Biography Category
(b k-här ´) (KEY) (c.810–70), Arabic scholar, b. Bukhara. He traveled widely over Muslim regions and made an authoritative collection of the hadi...
1815–64, English mathematician and logician. He became professor at Queen’s College, Cork, in 1849. Boole wrote An Investigation of the Laws of Th...
(r ´ bärb ´sä) (KEY) , 1849–1923, Brazilian jurist, writer, and statesman. He was largely responsible for the republican constitution of Brazil...
1891–1941, Canadian physician, M.D. Univ. of Toronto, 1922. From 1923 he was professor of medical research at Toronto. Working with C. H. Best under...
(g ´ôrk f n b k´ sh ) (KEY) , 1899–1972, American biophysicist, b. Budapest, Hungary, grad. Univ. of Budapest (Ph.D. 1923). He was (1923–46) a ...
1896–1996, b. New York City as Nathan Birnbaum, and his wife Gracie Allen, 1906–64, b. San Francisco, American comedy team (1923–58). In vaudevi...