Biography Category
(rä´sh ) (KEY) , 1040–1105, Jewish exegete, grammarian, and legal authority, b. Troyes, France. The name he is known by is an acronym of Rabbi Sol...
(m ´b s, Ger. mö´b s) (KEY) ,(1790–1868), German mathematician and astronomer, b. Schulpforta, Saxony. A professor of astronomy at the Univ. of...
(s ´f s b ´g ) (KEY) , 1833–1907, Norwegian philologist. He made a notable edition of the Old Norse runes, and his was the first critical edition ...
1808–88, German rabbi and chief exponent of Neo-Orthodoxy. As rabbi in Frankfurt-am-Main, he advocated the organization of autonomous Orthodox congr...
1916–2001, American applied mathematician, b. Gaylord, Michigan. A student of Vannevar Bush at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he w...
1914–95, American physician and microbiologist, b. New York City, B.S. College of the City of New York, 1934, M.D. New York Univ. College of Medicin...