Biography Category
(fäb´ n gôt´l p fôn b l´ ngzhou´´z n) (KEY) , 1778–1852, Russian explorer, b. Sarema, Estonia. A graduate of the naval academy at Kronstadt...
1907–81, American costume designer, b. Los Angeles, Calif. She began to design costumes for the motion pictures in the early 1930s, working at Param...
1913–, American fashion designer, b. Paris as Oleg Cassini Loiewski. Raised in Italy, he came to the United States in 1936, where in the 1940s he de...
(ou´g st v s´män) (KEY) , 1834–1914, German biologist. He taught zoology at the Univ. of Freiburg from 1866 to 1912. He is known as the originato...
(th r k´s n) (KEY) , substance secreted by the thyroid gland. The hormone thyroxine forms by combining the amino acid tyrosine with iodine. Complexed...
1856–1915, American educator, b. Franklin co., Va. His mother was a mulatto slave on a plantation, his father a white man. After the Civil War, he w...