Biography Category
(zhäN l rôN´ däläNb r´) (KEY) , 1717–83, French mathematician and philosopher. The illegitimate son of the chevalier Destouches, he was named ...
1828–1917, founder of osteopathy, b. Jonesboro, Va. He evolved the theory that all diseases and physical disorders ultimately derived from dislocati...
1891–1941, Canadian physician, M.D. Univ. of Toronto, 1922. From 1923 he was professor of medical research at Toronto. Working with C. H. Best under...
(g ´ôrk f n b k´ sh ) (KEY) , 1899–1972, American biophysicist, b. Budapest, Hungary, grad. Univ. of Budapest (Ph.D. 1923). He was (1923–46) a ...
1896–1996, b. New York City as Nathan Birnbaum, and his wife Gracie Allen, 1906–64, b. San Francisco, American comedy team (1923–58). In vaudevi...
1896–1984, and Gerty Theresa Cori (k r´ , kôr´ ) (KEY) , 1896–1957, American biochemists, b. Prague. Soon after receiving their medical degrees...