Biography Category
(äl´fr t l tär´ v g´ n r) (KEY) , 1880–1930, German geologist, meteorologist, and Arctic explorer. Early in his life, he was on the staff of th...
(Morris Langlo West), 1916–99, Australian novelist, b. Melbourne. West’s novels often reveal an interest in both Roman Catholicism and internation...
1819–1900, American rabbi, founder of organized Reform Judaism in the United States, b. Bohemia, studied at the Univ. of Vienna. He settled in the U...
1862–1934, American labor leader, U.S. Secretary of Labor (1913–21), b. Blantyre, Scotland. Coming as a child to the United States in 1870, he wor...
1894–1964, American mathematician, educator, and founder of the field of cybernetics, b. Columbia, Mo., grad. Tufts College, 1909, Ph.D. Harvard, 19...
1820–89, American clergyman and lawyer, b. Philadelphia, grad. Yale, 1839. Admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1843, he became an authority on crimi...