Biography Category
(äl´fr t h t´n r) (KEY) , 1859–1942, German geographer and teacher; a founder of modern German geography. His methodology and his materialistic p...
(b l´ rd) (KEY) , 1942–, American marine geologist, b. Wichita, Kans.; Ph.D. Univ. of Rhode Island, 1974. In 1969, he began an association with Woo...
(both: kärl v l´h lm f n n ´g l ) (KEY) , 1817–91, Swiss botanist. He was professor at the Univ. of Munich from 1858 and was noted especially for...
(mûr´k s n) (KEY) , 1792–1871, British geologist. He served in the Napoleonic Wars but after the peace turned his attention to science. In the 183...
(h ´g f n m l) (KEY) , 1805–72, German botanist. He is noted for his research on the nature of protoplasm and chlorophyll and on the physiology of...
(kr s´tyän kôn´rät shpr ng´ l) (KEY) , 1750–1816, German botanist. Although director of a school at Spandau and tutor in Berlin, he devoted hi...