Biography Category
(dâr´ z fr j´ s) (KEY) , supposed author of a history of the Trojan War. Dares of Phrygia is mentioned by Homer in the Iliad as a priest of Troy. ...
1749–1810, American scientist in the old Southwest, b. near Elgin, Scotland. He came to America in 1771. Commissioned by President Jefferson to inve...
(d lä b sh, d l b sh´) (KEY) , 1796–1855, English geologist. As a result of his private undertaking to prepare a geological map of England, the B...
(d dôr´ s s k´y l s) (KEY) , d. after 21 B.C., Sicilian historian. He wrote, in Greek, a world history in 40 books, ending with Caesar’s Gallic ...
(g y m´ bärôN´ düpü träN´) (KEY) , 1777–1835, French surgeon. As professor at the Hôtel Dieu, Paris, from 1812, he was noted as diagnostici...
1927–61, American physician and author, b. St. Louis, Mo., grad. Univ. of Notre Dame, M.D. St. Louis Univ., 1953. In 1954, Dooley supervised the car...