Biography Category
(kä´r ) (KEY) , 1488–1575, eminent Jewish codifier of law, b. Toledo, Spain. He left Spain as a child when the Jews were expelled (1492) and final...
(k n´´st nt ´n s fr k ´n s) (KEY) , c.1010–1087, medical translator and Benedictine monk. The life of Constantinus before his arrival at Salern...
1846–1924, American jurist, b. Halifax co., N.C., grad. Univ. of North Carolina (A.B., 1864; A.M., 1867). He entered the Confederate army at 15 and ...
1871–1945, American physiologist. While still a medical student at Harvard, Cannon was the first to demonstrate (1897) that bismuth could be utilize...
(j sh -j ) (KEY) , fl. 1280–1303, Chinese mathematician. He contributed to the study of arithmetic and geometric series and to that of finite diffe...
(mär ´ zhäN äNtwän´ n kôlä´ kär tä´ märk ´ d kôNdôrs ´) (KEY) , 1743–94, French mathematician, philosopher, and political leader, ...