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1927–, American film director, writer, actor, and producer, b. New York City as Melvin Kaminsky. His earliest work was in television, notably as a g...
(j vän´n bät-t s´tä b n d t´t ) (KEY) , 1530–90, Italian mathematician and physicist. An important forerunner of Galileo, Benedetti had diver...
1873–1953, British political and trade union leader. A Labour member of Parliament (1923–24, 1926–31), she served as secretary to the minister o...
(zhül bôrd ´) (KEY) , 1870–1961, Belgian serologist and immunologist, M.D. Univ. of Brussels, 1892. He became director of the Pasteur Institute i...
(h r´män b r´häv ) (KEY) , 1668–1738, Dutch physician and humanist. One of the most influential clinicians and teachers of the 18th cent., Boerh...
d. 1268, English writer on law. He was the author of De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae [on the laws and customs of England], a broad, philosophic ...