Biography Category
(kä´r ) (KEY) , 1488–1575, eminent Jewish codifier of law, b. Toledo, Spain. He left Spain as a child when the Jews were expelled (1492) and final...
(shärl lw älfôNs´ läv räN´) (KEY) , 1845–1922, French physician. While an army surgeon in Algiers he discovered (1880) the parasite that cau...
(k n´st nt n l s´k r s) (KEY) , d. 1501?, Greek grammarian. After the fall of Constantinople, Lascaris went to Italy and in Milan obtained the patro...
1920–, American physician, b. Mart, Tex., M.D. Harvard, 1946. A surgeon at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Wash., Thomas perf...
(y ´hän käs´pär bl nch´l ) (KEY) , 1808–81, Swiss jurist and political scientist. Trained at the Univ. of Berlin, he taught law at Zürich, Mu...
(kärl v l´h lm t ´ d r v ´ rshträs) (KEY) , 1815–97, German mathematician. From 1864 he was professor of mathematics at the Univ. of Berlin. Hi...