Biography Category
(zhäN bät st´ märshäN´) (KEY) , 1863–1934, French explorer and general. Sent to Africa (1897) to establish French control of the headwaters of...
(st n´m ts) (KEY) , 1865–1923, American electrical engineer, b. Breslau, Germany, studied at the Univ. of Breslau. Forced to flee Germany because o...
(Robert James Fischer) (f sh´ r) (KEY) , 1943–, American chess player, b. Chicago. In 1958, he became a grandmaster, the youngest to that time. In ...
1854–1901, American statistician, b. Troy, Ohio, grad. Amherst, 1875. After graduation he studied for two years in Germany. From 1877 to 1901 he tau...
(lôr´ n, l r n´) (KEY) , 1939–, American fashion designer, b. New York City as Ralph Lipschitz. He began his career by creating neckties under th...
1735–80, geographer and surveyor general to the American Revolutionary army, b. Dunfermline, Scotland. His several hundred detailed maps of the regi...