Biography Category
(ny k l ´ vä´n v ch p r gôf´) (KEY) , 1810–81, Russian surgeon, b. Moscow. He entered the Univ. of Moscow at the age of 14 and completed the m...
(fr ´dr kh hôf´män) (KEY) , 1660–1742, German physician. He taught and practiced at Halle from 1693. He studied and wrote on such varied topics ...
(shn ´d rm n) (KEY) , 1884–1972, American labor leader, b. Poland. She emigrated to the United States in 1890. After working as a lining stitcher i...
(s m ôN´ d n ´ pwäsôN´) (KEY) , 1781–1840, French mathematician and physicist. From 1802 he taught at the École polytechnique, Paris, and was...
(bä´r kh b n s´ r f) (KEY) , 1920–, American immunologist, b. Caracas, Venezuela, grad. Columbia Univ. (1942). Raised in Paris, he came to the Un...
1624–89, English physician, called “the English Hippocrates.” He studied at Oxford and Montpellier, and practiced in London. His conceptions of ...