Biography Category
(kr s lôr´ s) (KEY) , c.1350–1415, Greek teacher and writer, b. Constantinople. Traveling to Italy on a diplomatic mission, he became celebrated f...
(r n ´ klâr) (KEY) , 1898–1981, French film director, writer, and producer. Beginning as a film critic, Clair first received international attenti...
(zhäk küzhäs´, ky j ´sh s) (KEY) , 1522–90, French jurist and scholar of Roman law. He taught at Toulouse, Bourges, and elsewhere. Unlike previ...
(n m ch m´sk ) (KEY) , 1928–, educator and linguist, b. Philadelphia. Chomsky, who has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 19...
(äl´d käs´´t lä´n ) (KEY) , 1877–1971, British-Italian bacteriologist, b. Florence, Italy. He demonstrated the cause and mode of transmissio...
1854–1907, American bacteriologist and army surgeon, b. Woolwich, England, M.D. Univ. of Maryland, 1891. He went to Canada at 15 and later joined th...