Biography Category
(fr ´dr kh rät´s l) (KEY) , 1844–1904, German geographer. He traveled as a journalist in Europe (1869) and in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States...
1899–1980, Norwegian-American Antarctic explorer. Ronne graduated from college in Norway in 1922 and immigrated to the United States. His first of n...
1851–1902, American army surgeon, b. Gloucester co., Va. In 1900 he was sent to Havana as head of an army commission to investigate an outbreak of y...
(täd ´ sh r kh´sht n) (KEY) , 1897–1996, Swiss organic chemist, b. Vlotslavsk, Russia (now W oc awek, Poland), educated at the technical school i...
(shärl r b r´ r sh ´) (KEY) , 1850–1935, French physiologist. From 1887 to 1927 he was professor at the Univ. of Paris. His special study was ana...
(r ´´j m n´´t ´n s) (KEY) [Lat.,=belonging to the royal mountain, i.e., to Königsberg], 1436–76, German astronomer and mathematician, b. Kö...