Biography Category
(fôk´ r) (KEY) , 1890–1939, American aircraft manufacturer, b. Kediri, Java as Anton Herman Gerard Fokker. He established aircraft factories in Ge...
1813–80, British botanist. He traveled in Asia for the Royal Horticultural Society and later for the East India Company and brought back to England ...
1920–, American biologist, b. Shanghai, China. As researchers at the Univ. of Washington in Seattle, Fischer and Edwin G. Krebs discovered a biologi...
(f l n´, f l–) (KEY) , 1860–1937, American merchant, b. Salem, Mass. As president of the Boston firm of William Filene’s Sons he pioneered in s...
(Robert Louis Fosse) (fô´s , f s´ ) (KEY) , 1927–87, American choreographer and director, b. Chicago. Fosse first appeared on Broadway in Dance M...
1819–92, American merchant, promoter of the first Atlantic cable, b. Stockbridge, Mass.; brother of David Dudley Field and Stephen J. Field. As head...