Biography Category
(zhäN-p l b lmôNd ´) (KEY) , 1933–, French film actor, b. Neuilly-sur-Seine, studied Paris Conservatory. Belmondo made his film debut in 1957, bu...
1899–1978, Canadian physiologist, b. West Pembroke, Maine. With F. G. Banting he discovered (1921) the use of insulin in the treatment of diabetes. ...
(bän ´ m sä´) (KEY) , family of Arab mathematicians and astronomers of the 9th cent. A.D. The name means “sons of Musa” and refers to the thre...
1899–1985, Australian virologist and physician. He was resident pathologist (1923–24) at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and a Beit fellow (1926–27...
(mär ´ fräNswä´ zävy ´ b shä´) (KEY) , 1771–1802, French anatomist and physiologist. He studied the tissues, giving them that name and clas...
(py r br tôn ´) (KEY) , 1778–1862, French physician. He performed (1825) the first successful tracheotomy for laryngeal diphtheria, wrote a treati...