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(w l´ s) (KEY) , 1616–1703, English mathematician. He was Savilian professor of geometry at Oxford Univ. from 1649. He systematized the use of form...
1875–1968, English scientist. For his study of acetylcholine as agent in the chemical transmission of nerve impulses he shared with Otto Loewi the 1...
(g nz´b rg) (KEY) , 1831–1914, English Hebrew scholar, b. Warsaw. He was converted to Christianity in 1846 and settled in England. He translated (1...
(h r f´ l s) (KEY) , fl. 300 B.C., Greek anatomist, called by some the father of scientific anatomy. A contemporary of Erasistratus at Alexandria, he...
1905–84, New Zealand British novelist and educator, b. Stratford, New Zealand. For years a teacher of Maori children, Ashton-Warner developed many s...
1815–64, English mathematician and logician. He became professor at Queen’s College, Cork, in 1849. Boole wrote An Investigation of the Laws of Th...