Biography Category
(n m ch m´sk ) (KEY) , 1928–, educator and linguist, b. Philadelphia. Chomsky, who has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 19...
1783–1853, American legal writer, b. Newburyport, Mass. A member of the Maine bar, he won a high reputation for legal scholarship early in his caree...
(kr bz, kr ps) (KEY) , 1900–1981, English biochemist, b. Germany, M.D. Univ. of Hamburg, 1925. He taught at Cambridge and at the Univ. of Sheffield ...
(l ´j gälvä´n ) (KEY) , 1737–98, Italian physician. He was professor of anatomy from 1775 at the Univ. of Bologna and was noted as a surgeon a...
(äl´d käs´´t lä´n ) (KEY) , 1877–1971, British-Italian bacteriologist, b. Florence, Italy. He demonstrated the cause and mode of transmissio...
1880–1921, British labor organizer, b. Glasgow, Scotland. Working in her father’s draper’s shop, she became prominent in the shop assistants’ ...