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1843–1928, American geologist, b. Mattoon, Ill., grad. Beloit College, 1866. He was professor of geology at Beloit (1873–82), president of the Uni...
(ä´däm y ´hän f n kr ´z nsht rn) (KEY) , 1770–1846, Russian navigator. From 1803 to 1806 he circumnavigated the globe. Although the voyage was...
1748–1819, Scottish mathematician, physicist, and geologist. He was educated at St. Andrews and Edinburgh and taught first mathematics and then phys...
1784–1856, English geologist. He was dean of Westminster from 1845. First to note in England the action of glacial ice on rocks, he did much to brin...
(Flavius Arrianus) (âr´ n) (KEY) , fl. 2d cent. A.D., Greek historian, philosopher, and general, b. Nicomedia in Bithynia. He was governor of Cappa...
(n ls ä´dôlf ´r k n r´d nshöld) (KEY) , 1832–1901, Swedish geologist and arctic explorer, first to navigate the Northeast Passage, b. Finland...