Biography Category
(bän ´ m sä´) (KEY) , family of Arab mathematicians and astronomers of the 9th cent. A.D. The name means “sons of Musa” and refers to the thre...
1782–1848, American physician, b. Brimfield, Mass. In Sackets Harbor, N.Y., where he settled after serving as surgeon in the War of 1812, he invente...
(shärl zhül äNr ´ n kôl´) (KEY) , 1866–1936, French physician and microbiologist. He worked with P. P. É. Roux in Paris and was director of t...
1819–1900, American rabbi, founder of organized Reform Judaism in the United States, b. Bohemia, studied at the Univ. of Vienna. He settled in the U...
(äl´b rt f n s nt´´-dyör´dy ) (KEY) , 1893–1986, American biochemist, b. Hungary, M.D. Univ. of Budapest, 1917; Ph.D. Cambridge, 1927. After t...
(zä´m l hä´n män) (KEY) , 1755–1843, German physician, founder of homeopathy. He expounded his system in Organon of the Rational Art of Healin...