Biography Category
1832–97, German botanist. A professor at the Univ. of Würzburg from 1868, he was a founder of experimental plant physiology. He demonstrated the im...
(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, ...
(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...
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...
(sh m´p r) (KEY) , 1803–67, German botanist. He did important work in plant morphology and originated the theory, called phyllotaxis, that there is...
1868–1912, British naval officer and antarctic explorer. He commanded two noted expeditions to Antarctica. The first expedition (1901–4), in the D...