Biography Category
(shüän-dzäng) (KEY) , 605?–664, Chinese Buddhist scholar and translator. He early entered monastic life and later traveled in China, teaching and...
(ôs´kär h rt´v kh) (KEY) , 1849–1922, German embryologist. He studied medicine with Haeckel and Gegenbaur. In 1875 he established the fact that ...
(yän bäpt s´tä vän h l´mônt) (KEY) , 1577–1644, Flemish physician, chemist, and physicist. He attributed physiological changes to chemical ca...
1781–1858, American chemist, b. Philadelphia. He was professor of chemistry (1819–47) at the medical college of the Univ. of Pennsylvania. Hare ma...
1937–, American chemist, b. Z oczów, Poland (now Zolochiv, Ukraine), Ph.D. Harvard, 1962. After receiving his degree and working with Robert Woodwa...
1895–1958, American modern dancer and choreographer, b. Oak Park, Ill. Humphrey was a featured soloist with the Denishawn Company until 1927. She th...