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(häbäsh´ äl-häs b´) (KEY) , d. c.870, Arab mathematician and astronomer. Habash al-Hasib was born in what is now Mary, Turkmenistan, and worked ...
(fränts bôp) (KEY) , 1791–1867, German philologist. A professor at the Univ. of Berlin from 1821 to 1864, he did research in many languages and ea...
(y ´hän h n´r kh läm´b rt) (KEY) , 1728–77, German-French philosopher and scientist, b. Alsace. He developed many basic concepts in mathematics...
1897–1986, American authority on international law, b. New York City, grad. Hamilton College, 1919, LL.B. Yale, 1924, Ph.D. Columbia, 1927. He was a...
1871–1944, British legal historian. He was (1903–8) professor of constitutional law at University College, London. After 1922 he was Vinerian prof...
1815–78, American physician, b. Danielsville, Ga., M.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1839. He practiced in Jefferson, Ga. In 1842 he excised a tumor of th...