Biography Category
(bûr´b nk) (KEY) , 1849–1926, American plant breeder, b. Lancaster, Mass. He experimented with thousands of plant varieties and developed many new...
(v s n´t f th l´ l ´p s) (KEY) , 1815–1903, Argentine historian, journalist, and politician; son of Vicente López y Planes. A member of the gro...
(str ´b ) (KEY) , b. c.63 B.C., d. after A.D. 21, Greek geographer, historian, and philosopher, b. Amasya, Pontus. He studied in Asia Minor, Greece, ...
( l´n , l´n ) (KEY) , 1798–1872, American geographer and teacher. His Practical System of Modern Geography (1828), a standard work for decades, r...
(äNdr ´ m sh ´) (KEY) , 1746–1802, French botanist. He collected botanical specimens in Europe and Asia. In 1785 he was sent by the French govern...
(l ´ l) (KEY) , 1797–1875, British geologist. After studying and briefly practicing law, he spent most of his life in travel and in popularizing sc...