Biography Category
(zhäN-p l b lmôNd ´) (KEY) , 1933–, French film actor, b. Neuilly-sur-Seine, studied Paris Conservatory. Belmondo made his film debut in 1957, bu...
(n ls k y r´n ) (KEY) , 1911–94, British-Danish immunologist, b. London. He worked at the Danish State Serum Institute (1945–55) and was chief m...
1899–1978, Canadian physiologist, b. West Pembroke, Maine. With F. G. Banting he discovered (1921) the use of insulin in the treatment of diabetes. ...
1728–93, Scottish anatomist and surgeon, studied under his brother, William Hunter. A pioneer in comparative anatomy and morphology, he made many va...
(ny k l ´ vä´n v ch l b ch f´sk ) (KEY) , 1793–1856, Russian mathematician. A pioneer in non-Euclidean geometry, he challenged Euclid’s fifth...
(zhäN märt N´ shärk ´) (KEY) , 1825–93, French neurologist. He developed at the Salpêtrière in Paris the greatest clinic of his time for dise...