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(b ´d k r) (KEY) , 1801–59, German publisher, founder of the Baedeker guidebooks. His printing establishment was at Koblenz, but his son Fritz, who...
1928–, American biologist and educator, b. Chicago, Ill., grad. Univ. of Chicago, 1947, Ph.D. Univ. of Indiana, 1950. With F. H. C. Crick he began (...
(d bär´) (KEY) , 1721?–1824, British army officer, surveyor, and artist. He was born of French parents (probably in Switzerland), was educated at ...
( ly kh´ n) (KEY) , 1892–1946, Russian-French chess player, b. Moscow. He became a naturalized French citizen after the Russian Revolution. At the ...
(all: b ´h m) (KEY) , b. 1436? or 1459?, d. 1506?, German traveler and cosmographer. He studied (possibly under Regiomontanus) astronomy, navigation,...
(h s ´ rä l´ käpäbläng´kä) (KEY) , 1888–1942, Cuban chess player, b. Havana. Champion of Cuba at the age of 12, he won the world’s champio...