Biography Category
(zhäk v k st ´) (KEY) , 1910–97, French oceanographer and naval officer. In 1943, with Émil Gagnan, he invented the self-contained underwater br...
(m n´ th ) (KEY) , fl. 300 B.C., Egyptian historian, a priest at Heliopolis, under Ptolemy I and Ptolemy II. His work, covering the history of Egypt ...
or Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose (j gä´d s ch n´dr b s, ch n´d r) (KEY) , 1858–1937, Indian physicist and plant physiologist, educated in Calcutta a...
1889–1975, American geographer, b. Warrenton, Mo., grad. Univ. of Chicago (Ph.D., 1915). Sauer was a professor for over 50 years at the Univ. of Cal...
1813–95, American geologist, mineralogist, and naturalist, b. Utica, N.Y., grad. Yale, 1833. His studies of the S Pacific, NW United States, Europe,...
(ny k l ´ vä´n v ch v v ´l f) (KEY) , 1887–1943?, Russian botanist and geneticist. He is reported to have died in a Soviet concentration camp a...