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Was an Austrian geographer and travel writer who made several trips to the deserts of Iran, during 1

Was an Austrian geographer and travel writer who made several trips to the deserts of Iran, during 1927-8, 1933, and 1937. Gabriel wrote five books about his trips and findings. His book Durch Persiens Wüsten (1935) is translated into Persian.

Was a German astronomer.He did his Ph.D. dissertation in 1927 at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Kö

Was a German astronomer.He did his Ph.D. dissertation in 1927 at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl (Königstuhl Observatory, near Heidelberg) at the University of Heidelberg [1At the time, the observatory at Heidelberg was a center for asteroid discovery by Max Wolf and Karl Reinmuth and others, and during his time there Bohrmann discovered a number of asteroids.

Was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.

Was a Belgian botanist. Amongst other plants, the genus Neocogniauxia of orchids is named after him.In 1916 his enormous private herbarium was acquired by the National Botanic Garden of Belgium.

American Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist and geneticist.

American Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist and geneticist.

Was a professor of business history at Harvard Business School, who wrote extensively about the scal

Was a professor of business history at Harvard Business School, who wrote extensively about the scale and the management structures of modern corporations. Chandler graduated from Harvard College in 1940. After wartime service in navy he returned to Harvard to get his Ph.D. in History. He taught at M.I.T. and Johns Hopkins University before arriving at Harvard Business School in 1970.Chandler began looking at large-scale enterprise in the early 1960s. His Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the Industrial Enterprise (1962) examined the organization of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Standard Oil of New Jersey, General Motors, and Sears, Roebuck and Co. He found that managerial organization developed in response to the corporation's business strategy.

Was a German zoologist and writer, the son of Christian Ludwig Brehm. Through the book title Brehms

Was a German zoologist and writer, the son of Christian Ludwig Brehm. Through the book title Brehms Tierleben, his name became a synonym for popular zoological literature.After his return, in 1853 he started to study natural sciences at the University of Jena. Like his brother Reinhold, he became active with the student corps Saxonia Jena; because of his expedition to North Africa, he received the nickname Pharaoh from his corps brothers. He graduated after four semesters in 1855 and in 1856 went on a two-year journey to Spain with his brother Reinhold. Afterwards he settled down in Leipzig as a freelance writer and wrote many scientific popularizations for Die Gartenlaube and other magazines. Apart from this, he undertook an expedition to Norway and Lapland in 1860.

Was an American pioneer in molecular biology.Mirsky graduated from Harvard College in 1922, after wh

Was an American pioneer in molecular biology.Mirsky graduated from Harvard College in 1922, after which he studied for two years at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University until 1924 when he moved to the University of Cambridge on a US National Research Council fellowship. He received his PhD from Cambridge in 1926, with a dissertation on the Haemoglobin molecule.On May 25, 1926 Mirsky married Reba Paeff, who went on to become a renowned children's author; they had a daughter and a son.

Was an English astronomer.He was an expert in spectroscopy, being one of the first to determine that

Was an English astronomer.He was an expert in spectroscopy, being one of the first to determine that the temperature of sunspots was cooler than that of surrounding regions.

Is a geneticist specializing in the cancer genetics. Among his many contributions to the field was t

Is a geneticist specializing in the cancer genetics. Among his many contributions to the field was the formulation of the Knudson hypothesis in 1971, which explains the effects of mutation on carcinogenesis (the development of cancer).[1]

A geneticist specializing in the cancer genetics. Among his many contributions to the field was the

A geneticist specializing in the cancer genetics. Among his many contributions to the field was the formulation of the Knudson hypothesis in 1971, which explains the effects of mutation on carcinogenesis (the development of cancer).[1] He received numerous prizes and honorary doctorates for his work, most prominently the 1998 Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research. He also received the 1999 American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology (ASPHO) Distinguished Career Award and the 2005 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research.

Was a French naturalist and explorer.They visited South America in 1858 and 1859 and in particular t

Was a French naturalist and explorer.They visited South America in 1858 and 1859 and in particular the Andes, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil. During this voyage they gathered a significant collection of specimens which were analyzed, in 1860, by Ernest.The two brothers parted ways after this. Ernest Grandidier went to China and collected a vast number of specimens which are now in the Louvre and the Guimet museum. Alfred travelled to India, reaching it in 1863. He had intended to explore the high plateau of Tibet, but was prevented by a severe attack of fever.

Was an astronomer best known for his work on stellar distances, the radial motion of stars, and vari

Was an astronomer best known for his work on stellar distances, the radial motion of stars, and variable stars.After graduating from Greenville College, Joy went on to work at the American University of Beirut in the Syrian Protestant College as a professor of astronomy and the director of the observatory. He was forced to return to the U.S. in 1915 because of World War I.In the United States, he worked at the Mount Wilson Observatory from 1915 to 1952. There, he and his colleagues ascertained the spectral type, absolute magnitude, and stellar distance of over 5,000 stars. Joy also discovered the T-Tauri type star. He studied the Doppler displacement of the spectral lines of stars to determine their radial velocities deducing a star's absolute dimensions, masses, and the orbital elements of some specific stars. He won the Bruce Medal in 1950.

Was an American geneticist. Sturtevant constructed the first genetic map of a chromosome in 1913. Th

Was an American geneticist. Sturtevant constructed the first genetic map of a chromosome in 1913. Throughout his career he worked on the organism Drosophila melanogaster with Thomas Hunt Morgan. By watching the development of flies in which the earliest cell division produced two different genomes, he measured the embryonic distance between organs in a unit which is called the sturt in his honor. In 1967, Sturtevant received the National Medal of Science.Alfred Henry Sturtevant was born in Jacksonville, Illinois, United States on November 21, 1891, the youngest of Alfred Henry and Harriet Sturtevant's six children. His grandfather Julian M. Sturtevant, a Yale University graduate, founded Illinois College where his father taught mathematics.

