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(dô´brôfsk ) (KEY) , 1753–1829, Hungarian philologist, of Bohemian parentage. In 1792 the Royal Bohemian Academy of Sciences commissioned Dobrovs...
(d lm ´d g ) (KEY) , c.1460–1497, Jewish philosopher and Talmudist, b. Crete, known also as Elijah Cretensis. He emigrated to Italy as a young man....
(d f n´t s) (KEY) , fl. A.D. 250, Greek algebraist. He pioneered in solving a type of indeterminate algebraic equation where one seeks integer value...
(g y m´ bäNzhäm N´ ämäN´ düsh n´) (KEY) , 1806–75, French physician. He is noted for researches on diseases of the muscular and nervous sys...
(James Byron Dean), 1931–55, American film actor, b. Marion, Ind. After a few stage and television roles, Dean was chosen to play the moody, rebelli...
1874–1954, American mathematician, b. Independence, Iowa, grad. Univ. of Texas, 1893. He studied in Leipzig and Paris and joined the staff of the Un...