Biography Category
(p l p Nl v ´) (KEY) , 1863–1933, French statesman and mathematician. A mathematical prodigy when a child, he entered on a career devoted to scienc...
(y hän´ s ´´väng-g l s´tä p r´k ny ) (KEY) , 1787–1869, Czech physiologist. While professor (1823–50) at the Univ. of Breslau he pioneere...
( vän´ p trô´v ch päv´l f) (KEY) , 1849–1936, Russian physiologist and experimental psychologist. He was professor at the military medical aca...
(ny k l ´ vä´n v ch p r gôf´) (KEY) , 1810–81, Russian surgeon, b. Moscow. He entered the Univ. of Moscow at the age of 14 and completed the m...
(s m ôN´ d n ´ pwäsôN´) (KEY) , 1781–1840, French mathematician and physicist. From 1802 he taught at the École polytechnique, Paris, and was...
(bl z päskäl´) (KEY) , 1623–62, French scientist and religious philosopher. Studying under the direction of his father, a civil servant, Pascal s...