Biography Category
Category : general
Biography : 1750
Users : 1630
Views : 475503
Comments : 0
(v s ´ly gr gôr´y v ch py rôf´) (KEY) , 1833–82, Russian historical, genre, and portrait painter. He was the leader of the realist school in R...
(zh rm N´ p lôN´) (KEY) , 1535–90, French sculptor. He was court sculptor under the later Valois sovereigns. He executed several sculptures on He...
1920–92, British chemist, Ph.D. Cambridge Univ., 1950. A professor at the Univ. of Edinburgh (1955–63), Mitchell was named director of Glynn Resea...
( rkä´nyä) (KEY) or Arcagnolo (ärkä´ny l ) (KEY) , c.1308–1368, Florentine painter, sculptor, and architect, whose original name was Andrea d...
(s ´m ) (KEY) or Syme (s ´m , s ´–) (KEY) , island, 22 sq mi (57 sq km), SE Greece, in the Aegean Sea, one of the Dodecanese. The main town is S...
1809–82, English naturalist, b. Shrewsbury; grandson of Erasmus Darwin and of Josiah Wedgwood. He firmly established the theory of organic evolution...