Biography Category
(ûr´l ng- r) (KEY) , 1874–1965, American scientist, b. San Francisco, grad. Univ. of California (B.S., 1895), M.D. Johns Hopkins, 1899. For his co...
1773–1838, American navigator and mathematician, b. Salem, Mass. He had no formal schooling after the age of 10. In 1795 he went to sea, and on five...
(g ôrkh´ fr ´dr kh fôn mär´t ns) (KEY) , 1756–1821, German writer on international law, b. Hamburg. He was professor of international law at G...
1918–, American biochemist, b. Brooklyn, grad. College of the City of New York (B.S., 1937) and Univ. of Rochester (M.D., 1941). In 1942 he joined t...
(dô´brôfsk ) (KEY) , 1753–1829, Hungarian philologist, of Bohemian parentage. In 1792 the Royal Bohemian Academy of Sciences commissioned Dobrovs...
(br d´w rd n) (KEY) , c.1295–1349, English mathematician, natural philosopher, and theologian. He was chaplain to Edward III (c.1338) and later Arc...