Biography Category
( vän´ p trô´v ch päv´l f) (KEY) , 1849–1936, Russian physiologist and experimental psychologist. He was professor at the military medical aca...
(Allen Stewart Konigsberg), 1935–, American actor, writer, and director, one of contemporary America’s leading filmmakers, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. Allen...
(s tr n´) (KEY) , 1887–1983, English trade union leader. An electrician, he became district secretary of the electrical trade union in 1914 and ros...
(r ´z z) (KEY) or Rasis (r ´s s,–z s) (KEY) , 860–932, Persian physician. He was chief physician at the Baghdad hospital. An observant clinicia...
( güst N´ lw bärôN´ k sh ´) (KEY) , 1789–1857, French mathematician. He was professor simultaneously (1816–30) at the École polytechnique,...
(l när´d f b nät´ch ) (KEY) , b. c.1170, d. after 1240, Italian mathematician, known also as Leonardo da Pisa. In Liber abaci (1202, 2d ed. 1228...