Biography Category
1736–1808, American surgeon, b. Philadelphia, M.D. Edinburgh, 1761. A pioneer lecturer on anatomy and midwifery, he was instrumental in the organiza...
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...
1857–1952, English neurophysiologist, educated at Cambridge. He was professor of physiology at the universities of Liverpool and London and at Oxfor...
(fr ´dr kh kärl f n sä´v ny ) (KEY) , 1779–1861, German jurist and legal historian, a founder of the historical school of jurisprudence. He taug...
1883–1966, American leader in the birth control movement, b. Corning, N.Y. Personal experience and work as a public-health nurse convinced her that ...
(säbät ´ z ´v ) (KEY) , 1626–76, Jewish mystic and pseudo-Messiah, founder of the Sabbatean sect, b. Smyrna. After a period of study of Lurianic...