Biography Category
(mäs ´d ) (KEY) , d. 956, Arab historian, geographer, and philosopher, b. Baghdad. He traveled in Spain, Russia, India, Sri Lanka, and China and spe...
(g ´k ) (KEY) , 1835–1924, British geologist, educated at the Univ. of Edinburgh. He joined the Geological Survey of Scotland, becoming its directo...
(mät ´äs yä´kôp shl ´d n) (KEY) , 1804–81, German botanist. He was professor at the universities of Jena (1839–63) and Dorpat (1863–64). ...
1811–98, American geologist and paleontologist, b. Hingham, Mass., grad. Rensselaer School (later Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), 1832. An author...
( f´ r s) (KEY) , c.405–330 B.C., Greek historian, b. Cyme in Aeolis; pupil of Isocrates. His chief work is a universal history, in 30 books, of wh...
1793–1866, English geologist. Hopkins studied mathematics at Cambridge, and then supported himself as a private mathematics tutor. Many of Englandâ€...