Biography Category
(zhäN bät st´ shärk ´) (KEY) , 1867–1936, French neurologist and explorer in the antarctic region; son of Jean Martin Charcot. He became (1896)...
(p l-l gr ´n t bäl´d ) (KEY) , 1527–96, Italian baroque painter and architect, whose real name was Pellegrino di Tibaldo de’ Pellegrini. He st...
1906–98, U.S. banker, chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (1951–70), b. St. Louis. After an early career as a stockbr...
1856–1943, American educator, president of Harvard (1909–33), b. Boston, grad. Harvard (B.A., 1877; LL.B., 1880); brother of Percival Lowell and A...
1905–58, American fashion designer, b. Frederick, Md. She began her career as a model and assistant designer for Robert Turk in 1929. Her clothes we...
1802–78, American hydrographer; son of Edmund March Blunt, a pioneer publisher of nautical books and charts in Newburyport, Mass. He established (18...