in his garden, the first o...
1859–1926, American prison reformer, b. Auburn, N.Y., grad. Harvard, 1884. As chairman (1913) of the state commission on prison reform he became a v...
(m yär´) (KEY) , 1872–1940, Swiss engineer, renowned for his inventive and beautiful reinforced-concrete bridges. Maillart’s basic structural pr...