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(William Henry Cosby, Jr.) (k z´b ) (KEY) , 1937–, American actor, b. Philadelphia. He became known as a comedian and was subsequently the first Af...
(b k-här ´) (KEY) (c.810–70), Arabic scholar, b. Bukhara. He traveled widely over Muslim regions and made an authoritative collection of the hadi...
(nähmän´ d z) (KEY) , 1194–c.1270, Jewish scholar, exegete, and kabbalist, b. Spain. He wrote commentaries on the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud. A ...
1831–1901, Scottish physicist and mathematician. He was professor of natural philosophy at Edinburgh from 1860 and conducted important investigation...
(v s ´l s) (KEY) , 1514–64, Flemish anatomist. He made many discoveries in anatomy and became noted as professor of anatomy at the Univ. of Padua....
(p d n´ s d skôr´ d z) (KEY) , fl. 1st cent. A.D., Greek physician of Anazarbus, Cilicia. While traveling as a surgeon in the Roman army, he coll...