Biography Category
(l ´ ) (KEY) , 1873–1961, American physiologist and pharmacologist, b. Frankfurt, Germany. He was professor of pharmacology (1909–38) at the Univ...
(ny k l ´ vä´n v ch l b ch f´sk ) (KEY) , 1793–1856, Russian mathematician. A pioneer in non-Euclidean geometry, he challenged Euclid’s fifth...
(l r´ , lôr´–) (KEY) , 1534–72, Jewish kabbalist, surnamed Ashkenazi, called Ari [lion] by his followers, b. Jerusalem. In his 20s he spent se...
(l ´d ) (KEY) , 1823–91, American scientist, b. Philadelphia, grad. Univ. of Pennsylvania medical school. From 1853 he taught anatomy at his alma m...
(p l äNtôN´ d lägärd´) (KEY) , 1827–91, German Orientalist. Lagarde was one of the most important biblical critics and Middle Eastern philolo...
1899–1986, American biochemist, b. Germany, grad. Univ. of Berlin (M.D., 1922; Ph.D., 1927). He emigrated to the United States in 1939 and became a ...