Biography Category
1715–1806, English educator, grad. Univ. of Edinburgh. He established (1760) at Edinburgh the first school in Great Britain for deaf-mutes, moving i...
(zhäN bät st´ s ) (KEY) , 1767–1832, French economist. In A Treatise on Political Economy (1803, tr. from the 4th ed. 1821) he effectively reorga...
1875–1949, American public official and educator, b. Boonesboro, Iowa, grad. Stanford (B.A., 1896; M.A., 1897) and Cooper Medical College, San Franc...
(m l´ r) (KEY) , 1890–1967, American geneticist and educator, b. New York City, grad. Columbia (B.A., 1910; Ph.D., 1916). A student of Thomas Hunt ...
(vy k´t r l vôv´y ch kôrch´noi) (KEY) , 1931–, Russian-Swiss chess master. A long-time leading Soviet player, he lost to Anatoly Karpov in 1974...
(h k´l t, h k´ lw t) (KEY) , 1552?–1616, English geographer. He graduated in 1574 from Oxford, where he later lectured on geography. A passionate ...