Biography Category
1883–1948, American archaeologist, b. Chester, Pa., grad. Harvard, 1908. A specialist in Middle American archaeology and Mayan heiroglyphs, Morley d...
(Marcus Aelius Aurelius Antoninus) (mär´k s ôr ´l s) (KEY) , 121–180, Roman emperor, named originally Marcus Annius Verus. He was a nephew of F...
1923–, American chemist, b. Montreal, Canada. A professor at the California Institute of Technology, he was awarded the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistr...
(mär´k s d n ´sä) (KEY) , c.1495–1558, missionary explorer in Spanish North America. A Franciscan friar, he served in Peru and Guatemala before...
1818–81, American anthropologist, b. Aurora, N.Y., grad. Union College, Schenectady, 1840. Practicing as a lawyer, he became interested in the Nativ...
(mär´sh n) (KEY) , 396–457, Roman emperor of the East (450–57); successor of Theodosius II, whose sister Pulcheria he married in 450. Orthodox i...