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(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...
1928–, American biologist and educator, b. Chicago, Ill., grad. Univ. of Chicago, 1947, Ph.D. Univ. of Indiana, 1950. With F. H. C. Crick he began (...
(bär´´t l m ´ d ´ sh) (KEY) , d. 1500, Portuguese navigator. He was the first European to round (1488) the Cape of Good Hope, which he called Ca...
(kär´st n n ´b r) (KEY) , 1733–1815, German traveler in Arabia. He was sole survivor of a party of five (of whom the best known was Peter Forskal...
1839–93, American educator, philanthropist, and soldier, b. Hawaiian Islands, of missionary parents, grad. Williams, 1862. He served in the Union ar...
1880–1941, English economist and financier. Active in many national and international economic commissions, he had an important part in the framing ...