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(gul l´m s dy r n´d s) (KEY) , 1237?–1296, French canon jurist and theologian. Educated at the Univ. of Bologna, he served several 13th-century p...
(h r´ n) (KEY) or Hero, mathematician and inventor. The dates of his birth and death are unknown; conjecture places them between the 2d cent. B.C. a...
1716–94, English naval surgeon. Considered the founder of naval hygiene in England, Lind observed on a ten-week cruise (1746) that 80 seamen of 350 ...
1828–95, American pioneer in oral surgery, b. Wilmington, Del., M.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1859. From 1874 he taught at Philadelphia Dental College...
(poul r´l kh) (KEY) , 1854–1915, German bacteriologist. He directed (1896) an institute for serum research at Steglitz, near Berlin, that was tran...
(räs´m s kr s´tyän räsk) (KEY) , 1787–1832, Danish philologist. Rask was a major linguistic pioneer. He published one of the first usable Anglo...