Biography Category
(g ´ôrg m sh´al kâr´shan-sht ´´nûr) (KEY) , 1854–1932, German educational theorist. Educated in Munich, he taught math in Nuremberg and Schw...
1911–91, American economist, b. Renton, Wash., Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1938. A professor at Univ. of Chicago from 1958, Stigler wrote about the econ...
1788–1827, British explorer, b. Annan, Scotland. After serving with the British navy in East India and Canada he made two journeys to W Africa. On t...
1928–99, American microbiologist, b. Wilmington, Del., M.D. Washington Univ., St. Louis, 1954. He became a professor at Johns Hopkins Univ. in 1962....
(George Bryan Brummell) (br m´ l) (KEY) , 1778–1840, English dandy and wit. Brummell was greatly admired for his fastidious appearance and confiden...
(t b t´) (KEY) , Tibetan Bodyul, Mandarin Xizang, autonomous region (1994 est. pop. 2,300,000), c.471,700 sq mi (1,221,700 sq km), SW China. A Chines...