Biography Category
1544–1603, English scientist and physician. He studied medicine at Cambridge Univ. (M.D., 1569), where he was elected a Fellow of St. John’s Colle...
1718–83, Scottish physician. He was famous as a lecturer, as London’s leading obstetrician, as professor of anatomy and later president of the Roy...
1880–1969, American labor leader, b. Lucas co., Iowa; son of a Welsh immigrant coal miner. He became a miner and after 1906 rose through the union r...
(h d ´y n g ´ch ) (KEY) , 1876–1928, Japanese bacteriologist, grad. Tokyo Medical College, 1897. He came to the United States c.1900 to work with...
(kärl br k´män) (KEY) , 1849–1919, German philologist. A professor at Leipzig, Brugmann believed that scientific rules of linguistics do not admi...
(Morris Langlo West), 1916–99, Australian novelist, b. Melbourne. West’s novels often reveal an interest in both Roman Catholicism and internation...