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(j sh -j ) (KEY) , fl. 1280–1303, Chinese mathematician. He contributed to the study of arithmetic and geometric series and to that of finite diffe...
(fr ´dr kh kärl f n sä´v ny ) (KEY) , 1779–1861, German jurist and legal historian, a founder of the historical school of jurisprudence. He taug...
(d s p s´ s) (KEY) , 1844–1917, American lawyer, b. Philadelphia. He was admitted to the bar in 1865 and moved (1867) to New York City, where he co...
(ätänä´z s k rkh´ r) (KEY) , 1601?–1680, German Jesuit archaeologist, mathematician, biologist, philologist, astronomer, musicologist, and phy...
1857–1952, English neurophysiologist, educated at Cambridge. He was professor of physiology at the universities of Liverpool and London and at Oxfor...
(b v ´) (KEY) , 1907–92, Italian pharmacologist, b. Switzerland, D.Sc. Univ. of Geneva, 1929. From 1929 to 1947 he was a researcher and then head o...