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(k ´p r, kou´–) (KEY) , 1731–1800, English poet. Physically and emotionally unfit for the professional life, he was admitted to the bar but neve...
1780–1875, American lawyer, b. Philadelphia. A leading lawyer in Pennsylvania, Binney was appointed in 1808 a director of the First Bank of the Unit...
(g ´g r) (KEY) , 1810–74, German rabbi, Semitic scholar and Orientalist, theologian, and foremost exponent of the Reform movement in Judaism. When ...
(zhäN d mä´) (KEY) , 1625–96, French jurist. His Les Loix civiles dans leur ordre naturel [civil laws in their natural order] (3 vol., 1689–94)...
(p ´dr n ´n sh) (KEY) , Lat. Petrus Nonius, 1502–1578, Portuguese mathematician, geographer, and writer on navigation and geometry. He was the fi...
(r n ´ zhül düb ´) (KEY) , 1901–82, American bacteriologist, b. France, Ph.D. Rutgers, 1927. He joined the Rockefeller Institute (now Rockefelle...