Biography Category
(är´n yä´k ps n) (KEY) , 1902–71, Danish architect and designer. Attentive to detail, Jacobsen suited his buildings to the surrounding landscap...
(yä´kh môf) (KEY) , Ger. Joachimsthal, town, NW Czech Republic, in Bohemia, in the Erzgebirge [ore mountains]. The productivity of its uranium mine...
(Joseph Jefferson Jackson), 1887–1951, American baseball player, b. Brandon Mills, S.C. Holder of the third highest (.356) career batting average in...
(j k´ b nz) (KEY) , political club of the French Revolution. Formed in 1789 by the Breton deputies to the States-General, it was reconstituted as the...
(r män´ yäk´ôbs n) (KEY) , 1896–1982, Russian-American linguist and literary critic, b. Moscow. His early work was grounded in structural lingu...
(fräNswä´ zhäkôb´) (KEY) , 1920–, French biologist, educated at the Sorbonne. His medical studies were interrupted by World War II. He joined ...