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(zhäN gästôN´ därb ´) (KEY) , 1842–1917, French mathematician. He is known for his work on orthogonal surfaces and for his application of infi...
1561–1630, English mathematician. He was the first professor of geometry at Gresham College, London (1596–1619), and Savilian professor of astrono...
(sä´d ä, äl-f y ´m ) (KEY) , 882–942, Jewish scholar, b. Egypt. He was known as Saadia Gaon. He was the head of the great Jewish Academy at Sur...
( ´m l ä´d lf f n bâr´ ng) (KEY) , 1854–1917, German physician. He worked with Kitasato at Koch’s laboratory in Berlin and from 1895 was prof...
(m ´n t) (KEY) , 1885–1950, American physician and pathologist, b. Boston, M.D. Harvard, 1912. From 1928 to 1948 he was professor of medicine at Ha...
(lw r n ´) (KEY) , 1843–1918, French jurist, professor of international law at the Univ. of Paris. Renault was one of the founders of the scientif...