Biography Category
1914–95, American physician and microbiologist, b. New York City, B.S. College of the City of New York, 1934, M.D. New York Univ. College of Medicin...
1916–2001, American applied mathematician, b. Gaylord, Michigan. A student of Vannevar Bush at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he w...
1808–88, German rabbi and chief exponent of Neo-Orthodoxy. As rabbi in Frankfurt-am-Main, he advocated the organization of autonomous Orthodox congr...
(s ´f s b ´g ) (KEY) , 1833–1907, Norwegian philologist. He made a notable edition of the Old Norse runes, and his was the first critical edition ...
(m ´b s, Ger. mö´b s) (KEY) ,(1790–1868), German mathematician and astronomer, b. Schulpforta, Saxony. A professor of astronomy at the Univ. of...
(rä´sh ) (KEY) , 1040–1105, Jewish exegete, grammarian, and legal authority, b. Troyes, France. The name he is known by is an acronym of Rabbi Sol...