Biography Category
1831–1901, Scottish physicist and mathematician. He was professor of natural philosophy at Edinburgh from 1860 and conducted important investigation...
1913–93, American physician and biologist, b. Flushing, New York. In his youth he often accompanied his physician father on his rounds and decided e...
(t l´ t) (KEY) , 1860–1943, English labor organizer, b. Bristol, England. With Tom Mann and John Burns, he led the dock strike of 1889, the first b...
1900–1983, American jurist, b. Park City, Utah, grad. Univ. of California at Berkeley (A.B., 1923, Ph.D., 1926, J.D., 1927.) After teaching politica...
1685–1731, English mathematician. He originated Taylor’s theorem, a formula important in differential calculus, which relates a function to its de...
1920–, American physician, b. Mart, Tex., M.D. Harvard, 1946. A surgeon at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Wash., Thomas perf...