Biography Category
(ändr s´ b ´y ) (KEY) , 1781–1865, South American intellectual leader, b. Venezuela. In 1810 he was sent with Bolívar on a mission to London, wh...
(môr´f ) (KEY) , 1837–84, American chess player, b. New Orleans. At 10 he learned the game and at 21 was acknowledged as the greatest player in th...
(th ´m n) (KEY) , organic base of the pyrimidine family. Thymine was the first pyrimidine to be purified from a natural source, having been isolated ...
1886–1939, American economist, b. South Carolina, grad. Univ. of South Carolina (B.A., 1906) and Yale (B.A., 1909; Ph.D., 1916). He was professor of...
1835–1909, American educator and philosopher, b. Windham co., Conn., educated at Yale. He was superintendent (1868–80) of the St. Louis public sch...
(m rz) (KEY) , 1756?–1809, British naval officer, explorer, and trader. He served in the navy, in which he attained the rank of lieutenant, until af...