Biography Category
1836–86, American educator and textbook writer, b. Lima, N.Y., grad. Genesee College (now Syracuse Univ.), 1858. While serving as principal of the E...
1932–, American molecular biologist, b. Boston, Ph.D. Cambridge Univ., 1957. In 1968 he became a professor of biophysics at Harvard, where he had ta...
1807–73, British arctic explorer. He entered the navy and in 1848 accompanied Sir James Clark Ross to the arctic. As a naval captain he was given co...
1540?–1596, English navigator and admiral, first Englishman to circumnavigate the world (1577–80).
Early Career
He was born in Devonshire, the s...
1796–1865, American clergyman and educator, b. New York City, grad. Union College, 1813, and studied at Andover Theological Seminary. As pastor (182...
1586–1635, English explorer. As a master mariner, he set forth in 1631 to hunt for the Northwest Passage. He explored the southern shore of Hudson B...