Biography Category
1919–2004, British electrical engineer. A radar expert for the Royal Air Force during World War II, in the 1950s Hounsfield began developing compute...
(gy ´l k) (KEY) , 1865–1918, American pioneer in physical education, b. Honolulu, of American missionary parents. He studied at Oberlin College, Sa...
1924–, American economist, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., grad. Harvard (B.A. 1947, M.A. 1949, Ph.D. 1951). He began teaching economics at the Massachusetts Ins...
1776–1841, English educator. He established (1800–1804) in Glasgow a popular course of lectures for workingmen, which led to the founding of the G...
(äm r ´g v sp t´ch ) (KEY) , 1454–1512, Italian navigator in whose honor America was named, b. Florence. He entered the commercial service of th...
the use of biological processes, as through the exploitation and manipulation of living organisms or biological systems, in the development or manufac...