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1749–1823, English physician; pupil of John Hunter. His invaluable experiments beginning in 1796 with the vaccination of eight-year-old James Phipps...
(k r n´d s) (KEY) , 6th cent. B.C., Sicilian lawgiver, a native of Catana. His laws, which were admired by Aristotle, were used by the cities of Chal...
(py r d f rmä´) (KEY) , 1601–65, French mathematician. A magistrate whose avocation was mathematics, Fermat is known as a founder of modern numbe...
(n ls rü´b r f n´s n) (KEY) , 1860–1904, Danish physician. He established in Copenhagen an institute of light therapy and wrote several books on ...
(b rnär´d älb r´t ou´s ) (KEY) , 1887–1971, Argentine physiologist, b. Buenos Aires. He was a child prodigy, entering college at the age of 9...
(n ´ ) (KEY) , 1899–1982, New Zealand detective story writer. She was an art student, actress, and theatrical producer before her first novel, A Ma...