Biography Category
(äb ´ hän ´fä) (KEY) , 699–767, Muslim jurist. He founded the Hanafite system of Islamic jurisprudence, which gives the judge considerable disc...
( s t´´ lk ´l n) (KEY) , a small organic molecule liberated at nerve endings as a neurotransmitter. It is particularly important in the stimulation...
(h s ´ th äk ´stä) (KEY) , c.1539–1600, Spanish Jesuit missionary to Peru. He wrote a well-known history of the Spanish colonial period, The Na...
1834–1902, English historian, b. Naples; grandson of Sir John Francis Edward Acton and of Emmerich Joseph, duc de Dalberg. Denied entrance into Camb...
(k ´t äch ´ämpông) (KEY) , 1931–79, government official in Ghana, b. Kumasi. He taught before joining (1959) the army, where he advanced to co...
movement of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the mid-1940s and attained singular prominence in American art in the following dec...