Biography Category
1834–1924, English trade union leader, a carpenter by trade. A charter member of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, he became in 186...
(y ´ly s plü´k r) (KEY) , 1801–68, German mathematician and physicist. He became professor of mathematics (1836) and of physics (1847) at the Uni...
(h sh´ l) (KEY) , 1907–72, American Jewish philosopher and theologian, b. Warsaw, Poland. He succeeded Martin Buber as director of the Central Orga...
(säntyä´g räm n´ kähäl´) (KEY) , 1852–1934, Spanish histologist. He was a university professor at Valencia (1881–86), at Barcelona (1886...
(märch l´l mälp ´g ) (KEY) , 1628–94, Italian anatomist. A pioneer in the use of the microscope, he made many valuable observations on the stru...
1550–1617, Scottish mathematician. He invented logarithms and wrote Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio (1614), containing the first logarithm...