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1894–1964, American mathematician, educator, and founder of the field of cybernetics, b. Columbia, Mo., grad. Tufts College, 1909, Ph.D. Harvard, 19...
(kär l´, k –) (KEY) , 1873–1944, American surgeon and experimental biologist, b. near Lyons, France, M.D. Univ. of Lyons, 1900. Coming to the Un...
fl. A.D. 14, Latin encyclopedist. His only extant work, De re medicina, consists of eight books on medicine believed to have been written c.A.D. 30. H...
1874–1954, American mathematician, b. Independence, Iowa, grad. Univ. of Texas, 1893. He studied in Leipzig and Paris and joined the staff of the Un...
(älb r ´k j nt ´l ) (KEY) , 1552–1608, Italian writer on international law. Forced to leave Italy because of his Protestantism, he went to Engla...
(ä´sh , äs´ r) (KEY) , c.352–c.424, Jewish scholar of Babylon. He was a judge, community administrator, and teacher of considerable influence bo...