Biography Category
(äl ks s´ kl d kl r ´) (KEY) , 1713–65, French mathematician. He assisted P. L. M. de Maupertuis in measuring (1736) a degree of an arc of a meri...
(krous´k pf) (KEY) , 1858–1923, American rabbi and humanitarian, b. Prussia. He went to the United States in 1872, enrolling (1875) in the first cl...
1856–1941, British labor leader and socialist. He was an organizer of the 1889 London dock strike, which was an important step in the unionization o...
1903–82, Swedish biochemist, M.D. Caroline Institute, Stockholm, 1930. The results of an illness caused him to abandon his career as a physician, an...
(bär´t l n) (KEY) , renowned Scandinavian family. Kaspar Bartholin, 1585–1629, b. Sweden, was a Danish physician. He was professor of medicine and...
1886–1972, American biochemist, b. South Norwalk, Conn., grad. Columbia (B.S., 1908; Ph.D., 1910). At St. Luke’s Hospital, New York City, he did r...