Biography Category
or Bernouilli (both: b rn y ´) (KEY) , name of a family distinguished in scientific and mathematical history. The family, after leaving Antwerp, fina...
(n ´ m s ´k l ) (KEY) , 1859–1936, Jewish writer and Zionist leader, b. Poland. He served (1906–9) as general secretary of the Zionist Organizat...
1844–1922, English parasitologist. After receiving his medical degree (1866) from the university at Aberdeen, Scotland, Manson left for China where ...
(ä´hä, shäb´khä) (KEY) or Achai of Shabcha (ä´kh ) (KEY) , c.680–c.762, Babylonian rabbi. He settled (c.752) in Palestine after being passe...
(bär´´t l m ´ ´´ stä´k ) (KEY) , d. 1574, Italian anatomist. He lived in Rome from 1549 and taught at the Collegia della Sapienza (later the...
(mät ´äs äl ksän´d r kästr n´) (KEY) , 1813–52, Finnish philologist, one of the first scholars to study the Finno-Ugric languages. Castrén ...