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1814–97, English mathematician. He studied at Cambridge for four years after 1831, but because degrees were limited to members of the Church of Engl...
( bn t m ´y ) (KEY) , 1263–1328, Muslim theologian and jurist. He lived in Damascus after the collapse of the central caliphate to the Mongol invas...
(b ´lyoi) (KEY) , family of Hungarian mathematicians. The father, Farkas, or Wolfgang, Bolyai, 1775–1856, b. Bolya, Transylvania, was educated in N...
1881–1959, American movie director and producer, b. Ashfield, Mass. In 1913, together with Samuel Goldwyn, he made the first feature-length film in ...
(äl´b rt f n kö´l k r) (KEY) , 1817–1905, Swiss physiologist and histologist. He was professor of physiology and of microscopic and comparative ...
1871–1945, American physiologist. While still a medical student at Harvard, Cannon was the first to demonstrate (1897) that bismuth could be utilize...