Biography Category
(p d n´ s d skôr´ d z) (KEY) , fl. 1st cent. A.D., Greek physician of Anazarbus, Cilicia. While traveling as a surgeon in the Roman army, he coll...
(v s ´l s) (KEY) , 1514–64, Flemish anatomist. He made many discoveries in anatomy and became noted as professor of anatomy at the Univ. of Padua....
1831–1901, Scottish physicist and mathematician. He was professor of natural philosophy at Edinburgh from 1860 and conducted important investigation...
(nähmän´ d z) (KEY) , 1194–c.1270, Jewish scholar, exegete, and kabbalist, b. Spain. He wrote commentaries on the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud. A ...
(b k-här ´) (KEY) (c.810–70), Arabic scholar, b. Bukhara. He traveled widely over Muslim regions and made an authoritative collection of the hadi...
(William Henry Cosby, Jr.) (k z´b ) (KEY) , 1937–, American actor, b. Philadelphia. He became known as a comedian and was subsequently the first Af...