Biography Category
(här´sh m, h v´ rsh m) (KEY) , 1834–1923, English topographer and geologist. An officer in the British army (1851–77), he was assigned to sever...
1815–1900, founder of Clark Univ., b. Hubbardston, Mass. After a long career in business and finance, he became interested in higher education, maki...
(g rn´r kh) (KEY) , 1922–85, American fashion designer, b. Vienna. In 1938, he fled to California, where he studied in Los Angeles. He worked as a ...
(th ´l s n´´) (KEY) or Tasmanian wolf, carnivorous marsupial, or pouched mammal, of Tasmania. The thylacine is often cited as an example of conver...
1878–1934, Russian educator. After graduating from Moscow Univ. and attending the Moscow Agricultural Institute, Shatsky organized (1905) a colony f...
1898–2001, American educator, b. Baltimore, grad. Bryn Mawr, 1920, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins Univ., 1926. From 1926 to 1930 she taught at Bryn Mawr and wa...