Biography Category
(bä´r kh b n s´ r f) (KEY) , 1920–, American immunologist, b. Caracas, Venezuela, grad. Columbia Univ. (1942). Raised in Paris, he came to the Un...
1908–2002, American entertainer, b. New York City as Milton Berlinger. Berle first performed in vaudeville and on (1939–48) radio. His great succe...
(f l p´ d r m ´ s r d b mänwär´) (KEY) , c.1250–1296, French poet and jurist, a writer of medieval law texts. He was a judicial officer at Cl...
1679–1766, American physician, b. Brookline, Mass. He was privately educated in medicine and settled in Boston. In an epidemic of smallpox in 1721 h...
(b v r´) (KEY) , 1787–1851, American writer on law, b. France. He emigrated to Philadelphia in 1802 with his parents and later was a lawyer and jou...
1911–89, American actress and producer, b. Celoron, N.Y. At first promoted by Hollywood as another glamorous movie star, Ball was often cast as a sp...