Biography Category
(kl d b rnär´) (KEY) , 1813–78, French physiologist. He turned from literature to medicine, working in Paris under Magendie and teaching at the Co...
1925–66, American comedian, b. Long Island, N.Y., as Leonard Alfred Schneider. Possessed of a cynical, surreal, and intensely comic view of the worl...
(Henry Warren Beatty) (b ´t , b ´–) (KEY) , 1937–, motion picture actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, b. Richmond, Va. An eminently ban...
(m sh l´ zhül älfr d´ br äl´) (KEY) , 1832–1915, French philologist. He is best known for his Essai de semantique (1897), which gave great imp...
1561–1630, English mathematician. He was the first professor of geometry at Gresham College, London (1596–1619), and Savilian professor of astrono...
( ´m l ä´d lf f n bâr´ ng) (KEY) , 1854–1917, German physician. He worked with Kitasato at Koch’s laboratory in Berlin and from 1895 was prof...