Was a German geographer.He is known for his concept of chorology, the study of places and regions.

Was a German geographer.He is known for his concept of chorology, the study of places and regions.

Was an American mathematician notable for his work in lattice theory and universal algebra. His 1951

Was an American mathematician notable for his work in lattice theory and universal algebra. His 1951 paper "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras" described Horn clauses and Horn sentences, which later would form the foundation of logic

Was a German mathematician and patron of the arts. He was born in Ohlau, Prussian Silesia (now Olawa

Was a German mathematician and patron of the arts. He was born in Ohlau, Prussian Silesia (now Olawa, Poland) and died in Zürich, Switzerland. Alfred Pringsheim came from an extremely wealthy Silesian merchant family with Jewish roots. He was the first-bo

Was a US mathematician, physical chemist, and statistician of Jewish ancestry famous for his work in

Was a US mathematician, physical chemist, and statistician of Jewish ancestry famous for his work in population dynamics and energetics.

Was an Australian ornithologist.North was born in Melbourne and was educated at Melbourne Grammar Sc

Was an Australian ornithologist.North was born in Melbourne and was educated at Melbourne Grammar School. He was appointed to the Australian Museum, Sydney in 1886 and was given a permanent position there five years later. He wrote a List of the Insectivorous Birds of New South Wales (1897) and a Descriptive Catalogue of the Nests and Eggs of Birds Found Breeding in Australia and Tasmania (1889). He described a number of birds for the first time, many in the Victorian Naturalist, the magazine of the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria of which he was a founding member.

Was one of the most influential figures in American anthropology in the first half of the twentieth

Was one of the most influential figures in American anthropology in the first half of the twentieth century.Kroeber was born in Hoboken, New Jersey and attended Columbia College at the age of 16, earning an A.B. in English in 1896, and an M.A. in Romantic drama in 1897. He received his doctorate under Franz Boas at Columbia University in 1901, basing his dissertation on decorative symbolism on his field work among the Arapaho. It was the first doctorate in anthropology awarded by Columbia. He spent most of his career in California, primarily at the University of California, Berkeley where he worked as both a Professor of Anthropology and the Director of what was then The University of California Museum of Anthropology (now the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology)

Was an English economist and one of the most influential economists of his time. His book, Principle

Was an English economist and one of the most influential economists of his time. His book, Principles of Economics (1890), brings the ideas of supply and demand, of marginal utility and of the costs of production into a coherent whole. It became the dominant economic textbook in England for a long period.While Marshall took economics to a more mathematically rigorous level, he did not want mathematics to overshadow economics and thus make economics irrelevant to the layman. Accordingly, Marshall tailored the text of his books to laymen and put the mathematical content in the footnotes and appendices for the professionals. In a letter to his protégée, A.C. Pigou, he laid out the following system: "(1) Use mathematics as shorthand language, rather than as an engine of inquiry.

Was an Austrian geographer and oceanographer.Merz Peninsula is named after him.

Was an Austrian geographer and oceanographer.Merz Peninsula is named after him.

Was an English zoologist and ornithologist.Newton was Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge

Was an English zoologist and ornithologist.Newton was Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge University from 1866 to 1907. In 1900 he was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society and the Gold Medal of the Linnaean Society.In 1854 he was elected Traveling Fellow of Magdalene College, and subsequently visited many parts of the world, including Lapland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, the West Indies and North America. In 1866 he became the first Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge, a position which he retained until his death. He was one of the few British Professors of Zoology in whose appointment Huxley did not have a hand: in fact the procedure was for candidates to canvass for votes! (presumably amongst the MAs of the University).[3] Result of poll: Newton 110; Dr Drosier 82 (W. p134). Newton was one of the first zoologists to accept and champion the views of Charles Darwin, and his early lecture courses as professor were on evolution and zoogeography. [4]

Was an English mathematician who became a philosopher. He wrote on algebra, logic, foundations of ma

Was an English mathematician who became a philosopher. He wrote on algebra, logic, foundations of mathematics, philosophy of science, physics, metaphysics, and education. He co-authored the epochal Principia Mathematica with Bertrand Russell.

Was a German physician, biologist, eugenicist known for introducing together with Wilhelm Schallmaye

Was a German physician, biologist, eugenicist known for introducing together with Wilhelm Schallmayer the concept of racial hygiene (Rassenhygiene) in Germany. Rassenhygiene is a form of eugenics.This circle enthusastically read the works of Ernst Haeckel and Charles Darwin. Carl Hauptmann was a student of Ernst Haeckel, and Gerhart Hauptmann and Ploetz attended some of his lectures. The group expanded and developed a plan of founding a colony in one of the pacific states and established itself as the "Pacific association". They planned a "community on friendly, socialist and maybe also pan-Germanic basis". In consequence of the prosecution of socialistic minded persons in application of Otto von Bismarck's anti-socialist laws (1878-1890), in 1883 Ploetz flew to Zurich,

Was an British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist. He is best known for

Was an British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist. He is best known for independently proposing a theory of natural selection which prompted Charles Darwin to publish on his own theory.Wallace did extensive fieldwork, first in the Amazon River basin and then in the Malay Archipelago, where he identified the Wallace Line that divides Indonesia into two distinct parts, one with animals more closely related to those of Australia and the other with animals more closely related to those found in Asia. He was considered the 19th century's leading expert on the geographical distribution of animal species and is sometimes called the "father of biogeography